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Rare-earth magnet recycling tech wins innovation award
Credit: Ames Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy An acid-free dissolution rare-earth magnet recycling process has earned a 2018 Notable Technology...
Parasites discovered in fossil fly pupae
Credit: (Figure: Thomas van de Kamp, KIT; Nature Communications) Parasitic wasps existed as early as several million years ago. Within...
All that is gold is not biochemically stable
Credit: Duke University DURHAM, N.C. - It turns out gold isn't always the shining example of a biologically stable material...
Multiple facets of biodiversity reduce variability of grassland biomass production
Credit: Anne Ebeling, FSU Leipzig/Göttingen. A new study shows that, in addition to species richness, plant evolutionary history plays a...
New approach makes sprayed droplets hit and stick to their targets
Credit: The Varanasi Research Group CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- When spraying paint or coatings onto a surface, or fertilizers or pesticides...
Novel brain network linked to chronic pain in Parkinson’s disease
Scientists have revealed a novel brain network that links pain in Parkinson's disease (PD) to a specific region of the...
Scientists find a new way to attack herpesviruses
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--August 28, 2018--Human cytomegalovirus is a leading cause of birth defects and transplant failures. As it's evolved over...
Study provides new insights for ways to use cell metabolism to treat cancer
Credit: Colleen Kelley, University of Cincinnati CINCINNATI--Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine have discovered that cell...
Researchers find elusive source of most abundant immune cell
Credit: Dr. Yanfang Peipei Zhu, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology LA JOLLA, CA--Neutrophils--short-lived, highly mobile and versatile--outnumber all...
Mapping out cancer’s movements
Credit: Dan Graham and Blake Bluestein WASHINGTON, D.C., August 28, 2018 -- Cancer researchers struggle to identify tumor cells that...
A non-canonical strategy may improve cancer radiotherapy
Credit: Ralph Weichselbaum and Yang Xin Fu Although the success or failure of radiation therapy for cancer has long been...
Study finds how NF-2 gene mutations make cells hyper-responsive to growth factor signaling
A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center researchers has determined one way that mutations in a gene involved...
Metabolic engineering of E. coli for the secretory production of free haem
Credit: KAIST Researchers of KAIST have defined a novel strategy for the secretory production of free haem using engineered Escherichia...
Scientists alter membrane proteins to make them easier to study
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- About 30 percent of the proteins encoded by the human genome are membrane proteins -- proteins that...
All wired up: New molecular wires for single-molecule electronic devices
Credit: Journal of the American Chemical Society Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology designed a new type of molecular wire...
How eggplants became Asian — genomes and elephants tell the story
Credit: Élise Sanceaume The evolutionary context of the eggplant was until recently very poorly known. Historical documents and genetic data...
Remote islands harbour higher numbers of non-native species
Credit: © Pablo GarcĂa-DĂaz The effects of island remoteness from the mainland on the number of species found on islands...
A novel nanoactuator system has been developed
Credit: Jussi Toppari Researchers at University of Jyväskylä (Finland) and University of Tampere (Finland) together with BioNavis Ltd (Finland) have...
Invisible needles
Credit: © NUST MISIS An international research group of scientists from Politecnico di Torino (Italy) and NUST MISIS (Russia) has...
Novel gene mutation found in lymphatic disorder
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pediatric researchers have identified a gene mutation that causes a serious lymphatic condition, and used...
