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Second sight study at Baylor College of Medicine
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Baylor College of Medicine researchers, in collaboration with the University of California, Los Angeles and...
Pokémon-like card game can help teach ecology: UBC research
Credit: Megan Callahan Playing a Pokémon-like card game about ecology and biodiversity can result in broader knowledge of species and...
Neighborhood environment and health
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (July 17, 2019) - It is well understood that urban black males are at a disproportionately...
UTIA and Blühen Botanicals to collaborate on hemp production research
Popular new crop needs research-based dataCredit: Photo by G. Rowsey, courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Blühen Botanicals and the University...
Toward a better battery
Materials scientists uncover source of degradation in sodium batteries Batteries power our lives: we rely on them to keep our...
Red algae steal genes from bacteria to cope with environmental stresses
Research could lead to designer algae that produces fuels and cleanup chemicalsCredit: Debashish Bhattacharya/Rutgers University-New Brunswick It's a case of...
IIVS & partners win contract from EC to develop training for non-animal testing methods
July 16, 2019, Gaithersburg, MD - The Institute for In Vitro Sciences (IIVS) is pleased to announce it is part...
The physiology of survival
For bacteria, the neighbors co-determine which cell dies firstCredit: Andreas Heddergott / TUM Bacteria do not simply perish in hunger...
Study estimates contribution of genetic, nongenetic factors to ASD risk
What The Study Did: National registry data from five countries (Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Israel and Western Australia) were used to...
Review evaluates how AI could boost the success of clinical trials
In a review publishing July 17 in the journal Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, researchers examined how artificial intelligence (AI) could...
How common is long-term opioid use after job injury?
What The Study Did: This observational study included 46,000 injured workers in Tennessee who weren't taking opioids at the time...
A new level of smart industrial robots control and management reached at FEFU
Scientists developed a command-and-control plugin for intelligent industrial robots Robot technicians from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) together with colleagues...
Crunching the numbers of cancer metastasis
While revealing that metastatic breast cancer cells alter their shape to spread to other regions of the body, researchers develop...
Pregnancies persist among women taking acne medication known to cause birth defects
Despite special restricted distribution program, study reports several hundred pregnancies per year among women taking isotretinoin Isotretinoin (also known by...
Modeling tool addresses uncertainty in military logistics planning
Military deployments to austere environments - whether humanitarian missions or combat operations - involve extensive logistical planning, which is often...
Harvesting energy from the human knee
A group of researchers has developed a way to power small devices by walking.Credit: Gao et al. WASHINGTON, D.C., July...
Researchers use nano-particles to increase power, improve eye safety of fiber lasers
Credit: Jonathan Steffen/U.S. Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON -- Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have devised a new process...
Japanese scientists embrace creepy-crawlies
Firms in Japan are changing people's perceptions about common spiders, worms and insect larvae. These seemingly unwanted creatures have unique...
Is intensive treatment to lower lipid levels beneficial to older patients after acute coronary syndrome?
What The Study Did: In this secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial, researchers examined the association of age with...
‘Semi-synthetic’ bacteria churn out unnatural proteins
Credit: Adapted from Journal of the American Chemical Society 2019, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b02075 Synthetic biologists seek to create new life with...
