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UBC breakthrough opens door to $100 ultrasound machine
Credit: University of British Columbia Engineers at the University of British Columbia have developed a new ultrasound transducer, or probe,...
Barriers and opportunities in renewable biofuels production
Credit: Martina Butorac/Chalmers University of Technology Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have identified two main challenges for renewable...
Engrafted stem cell-derived lung organoids that model human lung development
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 10, 2018-Researchers have now grown lung organoids from human embryonic...
Research devises protocol for measuring distances within biomolecules
Credit: Clemson University Relations CLEMSON, South Carolina -- Architects cannot build a house without the proper dimensions of the foundation....
Carbon nanodots do an ultrafine job with in vitro lung tissue
Credit: Estelle Durantie and Hana Barosova WASHINGTON, D.C., September 11, 2018 -- Epidemiological studies have established a strong correlation between...
Prenatal exposure to cannabis impacts sociability of male offspring only
Taking cannabinoids during pregnancy can cause behavioural and neuronal deficits in adult male offspring, while females remain unaffected, says new...
Pain response in babies’ brains controlled in ‘similar way to adults’
Researchers from the Department of Paediatrics and Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging at the University of Oxford, UK, have identified...
Montana State study gauges health of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Credit: Linda Phillips BOZEMAN -- A Montana State University study of Yellowstone National Park and the surrounding area shows that...
Fighting the cold virus and other threats, body makes trade-off, says study
New Haven, Conn.-- A Yale research team has revealed how cells in different parts of the human airway vary in...
Researchers discover how caged molecules ‘rattle and sing’
A team of energy researchers from the University of Minnesota and University of Massachusetts Amherst has discovered that molecular motion...
Farewell flat biology — Tackling infectious disease using 3-D tissue engineering
Credit: Credit: Jennifer Barrila, Cheryl Nickerson and Michael Northrop and licensed by ASU through Shutterfly. The inset looking into the...
Molecules imagined using next-generation artificial intelligence validated experimentally
Credit: Insilico Medicine, Inc. Tuesday, September 11th, Rockville, MD - Today, Insilico Medicine, Inc., a Rockville-based next-generation artificial intelligence company...
Total of 21 new parasitoid wasps following the first ever revision of their genus
Credit: Agnièle Touret-Alby As many as twenty-one species of parasitoid wasps are described as new to science, following the first...
Evaluating the contribution of black carbon to climate change
Credit: Hitoshi Matsui Nagoya, Japan - Black carbon refers to tiny carbon particles that form during incomplete combustion of carbon-based...
New colour-generation mechanism discovered in ‘rainbow’ weevil
Credit: Dr Bodo D Wilts Researchers from Yale-NUS College and the University of Fribourg in Switzerland have discovered a novel...
Bioinformaticians examine new genes the moment they are born
As most of us have learned at school, organisms evolve gradually due to the accumulation of many small genetic changes...
Virus may help combat fire ants, but caution is needed
Credit: Kyoto University/Yang Native to South America, "red imported fire ants" were introduced accidentally into the United States in the...
New research unravels the mysteries of deep soil carbon
Credit: J. Bryan Curtis HANOVER, N.H. - September 11, 2018 - Energy-starved microbes may be the force that causes huge...
What catches our eye
We are almost constantly surrounded by a variety of visual objects, all of which could, theoretically, be important for us....
Variation in cancer-causing KRAS mutations greater than thought
Credit: Tatu Pantsar The effects of KRAS mutations underlying many different types of cancer are more diverse than previously thought,...
