Time to rethink predicting pandemic infection rates?
Forecasting cannot foresee COVID-19 infection rates peaking or plateauing.Credit: Joseph Lee McCauley WASHINGTON, November 3, 2020 -- During the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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Normothermic Machine Perfusion (NMP) in rat livers extended from 6 to 24 hours
Credit: Author In a paper published in TECHNOLOGY, a team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have demonstrated 24-hour rat liver viability in a...
Smartphone use offers tool to treat MS, other diseases
The way patients type on their phone keyboards could tip off doctors to how their disease is progressingCredit: Daria Nepriakhina WASHINGTON, November 17, 2020 --...
Quantifying quantumness: A mathematical project ‘of immense beauty’
Investigators develop a method to determine how quantum the state of a system isCredit: Luis L. Sánchez Soto WASHINGTON, November 17, 2020 -- Large objects,...
In a pandemic, migration away from dense cities more effective than closing borders
A simulation shows reducing population density in large cities decreases disease spreadCredit: Image courtesy of Massimiliano Zanin WASHINGTON, November 17, 2020 -- Pandemics are fueled,...
Seeking the most effective polymers for personal protective equipment
Some polymers can resist bacteria; can they be designed to work against viruses?Credit: Morgan Alexander WASHINGTON, November 17, 2020 -- Personal protective equipment, like face...
Engineered C. glutamicum strain capable of producing high-level glutaric acid from glucose
An engineered C. glutamicum strain that can produce the world's highest titer of glutaric acid was developed by employing systems metabolic engineering strategiesCredit: KAIST A...
Taking charge to find the right balance for advanced optoelectronic devices
Scientists explain how selective electrostatic doping can balance the charge in optoelectronic devices with 2D materialsCredit: DGIST 2D materials, consisting of a single layer of...
Environmental scientists’ new ozonation method treats water from antibiotic residues
Credit: TalTech Clean drinking water is considered to be one of the earth's most precious and threatened resources. Recent studies show that increasing concentrations of...
New phase of modeling the viscous coupling effects of multiphase fluid flow
Researchers led by Kyushu University find an improved way to explore key phenomena associated with multiphase fluid flow in porous materialsCredit: I2CNER, Kyushu University Fukuoka,...
Scientists develop world most-sensitive IR photon video detector
Credit: Sergey Gnuskov/NUST MISIS Scientists from NUST MISIS National Technological Initiative Center "Quantum Communications" are developing the world's first prototype of an infrared photon video...
Mobility behavior may be the key to predicting, promoting individual well-being
Credit: Photo by Matheus Bertelli from Pexels.com DSI postdoctoral fellow Sandrine Müller uses smartphone sensor data to study human behavior. A research team led by...
One step for fibrosis, one giant leap for scleroderma
Lysyl oxidase plays several important roles in promoting fibrosis in patients with scleroderma and is a potential biomarker of treatment responseCredit: Sarah Pack, Medical University...
Promising results from in vitro combination therapy against COVID-19
Credit: Martin Stenmark. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden report promising results from an in vitro combination therapy against COVID-19. In a study published in...
Samara Polytech scientists developed an energy-saving method for producing composites
Materials synthesized on its basis have a number of important advantagesCredit: @SamaraPolytech Scientists of the Department of Metallurgy, Powder Metallurgy, and Nanomaterials of Samara Polytech...
