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New in the Hastings Center Report
Ethics of crowdfunding for medical care, an argument for fewer clinical trials, and more in the November-December 2016 issue. Crowdfunding...
ACS and Surgical Infection Society announce guidelines for prevention, treatment of SSIs
CHICAGO (December 1, 2016): Newly released guidelines for the prevention, detection, and management of surgical site infections (SSIs) issued by...
ANU demonstrates ‘ghost imaging’ with atoms
Credit: ANU A team of physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) have used a technique known as 'ghost imaging'...
Improving the mechanical properties of polymer gels through molecular design
Credit: Yukikazu Takeoka Nagoya, Japan - A polymer gel consists of a three-dimensional cross-linked polymer network swollen with liquid molecules....
People matter
An interdisciplinary study released this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of...
Can creativity beat death? New study suggests creatives worry less about dying
Creative achievement can provide a buffer against being anxious about death, research from psychologists at the University of Kent shows....
Correlates of overweight and obesity among adolescents with bipolar disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey — Adolescent Supplement
Washington, DC, December 1, 2016 - Bipolar disorder is one of the most disabling medical conditions among adolescents worldwide. Similarly,...
CRISPR editing in pancreatic cells reduced cell death and increased insulin secretion
With the help of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene scissors, researchers at Lund University Diabetes Centre in Sweden have managed to "turn...
UA receives $1.5 million to study cancer in firefighters
Credit: Tucson Fire Department TUCSON, Ariz. - Researchers at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public...
Efficient catalysts key to turning water into fuel
While it is already scientifically possible to split water in this way, highly efficient catalysts like this are the key...
Perovskite solar cells hit new world efficiency record
Credit: Rob Largent/UNSW They're flexible, cheap to produce and simple to make - which is why perovskites are the hottest...
Researchers take first look into the ‘eye’ of Majoranas
Credit: University of Basel, Department of Physics Majorana fermions are particles that could potentially be used as information units for...
PharmaMar presents positive results with ADC MI130110 in CD13-expressing tumor cells
PharmaMar (MSE:PHM), a world leader in the discovery, development and commercialization of new antitumor compounds of a marine origin, has...
Metabolite that promotes cancer cell transformation and colorectal cancer spread identified
Credit: Osaka University A metabolite is found to make the colorectal cancer cells more invasive and increase likelihood of more...
New computational model provides a tool for improving the production of valuable drugs
Chinese hamster ovary cells (CHO) produce more than half of the top selling therapeutic proteins on the market today. These...
Protective barrier inside chromosomes helps to keep cells healthy
Fresh insights into the structures that contain our genetic material could explain how the body's cells stay healthy. A protective...
Multiple sclerosis: Newly discovered signal mechanism causes T cells to turn pathogenic
Credit: Thomas Korn / TUM Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system attacks the patient's...
US public divided over food science
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Dec. 1, 2016) - The way Americans eat has become a source of potential social, economic and political...
The 4th International Symposium on Transformative Bio-Molecules (ISTbM-4)
The Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) at Nagoya University in Japan, will be holding "The 4th International Symposium on Transformative...
Suggestions for you: A better, faster recommendation algorithm
Credit: Antonia Godoy-Lorite et al. PNAS doi:10.1073/pnas.1606316113 The internet is rife with recommendation systems, suggesting movies you should watch or...
