Successful research development approach helps cancer patients using mobile tech
Research sustainability at the UVA Center for Engineering in MedicineCredit: Dan Addison for UVA Communications, contributed photo from UVA Health ...
Month: April 2021
Army-funded research paves way for improved lasers, communications
Credit: Courtesy University of Pennsylvania RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- New photonics research paves the way for improved lasers, high-speed ...
Silver ions hurry up, then wait as they disperse
Rice chemists show ions' staged release from gold-silver nanoparticles could be useful propertyCredit: Rice University HOUSTON - (April 22, 2021) ...
C-Path opens access to Duchenne Regulatory Science Consortium database
Database will allow sharing of individual-level data with the goal of accelerating therapy development for Duchenne muscular dystrophyCredit: C-Path TUCSON, ...
Ancient Indigenous forest gardens promote a healthy ecosystem: SFU study
The researchers say this study marks the first time forest gardens have been studied in North AmericaCredit: SFU A new ...
Study paves the way for new photosensitive materials
Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University Photocatalysts are useful materials, with a myriad of environmental and energy applications, ...
Hungry fruit flies are extreme ultramarathon fliers
In search of food, a fly can travel six million times its body lengthCredit: Floris van Breugel In 2005, an ...
Serious play: Tablet-based video games may help people with mild cognitive impairment
UMass Amherst researcher awarded NIH grant to measure effects of mobile game-playingCredit: UMass Amherst A University of Massachusetts Amherst biomedical ...
MERS DNA vaccine induces immunity, protects from virus challenge in preclinical model
Dose-sparing regimens and intradermal delivery have important implication for rapid clinical development of effective, well-tolerated and easy-to-distribute vaccines against MERS ...
Little crop of horrors
With genes from carnivorous plants, researchers aim to grow hardier crop plantsCredit: Tanya Renner, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- ...
Why the human body has not evolved to make childbirth easier — or has it?
Credit: The University of Texas at Austin. AUSTIN, Texas -- Despite advances in medicine and technology, childbirth isn't likely to ...
Scientists uncover structure of light-driven enzyme with potential biofuel applications
Derived from microscopic algae, the enzyme converts fatty acids into starting ingredients for solvents and fuelsCredit: Damien Sorigue/Universite Aix-Marseille Although ...
University, city mark Earth Day with grants for ‘green’ projects
Awards go to community sustainability programsCredit: Ed Brennen for UMass Lowell LOWELL, Mass. - In honor of Earth Day, UMass ...
COVID-19 vaccine development built on >$17 billion in NIH funding for vaccine technologies
Broad foundation of NIH-funded research for enabling technologies prior to pandemic provided a tool kit for rapid development of COVID ...
Researchers identify predictive factors of delirium in Sub-Saharan Africa
Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center Severity of illness, history of stroke, and being divorced or widowed were independently predictive of ...
Blacks, hispanics, impoverished have worse survival rates among teens, adults under 40 with cancer
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - April 22, 2021 - Being Black or Hispanic, living in high-poverty neighborhoods, and ...
Stress test finds cracks in the resistance of harmful hospital bugs
Credit: John Innes Centre Research has identified critical factors that enable dangerous bacteria to spread disease by surviving on surfaces ...
Among COVID-19 survivors, an increased risk of death, serious illness
Major study details numerous long-term effects of COVID-19, pointing to massive health burdenCredit: Sara Moser As the COVID-19 pandemic has ...
Study of ‘breakthrough’ cases suggests COVID testing may be here to stay
Credit: Matthew Septimus/The Rockefeller University In rare cases, people who have been fully vaccinated against COVID and are immune to ...
How we know whether and when to pay attention
Fast reactions are based on estimates of whether and when events will occurCredit: Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics Fast ...
