Palliative Medicine Reports launching spring 2020
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, February 6, 2020--Palliative Medicine Reports, a new peer-reviewed open access companion to the highly regarded Journal...
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Virtual reality programmes support the treatment of children with acquired brain injury
Credit: Marju Himma/Estonian Public Broadcasting Use of a computer environment is a new and fast-developing field in paediatric neurorehabilitation. The first longitudinal study in Estonia...
‘Fluorescent markers’ to illuminate cancer begins Phase 3 clinical trials
Credit: On Target Laboratories On Target Laboratories Inc., a privately held biotechnology company developing the use of Purdue University-discovered fluorescent markers to target and illuminate...
UNH researchers find synchronization of memory cells critical for learning and forming memories
Credit: UNH DURHAM, N.H. - The phrase "Pavlov's dogs" has long evoked images of bells, food and salivating dogs. Even though this tried-and-true model of...
New online therapy for lingering depression symptoms could fill important gap in care
Online therapy for lingering depressive symptoms developed greater access to those in needCredit: U of T Scarborough An online version of a pioneering therapy aimed...
How plants are built to be strong and responsive
Credit: John Innes Centre Organised cellulose fibres allow plants to grow, support themselves and store fixed carbon from the atmosphere. Wood and dietary fibre is...
AOCS Research Awards go to five UMass Amherst food science Ph.D. students
Student researchers work in lab of renowned food scientist Julian McClementsCredit: UMass Amherst Five food science Ph.D. students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have...
What interventional radiologists need to know about frostbite and amputation
American Journal of Roentgenology meta-analysis of thrombolytic therapy for severe frostbite injuries finds promising results for both intraarterial and intravenous tissue plasminogen activator in amputation...
FEFU scientists developed method to build up functional elements of quantum computers
Credit: FEFU press office Scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU, Vladivostok, Russia), together with colleagues from FEB RAS, China, Hong Kong, and Australia, manufactured...
Story tips: Fusion squeeze, global image mapping, computing mental health, Na+ batteries
Credit: David L. Green/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy Fusion - Squeezing the code The prospect of simulating a fusion plasma is a...
Humanity’s greatest risk: Cascading impacts of climate, biodiversity, food, water crises: scientists
Survey reveals common concern of global scientists: interlinkages between crises; Part of Our Future on Earth, 2020, a 50-page synthesis of latest peer-reviewed, state-of-the-planet research...
Discovery of genes involved in infertility
Elucidation of the cell division mechanisms necessary for germ cell formationCredit: Assoc. Prof. Kei-ichiro Ishiguro Most cells in the tissues of most organisms proliferate through...
Engineered living-cell blood vessel provides new insights to progeria
New model reveals a unique role of the cells lining blood vessels in progeria, a rare accelerated-aging diseaseCredit: Progeria Research Foundation DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical...
Enjoying the View? How computer games can help evaluate landscapes
Geographers from Staffordshire University are stepping into the virtual world of computer games to develop exciting new ways of assessing landscapesCredit: Staffordshire University Geographers from...
What decides the ferromagnetism in the non-encapsulated few-layer CrI3
Credit: ©Science China Press Since the discovery of two ferromagnetic (FM) atomically thin CrI3 and Cr2Ge2Te6 in 2017 (Nature 2017, 546, 270?Nature 2017, 546, 265),...
