Creative Destruction Lab Rapid Screening Consortium wins Project of the Year Award
Toronto – When the world was largely shut down during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the leadership behind Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) at the...
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“Virtual pillars” separate and sort blood-based nanoparticles
DURHAM, N.C. – Engineers at Duke University have developed a device that uses sound waves to separate and sort the tiniest particles found in blood...
Improving cancer outcomes for LGBTQ+ patients requires earning trust and challenging assumptions
PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA — Today, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®)—an alliance of leading cancer centers—hosted its annual NCCN Patient Advocacy Summit. This year’s dialogue...
Birmingham MP officially opens £1.5 million healthcare simulation facilities at Aston University
Credit: Richard Battye Paulette Hamilton MP officially opens healthcare simulation facilities at Aston Medical School and School of Optometry State-of-the-art facilities including medical simulation room...
Zinc batteries offer greater safety, but many improvements needed to compete with lithium
Zinc batteries potentially offer a much lower fire risk than their market-leading yet fire-prone lithium-ion cousins, but researchers have concluded that the technology still needs...
Kibble-Zurek mechanism for nonequilibrium phase transitions
Phase transitions describe various phenomena around us, from water turning into ice to magnetic transitions to the superconducting transition where electrical resistance vanishes. In the...
Is that turtle legal? Fighting wildlife trafficking with stable isotopes
Wildlife trafficking is a well-known threat to biodiversity, with many species imperiled by poachers working in the illegal pet trade. Worse still, when traffickers are...
Scientists reveal encouraging findings in first-in-human clinical trial evaluating HIV vaccine approach
NEW YORK and LA JOLLA, CA—While scientists have struggled in the past to create an effective vaccine against HIV, a novel vaccine design strategy being...
nTIDE November 2022 Jobs Report: People with disabilities continue to outperform people without disabilities in labor market
East Hanover, NJ – December 2, 2022 – Job numbers rose again for people with disabilities, in contrast to people without disabilities, according to today’s...
Palm e-tattoo can tell when you’re stressed out
Our palms tell us a lot about our emotional state, tending to get wet when people are excited or nervous. This reaction is used to...
Continued excellence in DNA repair and genome stability research
German Research Foundation renews Collaborative Research Center 1361 at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz The German Research Foundation (DFG) announced the prolongation of the Collaborative Research...
Understanding cellular functions: New Collaborative Research Center combines life sciences and polymer research
The researchers of the new Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1551, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), intend to apply findings of polymer research to...
New Collaborative Research Center at University Medical Center Mainz to create basis for tailored immunotherapies
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the establishment and funding of the Collaborative Research Center/Transregio (CRC/TRR) 355 "Heterogeneity and functional specialization of regulatory T...
Reliable planning tool for the emissions path to achieving the Paris temperature goal
The central aim of the Paris climate agreement is clear: Limiting man-made global warming to well below 2°C. This limit requires a reduction in greenhouse...
Broken symmetries provide opportunities for thermal emission management
Radiative heat transfer is a ubiquitous physical process in our universe. Any object with a temperature above absolute zero exchanges thermal energy with the environment....
