Professor Shiho Kawashima wins NSF Career Award
Credit: Columbia Engineering Professor Shiho Kawashima, assistant professor of civil engineering and engineering mechanics at Columbia Engineering, has won a ...
3-D printing with plants
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- For centuries, cellulose has formed the basis of the world's most abundantly printed-on material: paper. Now, thanks ...
Graphene sheets capture cells efficiently
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A single cell can contain a wealth of information about the health of an individual. Now, a ...
Functional brain training alleviates chemotherapy-induced peripheral nerve damage in cancer survivor
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center A type of functional brain training known as neurofeedback shows promise in reducing symptoms of ...
Hubble showcases a remarkable galactic hybrid
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image showcases the remarkable galaxy UGC 12591. UGC 12591 sits somewhere ...
Danish scientist receives the A.C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award
Credit: Photo: Lars Kruse, Aarhus University On Friday, The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) honors Danish ...
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite sees formation of Tropical Storm Enawo
Credit: Credits: NOAA/NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team Tropical Storm Enawo formed in the Southern Indian Ocean, just northeast of ...
New autoimmune endocrine disease triggered by thymomas
Credit: Kobe University A Japanese research group has discovered that a newly-identified autoimmune endocrine disease that leads to hypopituitarism is ...
$2.8M in federal grants to JAX scientists to target triple-negative breast cancers
Two grants from the U.S. Department of Defense totaling $2.8 million will support Jackson Laboratory (JAX) research in one of ...
Doctoral student’s research looks at cause of neurodegenerative disease
Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan. -- A Kansas State University student hopes her research on a currently untreatable and ...
How to solve a problem like antibiotic resistance
There has been much recent talk about how to target the rising tide of antibiotic resistance across the world, one ...
Frozen chemistry controls bacterial infections
Credit: Mattias Pettersson Chemists and molecular biologists have made an unexpected discovery in infection biology. The researchers can now show ...
Precise technique tracks dopamine in the brain
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT researchers have devised a way to measure dopamine in the brain much more precisely than previously ...
Painkillers without dangerous side effects
Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have discovered a new way of developing painkillers. The team of researchers used computational ...
Genome editing: Pressing the delete button on DNA
Credit: Pulido-Quetglas et al. CCBY Genomics is the field of research studying how our «genome», or entire DNA sequence, specifies ...
HIGH-TOOL supports transport planning in Europe
Credit: Photo: KIT Research of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) supports the European Commission in transport planning: With the help ...
Algorithm identified Trump as ‘not-married’
Scientists from Russia and Singapore created an algorithm that predicts user marital status with 86% precision using data from three ...
Nutrient Sensor Challenge winners announced at ASLO conference
Credit: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science HONOLULU, HI (March 3, 2017)--The winners of the Nutrient Sensor Challenge were ...
Making metabolically active brown fat from white fat-derived stem cells
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 3, 2017--Researchers have demonstrated the potential to engineer brown adipose ...
Reprogrammed blood vessels promote cancer spread
Blood vessels play a critical role in the growth and spread of cancer. The cells lining the inner wall of ...
