Personalized microrobots swim through biological barriers, deliver drugs to cells
Using a substrain of E. coli MG 1655 and nanoscale red blood cell membranes, researchers created tiny biohybrid swimmers that could personalize drug delivery to...
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Adelphi researcher discovers early, complex brain surgery in ancient Greece
One of the earliest documented, from ProtoByzantine periodCredit: Anagnostis P. Agelarakis/Adelphi University New research from Adelphi University has revealed the first forensically-assessed archeological discovery of...
One of the mechanisms of Staphylococcus antibiotic resistance deciphered
A joint Russian-French-German paper was published in Nature CommunicationsCredit: Kazan Federal University The Russian side is represented by Structural Biology Lab (Kazan Federal University) and...
Simulations show extreme opinions can lead to polarized groups
By incorporating the social science concept of 'rigidity of the extreme' into a popular opinion dynamics model, work in chaos theory points to the effects...
Plazi and Pensoft join forces to let biodiversity knowledge of coronaviruses hosts out
Pensoft's flagship journal ZooKeys invites free-to-publish research on key biological traits of SARS-like viruses potential hosts and vectors; Plazi harvests and brings together all relevant...
How wallflowers evolved a complementary pair of plant defenses
New findings show that a pair of complementary chemical defenses evolved independently in wallflowers, shaped by co-evolution with local insectsCredit: Tobias Zuest (CC BY 4.0)...
First-ever photo proof of powerful jet emerging from colliding galaxies
Credit: Courtesy Vaidehi Paliya CLEMSON, South Carolina -- A team of Clemson University College of Science researchers, in collaboration with international colleagues, has reported the...
Atomic force microscopy reveals high heterogeneity in bacterial membrane vesicles
Credit: Kanazawa University One aspect of bacterial activity is the production of so-called extracellular membrane vesicles (MVs): biological 'packages' wrapped in a lipid-bilayer membrane, carrying...
Proposed SwRI/UNH mission LEAPs forward
NASA selected LargE Area burst Polarimeter mission for further developmentCredit: Southwest Research Institute/University of New Hampshire SAN ANTONIO -- April 7, 2020 -- NASA has...
Cancer scientists at Purdue aim to use protein power to stop tumor growth
Credit: Marxa Figueiredo/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - In 2018, approximately 324,000 men died from cancer in the United States. The combination of lung cancer,...
New method to monitor Alzheimer’s proteins
Terahertz waves detect the fibrillization state of amyloid beta proteins in solutionCredit: IBS Physicists at the Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics (CINAP), within the Institute...
Young children find a parent’s hug more calming than a stranger’s
Credit: Yoshida et al./iScience For infants as young as four months, a hug from a parent makes all the difference. A study appearing April 7...
CUNY New York City COVID-19 survey week 4
New Yorkers seem resigned to a long siege as COVID-19 infection, job loss, food access challenges, depression, anxiety, and hopelessness prevailCredit: Credit CUNY SPH The...
Bubble dynamics reveal how to empty bottles faster
Glug, glug: Researchers zero in on the rhythmic sound bubble dynamics produce during bottle emptying to better understand the physics at playCredit: Lokesh Rohilla WASHINGTON,...
Cranfield University student creates COVID-19 map for Nigeria
Credit: Cranfield University A student from Cranfield University in the UK has created a dashboard giving information on the spread of COVID-19 in Nigeria. Nnenna...
