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Graphene sheets capture cells efficiently
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A single cell can contain a wealth of information about the health of an individual. Now, a...
Functional brain training alleviates chemotherapy-induced peripheral nerve damage in cancer survivor
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center A type of functional brain training known as neurofeedback shows promise in reducing symptoms of...
Hubble showcases a remarkable galactic hybrid
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image showcases the remarkable galaxy UGC 12591. UGC 12591 sits somewhere...
Danish scientist receives the A.C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award
Credit: Photo: Lars Kruse, Aarhus University On Friday, The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) honors Danish...
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite sees formation of Tropical Storm Enawo
Credit: Credits: NOAA/NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team Tropical Storm Enawo formed in the Southern Indian Ocean, just northeast of...
New autoimmune endocrine disease triggered by thymomas
Credit: Kobe University A Japanese research group has discovered that a newly-identified autoimmune endocrine disease that leads to hypopituitarism is...
$2.8M in federal grants to JAX scientists to target triple-negative breast cancers
Two grants from the U.S. Department of Defense totaling $2.8 million will support Jackson Laboratory (JAX) research in one of...
Doctoral student’s research looks at cause of neurodegenerative disease
Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan. -- A Kansas State University student hopes her research on a currently untreatable and...
How to solve a problem like antibiotic resistance
There has been much recent talk about how to target the rising tide of antibiotic resistance across the world, one...
Frozen chemistry controls bacterial infections
Credit: Mattias Pettersson Chemists and molecular biologists have made an unexpected discovery in infection biology. The researchers can now show...
Precise technique tracks dopamine in the brain
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT researchers have devised a way to measure dopamine in the brain much more precisely than previously...
Painkillers without dangerous side effects
Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have discovered a new way of developing painkillers. The team of researchers used computational...
Genome editing: Pressing the delete button on DNA
Credit: Pulido-Quetglas et al. CCBY Genomics is the field of research studying how our «genome», or entire DNA sequence, specifies...
HIGH-TOOL supports transport planning in Europe
Credit: Photo: KIT Research of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) supports the European Commission in transport planning: With the help...
Algorithm identified Trump as ‘not-married’
Scientists from Russia and Singapore created an algorithm that predicts user marital status with 86% precision using data from three...
Nutrient Sensor Challenge winners announced at ASLO conference
Credit: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science HONOLULU, HI (March 3, 2017)--The winners of the Nutrient Sensor Challenge were...
Making metabolically active brown fat from white fat-derived stem cells
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 3, 2017--Researchers have demonstrated the potential to engineer brown adipose...
Reprogrammed blood vessels promote cancer spread
Blood vessels play a critical role in the growth and spread of cancer. The cells lining the inner wall of...
Solar storms trigger surprising phenomena close to Earth
Credit: ESA Eruptions on the Sun's surface send clouds of electrically charged particles towards Earth, producing solar storms that--among other...
Continuous-flow, electrically-triggered, single cell-level electroporation
Credit: Technology Journal Graduate students Mingde 'Jack' Zheng and Joseph Sherba have developed a novel, microfluidic platform for monitoring electroporation...
