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LSU Veterinary School receives $11M COBRE grant for a pre-clinical cancer research center
Credit: LSU The Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine, or LSU SVM, has received an $11 million grant to...
How our microplastic waste becomes ‘hubs’ for pathogens, antibiotic-resistant bacteria
A new study shows how microplastics found in our daily personal care products can also host pathogens and boost antibiotic-resistant...
For good health, trust your gut
UC chemist uses federal grant to study brain-immune system communicationCredit: Ravenna Rutledge/UC Creative If it seems like your stomach has...
Tiny machine poised to unlock brain’s mysteries
Novel device records, senses and manipulates 'mini-brains'Credit: Northwestern University A team of scientists, led by researchers at Northwestern University, Shirley...
City of Hope celebrates earning one of nursing’s highest honors
The prestigious Magnet® recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center highlights City of Hope's world-class nursing team and their superior...
Better batteries start with basics — and a big computer
UC chemists used quantum simulations to understand a solvent that holds promise for green energyCredit: Colleen Kelley/UC Creative To understand...
Tropical species are moving northward in U.S. as winters warm
Insects, reptiles, fish and plants migrating north as winter freezes in South become less frequentCredit: Noah Whiteman, UC Berkeley Notwithstanding...
Importance of crisis standards of care for equitable allocation of scarce medical re
Credit: University of Miami Health System During a public health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. hospitals need to allocate...
NIH study of early predictors, mechanisms of food allergy and eczema has begun
Credit: NIAID A study to identify prenatal and early childhood markers of high risk for food allergy and atopic dermatitis,...
Solving ‘barren plateaus’ is the key to quantum machine learning
New theorems put quantum machine learning on rigorous footing and identify the key issue that will determine whether it will...
Conformational equilibria in GPCRs provides critical clues about activation mechanisms
Credit: Cell A multinational research team led by Dr. Adnan Sljoka (RIKEN), Prof. R. Scott Prosser (Univ. of Toronto) with...
Hospital surge capacity survey before COVID-19 gives insight into pandemic preparedness
Credit: Harris, GH, et al. JAMA Network Open, 2021 PITTSBURGH, March 19, 2021 - A University of Pittsburgh School of...
Researchers design a biological device capable of computing by printing cells on paper
This approach can make it possible to produce biosensors for applications such as the detection of mercury, cholera or the...
Looking at optical Fano resonances under a new light
Scientists advance understanding of optical Fano resonances and show new ways to manipulate light with metamaterialsCredit: Overvig and Alù, DOI:...
First-in-human phase I trial to assess the efficacy and safety of a novel Myc inhibitor
Peptomyc's Omomyc-based therapy against cancer put to the clinical testCredit: VHIO Co-founded back in 2014 by VHIO's Laura Soucek, CEO...
High-efficiency pulse compression established on solitons in nonlinear Kerr resonators
Credit: by Sheng Zhang, Zongyuan Fu, Bingbing Zhu, Guangyu Fan, Yudong Chen, Shunjia Wang, Yaxin Liu, Andrius Baltuska, Cheng Jin,...
Demonstrating the world’s fastest spintronics p-bit
Credit: K. Hayakawa et al. Tohoku University researchers have, for the first time, developed the technology for the nanosecond operation...
Robust and ultralow-energy-threshold ignition of lean fuels by an ultrashort-pulsed laser
Credit: by Hongwei Zang, Helong Li, Wei Zhang, Yao Fu, Shanming Chen, Huailiang Xu, and Ruxin Li Laser ignition (LI)...
Advancement creates nanosized, foldable robots
Credit: Courtesy Cornell University RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Army-funded researchers created nanosized robots that could enable locomotion, novel metamaterial...
80% of Spanish health professionals were willing to be vaccinated during the second COVID-19 wave
Among the reasons given by health personnel for not wanting to be immunized, fears about the vaccines' safety and the...
