‘Drawn-on-skin’ electronics offer breakthrough in wearable monitors
New electronics platform provides better data for personalized careCredit: University of Houston A team of researchers led by Cunjiang Yu, Bill D. Cook Associate Professor...
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Kyoto University simultaneously synthesizes dicarboxylic acids and hydrogen from diolsCredit: Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan -- Every year, the chemical industry makes trillions of dollars synthesizing...
NASA finds Post-Tropical Low Douglas crossing a line
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL The strong wind shear that weakened Douglas to a tropical storm early on July 29 has further weakened it to a post-tropical...
Forty percent of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by targeting 12 risk factors throughout life
An update to the Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention and care adds excessive alcohol intake, head injury and air pollution to nine previously identified...
Tierra del Fuego: marine ecosystems from 6,000 to 5000 years ago
The Middle Holocene, a plausible view of the futureCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Global warming will modify the distribution and abundance of fish worldwide, with effects...
Training algorithms to identify COVID-19 in CT scans
Pitt's Jingtong Hu will use an NSF award to develop deep neural networks that can identify pneumonia caused by COVID-19 on CT scansCredit: Jingtong Hu...
Monash scientists expose fascinating ‘compartments’ in bacteria
Credit: (c) iStock images A review paper by Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI), published in the high-impact journal Nature Reviews Microbiology, casts light on organelles,...
Researchers describe structure of SARS-CoV-2 proteins suitable for design of new drugs
Credit: Petra Krafcikova / IOCB Prague COVID-19 has changed the lives of millions and even billions of people around the world. The disease is caused...
Researchers discover a new and unique class of carbohydrate receptors
Credit: Kasper Røjkjær Andersen Exopolysaccharides (EPS) are surface-exposed carbohydrates that surround and protect bacteria and are involved in biofilm formation, cell-to-cell interactions, immune evasion, and...
Remote islands: Stepping stones to understanding evolution
Scientists combine new scientific techniques to test old theories on how evolution occurs on remote islandsCredit: OIST For millions of years, remote islands have been...
Plastics, pathogens and baby formula: What’s in your shellfish?
New UCI-led study finds coastal urbanization increases contamination in seafoodCredit: Michelangelo Pignani Irvine, Calif., July 30, 2020 -- The first landmark study using next-generation technology...
Cystic fibrosis study to investigate real-world effects of new triple combination drug
Credit: Julien Behal Photography Dublin, Ireland, Thursday, 30 July 2020 - Researchers at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences are leading a new €3m...
Post-pandemic brave new world of agriculture
Innovations in agriculture and food supply in response to the COVID-19 pandemicCredit: QAAFI Robots working in abattoirs, sky-high vertical farms, more gene-edited foods in our...
Hearing loss linked to neurocognitive deficits in childhood cancer survivors
Research shows that severe hearing loss in childhood cancer survivors is associated with neurocognitive deficits independent of type of therapyCredit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital...
Cell antennas lacking in Fragile X syndrome, study finds
Increasing the number of antennas might be a therapyCredit: UT Health San Antonio Laboratory of Hye Young Lee, PhD Structures called primary cilia - which...