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Credit: Swanson School of Engineering/John Altdorfer PITTSBURGH (February 14, 2017) ... Dysphagia, or swallowing disorders, affects nearly one in 25 ...

Just press print: New study shows how 3-D printing at home saves big bucks

Credit: Michigan Tech, Sarah Bird Interested in making an investment that promises a 100 percent return on your money, and ...

Graphene foam gets big and tough

Credit: Tour Group/Rice University A chunk of conductive graphene foam reinforced by carbon nanotubes can support more than 3,000 times ...

Two PNNL researchers elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering

Credit: PNNL RICHLAND, Wash. - Two researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been elected to ...

Ventura fault could cause stronger shaking, new research finds

Credit: Gareth J. Funning and Scott T. Marshall. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A new study by a team of researchers, including ...

A nanofiber matrix for healing

Credit: Kyoto University iCeMS A new nanofiber-on-microfiber matrix could help produce more and better quality stem cells for disease treatment ...

Learning how to fine-tune nanofabrication

Credit: Kyoto University iCeMS Daniel Packwood, Junior Associate Professor at Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), is improving ...

Radiation therapy continues to be gold standard to palliate painful bone metastases

ARLINGTON, Va., February 14, 2017 -- The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) recently published an updated clinical guideline that ...

Measuring entropy: Scanning-tunneling microscope gives glimpse of the mysterious property

Credit: J.C. Gehrig, EMPA New research shows that a scanning-tunneling microscope (STM), used to study changes in the shape of ...

Do children inherit drug protection from parents exposed to nicotine or drugs?

WORCESTER, MA - A father's nicotine use may have a significant impact on children's risk of some diseases. In a ...

More serotonin, less motivation? It depends on the circumstances

Credit: Gil Costa A new study in mice shows that increasing serotonin, one of the major mediators of brain communication, ...

Ubiquitous and influential

Credit: Graphic: Sonja Lorenz The small protein ubiquitin regulates a plethora of physiological and pathophysiological processes in the human body. ...

Better health for women involved in clinical trials

Women who participate in obstetric and gynaecology clinical trials experience improved health outcomes compared to those who are not involved ...

Two months left to register for The International Liver CongressTM 2017

With just over two months to go until The International Liver Congress™ (ILC) 2017, it's time to register for your ...

Tiny magnetic implant offers new drug delivery method

Credit: UBC University of British Columbia researchers have developed a magnetic drug implant--the first of its kind in Canada--that could ...

Taking a high-priced cancer drug with a low-fat meal can cut cost by 75 percent

Taking one-fourth the standard dose of a widely used drug for prostate cancer with a low-fat breakfast can be as ...

Using high-resolution satellites to measure African farm yields

(Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences ) By using high-res images taken by the latest generation of compact ...

Mutant maize offers key to understanding plant growth

Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- How plant cells divide and how that contributes to plant growth has been ...

Drug developed at University of Minnesota increases survival in dogs with cancer

Credit: University of Minnesota A breakthrough trial at the University of Minnesota testing a new UMN-developed drug resulted in improved ...

Chip could make voice control ubiquitous in electronics