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Why macrophages rest in healthy tissue
Credit: ETH Zurich/Nikhil Jain and Isabel Gerber Macrophages are a type of white blood cell. The term comes from the...
Neuroimaging study reveals ‘hot spot’ for cue-reactivity in substance-dependent population
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina When patients with dependence on alcohol, cocaine or nicotine are shown drug cues, or...
Studying water flow for more efficient aquaponic systems
Credit: Todd Guerdat WASHINGTON, D.C., November 20, 2018 -- An aquaponic system is an example of an integrated farming method...
Machine learning can be used to predict which patients require emergency admission
Machine learning - a field of artificial intelligence that uses statistical techniques to enable computer systems to 'learn' from data...
Get dressed!
Credit: Courtesy SIGGRAPH Asia Putting on clothes is a daily, mundane task that most of us perform with little or...
How reliable are search terms for SEO and SEM results?
CATONSVILLE, MD, November 20, 2018 - With billions of dollars spent each year on search engine optimization (SEO) and search...
Treating a rare genetic disorder that causes colon cancer in children
Credit: University of Houston A University of Houston pharmaceutical scientist is developing a new drug which could bring relief to...
A Trojan horse delivery method for miRNA-enriched extracellular vesicles
A method for large-scale production of extracellular vesicles enriched with specific microRNAs (miRNAs) has been developed in the Wake Forest...
Insilico Medicine to present its latest research in a talk and workshop at NIPS Expo
Credit: Insilico Medicine Tuesday, November 20, 2018, Rockville, Maryland. The Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) is the largest and the...
Fish can detox too — but not so well, when it comes to mercury
Credit: Melton Griggers It takes six months to get really good at accurately gauging the age of yelloweye rockfish. Because...
Cutting the legs off cancer
Credit: Wellcome Images CC-BY-NC-ND http://www.cellimagelibrary.org/images/38960 Melanoma skin cancer tumors grow larger and are more likely to metastasize due to interactions...
Study: Twitter bots had ‘disproportionate’ role spreading misinformation in 2016 election
Credit: Filippo Menczer, Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- An analysis of information shared on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential...
Machine learning masters the fingerprint to fool biometric systems
BROOKLYN, New York, Tuesday, November 20, 2018 - Fingerprint authentication systems are a widely trusted, ubiquitous form of biometric authentication,...
Smart car technologies save drivers $6.2 billion on fuel costs each year
(Hoboken, N.J. - Nov. 20, 2018) - On one of the busiest traveling holidays of the year, drivers may be...
The shape of things to come: Flexible, foldable supercapacitors for energy storage
London, November 20, 2018 - A team of researchers from the Plasma Physics Research Centre, Science and Research Branch of...
UNH researchers create a more effective hydrogel for healing wounds
Credit: UNH DURHAM, N.H. - Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have created an easy-to-make, low-cost injectable hydrogel that...
HSPC ‘Seeds’ reveal VCAM-1+ macrophage role in homing process
Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells (HSPCs) give rise to all blood lineages that support people's life. HSPCs, like seeds, need...
Regulating the immune system’s ‘regulator’
A research team at the Academy of Immunology and Microbiology, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has discovered a...
Chemists develop new method for selective binding of proteins
Credit: University of Münster - Bart Jan Ravoo A new method of selectively binding proteins to nanoparticles has been described...
Project receives additional $13 million to accelerate progress to redesign photosynthesis
Credit: Claire Benjamin/RIPE Project This week, families across the U.S. will gather around Thanksgiving tables in a traditional celebration of...
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