Secure nano-carrier delivers medications directly to cells
Nanoparticles with synthetic DNA can control release of active agentsCredit: Uli Benz / TUM Medications often have unwanted side-effects. One ...
Family care? Healed injuries suggest social behavior in ancestral wolves
New specimens from Ice Age of China provide clues to origin of pack-hunting in modern wolvesCredit: Mairin Balisi Wolves today ...
An enhanced ruthenium-based catalyst for primary amine synthesis
Credit: Yusuke Kita Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have developed a high-performance reusable ruthenium-based catalyst for the ...
Pale melanomas masked by albino gene
Credit: iStock People with pale coloured melanomas are more likely to have a gene mutation associated with albinism, University of ...
Astronomers model, determine how disk galaxies evolve so smoothly
Credit: Illustration by Jian Wu/Iowa State University. Galaxy image from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. AMES, Iowa - Computer simulations ...
Spin clean-up method brings practical quantum computers closer to reality
Osaka City University develops a quantum algorithm that removes pesky spin contaminants from chemical calculations on quantum computers.Credit: Kenji Sugisaki, ...
Ultrapotent antibody mix blocks COVID-19 virus attachment
A cocktail of powerful antibodies identified in recovered patients locks the coronavirus infection machinery, inhibits SARS-CoV-2 attachment to host cells, ...
Study could be first step in providing personalized care to patients with ureteral stents
Credit: Lawson Health Research Institute LONDON, ONTARIO - For patients with kidney stones, ureteral stents (hollow devices placed in the ...
UTA computer scientists investigating framework for sharing sensor data
Business model would share sensor dataCredit: UT Arlington Sensors are everywhere, collecting data in nearly every part of society and ...
A clearer view of what makes glass rigid
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Researchers led by The University of Tokyo employed ...
Potential drug target for dangerous E. coli infections identified
Credit: UNSW Sydney Escherichia coli, known as E. coli, are bacteria which many people associate with causing mild food poisoning, ...
3D printed nasal swabs work as well as commercial swabs for COVID-19 diagnostic testing
A multisite clinical trial, led by USF Health and Tampa General Hospital, provides the first evidence that both devices are ...
PLUS takes 3D ultrasound images of solids
Credit: Yoshikazu Ohara, Tohoku University A new system, developed by Tohoku University researchers in Japan in collaboration with Los Alamos ...
Pair of massive baby stars swaddled in salty water vapor
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Tanaka et al. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers spotted a pair of massive baby ...
Machine learning takes on synthetic biology: algorithms can bioengineer cells for you
Berkeley Lab scientists develop a tool that could drastically speed up the ability to design new biological systemsCredit: Thor Swift/Berkeley ...
Tree rings show scale of Arctic pollution is worse than previously thought
Credit: Dr Alexander Kirdyanov The largest-ever study of tree rings from Norilsk in the Russian Arctic has shown that the ...
New study to uncover how climate change and tectonics drove evolution in East Africa
First-of-its-kind international study is rooted in 17 million year-old whale fossilCredit: Isaiah Nengo STONY BROOK, NY, (Under Embargo until September ...
Novel neuroimaging study on dissociative symptoms reveals wounds of childhood trauma
Researchers have found connections in the brain to dissociative symptomsCredit: McLean Hospital Being traumatized can cause what are known as ...
Historical racial & ethnic health inequities account for disproportionate COVID-19 impact
Credit: ATS Sept. 22, 2020-- A new Viewpoint piece published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society examines ...
High-performance single-atom catalysts for high-temperature fuel cells
Individual Pt atoms participate in catalytic reaction to faciitate the electrode process by up to 10 times. Single-atom Pt catalysts ...
