Nanoengineers 3-D print biomimetic blood vessel networks
Credit: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have 3D printed a lifelike, functional ...
Want more crop variety? Researchers propose using CRISPR to accelerate plant domestication
Credit: Palmgren et al./Trends in Plant Science 2017 Out of the more than 300,000 plant species in existence, only three ...
Mid-Mesozoic beetle in amber stirs questions on rise of flowering plants and pollinators
Credit: Courtesy of José Antonio Peñas (digital scientific illustrator from Madrid, Spain). Named for Charles Darwin, the only known specimen ...
Hand-picked specialty crops ‘ripe’ for precision agriculture techniques
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Timing the harvest and transport of highly perishable, hand-picked crops such ...
Biochemical ‘fossil’ shows how life may have emerged without phosphate
Credit: Joshua Goldford and Daniel Segrè One major mystery about life's origin is how phosphate became an essential building block ...
Research shows exercise is a boon for cancer patients
Exercise and/or psychological therapy work better than medications to reduce cancer-related fatigue and should be recommended first to patients, according ...
Reducing cancer-related fatigue
A new article published online by JAMA Oncology analyzed which of four commonly recommended treatments - exercise, psychological, the combination ...
Once overlooked, uninitialized-use ‘bugs’ may provide portal for hacker attacks on linux
Popular with programmers the world over for its stability, flexibilityand security, Linux now appears to be vulnerable to hackers. According ...
New path suggested for nuclear fusion
Credit: Gruebele Group/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Controlled nuclear fusion has been a holy grail for physicists who seek an ...
New in vitro toxicology research on health risk assessment wins PETA award
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 2, 2017--Researchers have demonstrated the ability to use two new ...
The lord of destruction
While his childhood friends built things, Erik was always more intrigued by how and why things break. Prof. Dr. Erik ...
Food on Mars, food on Earth: Nasa taps USU scientists for space quest
Credit: Mary-Ann Muffoletto, Utah State University LOGAN, UTAH, USA -- Can earthlings live on Mars? They can if they develop ...
Save the dates for upcoming ESMO meetings
Lugano, Switzerland, March 2, 2017 - Save the dates and join us at the many events ESMO is hosting in ...
Study identifies how cancer cells may develop resistance to FGFR inhibitors
Columbus, Ohio - A new study by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James ...
‘Red hair’ gene variant may underlie association between melanoma and Parkinson’s disease
A gene variant that produces red hair and fair skin in humans and in mice, which increases the risk of ...
Cigarette smoke curbs lung’s self-healing
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Smoke from cigarettes blocks self-healing processes in the lungs and ...
A SOI wafer is a suitable substrate for gallium nitride crystals
Credit: Aalto University / Jori Lemettinen In cooperation with Okmetic Oy and the Polish ITME, researchers at Aalto University have ...
NASA rover technology to be used in project to map nuclear sites comprehensively
Credit: The University of Manchester University of Manchester scientists are leading a team which is to comprehensively map some of ...
Aging faces could increase security risks
Credit: Michigan State University Images of our faces exist in numerous important databases - driver's license, passport, law enforcement, employment ...
Exploring the world of the Madeleine McCann trolls
Credit: University of Huddersfield A DECADE has passed since the disappearance of toddler Madeleine McCann on holiday in Portugal, but ...
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