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Harvard & UT researchers propose systems connection in acupuncture & 21st century medicine
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 28, 2017 - Harvard University's renown fascia researcher Helene Langevin,...
$2.4 million grant funds new new Biomedical Big Data to Knowledge Training Program
A new $2.4-million program for graduate students seeking to contribute to breakthrough discoveries in medicine and biology has been established...
WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction established at Weill Cornell Medicine
NEW YORK (April 28, 2017) - Weill Cornell Medicine today announced a gift made by WorldQuant, LLC ("WorldQuant") and Igor...
A new study revises the development and evolutionary origin of the vertebrate brain
Credit: © Universidad de Murcia A study recently published in PLOS Biology provides information that substantially changes the prevailing idea...
JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting being held May 20-25 in Chiba, Japan
WASHINGTON, DC - Discover the latest in Earth and space science research at the JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017 taking place...
Thin layers of water hold promise for the energy storage of the future
Credit: Veronica Augustyn and James LeBeau Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that a material which incorporates atomically...
China builds world’s largest kinase-based whole-cell screening library
After five years of hard work, China has completed the world's largest kinase-based whole-cell screening library for high-throughput drug assay....
New appetite control mechanism found in brain
Credit: Kazuyoshi Ukena A newly discovered molecule increases appetite during fasting -- and decreases it during gorging. The neuron-exciting protein,...
ICCP director Axel Timmermann receives Milutin Milankovic Medal
Credit: ICCP Pusan National University's Distinguished Professor Axel Timmermann and Director of the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP), has...
Mapping the edge of reality
Australian and German researchers have collaborated to develop a genetic algorithm to confirm the rejection of classical notions of causality....
New Singapore research center for big data analytics and Artificial Intelligence
Loading video... Credit: NTU Singapore Those without knowledge of computer programming could soon design their own games and applications using...
A material inspired by a sea worm changes according to the environment
Credit: Allison Dougherty The gelatinous jaw of a sea worm, which becomes hard or flexible depending on the environment around...
Bacteria with Midas touch for efficient gold processing
Credit: Joel Brugger Special 'nugget-producing' bacteria may hold the key to more efficient processing of gold ore, mine tailings and...
Fast, low energy, and continuous biofuel extraction from microalgae
Credit: Professor Hamid Hosseini As an alternative to liquid fossil fuels, biodiesel extracted from microalgae is an increasingly important part...
Dawn of organic single crystal electronics
Credit: Institute for Molecular Science Researchers at the Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences (Japan) have developed...
Towards largest-possible separation between quantum and classical query complexities
Credit: ©Science China Press Correlation functions are often employed to quantify the relationships among interdependent variables or sets of data....
Arizona State University wins record 14 NSF career awards
Tempe, AZ, April 29 -- Arizona State University has earned 14 National Science Foundation early career faculty awards, ranking second...
When the smoke clears… tobacco control in post-conflict settings
In new research published today by King's College London - Institute of Cancer Policy and the Conflict & Health Research...
Single gene encourages growth of intestinal stem cells, supporting ‘niche’ cells — and cancer
A gene previously identified as critical for tumor growth in many human cancers also maintains intestinal stem cells and encourages...
Mineral resources: Exhaustion is just a myth
Credit: copyright: UNIGE Recent articles have declared that deposits of mineral raw materials (copper, zinc, etc.) will be exhausted within...
