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‘Smart contact lens sensor’ for diabetic and glaucoma diagnosis
Credit: UNIST A recent study, affiliated with UNIST has proposed the possibility of in situ human health monitoring simply by...
SHSU Ph.D. student named national emerging forensic scientist
Credit: Emily Bass/Sam Houston State University HUNTSVILLE, TX (5/4/17) -- Ph.D. Student Lindsay Glicksberg of Sam Houston State University received...
The first one bit chemical memory unit: The ‘chit’
Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski In classical computer science information is stored in bits, in quantum computer science -- in...
NIFA announces $6 million for research on plant-biotic interactions
WASHINGTON, D.C. May 3, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today...
Researchers identify evidence of oldest orchid fossil on record
Credit: George Poinar, Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - The orchid family has some 28,000 species - more than double...
American Sleep Medicine Foundation announces telemedicine research award recipients
DARIEN, IL - May 3, 2017 - The American Sleep Medicine Foundation (ASMF) has selected three recipients who will receive...
Does my algorithm work? There’s no shortcut for community detection
Loading video... Credit: Dan Larremore, Leto Peel, and Aaron Clauset Community detection is an important tool for scientists studying networks....
First EPA-approved outdoor field trial for genetically engineered algae
Scientists at the University of California San Diego and Sapphire Energy have successfully completed the first outdoor field trial sanctioned...
Researchers develop new capabilities for genome-wide engineering of yeast
Credit: Kathryn Faith One of humankind's oldest industrial partners is yeast, a familiar microbe that enabled early societies to brew...
Scientists engineer baker’s yeast to produce penicillin molecules
The synthetic biologists from Imperial College London have re-engineered yeast cells to manufacture the nonribosomal peptide antibiotic penicillin. In laboratory...
Heart failure is as ‘malignant’ as some common cancers
A new analysis finds that, despite advances in care, men and women with a diagnosis of heart failure continue to...
Computer model developed to assess risk of a Zika epidemic in real-time
A new model for assessing real-time risk of a Zika virus epidemic in the United States is described in research...
New blood test predicts who will benefit from targeted prostate cancer treatments
A new blood test could predict which men with advanced prostate cancer will respond to new targeted treatments for the...
NSCLC patients respond best to salvage chemo if pre-treated with checkpoint inhibitors
Geneva, Switzerland, 04 May 2017 - Patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who require salvage chemotherapy are 30% more...
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