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The first ever international Wounds Week was a resounding success
Credit: The University of Huddersfield and the Journal of Wound Care THIS year due to the pandemic the 8th International...
Penn Nursing’s Maria Torchia LoGrippo is a 2020 NLN Academy of Nursing Education fellow
Credit: MTL PHILADELPHIA (October 26, 2020) - The National League for Nursing Academy of Nursing Education fosters excellence in nursing...
Ultrasounds show impact of COVID-19 on the heart
Credit: Mount Sinai Health System Cardiac ultrasounds (also known as echocardiograms) are providing a view of the heart and the...
High fat or ‘ketogenic’ diets could prevent, reverse heart failure
Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS - Research from Saint Louis University finds that high fat or "ketogenic" diets could...
Light on efficiency loss in organic solar cells
Credit: © 2020 KAUST; Anastasia Serin Insight into energy losses that affect the conversion of light into electricity could help...
A simple, cost-effective molecular assay may help manage growing spread of drug-resistant gonorrhea
A multiplex assay based on high-resolution melting technology accurately identified antimicrobial resistant determinants in Neisseria gonorrhoeae, researchers report in the...
Rice rolls out next-gen nanocars
Chemists prepare single-molecule racecars in anticipation of 2022 competitionCredit: Alexis van Venrooy/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 26, 2020) - Nanomechanics...
Can scientists take the STING out of common respiratory viruses?
Led by Stan Lemon, MD, researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and GSK colleagues discovered that the majority of...
Bridges with limb-inspired architecture can withstand earthquakes, cut repair costs
Using expert feedback, Texas A&M researchers quantify the benefits of their new bridge designCredit: Texas A&M University College of Engineering...
Dog training methods help JHU teach robots to learn new tricks
Credit: Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins University With a training technique commonly used to teach dogs to sit and stay, Johns Hopkins...
Neuron-based gene expression study reveals insights on fear and its regulation
Researchers identify potential therapeutic target for fear-based psychiatric illnessesCredit: McLean Hospital Highlights The expression of a gene called CREB in...
How to figure out what you don’t know
Credit: Mikhail Genkin/Engel lab Increasingly, biologists are turning to computational modeling to make sense of complex systems. In neuroscience, researchers...
Modern computational tools may open a new era for fossil pollen research
Credit: Doug Peterson One of the best sources of information on the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems and plant diversity over...
A molecular break for root growth
Length of plant roots is controlled by hormonesCredit: U. Benz / TUM Roots are essential for reaching water and nutrients,...
Odds are good for unique 2D compound
Perovskites synthesized at Rice University show potential for valleytronics applicationsCredit: Lou Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 26, 2020) - Engineers...
Emery N. Brown wins SfN’s Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience
Credit: MIT Picower Institute for Learning and Memory The Society for Neuroscience announced today that it has awarded the Swartz...
How cells use mechanical tension sensors to interact with their environment
Credit: Laboratory of Structural Biophysics and Mechanobiology/The Rockefeller University Actin is among the most abundant proteins in cells, and it...
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation announces Thesis Prize winners
Physicists develop tools to study biological processesCredit: Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Tools that may make it possible to noninvasively...
Making biodiesel from dirty old cooking oil just got way easier
New ultra-efficient catalyst can recycle old cooking oil into biodiesel and turn food scraps into high-value complex moleculesCredit: RMIT University...
Timeline of early eukaryotic evolution unveiled
Credit: Utrecht University, IRB Barcelona. One of the most important and puzzling events in the evolution of life has been...
