Flexible targets help immune system make finely-tuned antibodies
An in-depth Garvan study of how the immune system generates effective antibodies provides new insights for vaccine design.Credit: Dr Ofir ...
Month: August 2020
Inflammatory bowel disease linked to an immune cell run amok
New findings may provide new therapeutic target and help explain why IBD and other autoimmune diseases are often chronic and ...
Re-engineered enzyme could help reverse damage from spinal cord injury and stroke
A team of researchers at University of Toronto Engineering and University of Michigan have modified an enzyme from bacteria to ...
New approach soft material flow may yield way to new materials, disaster prediction
Credit: Photo courtesy U.S. Geology Survey CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- How does toothpaste stay in its tube and not ooze out ...
Machines rival expert analysis of stored red blood cell quality
New AI strategies automate assessments of stored blood, remove human subjectivityCredit: Minh Doan, Joseph Sebastian, Tracey Turner, Jason Acker, Michael ...
NASA tracking Tropical Storm Laura near Cuba
Credit: NASA Worldview As Tropical Storm Laura continues to move through the Caribbean Sea NASA satellites are providing forecasters with ...
NASA’s Terra Satellite shows smoky pall over most of California
Credit: NASA Worldview More than 650 wildfires are blazing in California after unprecedented lightning strikes, storms, and a heatwave that ...
Study offers new insights for sun-gathering technologies
Credit: Graphic by Jason Drees for the cover of ACS Applied Energy Materials Every hour, the sun saturates the earth ...
Novel 3D-printed device demonstrates enhanced capture of carbon dioxide emissions
Credit: Carlos Jones/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have ...
Are antivitamins the new antibiotics?
Research team from University of Göttingen develops drug approach against bacterial infectionsCredit: Lisa-Marie Funk Antibiotics are among the most important ...
Rice’s RAMBO-II: A sequel better than the original
First-of-its-kind spectrometer is getting stronger magnets, wider range of lasersCredit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Aug. 24, 2020) ...
Ecologists put biodiversity experiments to the test
Findings from experimental sites are reliable.Credit: Forest Isbell Much of our knowledge of how biodiversity benefits ecosystems comes from experimental ...
Big mammals at higher risk of extinction in world’s poorest countries, study reveals
Big mammals such as elephants, rhinos and primates are at highest risk of extinction in the national parks and nature ...
UH selected as clinical trial site to test Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine
Phase 2/3 clinical trial to test BNT162b2 investigational drugCredit: University Hospitals CLEVELAND - University Hospitals announced today plans to participate ...
UK/UPenn researchers provide insights into new form of dementia
Credit: Photo by Mark Cornelison | UKphoto LEXINGTON, Ky. - Working with their colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania, researchers ...
How dinosaur research can help medicine
Even Tyrannosaurus rex could have suffered a slipped discCredit: (c) Tanja Wintrich/Uni Bonn The intervertebral discs connect the vertebrae and ...
NAU scientists join $4 million nanotechnology collaborative infrastructure southwest
Researchers at Northern Arizona will collaborate in a regional partnership with Arizona State University to solve challenging convergent research problems ...
3 awards will support Accelerator R&D for Medical Treatment and more
Several scientists in Berkeley Lab's Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics Division will serve as leads or co-leadsCredit: Center for Proton ...
Researchers develop flat lens a thousand times thinner than a human hair
The lens can be used to produce high-resolution images with a wide field of view. It can serve as a ...
Large molecules need more help to travel through a nuclear pore into the cell nucleus
Model systems based on virus capsids have shown how large biomolecules are able to penetrate a cell nucleus / The ...
