Researcher wins award for strong, lightweight armor discovery
Credit: U.S. Army ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- A U.S. Army researcher won the Army's top award for innovation, using a futuristic approach to more...
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Nanoparticle drug delivery technique shows promise for treating pancreatic cancer
Method may also work for breast, prostate, ovarian cancerCredit: Jeff Gates Researchers with the Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center and North Dakota State University...
Lasing mechanism found in water droplets
Lasing mechanism at the surface of water droplets can be used to record mechanical changes at biointerfacesCredit: Qiao et al. Tiny molecular forces at the...
Rules of resistance against transgene silencing
Credit: © 2021 KAUST; Monika Priyadarshini. Clear rules for engineering transgenes that can be inserted and propagated over multiple generations of nematodes include ways to...
Ecologists conducted a novel study on vegetation transpiration from a global network of 251 sites
Credit: RUDN University An ecologist from RUDN University together with colleagues from 14 countries compared three methods for estimating ecosystem transpiration in a study. In...
The decline in grazing practices threatens the existence of a Basque cheese
The Lactiker research group at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) is working from a range of different perspectives to improve the yield of...
Scientists discover how remdesivir works to inhibit coronavirus
Credit: Photo courtesy of Gilead. More effective antiviral treatments could be on the way after research from The University of Texas at Austin sheds new...
Scientists ‘farm’ natural killer cells in novel cancer fighting approach
Engineers and oncologists teamed to develop a microfluidic chip capable of capturing the body's natural killer immune cells to harvest their cancer-killing exosomesCredit: Image courtesy...
Research illuminates lobsters’ genetic response to changing climate
Credit: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences The American lobster, which supports the most valuable fishery in North America, may be more susceptible to the effects...
An efficient tool to link X-ray experiments and ab initio theory
Credit: Martin Künsting /HZB Molecules consisting of many atoms are complex structures. The outer electrons are distributed among the different orbitals, and their shape and...
Researchers use patients’ cells to test gene therapy for rare eye disease
Approach could provide new path for difficult-to-treat forms of Leber congenital amaurosisCredit: Anand Swaroop, Ph.D., NEI Scientists at the National Eye Institute (NEI) have developed...
Heparin targets coronavirus spike protein, research shows
Common anticoagulant drug could be repurposed for Covid-19 treatmentCredit: Mycroft-West et al. An international team of researchers led by the Universities of Liverpool and Keele,...
New catalyst moves seawater desalination, hydrogen production closer to commercialization
Fast, one-step assembly at room temperature yields high efficiency at low costCredit: University of Houston Seawater makes up about 96% of all water on earth,...
How evolution can change science for the better
Credit: Image is provided by the Anthro Illustrated project (https://anthroillustrated.com). Science is society's best method for understanding the world. Yet many scientists are unhappy with...
Pharmaceutical research: when active substance and target protein ’embrace’ each other
International research team investigates the binding kinetics of kinase inhibitorsCredit: Knapp Laboratory, Goethe University Frankfurt FRANKFURT. Many anti-cancer drugs block signals in cancer cells that...
