Role of thrust and drag clarified for swimming microorganisms
Credit: Felderhof WASHINGTON, D.C., Tuesday, January 24, 2017 -- For years, B. Ubbo Felderhof, a professor at the Institute for ...
Modeling the rhythmic electrical activities of the brain
Credit: Leandro Alonso WASHINGTON, D.C., January 24, 2017 -- Researchers studying the brain have long been interested in its neural ...
Prenatal infection may alter brain development via epigenetic changes
Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 24, 2017 - Maternal infection during pregnancy increases the risk for psychiatric disorders in the child, but ...
Can mushrooms help delay or prevent Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease?
Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Jan. 24, 2017 -- Certain edible and medicinal mushrooms contain bioactive ...
Scientists lay foundations for new type of solar cell
Credit: Dirk Raiser, MPIbC/DESY An interdisciplinary team of researchers has laid the foundations for an entirely new type of photovoltaic ...
Monash awarded grant to lead global slum revitalization research
Credit: CRC Water Sensitive Cities A global charitable foundation has awarded an AUD $14 million grant to an international research ...
Your (social media) votes matter
Credit: Barbara Johnston/University of Notre Dame When Tim Weninger conducted two large-scale experiments on Reddit - otherwise known as "the ...
New discovery: Nanometric imprinting on fiber
Credit: EPFL Researchers at EPFL's Laboratory of Photonic Materials and Fibre Devices, which is run by Fabien Sorin, have come ...
What holds the heart together
Credit: Uli Benz / TUM Our hearts beat a life long. With every beat our heart muscle contracts and expands. ...
Micro spacecraft investigates cometary water mystery
Credit: NAOJ/ESA/Go Miyazaki In September 2015, a team of astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, University of Michigan, ...
Can we see beginnings of state failure in the US and Europe?
The United States and Europe face an increasing risk of state failure in coming years due to the escalation of ...
Ion treatments for cardiac arrhythmia
Credit: Picture: Blausen.com staff. CC BY 3.0, remix by GSI Approximately 350,000 patients in Germany suffer from various forms of ...
Half of breast cancer patients experience severe side effects
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Nearly half of women treated for early stage breast cancer reported at least ...
Breast density research edges closer to cancer prevention
Credit: University of Adelaide Adelaide researchers are one step closer to breast cancer prevention after finding a new driver for ...
New organ culture system reveals effects of BPA exposure on fetal mammary glands
BOSTON (January 24, 2017)--A new organ culture system developed by scientists from Tufts University School of Medicine now enables tests ...
Southern Italy: Earthquake hazard due to active plate boundary
Credit: Heidrun Kopp, GEOMAR Since the early civilizations, the lives of people in Europe, in the Middle East, and in ...
Finnish biopharmaceutical company Desentum closes financial round totalling nearly EUR 2 Million
ESPOO, Finland, Jan. 23, 2017- Today, Desentum, a biopharmaceutical company developing next generation immunotherapy to fight allergies, announced that it ...
Small proteins help deliver receptors to the surface of our cells, ensuring their function and helpi
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Jan. 24, 2017) - Receptors on the surface of our cells enable a wide variety ...
Natural compound could improve treatment of triple-negative breast cancer
Credit: MU News Bureau More than 100 women die from breast cancer every day in the United States. Triple-negative breast ...
Study shows how a dog’s diet shapes its gut microbiome
Washington, DC - January 24, 2017 - Studies of the gut microbiome have gone to the dogs -- and pets ...
