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Moral distress and moral strength among clinicians in health care systems
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (September 23, 2019) - Nurse burnout impacts both nurses and patients, and significantly influences the retention...
New gene therapy research at Neuroscience 2019
Live-streamed press conference offers breaking researchCredit: Society for Neuroscience Gene therapy shows promise as a way to treat and cure...
Illinois researchers create first three-photon color-entangled W state
Credit: University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have constructed a quantum-mechanical...
The first in Russia Nature conference: ‘Advances and Applications in Plasma Physics’
The AAPP 2019 conference brought together outstanding researchers in the field of plasma physicsCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University...
Engineering the meniscus
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 23, 2019-Damage to the meniscus is common, but there remains...
Analyzing the impact of guiding patients through advance care options on POLST form
$3.5 million grant awarded to study effectiveness of POLST form facilitationCredit: Regenstrief Institute A team, led by Regenstrief Institute researcher...
For World Rhino Day, UMass Amherst and Australia’s Perth Zoo team create 3D rhino model
Scientists, artists, educators, museums, non-profits worldwide use true-to-life modelsCredit: UMass Amherst/Perth Zoo AMHERST, Mass. - The Digital Life team at...
‘Valley states’ in this 2D material could potentially be used for quantum computing
Physicists manipulate energy valleys in tungsten disulfide, with potential applications in quantum computingCredit: Credit: Douglas Levere / University at Buffalo...
Croc-like carnivores terrorised Triassic dinosaurs in southern Africa 210 million years ago
Rauisuchians fed on vegetarian dinosaurs according to Wits studentCredit: Viktor Radermacher, owns copyright "These ancient fossils provide us with evidence...
New CRISPR class expands genetic engineering toolbox
The new approach opens up nearly 90 percent of CRISPR-Cas systems for use in human cells, including biomedical research and...
Probes shed new light on Alzheimer’s cause
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Sept. 23, 2019) - Rice University researchers have found a way to track the...
UMBC and Maryland Sea Grant receive $1.2M to grow US land-based aquaculture industry
Sustainable, locally-sourced seafood could be available in land-locked locales in the near futureCredit: Marlayna Demond for UMBC Maryland Sea Grant...
Gene regulators work together for oversized impact on schizophrenia risk
Modeled gene expression changes match those found in patients' brainsCredit: Seok-Man Ho, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Researchers...
‘Pheno-Inspect’ accelerates plant cultivation
Start-up of the University of Bonn records trial plots with drones and analyzes them using artificial intelligenceCredit: (c) Photo: Barbara...
UCI study reveals critical role of brain circuits in improving learning and memory
Credit: UCI School of Medicine Irvine, Calif. - September 23, 2019 - A University of California, Irvine-led team of scientists...
Soap from straw — Scientists develop eco friendly ingredient from agricultural waste
Credit: University of Portsmouth A scientist has discovered a way of using one of the world's most abundant natural resources...
Better samples, better science: new study explores integrity of research specimens
Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State university Effective diagnosis and treatment of disease draws on painstaking research, which often...
The perfect solar cell: How ferroelectricity improves power harvesting
The Helmholtz Association awards Erwin Schrödinger Research Prize to KIT researchersCredit: Alexander Colsmann, Holger Röhm, Tobias Leonhard, KIT Within a...
Baby brain scans made available online to advance research
Scan of a newborn baby's brain with visualisations of information derived from diffusion-weighted data acquired as part of the Developing...
Light-activated metal catalyst destroys cancer cells’ vital energy source
A space-age metal that formed part of the asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs could provide a new method of treating...
