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Rice chemist wins grant to simplify drug design
Fed award to László Kürti will support sophisticated, simplified drug precursorsCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (April 8, 2020) -...
Belle II yields first results in search of the Z’ boson
The Belle II experiment started about one year ago. Physical Review Letters has now published the initial results of the...
Coronavirus and MS reporting database announced by CMSC & National MS Society
Credit: CMSC & National MS Society The Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (CMSC) and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society have...
St. Jude experimental anti-malarial drug shows promise in first clinical trial
Malaria is a leading killer of children worldwide, and new drugs are needed; new research reports encouraging early clinical results...
AGS COVID-19 policy brief offers roadmap for care of older adults in nursing homes
Credit: (C) 2020, American Geriatrics Society In a policy brief published today in its namesake journal (DOI: 10.1111/jgs.16477), the American...
WVU-led team unveil study to predict the outbreak of COVID-19 in healthcare professionals
Credit: West Virginia University (Editor's note: A media tool kit with photos, videos and additional resources is available in the...
When antireflux surgery is needed to treat GERD after endoscopy
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 8, 2020--Researchers report a growing awareness of gastroesophageal reflux problems...
Earliest humans in the Amazon created thousands of ‘forest islands’ as they tamed wild plants
Credit: Umberto Lombardo The earliest human inhabitants of the Amazon created thousands of artificial forest islands as they tamed wild...
Amazonian crops domesticated 10,000 years ago
Credit: José Capriles, Penn State As agriculture emerged in early civilizations, crops were domesticated in four locations around the world...
Harnessing the power of electricity-producing bacteria for programmable ‘biohybrids’
Credit: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b22116 Someday, microbial cyborgs -- bacteria combined with electronic devices -- could...
Eindhoven researchers present revolutionary light-emitting silicon
Breakthrough after 50 years of work paves the way for photonic chipsCredit: Nando Harmsen, TU/e Emitting light from silicon has...
A step ahead in the race toward ultrafast imaging of single particles
Credit: Stacy Huang Using a combination of experimental and computational data, researchers discover paths to optimize pulses from highly intense...
Researchers discover new information on interstellar magnetic field in solar neighborhood
Credit: Vilppu Piirola An international research team led by the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Turku,...
First mobile app for caregivers of children with FASD reaches trial stage
Credit: Researchers/University of Rochester In the summer of 2017, Christie Petrenko, an assistant professor and research associate at the University...
Peking University professor Tian Hui wins Karen Harvey Prize
Credit: School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University American Astronomical Society (AAS) Solar Physics Division (SPD) recently announced the...
New NUI Galway study helps improve accuracy of future climate change predictions
Study published in Nature's journal -- Climate and Atmospheric ScienceCredit: NUI Galway New research published by NUI Galway's Centre for...
World’s largest map of protein connections holds clues to health and disease
Knowing how protein interactions go awry could shed light on the mechanism behind cancer and infections diseases like COVID-19Credit: Katja...
Tracking Southern Hemisphere black carbon to Antarctic snow
Credit: Luciano Marquetto Black carbon (BC) measurements in Antarctica are still scarce, but necessary to understand the particle's effect in...
Risk factors for carrying pneumonia-causing bacteria revealed
Credit: Don Mammoser New research has uncovered the risk factors for Fijians carrying a pneumonia-causing bacteria. The collaborative study, led...
Film photosensitizer: High efficient singlet oxygen generation
Credit: ©Science China Press Photosensitized generation of singlet oxygen attracted a great deal of interest reaching applications in various fields...
