Human textiles to repair blood vessels
Credit: Nicolas L'Heureux What if we could replace a patient's damaged blood vessels with brand new ones produced in a laboratory? This is the challenge...
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DNA-like material could bring even smaller transistors
Credit: University of Texas at Dallas/Qingxiao Wang and Moon Kim WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Computer chips use billions of tiny switches, called transistors, to process...
Feds back Rice computer scientist’s security strategy
Ang Chen wins prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER AwardCredit: Rice University HOUSTON - (Feb. 10, 2020) - Ang Chen, an assistant professor of computer science...
$2.8 million grant to fund bioprinting for reconstruction of face, mouth, skull tissues
Credit: Kerim Moncal, Ozbolat Lab, Penn State Seamlessly correcting defects in the face, mouth and skull is highly challenging because it requires precise stacking of...
Seurat therapeutics announces novel mechanisms from rat migraine model of intranasal IGF-1
Credit: Graphical article summary from Won L and Kraig RP, Brain Research, 2020 Seurat Therapeutics, Inc. (Seurat) announced today the publication of preclinical studies of...
Alcoholism in the family affects how your brain switches between active and resting states
Credit: James Steinberg WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- You don't have to be a drinker for your brain to be affected by alcoholism. A new study...
First artificial enzyme created with two non-biological groups
Credit: Reuben Leveson-Gower Scientists at the University of Groningen turned a non-enzymatic protein into a new, artificial enzyme by adding two abiological catalytic components: an...
Sensitive and specific potassium nanosensors to detect epileptic seizures
A filter membrane on nanosensors enables the accurate sensing of potassium levels in the brain and helps to elucidate when and how epileptic seizures happenCredit:...
Sensory perception is not superficial brain work
Credit: Remi Gau If we cross a road with our smartphone in view, a car horn or engine noise will startle us. In everyday life...
Quantum fluctuations sustain the record superconductor
Superconductivity approaching room temperature may be possible in hydrogen-rich compounds at much lower pressures than previously expectedCredit: Ion Errea. UPV/EHU Reaching room-temperature superconductivity is one...
Quantum technologies: New insights into superconducting processes
Physicists demonstrate energy quantization in high-temperature superconductors / Study in "Nature Communications"Credit: Martin Wolff The development of a quantum computer that can solve problems, which...
Experimental measurement of the quantum geometric tensor using coupled qubits in diamond
Credit: ©Science China Press The quantum geometric tensor represents a central and ubiquitous concept in quantum mechanics, by characterizing the geometric structure of the Hilbert...
Investigational drugs didn’t slow cognitive decline in rare, inherited Alzheimer’s, initial analysis indicates
Top-line data reported from international trialCredit: Huy Mach/Washington University An international clinical trial evaluating whether two investigational drugs can slow memory loss and cognitive decline...
‘Rule breaking’ plants may be climate change survivors
Credit: Dr Annabel Smith Plants that break some of the 'rules' of ecology by adapting in unconventional ways may have a higher chance of surviving...
A convex-optimization-based quantum process tomography method for reconstructing quantum channels
Credit: ©Science China Press Quantum process tomography is often used to completely characterize an unknown quantum process. However, it may lead to an unphysical process...
