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Stretchy solar cells a step closer
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Nov. 13, 2018) - Organic solar cells that can be painted or printed on...
Moths and magnets could save lives
Credit: Laboratory of Biomolecular Engineering and Nanomedicine/Rice University HOUSTON - (Nov. 13, 2018) - A new technology that relies on...
‘Waltzing’ nanoparticles could advance search for better drug delivery methods
Credit: NIAID BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University researchers have discovered that drug-delivering nanoparticles attach to their targets differently based upon...
WPI and Albany Medical College developing robotic system to treat brain tumors
Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. - Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and Albany Medical College, along with...
Scientists identify potential new treatment strategy for kidney cancer
Researchers have provided new insight on the mechanisms behind the development of clear cell Renal Cell Carcinoma (ccRCC), according to...
Diabetic foot ulcers heal quickly with nitric oxide technology
Credit: Sarah Bird/Michigan Tech Diabetic foot ulcers can take up to 150 days to heal. A biomedical engineering team wants...
Solving the mystery of NPM1 in acute myeloid leukemia
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine While it has long been recognized that mutated gene NPM1 plays an important role in...
Structure of fossil-fuel source rocks is finally decoded
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The fossil fuels that provide much of the world's energy orginate in a type of rock known...
First blood-based biomarker in response to the treatment of the most aggressive prostate cancer
(Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO)) In castration-resistant prostate cancer, the tumors continue to progress even though testosterone production has...
Tel Aviv University and Northwestern University launch joint nanoscience program
A new collaborative venture between Northwestern University and Tel Aviv University brings together researchers and students in the field of...
Precision-medicine platform for mild Alzheimer’s disease and at-risk individuals
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive, neurodegenerative condition in which individuals exhibit memory loss, dementia, and impaired metabolism. Nearly all...
DNA structure impacts rate and accuracy of DNA synthesis
Credit: Wilfried Guiblet, Penn State The speed and error rate of DNA synthesis is influenced by the three-dimensional structure of...
NASA analyzed Tropical Cyclone Alcide’s rainfall before dissipation
Credit: Credit: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce Tropical Cyclone Alcide dissipated over the weekend of Nov. 11 and 12 in the Southern...
Overlooked trends in annual precipitation reveal underestimated risks worldwide
Orono, Maine -- A reanalysis of worldwide annual trends in precipitation demonstrates that risk to human and environmental systems has...
NASA-NOAA satellite catches short-lived Tropical Cyclone Bouchra
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Tropical Cyclone Bouchra formed on Nov. 10 in the...
NASA-NOAA Satellite finds a large Tropical Cyclone Gaja
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Bay of...
Understanding congenital heart defects to prevent them
Credit: University of Houston To understand cardiovascular failures, the leading cause of birth defect-related deaths in infants, UH professor of...
Increasing CD and microchip capacity 100-fold
Credit: University of Arizona Imagine if microchips and rewritable CDs could hold a hundred times more data. The way digital...
New transgenic rat model may enable better understanding of amyloid buildup in cerebral blood vessels
Credit: The American Journal of Pathology Philadelphia, November 13, 2018 - In a report in The American Journal of Pathology...
The first cave-dwelling centipede from southern China
Credit: Hui-qin Ma Chinese scientists recorded the first cave-dwelling centipede known so far from southern China. To the amazement of...
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