Paw hygiene no reason to ban assistance dogs from hospitals
Assistance dogs' paws are cleaner than their users' shoe soles, Utrecht University researchers discoverCredit: Private photo of Iris and Sandy ...
Month: March 2021
Nanoenzymes designed with a unique combination of structure and functions
Credit: IBB-UAB Researchers at the UAB have designed minimalist biostructures that imitate natural enzymes, capable of carrying out two differentiated ...
Predicting success in therapy with individualized cancer models
Credit: Marianna Kruithof-de Julio and Marta De Menna In the EU alone, 78,800 men died of prostate cancer last year. ...
Establishing the origin of solar-mass black holes and the connection to dark matter
Credit: Takhistov et. al. What is the origin of black holes and how is that question connected with another mystery, ...
A biosensor for measuring extracellular hydrogen peroxide concentrations
Credit: Kanazawa University Several processes in the human body are regulated by biochemical reactions involving hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Although it ...
Finnish researchers introduce a nasal COVID vaccine
Credit: UEF / Raija Törrönen Rokote Laboratories Finland Ltd., a newly-founded academic spin-out based in Finland is working to develop ...
Critically endangered macadamia species becomes a plant supermodel
Credit: Bruce Topp, University of Queensland One of the world's rarest tree species has been transformed into a sophisticated model ...
Post-Fontan liver fibrosis goes under the radar
Osaka City University shows current diagnostic methodology for liver fibrosis does not accurately track the disease when it occurs as ...
Meet Turing structures in manmade interface
Credit: ZHANG Xiaolong In 1952, Alan Turing, the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, proposed that certain repetitive natural ...
It’s time to bolster women in conservation
Credit: Ruth Konia Women are largely being excluded from decisions about conservation and natural resources, with potentially detrimental effects on ...
Novel hydrogen fuel purification membrane paves the way for greener future
Researchers develop a novel membrane that efficiently purifies hydrogen fuel from a mixture of gasesCredit: Picture courtesy: Yuji Iwamoto from ...
Molecular biologist Mohamed Abou featured in new video and article from the Vilcek Foundation
Mohamed Abou Donia is the recipient of a 2021 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical ScienceCredit: The Vilcek Foundation ...
Chiral amines synthesized by nickel-catalysed asymmetric reductive hydroalkylation
Credit: WANG Jiawang Recently, research group, led by Prof. FU Yao and associate research fellow LU Xi From Hefei National ...
Invasive weed may help treat some human diseases, researchers find
Credit: Quan, Hiroshima University Native to the southeastern United States, a weedy grass has spread northward to Canada and also ...
DGIST and National Cancer Institute sign Joint Research Agreement
DGIST, NCI, and Kyung Hee Univ. signed a joint research agreement for clinical proteogenomic cancer researchCredit: DGIST, NCI DGIST announced ...
Biological artificial organs like skin, vessels…now produced more easily
A platform developed for nanopattern-based alignment of multiple cell types and differentiation into desired cells. Implications for shortened drug development ...
Sweden’s electromobility test bed is being established in Gothenburg, Nykvarn and Boras
Chalmers and RISE are now commencing construction of Sweden's electromobility test center: SEEL. Electrification of the transport sector is to ...
Most distant quasar with powerful radio jets discovered
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser With the help of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), astronomers have discovered and ...
Reduced heat leakage improves wearable health device
Credit: Photo courtesy of Mehmet Ozturk. North Carolina State University engineers continue to improve the efficiency of a flexible device ...
Immune cells in cerebrospinal fluid predict response to immunotherapy
The analysis of immune cells infiltrating cerebrospinal fluid enables the characterization of the tumor microenvironment in brain metastasesCredit: VHIO The ...
