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Professor rethinks living spaces for refugee camps
Credit: Rana Abudayyeh With every touch of a screen, new technologies including smartphones and social media have made the world...
Cutting the time on early disease diagnoses with extracellular vesicles
Credit: University of Notre Dame When an individual has cancer, or any number of other diseases, early detection can make...
Study identifies enzymes that prevent diabetic kidney disease
DKD protective factors could be used as biomarkerss and for personalized clinical intervention BOSTON -- (May 20, 2019) -- A...
San Antonio to host premier sleep research event in June
Uncover the latest sleep and circadian research June 9-12 at SLEEP 2019 meeting DARIEN, IL - Don't miss the world's...
Wearable system to sense and stimulate the brain at unprecedented resolution
A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University is starting a project to design and implement a noninvasive neural interface...
Scientists succeed in testing potential brain-based method to diagnose autism
Credit: Wake Forest Baptist Health WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - May 20, 2019 - Scientists at Wake Forest School of Medicine have...
Protein that hinders advancement of prostate cancer identified
(Boston)--Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered that blocking a specific protein, may be a promising strategy...
Superconductor’s magnetic persona unmasked
Iron selenide revealed as 'garden-variety iron-based superconductor'Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University In the pantheon of unconventional superconductors, iron selenide is a...
Hyperspectral camera captures wealth of data in an instant
Rice University's NASA-funded TuLIPSS project sets high standard for portable spectrometersCredit: Modern Optical Instrumentation and Bio-Imaging Laboratory/Rice University Standard snapshots...
Synthetic biologists hack bacterial sensors
Technology could enable new medical, industrial, environmental biosensorsCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Rice University synthetic biologists have hacked bacterial sensing with...
Dog-like robot made by students jumps, flips and trots
Credit: Kurt Hickman/Stanford News Service Putting their own twist on robots that amble through complicated landscapes, the Stanford Student Robotics...
Neurobiology: Doubly secured
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich researchers have used CRISPR technology to probe the mechanisms that guide the developmental trajectories of stem...
SLAS Discovery announces its June cover article
SLAS Discovery announces its June cover article, 'A Perspective on Extreme Open Science: Companies Sharing Compounds without Restriction'Credit: David James...
Pseudohermaphrodite snails can help to access how polluted the Arctic seas are
Credit: Ivan Nekhaev, a postdoc at St Petersburg University Ivan Nekhaev, a postdoc at St Petersburg University, studied snails of...
International collaboration aims to predict life-threatening reaction to heparin treatment
Credit: UAHS BioCommunications TUCSON, Ariz. - Each year, as many as 12 million hospitalized patients -- one-third of all individuals...
Climate change has long-term impact on species adaptability
Historic climate change events can have a lasting impact on the genetic diversity of a species, reveals a new study...
New coalition to bolster fight against ticks and mosquitoes
Stakeholder group will channel collective action for national vector-borne disease strategyCredit: (Tick) Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org; (Mosquito)...
Russian scientists make discovery that can help remove gypsy moths from forests
Credit: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University The caterpillars of Lymantria dispar or Gypsy Moth are voracious eaters capable of defoliating...
Size is everything
Ecologist Prof. Ulrich Brose of Friedrich Schiller University Jena and of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) has...
Sex sells: how masculinity is used as currency to buy sperm donors’ time
UK and Australian sperm banks use masculine archetypes to attract donors Sperm banks in the United Kingdom and Australia use...
