Making artificial blood for transfusions
Blood transfusions can save the lives of patients who have suffered major blood loss, but hospitals don't always have enough...
Universities release results on nitrogen footprints
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 19, 2017 -- Researchers have developed a large-scale method for...
Gaming helps personalized therapy level up
Credit: Kimberly Cartier Using game features in non-game contexts, computers can learn to build personalized mental- and physical-therapy programs that...
Telestroke guidelines from American Telemedicine Association in Telemedicine & e-Health
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New guidelines to help clinicians use the latest telemedicine communication technologies to provide remote...
New study ranks hazardous asteroid effects from least to most destructive
WASHINGTON, DC -- If an asteroid struck Earth, which of its effects--scorching heat, flying debris, towering tsunamis--would claim the most...
Researchers quantify grasslands’ carbon storage value
Credit: University of Wyoming When grasslands feature a wide array of plant species, they provide a variety of benefits for...
Fish cooperate for selfish reasons
In an article published yesterday in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution John Fitzpatrick, a lecturer at Stockholm University, and...
Shale gas threat to forests can be eased by consolidating infrastructure
Credit: Lillie Langlois, Penn State Fragmentation of ecologically important core forests within the northern Appalachians -- driven by pipeline and...
Undocumented, would-be scientists face uncertain future in US
Scores of undocumented immigrant youth in the U.S. who are pursuing careers in the chemical sciences and related fields face...
Degradable electronic components created from corn starch
As consumers upgrade their gadgets at an increasing pace, the amount of electronic waste we generate continues to mount. To...
Study on mice demonstrates the action of strawberries against breast cancer
Credit: M. Battino et al. A study by European and Latin American researchers has shown that strawberry extract can inhibit...
Focused ultrasound named one of 2016’s top clinical research achievements
Credit: UVA Health System The University of Virginia Health System's pioneering use of focused sound waves to treat essential tremor,...
Singapore scientists provide new insights on how cancers evade the immune system
A team of scientists from Singapore has discovered new ways in which cancers can escape the body's immune system. Focusing...
Noninvasive imaging test shown accurate in ruling out kidney cancers
The latest in a series of studies led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine shows that addition of a widely...
MD Anderson and Lion Biotechnologies announce strategic alliance to conduct clinical trials of TILs
HOUSTON and SAN CARLOS, Calif. - The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Lion Biotechnologies, Inc., a biotechnology...
Gunshot injuries occur primarily in Miami-Dade’s poor, black neighborhoods
Credit: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Gunshot wound injuries in Miami-Dade County are clustered in predominantly poor, black...
Sharon C. Glotzer wins 2017 MRS Communications Lecture Award
The 2017 MRS Communications Lecture recognizes excellence in the field of materials research through work published in MRS Communications. It...
New study explains extraordinary resilience of deadly bacterium
Credit: Çetiner et al., 2017 Researchers at the University of Maryland have identified how the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses...
Making oil from algae — towards more efficient biofuels
Credit: Kobe University The mechanism behind oil synthesis within microalgae cells has been revealed by a Japanese research team. This...
A better life in the outback
Desert lands cover about a quarter of the Earth's land mass and are home to some half a billion people...
