Dormant neural stem cells in fruit flies activate to generate new brain cells
Credit: Ye Sing Tan Singapore, 18 June 2019 - How dormant neural stem cells in fruit flies are activated and...
New AI system manages road infrastructure via Google Street View
Geospatial scientists have developed a new program to monitor street signs needing replacement or repair by tapping into Google Street...
Study shows healthcare workers often care for patients while ill
Employees in patient care work with symptoms of cold, flu, and other respiratory illnesses NEW YORK (June 18, 2019) --...
New grant funds anti-aging study
Already approved FDA drug could impact brain cell functionCredit: Kathy West Studios San Antonio, Texas (June 17, 2019) - The...
New drug compound could tackle major life-limiting kidney disease
Researchers have developed a new class of drugs to tackle a common hereditary kidney disease The disease affects 12 million...
The Nanoscience Days 2019 in Finland
The abstracts of Plenary Speakers now on web #NSDays2019 The Nanoscience Days 2019 (#NSDays2019) will be held on 8th--9th of...
Redundancies in T cells
Oncologists have had great success with cancer immunotherapy in recent years, especially with the approach known as immune checkpoint inhibition,...
Gold adds the shine of reversible assembly to protein cages
An international team including researchers from the University of Tsukuba reports the gold led reversible self-assembly of 3D cages from...
Rebirth of the Japanese black tea market: challenges for entrepreneurial green tea farmers
Credit: Kanazawa University In Japan, tea farms are found in warm areas, whose northern limit is Ibaraki prefecture, where green...
How certain antibiotic combinations could defeat 'superbugs'
Targeting heteroresistance A sneaky form of antibiotic resistance called "heteroresistance" is more widespread than previously appreciated, scientists at the Emory...
Changing how we predict coral bleaching
Credit: © 2019 Charlotte Young Coral bleaching events may occur more frequently in the Red Sea than previously thought, according...
Dr. Minah Lee receives Wiley Young Researcher Award
Dr. Lee gained attention as an outstanding researcher in materials scienceCredit: KIST On May 22, Dr. Minah Lee from the...
Climate change enhances carbon dioxide flux from lakes
The carbon cycling in lakes is studied using a process-based model that describes the temporal evolution of temperature distribution and...
Researchers find genetic cause for fatal response to Hepatitis A
Credit: Belkaya et al., 2019 Researchers have identified a genetic mutation that caused an 11-year-old girl to suffer a fatal...
Molecular switch for ‘exhaustion mode’ of immune cells discovered
Credit: D. Zehn / Technical University of Munich Tumors and certain viral infections pose a challenge to the human body...
Speeding up the journey towards clean energy through photocatalyst optimization
Researchers from Osaka University link the activity of water splitting catalysts to easy-to-measure parameters to enable rapid screening of clean...
Emerging device by the fusion of IGZO and ferroelectric-HfO2
Next generation memory with low-power, high-speed, and high capacityCredit: Masaharu Kobayashi As a part of JST PRESTO program, Associate professor...
‘Hot spots’ increase efficiency of solar desalination
Rice University engineers boost output of solar desalination system by 50%Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON -- (June 18, 2019) --...
Greentown Labs & BASF start circularity challenge to pursue ideas for a circular economy
Six-month accelerator program seeks innovation in the plastics, energy storage and recycling value chains Greentown Labs and BASF jointly launch...
Drug boosts growth in youngsters with most common form of dwarfism, new study finds
Results of the four-year study are summarised online June 18 in the New England Journal of Medicine A groundbreaking drug...
