Biology
2018 World Cultural Council Awards
Credit: COPYRIGHT © 2018 CONSEJO CULTURAL MUNDIAL. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Professor Jean-Pierre Changeux, has been selected as the winner of...
New algorithm fuses quality and quantity in satellite imagery
Credit: L. Brian Stauffer. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Using a new algorithm, University of Illinois researchers may have found the solution...
Army researchers envision third arm for soldiers
Credit: (US Army photo by Conrad Johnson) ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, MD. - When engineers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory...
Experts to seek consensus on tackling poor quality medicines
The proliferation of poor quality medical products (medicines, vaccines and devices) is an important but neglected public health problem, threatening...
Announcement of the 2018 ALBERT EINSTEIN World Award of Science
Prof. Jean-Pierre Changeux, Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at the Institut Pasteur and Collège de France, where he was Chair of...
Researchers pioneer new eczema treatment
AURORA, Colo. (June 4, 2018) - Eczema is the most common and stubborn skin disease in the world, but a...
Wireless system can power devices inside the body
Credit: Felice Frankel, edited by MIT News CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT researchers, working with scientists from Brigham and Women's Hospital,...
Transformative technology
Credit: Laboratory of Lin Tian at UC Davis UC Davis neuroscientist Lin Tian and her team, Tommaso Patriarchi, Gerard Broussard...
Upgrading the toolbox for Duchenne muscular dystrophy research with a new rabbit model
Scientists rely on the use of animal models to improve our understanding of lethal muscle-wasting disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD),...
New invention safely transports unknown, deep-dwelling fishes to the ocean’s surface
Credit: © 2015 California Academy of Sciences SAN FRANCISCO (June 4, 2018) - Strange and beautiful fishes from the ocean's...
The search for the origin of mast cells
Credit: Rebecca Gentek Mast cells are immune system cells that play a role in inflammatory processes in the body. They...
New nanoparticles help to detect serious scarring of wounds
Credit: NTU Singapore A new way of seeing when heavy wound scars are forming, and providing doctors the chance to...
New study launched to identify women at high risk of preterm birth, most effective interventions
Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Researchers are launching the first study of its kind involving up to 10,000 women that will...
Novel gene in red blood cells may help adult newts regenerate limbs
Credit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba - Newts are the only four-legged vertebrates that can regenerate their body parts even as...
The health effect of air pollution from traffic
What would happen if all petrol and diesel-powered vehicles were removed from a smaller European city? Up to 4% of...
Resolving molecule information in dynamic lipid membrane with metasurfaces
Credit: EPFL Detecting biomolecules, such as lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids and their interactions in heterogeneous biological samples is crucial...
Ticks on migratory birds carriers of newly discovered hemorrhagic fever virus
Credit: Tove Hoffman In a new study, researchers at Uppsala University and other institutions have identified genetic material from the...
Doctors drive 3,000 miles to state conversation on male body image
Credit: Orlando Health Even though men don't often talk about their body insecurities, a new survey finds it's something that's...
A sense of disgust in bonobos?
Credit: Kyoto University / Cecile Sarabian Japan -- Even bonobos lose their appetites with enough 'ick'. These primates, known for...
Economic models significantly underestimate climate change risks
Policymakers are being misinformed by the results of economic models that underestimate the future risks of climate change impacts, according...