New drug compound could tackle major life-limiting kidney disease
Researchers have developed a new class of drugs to tackle a common hereditary kidney disease The disease affects 12 million people worldwide The compound tested...
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The Nanoscience Days 2019 in Finland
The abstracts of Plenary Speakers now on web #NSDays2019 The Nanoscience Days 2019 (#NSDays2019) will be held on 8th--9th of October, 2019 at University of...
Redundancies in T cells
Oncologists have had great success with cancer immunotherapy in recent years, especially with the approach known as immune checkpoint inhibition, which was recognised with last...
Gold adds the shine of reversible assembly to protein cages
An international team including researchers from the University of Tsukuba reports the gold led reversible self-assembly of 3D cages from engineered proteinsCredit: University of Tsukuba...
Rebirth of the Japanese black tea market: challenges for entrepreneurial green tea farmers
Credit: Kanazawa University In Japan, tea farms are found in warm areas, whose northern limit is Ibaraki prefecture, where green tea has been produced. However,...
How certain antibiotic combinations could defeat 'superbugs'
Targeting heteroresistance A sneaky form of antibiotic resistance called "heteroresistance" is more widespread than previously appreciated, scientists at the Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center report. At...
Changing how we predict coral bleaching
Credit: © 2019 Charlotte Young Coral bleaching events may occur more frequently in the Red Sea than previously thought, according to an algorithm developed by...
Dr. Minah Lee receives Wiley Young Researcher Award
Dr. Lee gained attention as an outstanding researcher in materials scienceCredit: KIST On May 22, Dr. Minah Lee from the Korea Institute of Science and...
Climate change enhances carbon dioxide flux from lakes
The carbon cycling in lakes is studied using a process-based model that describes the temporal evolution of temperature distribution and water quality in a lakeCredit:...
Researchers find genetic cause for fatal response to Hepatitis A
Credit: Belkaya et al., 2019 Researchers have identified a genetic mutation that caused an 11-year-old girl to suffer a fatal reaction to infection with the...
Molecular switch for ‘exhaustion mode’ of immune cells discovered
Credit: D. Zehn / Technical University of Munich Tumors and certain viral infections pose a challenge to the human body which the immune system typically...
Speeding up the journey towards clean energy through photocatalyst optimization
Researchers from Osaka University link the activity of water splitting catalysts to easy-to-measure parameters to enable rapid screening of clean energy generating materialsCredit: Osaka University...
Emerging device by the fusion of IGZO and ferroelectric-HfO2
Next generation memory with low-power, high-speed, and high capacityCredit: Masaharu Kobayashi As a part of JST PRESTO program, Associate professor Masaharu Kobayashi, Institute of Industrial...
‘Hot spots’ increase efficiency of solar desalination
Rice University engineers boost output of solar desalination system by 50%Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON -- (June 18, 2019) -- Rice University's solar-powered approach for...
Greentown Labs & BASF start circularity challenge to pursue ideas for a circular economy
Six-month accelerator program seeks innovation in the plastics, energy storage and recycling value chains Greentown Labs and BASF jointly launch the Greentown Labs Circularity Challenge...
