Engineering diseased human skin in vitro
Credit: POSTECH The skin, which covers the surface of the human body, is its largest organ. It is the first organ to show changes stemming...
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Reaching your life goals as a single-celled organism
How do simple creatures manage to move to a specific place? Artificial intelligence and a physical model from TU Wien can now explain this.Credit: TU...
Successful completion of 10,000 Ulsan Genomes Project
Credit: UNIST On April 26, UNIST and Ulsan City officially announced that their ambitious 10,000 Genome Project has finally reached the milestone of sequencing 10,000...
UNIST recognized for design excellence at iF Design Award 2021
Credit: UNIST The Department of Design at UNIST has once again been recognized for design excellence, worldwide. They announced that ten of their design products...
Feds back probe of understudied gut nervous system
Uribe wins NIH grant to study enteric nervous system developmentCredit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (May 10, 2021) - Rice University neurobiologist Rosa...
Male infertility scoring using AI-assisted image classification requiring no programming
Clinicians at Toho University in Japan developed an AI-based scoring model for testis images to assess patients with severe male infertility. Creation of the image...
Research results challenge a decades-old mechanism of how we hear sounds
Credit: Sanna Hedin Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have made several discoveries on the functioning mechanisms of the inner hair cells of the ear, which...
Serotonin transporters increase when depression fades, study shows
Credit: Lou Almskog Low levels of serotonin in the brain are seen as a possible cause of depression and many antidepressants act by blocking a...
Parallel universes cross in Flatland
Physicists at the University of Bath in the UK observe modified energy landscapes at the intersection of 2D materials.Credit: Ventsislav Valev In 1884, Edwin Abbott...
Could wider use of gene reserves protect rare species?
Credit: Melissa Minter, University of York UK landowners and conservationists welcome wider-spread use of Gene Conservation Units (GCUs) to help protect some of the rarest...
Worldwide network develops SARS-CoV-2 protocols for research laboratories
80% of all SARS-CoV-2 proteins produced in the laboratory -- protocols available for worldwide research - Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, forms the hub of research...
Molecular tweezers that attack antibiotic resistant bacteria developed by Ben-Gurion U.
Credit: Dani Machlis/BGU BEER-SHEVA, Israel May 10, 2021 - Researchers from Ben-Gurion University (BGU), together with American and German colleagues, have developed new "molecular tweezers"...
Sharks in protected area attract illegal fishers
Credit: Claire Collins Thousands of sharks have been illegally caught in a Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the Indian Ocean, new research shows. The MPA...
Cricket bats should be made from bamboo not willow, Cambridge study finds
Credit: Ben Tinkler-Davies Bamboo cricket bats are stronger, offer a better 'sweet spot' and deliver more energy to the ball than those made from traditional...
The legume family tree
Massive molecular study uncovers clues to the evolution and diversification of essential plant familyCredit: Yiyong Zhao, Chien-Hsun Huang, and Hong Ma The most comprehensive study...
