Clinical trial of therapeutics for severely ill hospitalized COVID-19 patients begins
Patients with acute respiratory failure may now enroll in NIH-sponsored trialCredit: NIAID A new Phase 3 trial to test the ...
Month: April 2021
First clinical trials set for MRI cancer detection
Case Western Reserve University-developed imaging agent for MRI prostate cancer detection gets FDA approval for safety trials, set to begin ...
Uniquely sharp X-ray view
Credit: Paul Scherrer Institute/Mahir Dzambegovic Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have succeeded for the first time in looking ...
Individuals in lower-income US counties or high support for former President Trump continue to be less likely to socially distance
A new nearly yearlong study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine finds that lower-income and Republican-leaning communities are less ...
Multimillion euro funding for the search for ‘new physics’
Prof. Dr. Piet O. Schmidt receives ERC Advanced Grant from the EU -- 2.5 million euros for a five-year projectCredit: ...
Miniaturized models of neuron-muscle interactions give insight in ALS
Credit: Dr. Pieter Baatsen, LiMoNe, Research Group Molecular Neurobiology and Katarina Stoklund Dittlau, Laboratory of Neurobiology at VIB-KU Leuven Center ...
‘Stickiness’ key to better diagnostics and pharmaceuticals
Credit: The University of Queensland The 'stickiness', or viscosity, of microscopic liquids can now be measured thousands of times faster ...
Minimally invasive retinal reattachment procedure leads to superior photoreceptor integrity
Pneumatic retinopexy associated with best visual outcomesCredit: Unity Health Toronto A minimally invasive retinal reattachment procedure that can be done ...
Ulf-G. Meißner receives an ERC Advanced Grant
The European Union is funding the physics professor at the University of Bonn with about 2.3 million eurosCredit: © Volker ...
Fighting harmful bacteria with nanoparticles
New weapons against antibiotic resistanceCredit: Empa In the arms race "mankind against bacteria", bacteria are currently ahead of us. Our ...
Sustainable electricity generation at low temperatures
MoNiKa: Researchers and industry work on technologies for energy-efficient power generation from low-temperature heatCredit: Markus Breig/Amadeus Bramsiepe, KIT Low-temperature heat ...
Transport phenomena at the nanoscale
Credit: Ella Maru Studio (https://scientific-illustrations.com) Transient grating spectroscopy is an elegant method that uses two laser pulses to activate a ...
EU funding to help solve fundamental problems in the interaction of hardware and software
Credit: Oliver Dietze To change this and to improve the interaction between hardware and software, the computer scientist is now ...
Unlocking Australia’s biodiversity, one dataset at a time
Credit: CSIRO Australia's unique and highly endemic flora and fauna are threatened by rapid losses in biodiversity and ecosystem health, ...
Inspired by nature, the research to develop a new load-bearing material
Credit: University of Leeds Inspired by nature, the researchers developing a new load-bearing material Engineers have developed a new material ...
Climate-smart ag strategies may cut nitrous oxide emissions from corn production
Credit: Heather Karsten, Penn State For corn, using dairy manure and legume cover crops in crop rotations can reduce the ...
Properties of chromium tribromide show path to innovative electronic devices
A paper by Kazan Federal University and Joint Institute for Nuclear Research saw light in Quantum MaterialsCredit: Kazan Federal University ...
Achieving privacy and integrity in the cloud
The PICOCRYPT project, led by the IMDEA Software Institute, will guarantee integrity, privacy and effectiveness of computation on data stored ...
Intrinsic in-plane nodal chain and generalized quaternion charge protected nodal link in photonics
Credit: by Dongyang Wang, Biao Yang, Qinghua Guo, Ruo-Yang Zhang, Lingbo Xia, Xiaoqiang Su, Wen-Jie Chen, Jiaguang Han, Shuang Zhang, ...
Under pressure: Manipulating protein-mimicking molecules with hydrostatic pressure
Credit: Chemical Science Stimulus-responsive supramolecular structures have emerged as an alternative to conventional ones, owing to their applications in sensing, ...
