Researchers generate human-monkey chimeric embryos
Credit: Weizhi Ji, Kunming University of Science and Technology Investigators in China and the United States have injected human stem ...
Transparent nanolayers for more solar power
Nanostructured material and a new cell design pave the way for the production of silicon solar cells with more than ...
New type of cell contributes to increased understanding of ALS
Credit: Ulf Sirborn The causes of the serious muscle disease ALS still remain unknown. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and ...
Coral reefs prevent more than $5.3 billion in potential flood damage for US property owners
Credit: Map by Chris Lowrie and Jessica Kendall-Bar Coral reefs provide many services to coastal communities, including critical protection from ...
CityU biologists discover super-enhancers that switch on breast cancer genes
Credit: City University of Hong Kong Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive type of breast cancer with a high ...
With impressive accuracy, dogs can sniff out coronavirus
In a proof-of-concept study led by the University of Pennsylvania, dogs identified positive samples with 96% accuracyCredit: Pat Nolan Many ...
Patients who are overweight or obese at risk of more severe COVID-19
Credit: i yunmai Patients who are overweight or obese have more severe COVID-19 and are highly likely to require invasive ...
Saving the planet, and ourselves
A philosopher for our troubled times: Brian MedlinCredit: Flinders University 2020 began with Australia ablaze, forests from Brazil to Siberia ...
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B Volume 11, Issue 3 publishes
Credit: Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/acta-pharmaceutica-sinica-b/vol/11/issue/3 The Journal of the Institute of Materia Medica, the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences ...
Making waves in oceanography
New research finds upwelling defies prior theoriesCredit: Jochen Kaempf, Flinders University A new scientific discovery in Australia by Flinders University ...
Keep calm! How blood vessels are kept in check
Credit: BIH/Michael Potente The inner surface of blood vessels is lined by a wafer-thin layer of cells known as the ...
Classification scheme developed for newly identified multiple sclerosis-like disease
Credit: Tohoku University Researchers in the Department of Neurology at Tohoku University, which is led by professor Masashi Aoki, have ...
First 3D-printed proton-conductive membrane paves way for tailored energy storage devices
Credit: Tohoku University The advent and increased availability of 3D printing is leading to more customizable parts at lower costs ...
University of Guam launches Drone Corps for students
Program to help gather footage and data for local agenciesCredit: University of Guam As the use of drones continues to ...
3500 year-old honeypot: Oldest direct evidence for honey collecting in Africa
Scientists at Goethe University and University of Bristol (UK) find traces of beeswax in prehistoric pottery of the West African ...
New benefits from anti-diabetic drug metformin
Metformin inhibits disease progression in non-diabetic chronic kidney disease (ND-CKD)Credit: Professor Hirofumi Kai Researchers from Kumamoto University (Japan) have found ...
HIV has been had
Credit: Department of Medicinal Chemistry, TMDU Tokyo, Japan - A team of scientists led by the Institute of Biomaterials and ...
Novak Djokovic now has a tiny new snail species named after him
Credit: Jozef Grego Do freshwater snails make good tennis players? One of them certainly has the name for it. Enter ...
Supercomputing partnership to turbocharge Australian research and green innovation
Credit: Curtin-ICRAR Curtin University and DUG Technology Ltd have entered into a decade-long partnership to collaborate in the fields of ...
Potential impact of pass/fail USMLE Step 1 scoring on radiology residency applications
2021 ARRS Virtual Annual Meeting research finds as USMLE Step 1 transitions from numerical score to pass/fail, program directors likely ...
