Bioengineer, Author at BIOENGINEER.ORG

Credit: NTU Singapore An international research team led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has found that microorganisms living...

Crystal coatings could help solve mystery of fracture patterns

Credit: Lander et al. Fractures are everywhere. They are the cracks in the sidewalk. The rifts in roadcuts. The spidery...

New study casts doubt on China’s organ donation data

Credit: Benjamin John Keough, ANU The Chinese government may have been systematically misreporting the number of organs it claims it...

Turning waste heat into hydrogen fuel

Using waste heat helps cut cost of producing hydrogenCredit: Illustration: NTNU In June, the International Energy Agency confirmed what most...

Gallium-based solvating agent efficiently analyzes optically active alcohols

Credit: KAIST A KAIST research team has developed a gallium-based metal complex enabling the rapid chiral analysis of alcohols. A...

Space-based radar suggests North Korean nuke equivalent to ’17 Hiroshimas’

Credit: ESA / ATG medialab North Korea withdrew from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 2003. It...

Scientist receives $3.5 million NIH grant to study pain-relief and cannabis

Credit: UCLA Health Ziva Cooper, research director of the UCLA Cannabis Research Initiative, has been awarded a $3.5 million grant...

Salk Institute receives Charity Navigator’s highest rating for ninth consecutive time

Status achieved by only three percent of nonprofitsCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(November 14, 2019) For the ninth consecutive time, the...

‘Nudging’ heart patients to take their statins leads to better adherence and better outcomes

Credit: Intermountain Healthcare Statins are an effective medication for treating patients with heart disease - they cut the risk of...

Blocking a survival mechanism could tackle melanoma treatment resistance

Credit: the Babraham Institute The effectiveness of current treatments for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, could be improved...

Inoculating against the spread of viral misinformation

Study of vaccine-related Facebook ads reveals ongoing challenges to public healthCredit: Kirian Villalta, UMD School of Public Health In a...

Lehigh engineers designing a more efficient tidal turbine with NSF grant

Arindam Banerjee's lab uses innovative active grid turbulence generator to mimic water conditions of Verdant Power's Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy...

NASA Sending solar power generator developed at Ben-Gurion U to space station

Credit: Ben-Gurion U./Jeffery Gordon NASA Sending Solar Power Generator Developed at Ben-Gurion University to the International Space Station BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL...November...

‘Are we alone?’ Study refines which exoplanets are potentially habitable

First study to combine 3D climate modeling with chemistry explores M dwarf planetsCredit: NASA/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/D. Aguilar Study is...

Unhealthy habits can start young: Infants, toddlers, and added sugars

A new study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics breaks new ground by evaluating a nationally...

No deliveries: How cells decide when to accept extracellular packages

Credit: Edward Partlow and Dr. Richard Baker Endocytosis, a fundamental process that cells use to take in macromolecules, functions a...

Lab-wide sustainability efforts win federal recognition

Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has won a regional Federal Green Challenge award for...

How giant kelp may respond to climate change

In a changing ocean, giant kelp's reproductive success depends on where it's fromCredit: Jordan Hollarsmith/UC Davis When a marine heat...

NJIT biomedical engineer Tara Alvarez is a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry

Credit: NJIT Tara Alvarez, a professor of biomedical engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) who studies the links...

Study led by Tulane researchers outlines America’s losing battle to lose weight