Pipe-crawling robot will help decommission DOE nuclear facility
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH--A pair of autonomous robots developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute will soon be driving...
High consumption of red and processed meat linked to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and insulin resistance
Credit: Journal of Hepatology Amsterdam, March 20, 2018 - World meat consumption has increased during the last decades, and evidence...
Harvard bioengineers’ biomaterial-based cancer immunotherapies to be developed by Novartis
Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University (BOSTON) - The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the...
Trial shows safety of drugs for irregular heartbeat patients undergoing treatment
A trial led by the University of Birmingham has found that two types of blood thinning drugs are safe to...
Apixaban is a safe alternative to warfarin during catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation
Barcelona, Spain - 20 March 2018: Apixaban and warfarin are equally safe during catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation, according to...
Switch discovered to convert blood vessels to blood stem cells in embryonic development
A switch has been discovered that instructs blood vessel cells to become blood stem cells during embryonic development in mice....
Smithsonian researchers name new ocean zone: The rariphotic
Credit: Carole Baldwin, Smithsonian Based on the unique fish fauna observed from a manned submersible on a southern Caribbean reef...
New study brings us one step closer to understanding how tidal clocks tick
Credit: Yisrael Schnytzer Almost all organisms have an internal biological clock that synchronizes their behavior with the environment in which...
USTC reports diamond ring architecture of a protein complex
Credit: USTC News Center Just as diamond ring is needed in marriage, NuA4/Tip60, a complex with diamond ring architecture, is...
Discovered mode of drinking in mosquitoes carries biomedical implications
Credit: Virginia Tech Mosquitoes may have a reputation for being one of the world's most intractable pests, but they're actually...
Natural sniper kills hospital bacterium
Bacteria produce proteins to take out specific competitors. One of these proteins can kill the hospital bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Microbial...
Researchers create new low-cost, sustainable material for reducing air and water pollution
Credit: © 2018 Zanoletti, Vassura, Venturini, Monai, Montini, Federici, Zacco, Treccani and Bontempi. Front. Chem. | doi: 10.3389/fchem.2018.00060 A new...
Chronic fatigue syndrome possibly explained by lower levels of key thyroid hormones
Credit: © 2018 Ruiz-Núñez, Tarasse, Vogelaar, Dijck-Brouwer and Muskiet. Front. Endocrinol. | doi: 10.3389/fendo.2018.00097 New research demonstrates a link between...
Sound new technique tunes into the shifting shapes of biology
Credit: Phil Robinson - John Innes Centre It's one of the major challenges of biology: how to accurately quantify the...
Illusory motion reproduced by deep neural networks trained for prediction
Credit: Akiyoshi Kitaoka Deep neural networks (DNNs), which have been developed with reference to the network structures and the operational...
Good motor skills may enhance reading skills in obese children
Excess body weight has been linked to poor academic performance in children in several previous studies. A new Finnish study...
Brain SPECT imaging predicts outcomes in depressed patients
Credit: Amens Clinic March 20, 2018, Costa Mesa, California: New research from the Amen Clinics shows that brain SPECT (single...
20 percent of Americans responsible for almost half of US food-related greenhouse gas emissions
ANN ARBOR--On any given day, 20 percent of Americans account for nearly half of U.S. diet-related greenhouse gas emissions, and...
Specific gene region in hypertension revealed
Credit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan - Genes encode proteins and proteins dictate cell function. Therefore, the thousands of genes...
Two genes cooperate to trigger leukemia development
An international group of researchers led by Prof. Jan Cools of the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology have made...
