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URI chemistry professor develops contaminant detection technique for heparin
KINGSTON, R.I. - Aug. 16, 2018 - In 2008, a contaminant eluded the quality safeguards in the pharmaceutical industry and...
URI scientist: Long-legged lizards better adapted for hurricane survival
KINGSTON, R.I. - August 16, 2018 - Jason Kolbe has been thinking about hurricanes and lizards for many years. The...
CityU develops the world’s first-ever 4D printing for ceramics
Credit: City University of Hong Kong A research team at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has achieved a ground-breaking...
UM professor recipient of Ocean Sciences Rachel Carson Lecture from the AGU
Credit: Diana Udel, UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science MIAMI--August 13, 2018 - University of Miami's (UM) Rosenstiel...
Scientists examine the relative impact of proximity to seed sources
Credit: Eva Kinnebrew A new research study published in the journal Invasive Plant Science and Management tackles an important, unresolved...
Ants, acorns and climate change
Credit: Lauren Nichols, Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND--The relatively swift adaptability of tiny, acorn-dwelling ants to warmer environments could help...
Scientists identify enzyme that could help accelerate biofuel production
Credit: Sousuke Imamura Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology have honed in on an enzyme belonging to the glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase...
A novel synthetic antibody enables conditional ‘protein knockdown’ in vertebrates
(Technische Universität Dresden) The research groups led by Dr. Jörg Mansfeld of the Biotechnology Center of the TU Dresden (BIOTEC)...
New research highlights promising treatments, genetic causes of obesity
Bethesda, MD (Aug. 17, 2018) -- More than 60 percent of American adults weigh more than is healthy, which results...
Study confirms truth behind ‘Darwin’s moth’
Credit: Olivia Walton Scientists have revisited - and confirmed - one of the most famous textbook examples of evolution in...
Particulate pollution’s impact varies greatly depending on where it originated
Credit: Public domain Washington, DC-- When it comes to aerosol pollution, as the old real estate adage says, location is...
16 going on 66: Will you be the same person 50 years from now?
Credit: University of Houston How much do you change between high school and retirement? The answer depends on whether you're...
HIV and a tale of a few cities
Credit: Chris Brava While global incidence rates of HIV have declined notably in recent years, the virus that causes AIDS...
Progress toward personalized medicine
A few little cells that are different from the rest can have a big effect. For example, individual cancer cells...
Shlomo Benartzi named Distinguished Senior Fellow at Behavior Change for Good Initiative
Credit: University of Pennsylvania Dr. Shlomo Benartzi has been named a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Behavior...
Robots as tools and partners in rehabilitation
Credit: Shelly Levy-Tzedek In future decades the need for effective strategies for medical rehabilitation will increase significantly, because patients' rate...
Researchers find pathways that uncover insight into development of lung cancer
Credit: Xuemei Ji, M.D., Ph.D. LEBANON, NH - Lung cancer is the leading cause of preventable cancer death. A disease...
Novel nanoparticle-based approach detects and treats oral plaque without drugs
Credit: University of Illinois Laboratory for Materials in Medicine. When the good and bad bacteria in our mouth become imbalanced,...
Automated detection of focal epileptic seizures in a sentinel area of the human brain
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Patients with focal epilepsy that does not respond to medications badly need alternative treatments. In...
Three factors could explain physician burnout
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu/) -- In just three years, physician burnout increased from 45.5 percent to 54.4 percent, according to a...
