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MacMillan illuminates the micro-environment, creating a new path to cancer drugs
Princeton University's Dave MacMillan led the effort to create a nanoscale map of proteins and their nearest neighbors.Credit: Tamara Reyes-Robles/Merck...
Scientists develop new method to distinguish freshly made transcripts from old transcripts
Credit: Nicolas Battich, ©Hubrecht Institute Our bodies consist of trillions of cells that all contain the same DNA. Even though...
Pesticides increase the risk of schistosomiasis, a tropical disease
UFZ researchers have proven that polluted freshwater bodies favour the intermediate host of the pathogenCredit: @UFZ Schistosomiasis is a severe...
Corn productivity in real time: Satellites, field cameras, and farmers team up
Credit: Image courtesy of Hyungsuk Kimm, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. - University of Illinois scientists, with help from members...
Many lyme disease cases go unreported; A new model could help change that
Researchers have drawn on 17 years of data to develop a model that identifies areas in which the tick-borne illness...
ACM publishes new journal on the Internet of Things
New publication chronicles one of the most transformative developments of the 21st centuryCredit: Association for Computing Machinery ACM, the Association...
Wuhan CT scans reliable for coronavirus (COVID-19) diagnosis, limited for differentiation
Chest CTs have low rate of misdiagnosis and can standardize imaging features and transformation rules for rapid diagnosis, yet modality...
New laser defense system against autonomous drones developed by Ben-Gurion U. researcher
Light blade system test successfully downs 90% of incendiary balloons infiltrating Israel's border from GazaCredit: Ben-Gurion U. BEER-SHEVA, Israel...March 5,...
Scientists create model to predict multipathogen epidemics
Zooplankton study shows within-host pathogen interactions can predict epidemic severityCredit: University of Michigan HOUSTON -- (March 5, 2020) -- Diseases...
Tissue-digging nanodrills do just enough damage
Scientists advance case for use of molecular machines to treat skin diseasesCredit: Thushara Galbadage/Biola University HOUSTON - (March 5, 2020)...
PET imaging offers new insights into post-transplant care for heart patients
Credit: RJH Miller and O Manabe et al. Departments of Imaging and Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA....
Two-faced bacteria
Texas A&M researchers discover previously unknown response within gut microbiotaCredit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Mar. 2020, 201916974;...
Connecting interferon, neuroinflammation and synapse loss in Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine When immunologist Dr. Wei Cao joined Baylor College of Medicine three-and-a-half years ago, her first...
Understanding how the brain predicts could make treating autism easier
Credit: J.F. Podevin WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Our brains make our lives easier by predicting what will happen next based...
Longest microwave quantum link
Credit: ETH Zurich Department of Physics / Heidi Hostettler Collaboration is everything - also in the quantum world. To build...
Microbiome species interactions reveal how bacteria collaborate to cheat death
Antibiotics set up a multi-faceted experiment in your gastrointestinal systemCredit: Image is courtesy of Navid Marvi and Andres Aranda-Diaz. Baltimore,...
Atomic force microscopy: New sensing element for high-speed imaging
Researchers at TU Wien have developed a new type of sensing element for atomic force microscopy, which enables a high...
Discovery of accurate and far more efficient algorithm for point set registration problems
Credit: Kanazawa University A point set registration problem is a task using two shapes, each consisting of a set of...
The unfoldable bridge
A world premiere in Austria: The new bridge construction technology which was developed at TU Wien has now been successfully...
Preventing spread of SARS coronavirus-2 in humans
Göttingen infection researchers identify potential drugCredit: Illustration: Markus Hoffmann Several coronaviruses circulate worldwide and constantly infect humans, which normally caused...
