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The Onyx™ platform enables scientists to create libraries of millions of precisely engineered single cells in one experiment through a...

Virtual medical visits get wary welcome from older adults, poll finds

Few over 50 have tried telehealth and most see in-person care as better -- but half would consider it for...

250-million-year-old evolutionary remnants seen in muscles of human embryos

Credit: Rui Diogo, Natalia Siomava and Yorick Gitton A team of evolutionary biologists, led by Dr. Rui Diogo at Howard...

Researchers synthesize ‘impossible’ superconductor

Credit: @tsarcyanide/MIPT Press Office Researchers from the U.S., Russia, and China have bent the rules of classical chemistry and synthesized...

Cracking how ‘water bears’ survive the extremes

Researchers discover that a protein in tiny tardigrades binds and forms a protective cloud against extreme survival threats such as...

Jellyfish’s ‘superpowers’ gained through cellular mechanism

Credit: Sosuke Fujita, Tohoku University Jellyfish are animals that possess the unique ability to regenerate body parts. A team of...

Microneedle biosensor accurately detects patient’s antibiotic levels in real time

Credit: Imperial College London / Timothy Rawson et al. Lancet Digital Health 2019 Small, non-invasive patches worn on the skin...

Biologists track the invasion of herbicide-resistant weeds into southwestern Ontario

Credit: Julia Kreiner TORONTO, ON (Canada) - A team including evolutionary biologists from the University of Toronto (U of T)...

Researchers publish comprehensive review on respiratory effects of vaping

UNC School of Medicine researcher Rob Tarran, PhD, led a review of all published scientific literature on the effects of...

Teen study reveals how schools influence e-cigarette use, outlines prevention strategies

Credit: Unsplash: Lucas Clarysse When e-cigarettes hit the U.S. market in 2007, they were promoted to adult smokers as a...

Quantum material goes where none have gone before

Alloy behaves strangely while traversing potential 'spin liquid' stateCredit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON -- (Sept. 30, 2019) --...

Bertha Madras receives Innovator Award from the College on Problems of Drug Dependence

Credit: McLean Hospital The College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) has presented McLean Hospital's Bertha K. Madras, PhD, with...

Georgia State research finds early life racial discrimination linked to depression, accelerated aging

Credit: Georgia State Early life stress from racial discrimination puts African Americans at greater risk for accelerated aging, a marker...

NASA sale launches HRL laboratories’ commercial 3D-printed aluminum effort

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is the first customer for commercial sale of feedstock for additive high-strength aluminumCredit: HRL Laboratories,...

Microbes in warm soils released more carbon than those in cooler soils

Warming tropical soils could cause a 9% increase in atmospheric CO2 this centuryCredit: Andrew Nottingham As one descends a mountain,...

What did ancient crocodiles eat? Study says as much as a snout can grab

Credit: Envato While most people imagine alligators and crocodiles as being much the same now as they were during the...

Study explains molecular mechanism of botanical folk medicines used to treat hypertension

Lavender, fennel and chamomile among herbs discovered to act upon a shared therapeutic target in blood vesselsCredit: Bo Abbott Irvine,...

NIH forms new collaborative influenza vaccine research network

Credit: NIAID The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has initiated...

Researchers develop program aimed at reducing dating violence among students

Credit: UTHealth A program developed to encourage healthy relationships and reduce dating violence was effective among early middle school students,...

UBC study highlights need to improve health care access in Vancouver, Portland and Seattle