Pathogens get comfy in designer goo
Rice, Baylor labs use custom hydrogels to mimic insides of intestines, study infectious bacteriaCredit: Rice University/Baylor College of Medicine HOUSTON ...
Month: July 2021
Eco-friendly plastic from cellulose and water
Göttingen University researchers create new kind of environmentally friendly bioplastic with hydroplastic polymersCredit: K Zhang Plastics offer many benefits to ...
Silicon with a two-dimensional structure
Heidelberg chemists succeed in producing synthesis and complete characterisation for the first timeCredit: Illustration: Ebner/Greb (Heidelberg) Silicon, a semi-metal, bonds ...
Mentoring and inclusion are top priority for 50 new Gilliam Fellows and their advisers
Credit: HHMI They come from 38 schools across the country. Their research spans the life sciences, from plant biology to ...
New study reports strong indications of freshened groundwater offshore the Maltese Islands
Study is a product of the MARCAN project, led by the University of MaltaCredit: Prof. Aaron Micallef An international team ...
Bringing the jury to the crime scene via a 3D headset
Virtual reality leads to more consistent verdictsCredit: University of South Australia As any juror will tell you, piecing together a ...
Generation and application of the high-Q resonance in all-dielectric metasurfaces
Credit: Opto-Electronic Advances In a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2021.200030 , Researchers led by Professor Liu Yan from ...
Antimatter from laser pincers
Research team develops new method to study astrophysical processes in the laboratoryCredit: European XFEL / Jan Hosan In the depths ...
UMD Develops a DASH-Plus community-based hypertension management program for older adults
New USDA-NIFA funding brings together research, academics, and Extension to improve knowledge, access, and self-monitoring skills for hypertension managementCredit: Edwin ...
A rock with many perspectives
Credit: Schulz, GFZ The Alum Shale of Northern Europe not only has an eventful history of formation, connected with the ...
UNF professor receives US manufacturing patent for 3D printing mold tool
Credit: University of North Florida Jacksonville, Fla. - Dr. Steve Stagon, University of North Florida mechanical engineering associate professor, has ...
3D imaging reveals neural ‘vicious cycle’ in fatty liver disease
Credit: Adori et al., Science Advances, July 2021. With the application of a novel three-dimensional imaging technology, researchers at Karolinska ...
Geneticists reveal how mutation causes childhood cancer; use drug to reverse its effects
Credit: Trinity College Dublin. Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered how a specific genetic mutation called H3K27M causes a ...
Characterized drugs show unexpected effects
Known and yet unexpected: many active substances influence the cholesterol homeostasis and thereby possibly a SARS-CoV-2 infectionCredit: MPI of Molecular ...
Defect engineering assisting in high-level anion doping towards fast charge transfer kinetic
Credit: ©Science China Press The research team of Prof. Xiaobo Ji and associate Prof. Guoqiang Zou has proposed an ingenious ...
New weapons testing capability produces richer data, saves time, cost
'Superfuge' test combines multiple environments on a full-scale weapons systemCredit: Photo by Randy Montoya/Sandia National Laboratories. LIVERMORE, Calif. -- A ...
New insight on the reproductive evolution of land plants
International consortium offers novel insight into the reproductive evolution of land plants, in new study published in Nature PlantsCredit: Mette ...
Visualizing a city’s energy use
Pitt civil engineers use Pittsburgh to create energy usage model in commercial buildingsCredit: Bilec Built Environment and Sustainable Engineering Group ...
DeepMind and EMBL release the most complete database of predicted 3D structures of human proteins
Partners use AlphaFold, the AI system recognised last year as a solution to the protein structure prediction problem, to release ...
Collaborative digitalization of supply chain ecosystem is overdue for some industries
New book lays down critical business process improvements essential to commencing a Digital Supply Chain TransformationCredit: World Scientific We are ...