Cholesterol’s effects on cellular membranes
Credit: Virginia Tech For more than a decade, scientists have accepted that cholesterol - a key component of cell membranes - did not uniformly affect...
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As information flows through brain’s heirarchy, higher regions use higher frequency waves
Credit: Miller Lab/The Picower Institute at MIT To produce your thoughts and actions, your brain processes information in a hierarchy of regions along its surface,...
Terahertz receiver for 6G wireless communications
Concept developed by KIT researchers enables ultra-fast wireless communications at low cost -- Highest data rate in terahertz transmission transmission so far -- Publication in...
Star-cells “shine” to make sense of touch
Astrocytic GABA fine-tunes tactile sensory acuityCredit: IBS Parents might be familiar with their toddlers gotten messy with flour. Feeling the soft texture of flour, kids...
Temporal-spatial order property of hollow multishelled structures enables sequential drug release
Credit: YANG Nailiang Hollow multishelled structures (HoMSs), with relatively isolated cavities and hierarchal pores in the shells, are structurally similar to cells. They can be...
Glial cells play an active role in the nervous system
Researchers study the speed and precision of signal transduction in the brainCredit: Klämbt Lab For the brain to work efficiently, it is important that a...
Insilico announces the launch of AI-powered COVIDomic to support COVID-19 research worldwide
Insilico Medicine announces artificial intelligent (AI) system powered by Intel architecture to help researchers and clinicians engage in COVID-19 researchCredit: Insilico 8th of September, 2020,...
New insights into evolution of gene expression
Credit: Graphic: Kenji Fukushima / University of Wuerzburg Vertebrate organs organize physiological activities, and the diverse expression patterns of thousands of genes determines organ identities...
UBC scientists find clues to queen bee failure
Credit: Alison McAfee Scientists at UBC are unravelling the mysteries behind a persistent problem in commercial beekeeping that is one of the leading causes of...
Cellular-level interactions that lead to the cytokine storm in COVID-19
Credit: Ryo Otsuka, Ken-ichiro Seino. Inflammation and Regeneration. August 6, 2020. Scientists review macrophage activation syndrome -- a feature of the cytokine storm that kills...
Paving the way for tunable graphene plasmonic THz amplifiers
Credit: Tohoku University Tohoku University Professor Taiichi Otsuji has led a team of international researchers in successfully demonstrating a room-temperature coherent amplification of terahertz (THz)...
Vortex top-hats emerge in superfluids
New insight into the behaviour of rotating superfluidsCredit: FLEET An Australian-led study has provided new insight into the behaviour of rotating superfluids. A defining feature...
Bio-based resin invented by Lithuanian researchers: A breakthrough in rapid prototyping
Lithuanian researchers from Kaunas University of Technology and Vilnius University synthesised and tested a bio-based resin for optical 3D printing; the bio-based resin made from...
The oldest Neanderthal DNA of Central-Eastern Europe
An 80,000-year-old Neanderthal reveals cultural and genetic affinities between Poland and the Northern CaucasusCredit: Marcin ?arski Around 100,000 years ago, the climate worsened abruptly and...
Lineshape-tailoring of coupled plasmonic systems based on first principle
Credit: by Jing Lin, Meng Qiu, Xiyue Zhang, Huijie Guo, Qingnan Cai, Shiyi Xiao, Qiong He, Lei Zhou Photonic systems consisting of multiple plasmonic/dielectric resonators...