UC San Diego partners with 5 leading diagnostics manufacturers to boost COVID-19 testing
Spurred by need and urgency, unprecedented collaboration will increase testing capacity to 1,000 to 1,500 tests per day within 2 to 3 weeksCredit: UC San...
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On-demand glass is right around the corner
A project to create colloidal glasses characterized by a unidirectional stressCredit: @GiulioMonaco UniTrento Glasses used for camera lenses or reading glasses are not like those...
Epigenetic inheritance: A silver bullet against climate change?
Researchers from QMUL and GEOMAR are studying the adaptive potential of fishCredit: M. Heckwolf, GEOMAR The current pace of climate change exceeds historical events by...
Oncotarget Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL): a review of the literature
Oncotarget Volume 11, Issue 11 reported that relapsed APL, particularly in the high-risk subset of patients, remains an important clinical problem.Credit: Correspondence to - Joaquin...
A pigment from ancient Egypt to modern microscopy
Göttingen research team produces new nanosheets for near infrared imagingCredit: University of Goettingen Egyptian blue is one of the oldest manmade colour pigments. It adorns,...
A milestone in ultrafast gel fabrication
Counter-intuition disturbance-directed fabrication of self-healable noble metal gels for photo-assisted electrocatalysisCredit: Copyright: Ran DU et al. Matter 2020. Electrocatalysis is one of the most studied...
New satellite-based algorithm pinpoints crop water use
The BESS-STAIR framework, developed by CABBI researchers at the University of Illinois, was tested in 12 sites across the US Corn Belt and achieved unprecedented...
NASA find Herold a fading ex-tropical cyclone
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview Former Tropical Cyclone Herold is now a fading area of low-pressure in the Southern Indian Ocean and NASA's Aqua satellite provided...
Health forums: Style of language influences credibility and trust
German psychologists investigate advice given on the internetCredit: Lars König/Regina Jucks More and more, people are using internet forums as first place to look for...
On the trail of organic solar cells’ efficiency
Molecular vibrations reduce the maximum achievable photovoltage in organic solar cellsCredit: Credit: M. Panhans In their study, by investigating the vibrations of the molecules in...
Oncotarget Early prediction of resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitors
Oncotarget Volume 11, Issue 11 reported that at clinical progression, 64 EGFR T790M plasma positive patients were subjected to second line-treatment with osimertinib and strictly...
Tel Aviv University joins volunteer initiative to improve coronavirus testing in Israel
Over 1,000 medical and graduate students, including from Tel Aviv University, are assisting Magen David Adom, Israel's National Emergency Service, to identify COVID-19 infection in...
Oncotarget DOT1L inhibition is lethal for multiple myeloma due to perturbation
Oncotarget Volume 11, Issue 11 reported that in order to understand the molecular mechanism of the dependency in MM, the research team examined gene expression...
Russian scientists propose new approach to measuring atoms
Scientists proposed a new method of statistical analysis of intermolecular interactions and sizes of atoms.Credit: ChenPhysChem Today, when new drugs are designed with the help...
Waterborne polyurea/urethanes significantly reduce hydrate growth rate in pipelines
A paper appeared in Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering.Credit: Kazan Federal University Previously, KFU scientists were able to develop the first inhibitors based...