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Photonic crystal and nanowire combo advances ‘photonic integration’
Credit: Takigucki et al. WASHINGTON, D.C., April 3, 2017 -- Contrary to the tremendous success story of electronic integration, photonic...
Tiny black holes enable a new type of photodetector for high speed data
Loading video... Credit: Saif Islam, UC Davis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Tiny "black holes" on a silicon wafer...
Graphene sieve turns seawater into drinking water
Graphene-oxide membranes have attracted considerable attention as promising candidates for new filtration technologies. Now the much sought-after development of making...
Jumping droplets whisk away hotspots in electronics
Loading video... Credit: Chuan-Hua Chen, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Engineers have developed a technology to cool hotspots in high-performance...
Artificial pancreas improves blood sugar control in young kids
ORLANDO--An artificial pancreas, which delivers insulin in an automated way to individuals with type 1 diabetes, appears to be safe...
Stretching the boundaries of neural implants
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Implantable fibers have been an enormous boon to brain research, allowing scientists to stimulate specific targets in...
New report links early life antibiotic use to inflammatory gut diseases in adulthood
A new research report in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology involving mice shows that antibiotic use very early in life...
Ethics complicate clinical interpretation & reporting of human genome sequence results
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 3, 2017-Medical use of a patient's genomic sequence information can...
Progesterone and bisexuality: Is there a link?
Bisexuality is quite common among men and women whose mothers received additional doses of the sex hormone progesterone while pregnant....
Batteries — quick coatings
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using the precision of an electron beam to...
Microscopy — Biomass close-up
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists created an approach to get a better look at plant...
Estetrol (E4) shows promise as a safe, effective drug for use in advanced prostate cancer
ORLANDO--The natural fetal estrogen estetrol, also called E4, is being tested as a new drug that may help treat advanced...
Penn researchers use new imaging to show key enzyme in ovarian cancer
PHILADELPHIA - A new imaging test may provide the ability to identify ovarian cancer patients who are candidates for an...
Diagnosing cancer
Credit: RUB, Marquard Scientists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have established a process for identifying biomarkers for the diagnosis of different types...
Advanced FDG-PET image analysis identifies cell mutations in cancer patients
Credit: Stephen S.F. Yip, PhD, and Hugo Aerts, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School,...
Negative regulator stops extreme immune response to parasite, averting multi-organ damage
Credit: Osaka University Osaka - Cytokines are proteins secreted by several types of immune cells in response to infection, inflammation,...
Solitary perturbations in the steep boundary of magnetized toroidal plasma
Throughout the history of mankind, an anthropomorphic figure transcends time and distance to appear repeatedly and consistently wherever man resides....
Robot epigenetics: Adding complexity to embodied robot evolution
Evolutionary robotics is a new exciting area of research which draws on Darwinian evolutionary principles to automatically develop autonomous robots....
Researchers document how melanoma tumors form
Loading video... Credit: David Soll laboratory, University of Iowa There's a reason why melanoma, the most serious type of skin...
MIPT’s researchers come up with clean technology to make low molecular weight chitosan
Credit: MIPT Press Office Researchers at MIPT have developed a new technique for obtaining low molecular weight water-soluble chitin and...
