CRISPR gene cuts may offer new way to chart human genome
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine In search of new ways to sequence human genomes and read critical alterations in DNA, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say...
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Study puts spin into quantum technologies
The ability to control the spin of atom-like impurities in 2D material hexagonal boron-nitride demonstratedCredit: Dr M. Kianinia A team of international scientists investigating how...
Why Edgar Allan Poe probably did not kill himself
Credit: Lancaster University A computational analysis of language used by the writer Edgar Allan Poe has revealed that his mysterious death was unlikely to have...
Going super small to get super strong metals
Credit: Zhou et al You can't see them, but most of the metals around you--coins, silverware, even the steel beams holding up buildings and overpasses--are...
When coronavirus is not alone
Team of complexity scientists present 'meme' model for multiple diseasesCredit: Joshua Brown/UVM Interacting contagious diseases like influenza and pneumonia follow the same complex spreading patterns...
Researchers analyze influenza epidemiologic supervision and children cases in Catalonia
Credit: UB The viral infections of the upper respiratory tract are an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and, among them, influenza is one...
An ‘exceptionally stable’ single-atom catalyst
Single platinum atoms stabilized in C12A7 crystalsCredit: Nature Communications Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have shown that single platinum atoms trapped in...
New method gives glaucoma researchers control over eye pressure
Credit: University of South Florida TAMPA, Fla. (February 24, 2020)- Neuroscientists at the University of South Florida have become the first to definitively prove pressure...
Scientists develop a composite membrane for long-life zinc-based flow batteries
Credit: HU Jing Researchers led by Profs. LI Xianfeng from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently developed...
Extra chromosomes in cancers can be good or bad
Credit: Sheltzer lab/CSHL, 2020 Cancer cells are notorious for their genetic disarray. A tumor cell can contain an abundance of DNA mutations and most have...
Columbia team discovers new way to control the phase of light using 2D materials
Researchers use atomically thin materials -- 1/100,000 the size of a human hair -- to manipulate the phase of light without changing its amplitude, at...
Transport protein efficiently uses three independent lifts to shuttle the goods
Scheme of the transport cycle of glutamate transporters. Four states enclosed in dashed blocks represent structures observed in this work. GltTk in both apo and...
Rice scientists simplify access to drug building block
László Kürti and team develop one-step process to make crucial precursorCredit: Kürti Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Feb. 24, 2020) - In one pot, at...
Short film of a magnetic nano-vortex
Credit: Paul Scherrer Institute/Claire Donnelly For the first time, researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have recorded a "3D film" of magnetic processes on...
Mirrored chip could enable handheld dark-field microscopes
Simple chip powered by quantum dots allows standard microscopes to visualize difficult-to-image biological organismsCredit: Image: Cecile Chazot Do a Google search for dark-field images, and...
