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Pulling the curtain back on the high cost of drugs
Extreme price hikes for a handful of pharmaceuticals in recent years have severely soured public sentiment toward the industry. Drugmakers...
New Merian Center not just on but also in Latin America
Credit: Photo: Bielefeld University The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will be funding each Merian Centre for up...
Study: More customer information can help Airbnb address discrimination
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Recent studies of peer-to-peer businesses such as Airbnb, Uber and Lyft have revealed racial discrimination among hosts...
Guidelines for scholarly publishing of biodiversity data from Pensoft and EU BON
Credit: Biodiversity Data Journal While development and implementation of data publishing and sharing practices and tools have long been among...
Portable nanofiber device offers precise, point-and-shoot capability
Credit: (Christophe Chantre/Harvard University) Harvard researchers have developed a lightweight, portable nanofiber fabrication device that could one day be used...
Three Pitt chemical engineering faculty receive NSF CAREER awards totaling $1.5 million
Credit: Swanson School of Engineering/Ric Evans PITTSBURGH (March 1, 2017) ... For the first time in a funding cycle, three...
JAX receives NIH grant to improve CRISPR-Cas9 accuracy
A two-year grant totaling $455,000 from the National Institutes of Health to Michael V. Wiles, Ph.D., senior director of Technology...
Tree scars record 700 years of natural and cultural fire history in a northern forest
Credit: Jørund Rolstad, NIBIO Until the modern era, the human mark on the northernmost forests of North America, Europe, and...
First solar images from NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite
Credit: NOAA The first images from the Solar Ultraviolet Imager or SUVI instrument aboard NOAA's GOES-16 satellite have been successful,...
Nanoinjection increases survival rate of cells
Credit: Photo: Bielefeld University In a new study to be found in 'Scientific Reports' published by 'Nature', they show that...
Hubble cooperates on galaxy cluster and cosmic background
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, T. Kitayama (Toho University, Japan) The events surrounding the Big Bang were so cataclysmic that they...
Chiral metamaterial produces record optical shift under incremental power modulation
Credit: Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have demonstrated an optical metamaterial whose chiroptical properties in...
New collection in RIO Journal devoted to neuroscience projects from 2016 Brainhack events
Credit: Neurohackweek A new collection devoted to neuroscience projects from 2016 Brainhack events has been launched in the open access...
White paper proposes democratized OA academic journal publishing to solve serials crisis
CHICAGO, IL (March 1, 2017) - Scholastica, a peer review and open access (OA) publishing platform for academic journals, announces...
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