3D-printed device finds ‘needle in a haystack’ cancer cells by removing the hay
Credit: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech Finding a handful of cancer cells hiding among billions of blood cells in a patient sample can be like finding...
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Tungsten suboxide improves the efficiency of platinum in hydrogen production
Credit: KAIST Researchers presented a new strategy for enhancing catalytic activity using tungsten suboxide as a single-atom catalyst (SAC). This strategy, which significantly improves hydrogen...
NIH grants UVA researchers $2.7 million to develop precision treatment for deadly heart plaque
Engineering and medicine team up to develop new diagnostic toolCredit: (Photo/Tom Cogill) The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $2.7 million grant to scientists...
New research finding gives valleytronics a boost
UC Riverside-led team overcomes a stumbling block in this relatively new technologyCredit: Stan Lim, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- An international research team led by...
Can watching movies detect autism?
Ben-Gurion University researchers indicate that tracking gaze patterns is measurable, reliable and offers great clinical potentialCredit: BEN-GURION U. NEW YORK...October 28, 2019 - Measuring children's...
An overlooked piece of the solar dynamo puzzle
Researchers demonstrate particular form of magnetic instabilityCredit: NASA / SDO A previously unobserved mechanism is at work in the Sun's rotating plasma: a magnetic instability,...
Newly created magnets are cheaper, more effective and ‘smarter’
Ferromagnets, or more precisely, magnets -- are extremely demanded materials in modern electronics. The magnets present in almost every device -- TVs, computers, fridges, cars,...
Wanda Group, UPMC to develop and co-manage network of international hospitals in China
Credit: UPMC Wanda Group, one of the largest conglomerates in China, and UPMC, a leading, U.S.-based academic medical center, today broke ground in Chengdu on...
Lithuanian scientists’ research may contribute to a better diagnosis of cancer
The method discovered by Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania researchers together with colleagues from other countries opens up an opportunity to develop biological sensors that...
Mutated ferns shed light on ancient mass extinction
Most researchers believe that the mass extinction 201 million years ago was caused by release of CO2 by volcanism with global warming as a consequence;...
Transforming DNA repair errors into assets
CiRA scientists create a new bioinformatics tool, MHcut, to generate gene mutations with high precision to study diseasesCredit: Kyoto University/Woltjen lab A new bioinformatics tool,...
Attacking metastatic breast cancer with sound
Credit: Tohoku University Drugs can be safely delivered to cancerous lymph nodes via the lymphatic system and then released inside the nodes using sound waves....
DNA is like everything else: it’s not what you have, but how you use it
Flipons -- an instructive Genetic CodeCredit: Alan Herbert DNA sequences encode information in many different ways. Codons specify the amino acids involved in making a...
Giant neutrino telescope to open window to ultra-high-energy universe
Credit: ©Science China Press The long-sought, elusive ultra-high-energy neutrinos, ghost-like particles that travel cosmological-scale distances, are key to understanding the Universe at the highest energies....
Argonaute proteins help fine-tune gene expression
Credit: © 2019 Heno Hwang A nuclear protein bound to RNA molecules affects chromatin structure and gene expression. The finding adds to the understanding of...
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