Difficult to build a family after exposure to chemical weapons
Credit: Photo by Siri Sjolin People who have been exposed to chemical warfare agents (CWAs) feel uncertain, decades after the ...
Trial targets deadly lung cancer
Urgent research as mesothelioma numbers peakCredit: Flinders University With more than 650 Australians diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma last year, Flinders ...
Prize for ‘clean earth technologies’
National science prize for polymers made from wasteCredit: Flinders University Flinders University Associate Professor Justin Chalker has won the Prize ...
NEJM: clinical trial indicates monoclonal antibody lowered hospitalizations and emergency visits
Therapy may hold promise for fighting pandemicCredit: Photo by Cedars-Sinai COVID-19 (coronavirus) patients who were administered a novel antibody had ...
Flash graphene rocks strategy for plastic waste
Rice University lab detours potential environmental hazard into useful materialCredit: Tour Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 29, 2020) - Plastic ...
Smart tablecloth can find fruit and help with watering the plants
Interactive fabric senses everyday non-metallic objectsCredit: Figure courtesy of XDiscovery Lab. HANOVER, N.H. - October 29, 2020 - Researchers have ...
Industry impact: Wojciech Misiolek honored for materials processing advances
Lehigh University materials science and engineering chair, a leading expert in aluminum metal forming, wins ASM International's prestigious William Hunt ...
Fungal species naturally suppresses cyst nematodes responsible for major sugar beet losses
Credit: James Borneman The plant pathogenic nematode Heterodera schachtii infects more than 200 different plants, including sugar beets, and causes ...
Salt wars: The battle over the biggest killer in the American diet by Michael F. Jacobson
Available now from The MIT PressCredit: The MIT Press A high-sodium diet is deadly; studies have linked it to high ...
UC scientist receives over $700,000 for a multi-year research project
Pharmacy faculty member studies properties that are environmentally friendlyCredit: University of Cincinnati University of Cincinnati cosmetic scientist Harshita Kumari has ...
Researcher making drones smarter, situationally aware and team-oriented
NSF-funded project to enable UAVs to monitor themselves and each other, taking into account different scenariosCredit: Courtesy Northern Arizona University ...
Amount of COVID viral RNA detected at hospital admission predicts how patients will fare
Credit: American Thoracic Society Oct. 29, 2020-- A new study published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society ...
Autoantibody order, timing predict genetically at-risk children most likely to get T1D
USF Health-led TEDDY analysis focuses on development of multiple distinct autoantibodies targeting insulin-producing cells, from initial autoimmunity to symptomatic type ...
Tube-dwelling anemone toxins have pharmacological potential, mapping study shows
Analysis identified 525 genes encoding proteins that act on the nervous system, cardiovascular system and cell walls. One of the ...
Two-hour sepsis test in development at Penn State and Stanford University
A National Institutes of Health grant will fund a precise and quick test to help treat one of the largest ...
Rice finds path to nanodiamond from graphene
A spot of pressure enables chemical conversion to hardened 2D materialCredit: Illustration by Pavel Sorokin HOUSTON - (Oct. 29, 2020) ...
Models show how COVID-19 cuts a neighborhood path
Credit: Thomas et al., 2020, PNAS The coronavirus doesn't spread uniformly through a community. But in the world of disease ...
UMass Amherst research compares sensitivity of all genes to chemical exposure
Using an unbiased approach, scientists for the first time analyzed more than ½-million chemical-gene interactionsCredit: UMass Amherst A University of ...
‘Time machine’ offers new pancreatic cancer drug testing approach
Testing drugs within a tumor may combat pancreatic cancer drug resistanceCredit: Purdue University/Rebecca McElhoe WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Many patients ...
Water fleas on ‘happy pills’ have more offspring
All those medicines we take? A lot end up in treated wastewater -- with sometimes surprising resultsCredit: Photo: Per Harald ...