Mild cognitive impairment, ISS produces the first epidemiological estimation
Credit: Istituto Superiore di Sanità January 27, 2020-Rome: In a study published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, ISS researchers estimated about 680,000 cases of...
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First human trial of monoclonal antibody to prevent malaria opens
NIH trial will test NIAID-developed antibodyCredit: NIAID A Phase 1 clinical trial testing the safety and effectiveness of a monoclonal antibody (mAb) against malaria has...
Doctors and immunologists implement a new approach for melanoma treatment
Credit: Dr. Marina Teras Worldwide, the incidence rates of skin cancer, like other types of cancer, is increasing. People in Europe and the Nordic countries...
United Nations award goes to company born out of university pollution project
An energy start-up in India, formed out of an Aston University scheme, has won a prestigious United Nations' award for its workCredit: A2P Energy An...
New aspects of globular glial tauopathy could help in the design of more effective drugs
Tau is not the only protein implicated in protein inclusion formation responsible for this neurodegenerative diseaseCredit: Isidre Ferrer Tauopathies are a group of neurodegenerative diseases...
How to take a picture of a light pulse
Until now, complex experimental equipment was required to measure the shape of a light pulse; a team from TU Wien (Vienna), MPI Garching and LMU...
Tiny, ancient meteorites suggest early Earth’s atmosphere was rich in carbon dioxide
Credit: Donald Brownlee/University of Washington Very occasionally, Earth gets bombarded by a large meteorite. But every day, our planet gets pelted by space dust, micrometeorites...
Superfast insights into cellular events
New development makes tiny structural changes in biomolecules visibleCredit: Goethe University In the same way that a single piece of a puzzle fits into the...
White lupin: The genome of this legume has finally been sequenced
Credit: Benjamin Peret/CNRS White lupin is a particularly abstemious crop, requiring very little fertiliser and producing high-protein seeds of great nutritive quality. The plant has...
New type of curved acoustic beams to provide manipulations with nanoparticles
Scientists of Tomsk Polytechnic University and TSU jointly with their colleagues from Spain modeled and confirmed the existence of a new type of curved acoustic...
Discovery of a new liquid-liquid interfacial deformation by partial miscibility
Creating a cross-disciplinary discipline of chemical thermodynamics and interfacial fluid dynamics and contributing to higher efficiency of oil recovery and CO2 injection processesCredit: Yuichiro Nagatsu/...
A new model has been developed that simulates the accumulation of lipids in membranes
Led by the URV researcher Vladimir Baulin, this study has also discovered a new role of cholesterol that will help to understand the development of...
Researchers advance solar material production
Credit: WSU PULLMAN, Wash. - A Washington State University team has developed a more efficient, safer, and cost-effective way to produce cadmium telluride (CdTe) material...
Graphene, quantum and the brain: Put them together and what do you get? Deep Tech EU at MWCBarcelona
Credit: Quantum Flagship, Graphene Flagship, Human Brain Project, Battery 2030+ The world is moving at full speed, pushing forward an amazing wave of novel and...
Interactive map of mass uprisings around the world shows nonviolence works
Harvard-developed tool for studying mass uprisings shows that nonviolent uprisings are more successful than violent onesMapping Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes (NAVCO): an interactive...
