Novel compound sparks new malaria treatment hope
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute A novel class of antimalarial compounds that can effectively kill malaria parasites has been developed by Australian and US...
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Scorpions make a fluorescent compound that could help protect them from parasites
Credit: Adapted from Journal of Natural Products 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.9b00972 Most scorpions glow a blue-green color when illuminated by ultraviolet light or natural moonlight. Scientists...
£500,000 NIHR grant for obesity treatment
Credit: World Obesity Federation Dr Jennifer Logue of Lancaster Medical School has been awarded half a million pounds by the National Institute for Health Research...
DNA sugars characterised in unprecedented resolution, atom by atom
Researchers at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country have developed the technology needed to be able to determine the structure of sugars present in DNACredit:...
All optical control of exciton flow in a colloidal quantum well complex
Credit: Junhong Yu, Manoj Sharma, Ashma Sharma, Savas Delikanli, Hilmi Volkan Demir, Cuong Dang Exciton-based solid-state devices have the potential to be essential building blocks...
A small step for atoms, a giant leap for microelectronics
Nature paper reports making and moving large-scale hexagonal boron nitrideCredit: TSMC/Rice University HOUSTON - (March 4, 2020) - Step by step, scientists are figuring out...
Tunnel fire safety
With only minutes to respond, fire education really countsCredit: Pixabay/wal_172619 Global risk management experts are calling for fire education initiatives to be included in driver...
Coherent phonon dynamics realized in spatially separated mechanical resonators
Credit: Prof. GUO Guo-Ping, SONG Xiang-Xiang, DENG Guang-Wei,TIAN Lin The CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information makes a significant progress in nanomechanical resonators. A group...
First bufferless 1.5 μm III-V lasers grown directly on silicon wafers in Si-photonics
Credit: HKUST Researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have reported the world's first 1.5 μm III-V lasers directly grown on...
Women deflated by #Fitspiration images
Super fit Instagram posts may be counter-productiveCredit: Flinders University Researchers have found that the #Fitspiration philosophy is flawed, making many women feel worse about themselves...
Robot uses artificial intelligence and imaging to draw blood
Rutgers engineers create device that can also insert cathetersCredit: Martin Yarmush and Alvin Chen Rutgers engineers have created a tabletop device that combines a robot,...
New measure for excessive buying problems
'First step' in treating problematic shopping disordersCredit: Flinders University Excessive or uncontrolled buying or shopping is a highly prevalent, disabling and growing problem, yet measuring...
SMART announces revolutionary new process for scientific applications
New microfluidic process enables researchers to create unique environment for developing medicine that cannot be achieved through conventional methods, paving the way for more potent,...
New platform for cancer diagnostics and drug testing
Credit: Photo by Johan Wingborg. Parts of tumor tissue, which is normally discarded in cancer surgery, bear information about the disease. So far, as studies...
New model shows winners, losers among marine microbes in warming oceans
A USC-led research team developed a new tool to show how rising ocean temperatures help and hurt various marine microbesCredit: Photo credit: Ulrich Sommer, IFM-GEOMAR...
