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Bacterial nanosized speargun works like a power drill
Credit: University of Basel, Biozentrum In order to get rid of unpleasant competitors, some bacteria use a sophisticated weapon -...
Thinking ‘out-of-the-box’ may build a better brain and prevent dementia
Credit: Florida Atlantic University More than 5 million Americans today are affected by Alzheimer's disease (AD). If nothing is done...
Group project? Taking turns, working with friends may improve grades
It has become an almost essential element of academic life, from college lecture halls to elementary classrooms: the group assignment....
Creative Use of Noise Brings Bio-Inspired Electronic Improvement
Credit: Megumi Akai-Kasaya WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 25, 2017 -- In conventional electronics, a great deal of effort is devoted to...
Fresh blood for damaged tissues via alginate hydrogels
(Boston) - Ischemia is a serious medical condition in which the flow of blood and delivery of oxygen to tissues...
Climate insurance is rarely well thought out in agriculture
Credit: UFZ / André Künzelmann Internationally subsidised agricultural insurance is intended to protect farmers in developing countries from the effects...
Better pancakes through chemistry (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2017 -- Everyone seems to swear by a different pancake recipe. How...
Fish have complex personalities, research shows
Credit: University of Exeter Scientists from the University of Exeter studied how guppies behaved in various situations, and found complex...
Discovery of a new group of sponges could help measure impact of deep-sea mining
Credit: Adrian Glover, Thomas Dahlgren, Helena Wiklund A completely new group of sponges has been discovered, which scientists believe could...
Discovery of a new genetic syndrome which predisposes the body to cancer
(Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) A new syndrome caused by biallelic mutations -- those produced in both gene copies inherited from...
Novel assay shows promise for non-invasive detection of PD-L1 on circulating tumor cells
Future Science Group (FSG) today announced the publication of an article in Future Science OA presenting early data from a...
Russian scientists have studied the genes that allow cancer cells to resist drugs
Researchers from the People's Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) have studied the mechanism of drug resistance for ovarian and...
Positive, negative or neutral, it all matters: NASA explains space radiation
Credit: NASA Charged particles may be small, but they matter to astronauts. NASA's Human Research Program (HRP) is investigating these...
Forgoing chemo linked to worse survival in older patients with advanced colon cancer who had dementia
Bottom Line: A pre-existing diagnosis of dementia was associated with increased risk of death for older patients with advanced colon...
HSE scholars measure prestige of fashion models
Beginning models should choose independent magazines in order to be successful in the fashion industry, but they should also keep...
First large scale study of cocaine users leads to breakthrough in drug testing
Scientists from the University of Surrey have developed a rapid and highly sensitive fingerprint test that can take just seconds...
Multi-gene test predicts Alzheimer’s better than APOE E4 alone
A new test that combines the effects of more than two dozen genetic variants, most associated by themselves with only...
Crowning the ‘King of the Crops’: Sequencing the white Guinea yam genome
Credit: Creative Commons by International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Licensed with CC BY NC 2.0 An international collaboration involving the...
Rainbow colors reveal cell history
(Technische Universität Dresden) Dr. Nikolay Ninov, group leader at the DFG research center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, Cluster of Excellence...
Fires in Australia pop up in places already burned
Credit: NOAA/NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team. Fires that span across the Northern Territory and Western Australia...
