Baricitinib plus Remdesivir shows promise for treating COVID-19
Peer-reviewed results of NIH clinical trial publishedCredit: NIAID WHAT: The combination of baricitinib, an anti-inflammatory drug, and remdesivir, an antiviral, ...
Month: December 2020
High-tech fixes for the food system could have unintended consequences
New technology is needed for our failing food systems; but anticipating trade-offs is crucial to making sure fixes do not ...
“The machine as extension of the body”
Prof. Gordon Cheng on the challenges of fusing robotics and neuroscienceCredit: Astrid Eckert / TUM Combining neuroscience and robotic research ...
Two, six, many
Heidelberg physicists observe the emergence of collective behaviourCredit: Jonas Ahlstedt / Lund University Bioimaging Centre (LBIC) Phase transitions describe dramatic ...
Gut microbiota plays a role in brain function and mood regulation
Credit: (c) Institut Pasteur / Pascal Marseaud Depression is a mental disorder that affects more than 264 million people of ...
Increasing safety for electric cars and pedestrians
Credit: Michael Roan for Virginia Tech An interdisciplinary research group at Virginia Tech is using an award of $550,000 to ...
Norway launches major wind power research centre
The NorthWind research centre will work on innovations to make wind power cheaper, more efficient, and more sustainableCredit: Photo: Jan ...
New computational method validates images without ‘ground truth’
WIF helps ensure 'seeing is believing' when it comes to the very smallCredit: Washington University in St. Louis A realtor ...
The Protein Society announces 2022 appointment of Protein Science Editor-in-chief
Credit: The Protein Society CANYON COUNTRY, CA - The Protein Society is thrilled to announce the appointment of John Kuriyan, ...
The pressure sensor of the venus flytrap
Credit: (Picture: Ines Kreuzer, Soenke Scherzer / University of Wuerzburg) All plant cells can be made to react by touch ...
Predicting British railway delays using artificial intelligence
Credit: Debra Larson, The Grainger College of Engineering Over the past 20 years, the number of passengers traveling on British ...
New analysis method for predicting the risks and effects of immunotherapy
Credit: Mikael Wallerstedt In a new study, researchers at Uppsala University have been able to show differences in how Rituximab, ...
Double element co-doped carbon quantum dots enhance photocatalytic efficiency
Credit: Authors In a paper published in NANO, researchers from Nanjing Tech University proposed a theory which attributes the photocatalytic ...
‘The robot made me do it’: Robots encourage risk-taking behaviour in people
Credit: University of Southampton New research has shown robots can encourage people to take greater risks in a simulated gambling ...
Novel cathode design significantly improves performance of next-generation battery
Credit: HKUST A team led by Cheong Ying Chan Professor of Engineering and Environment Prof. ZHAO Tianshou, Chair Professor of ...
OHSU physician honored for co-invention of eye-imaging technology
David Huang, M.D., Ph.D., recognized by Sanford and Susan Greenberg Prize to End BlindnessCredit: OHSU/John Valls An ophthalmologist and researcher ...
Potential extreme condition history detector – recoverable PL achieved in pyrochlore
Credit: Yongsheng Zhao Photoluminescence (PL) is light emission from a substance after the absorption of photons stimulated by temperature, electricity, pressure, or chemistry doping. An international team of scientists led by Dr. Wenge ...
Researchers find why ‘lab-made’ proteins have unusually high temperature stability
Credit: NINS/IMS Bioengineers have found why proteins that are designed from scratch tend to be more tolerant to high temperatures ...
Flavors added to vaping devices can damage the heart
The vape flavorings so popular with kids and young adults are cardiotoxic and disrupt the heart's normal electrical activity, a ...
Pizza can help address the dark matter mystery?
A cavity partitioned into multiple identical cells provides a highly efficient path to high-frequency axion dark matter searchesCredit: IBS Despite ...
