How blood cells deform, recover when traveling through tiny channels
Two different types of shape recovery behaviors for red blood cells traveling through microfluidic channels may pave the way to...
Simulating borehole ballooning helps ensure safe drilling of deep-water oil, gas
Experimental study on borehole ballooning leads to a device which may help prevent serious drilling accidentsCredit: Reyu Gao WASHINGTON, April...
Key progress on the MRI compatible DBS electrodes and simultaneous DBS-fMRI
Credit: College of Engineering, Peking University Simultaneous deep brain stimulation (DBS) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is critical for...
Fused-ring electron acceptor with 3D exciton and charge transport
Credit: Zhan Xiaowei Recently, Professor Zhan Xiaowei's group from the College of Engineering at Peking University made new progress in...
New HKBU-led study unveils COVID-19 transmission patterns and reopening plans
Credit: Hong Kong Baptist University With the COVID-19 pandemic resulting in lockdowns in different parts of the world, from the...
Finding the genes to build a better cancer treatment
Credit: WSU Scientists are one step closer to understanding how the cancer-fighting drug Taxol is produced by trees. In a...
MA3Bi2I9 single-crystal enables X-ray detection down to nanograys per second
Credit: ©Science China Press Sensitive X-ray detectors are essential for medical radiography, industrial inspection and security screening. However, commercially available...
Is planet Earth young or old?
Credit: World Scientific The Age of the Earth -- A Physicist's Odyssey spells out how the age of our planet has...
X-ray analysis sheds light on construction and conservation of artefacts from Henry VIII’s warship
21st century X-ray technology has allowed University of Warwick scientists to peer back through time at the production of the...
Joan W. Conaway elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Credit: Stowers Institute KANSAS CITY, MO--The Stowers Institute for Medical Research is pleased to announce that Joan Weliky Conaway, PhD,...
A leap in using silicon for battery anodes
Novel nanostructure design lends extraordinary strength to a promising storage ingredientCredit: Illustration by Michael Perkins/PNNL RICHLAND, Wash. -- The same...
The truth lies in the soil: How human activity leaves a chemical footprint in soils
Researchers explore how natural processes determine the distribution of chemical elements in soils and highlight the effect of miningCredit: Earth...
TAMA300 blazes trail for improved gravitational wave astronomy
Credit: NAOJ Researchers at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) have used the infrastructure of the former TAMA300 gravitational...
Success in specific detection of molecules using deformation of a single atomic sheet
Towards diagnostic techniques using smartphonesCredit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Overview Associate Prof. Kazuhiro Takahashi and...
Smart contact lenses that diagnose and treat diabetes
Credit: Sei Kwang Hahn (POSTECH) Diabetes is called an incurable disease because once it develops, it does not disappear regardless...
Machine learning tool could provide unexpected scientific insights into COVID-19
Berkeley Lab's COVIDScholar uses text mining algorithms to scan hundreds of new papers every dayCredit: Berkeley Lab A team of...
A molecular pressure cooker tenderizes tough pieces of protein and helps to bite off
Credit: NINS/IMS Proteins are composed of amino acids connected by amide bonds. The amide bond exhibits high chemical stability and...
Can an existing HIV medication slow the spread of COVID-19?
Team of Toronto researchers launches clinical trial to find out if existing HIV medication could prevent COVID-19 infectionCredit: MAP Centre...
AGA and joint task force on allergy-immunology practice parameters release EoE guidelines
Guideline provides evidence-based recommendations for allergists and gastroenterologists focusing on the clinical management of EoE for pediatric and adult patientsCredit:...
CNIC scientists design an experimental mouse model for investigating the mechanical function of proteins
The model, published today in Nature Communications, is based on the insertion of the HaloTag-TEV genetic cassette into titin, one...
