How hereditary genetic testing results impact breast cancer treatment
A new study finds breast cancer patients with an inherited genetic mutation don't always get treatment that follows guidelinesCredit: University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center...
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Graphene mapping 50 times faster
Credit: ©Science China Press Graphene is always raising high expectations, as a strong, ultrathin, two-dimensional material that could also be the basis for new components...
Hard times are coming: Brain tissue stiffness is crucial for neurogenesis
Credit: Helmholtz Zentrum München / Jacob Kjell In mammalian adult brains, neural stem cells are only present in few specific parts, so called niches. Only...
Setting up fundamental bases for information metasurface
Credit: ©Science China Press When illuminated by electromagnetic waves, subwavelength-scale particles of metasurface can couple the incident energy to free space with controllable amplitude, phase...
Trees in the Amazon are time capsules of human history, from culture to colonialism
Credit: Victor Caetano-Andrade As society has progressed, the annals of human history have been recorded through text, art, and oral tradition. However, for hundreds of...
Controllable functional ferroelectric domain walls under piezoresponse microscope
Credit: ©Science China Press Ferroelectric materials possessing high photoelectric, piezoelectric and dielectric response are widely applied in industrial products, such as transducers, capacitors and memory...
Recognise and control new variants of the deadly Ebola virus more quickly
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) The situation is extraordinary: there have only ever been four declarations of public health emergencies of...
Lithuanian scientists contributed to creating the world record breaking tandem solar cell
29.15% efficiency is the new world record for a tandem solar element, developed by Lithuanian and German researchers; the material used to produce the record-breaking...
Lasers etch a ‘perfect’ solar energy absorber
Credit: by Sohail A. Jalil, Bo Lai, Mohamed ElKabbash, Jihua Zhang, Erik M. Garcell, Subhash Singh & Chunlei Guo The University of Rochester research lab...
Unveiling how lymph nodes regulate immune response
The Hippo pathway keeps lymph nodes' development healthy. If impaired, lymph nodes become full of fat cells or fibrosis developsCredit: IBS Pathogens such as severe...
MOF@hollow mesoporous carbon spheres as bifunctional electrocatalysts
Credit: ©Science China Press With the quick development of industrial technology, the energy crisis caused by the shortage of fossil energy has been a growing...
New robot will provide surgical assistance in uterine operations
The system would prevent one of the surgeons from having to hold the handler for several hoursCredit: UPV The project has been conducted in collaboration...
Wasp nests used to date ancient Kimberley rock art
12,000-year-old Aboriginal rock art from the Kimberley region, Western Australia,Credit: Damien Finch Mud wasp nests have helped establish a date for one of the ancient...
Static electricity as strong as lightening can be saved in a battery
Credit: Dong Sung Kim(POSTECH) Static electricity shock which occurs more often in winter is unpleasant. When two different objects are in repeated contact, it causes...
Researchers refute fifty-year old doctrine on cell membrane regulation
Credit: Saarland University/Thorsten Mohr The boundary between life and non-life is a remarkably narrow one. A central hallmark of life is the cellular membrane -...
