Pathogens get comfy in designer goo
Rice, Baylor labs use custom hydrogels to mimic insides of intestines, study infectious bacteriaCredit: Rice University/Baylor College of Medicine HOUSTON -- (July 22, 2021) --...
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Eco-friendly plastic from cellulose and water
Göttingen University researchers create new kind of environmentally friendly bioplastic with hydroplastic polymersCredit: K Zhang Plastics offer many benefits to society and are widely used...
Silicon with a two-dimensional structure
Heidelberg chemists succeed in producing synthesis and complete characterisation for the first timeCredit: Illustration: Ebner/Greb (Heidelberg) Silicon, a semi-metal, bonds in its natural form with...
Mentoring and inclusion are top priority for 50 new Gilliam Fellows and their advisers
Credit: HHMI They come from 38 schools across the country. Their research spans the life sciences, from plant biology to evolution. And they represent the...
New study reports strong indications of freshened groundwater offshore the Maltese Islands
Study is a product of the MARCAN project, led by the University of MaltaCredit: Prof. Aaron Micallef An international team of scientists has reported strong...
Bringing the jury to the crime scene via a 3D headset
Virtual reality leads to more consistent verdictsCredit: University of South Australia As any juror will tell you, piecing together a crime from a series of...
Generation and application of the high-Q resonance in all-dielectric metasurfaces
Credit: Opto-Electronic Advances In a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2021.200030 , Researchers led by Professor Liu Yan from Xidian University, China and Professor...
Antimatter from laser pincers
Research team develops new method to study astrophysical processes in the laboratoryCredit: European XFEL / Jan Hosan In the depths of space, there are celestial...
UMD Develops a DASH-Plus community-based hypertension management program for older adults
New USDA-NIFA funding brings together research, academics, and Extension to improve knowledge, access, and self-monitoring skills for hypertension managementCredit: Edwin Remsberg, University of Maryland To...
A rock with many perspectives
Credit: Schulz, GFZ The Alum Shale of Northern Europe not only has an eventful history of formation, connected with the microcontinent Baltica, it also holds...
UNF professor receives US manufacturing patent for 3D printing mold tool
Credit: University of North Florida Jacksonville, Fla. - Dr. Steve Stagon, University of North Florida mechanical engineering associate professor, has received a U.S. patent for...
3D imaging reveals neural ‘vicious cycle’ in fatty liver disease
Credit: Adori et al., Science Advances, July 2021. With the application of a novel three-dimensional imaging technology, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered...
Geneticists reveal how mutation causes childhood cancer; use drug to reverse its effects
Credit: Trinity College Dublin. Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered how a specific genetic mutation called H3K27M causes a devastating, incurable childhood cancer, known...
Characterized drugs show unexpected effects
Known and yet unexpected: many active substances influence the cholesterol homeostasis and thereby possibly a SARS-CoV-2 infectionCredit: MPI of Molecular Physiology When Alexander Flemming discovered...
Defect engineering assisting in high-level anion doping towards fast charge transfer kinetic
Credit: ©Science China Press The research team of Prof. Xiaobo Ji and associate Prof. Guoqiang Zou has proposed an ingenious oxygen vacancy (OV)-engineering strategy to...
