Researchers unveil new ‘time machine’ technique to measure cells
Using a new single-cell technique, WEHI researchers have uncovered a way to understand the programming behind how stem cells make particular cell types.Credit: Wang Cao...
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Betting on drones as smart agricultural tools for pesticide use in farms
Researchers assess whether drones can spray pesticides better than conventional technologies in terms of cost, capacity, and management efficiencyCredit: Yuna Seo Besides enabling more potent...
COVID-19 reduces access to opioid dependency treatment for new patients
Credit: Egan Jimenez, Princeton University COVID-19 has been associated with increases in opioid overdose deaths, which may be in part because the pandemic limited access...
Designing better antibody drugs with artificial intelligence
Credit: ETH Zurich Antibodies are not only produced by our immune cells to fight viruses and other pathogens in the body. For a few decades...
Confirmed: Island gigantism and dwarfism result of evolutionary island rule
Credit: Frank Glaw, Jörn Köhler, Ted M. Townsend, Miguel Vences, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons It is an old-standing theory in evolutionary ecology: animal...
Researchers generate human-monkey chimeric embryos
Credit: Weizhi Ji, Kunming University of Science and Technology Investigators in China and the United States have injected human stem cells into primate embryos and...
Transparent nanolayers for more solar power
Nanostructured material and a new cell design pave the way for the production of silicon solar cells with more than 26 percent efficiencyCredit: Forschungszentrum Jülich...
New type of cell contributes to increased understanding of ALS
Credit: Ulf Sirborn The causes of the serious muscle disease ALS still remain unknown. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and KTH Royal Institute of Technology,...
Coral reefs prevent more than $5.3 billion in potential flood damage for US property owners
Credit: Map by Chris Lowrie and Jessica Kendall-Bar Coral reefs provide many services to coastal communities, including critical protection from flood damage. A new study...
CityU biologists discover super-enhancers that switch on breast cancer genes
Credit: City University of Hong Kong Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive type of breast cancer with a high fatality rate. Currently, chemotherapy is...
With impressive accuracy, dogs can sniff out coronavirus
In a proof-of-concept study led by the University of Pennsylvania, dogs identified positive samples with 96% accuracyCredit: Pat Nolan Many long for a return to...
Patients who are overweight or obese at risk of more severe COVID-19
Credit: i yunmai Patients who are overweight or obese have more severe COVID-19 and are highly likely to require invasive respiratory support, according to a...
Saving the planet, and ourselves
A philosopher for our troubled times: Brian MedlinCredit: Flinders University 2020 began with Australia ablaze, forests from Brazil to Siberia have been devastated, with billions...
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B Volume 11, Issue 3 publishes
Credit: Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/acta-pharmaceutica-sinica-b/vol/11/issue/3 The Journal of the Institute of Materia Medica, the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association,...
Making waves in oceanography
New research finds upwelling defies prior theoriesCredit: Jochen Kaempf, Flinders University A new scientific discovery in Australia by Flinders University has recorded for the first...
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