New material could turn clothing into a health monitor
Nanomaterial can operate as an early-alert system, sensing slight changes in body temperatureCredit: University of Houston Researchers have reported a new material, pliable enough to...
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Coronavirus treatment and risk to breastfeeding women
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 4, 2020--Little data is available about the ability of antiviral drugs used to treat COVID-19,...
Collapsible basket technology aims to improve drug discovery, personalized medicine
Credit: Bumsoo Han/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A drug discovery scientist typically screens up to 10,000 compounds in the early stages of developing one...
Arnold Ventures awards $6M to study replication of Penn nursing’s transitional care model
Study will evaluate the effectiveness of TCM in reducing re-hospitalizations and promote widespread use of the program in a number of health systemsCredit: Penn Nursing...
Book on plants in the Murmansk region (Russia) scores 4/19 correct insect identifications
Credit: Vitali Zverev A recently published book on some aspects of the ecology of woody introducents in the Murmansk oblast of Russia provides the information...
Oncotarget; Inducible knock-out of BCL6 in lymphoma cells results in tumor stasis
The cover for issue 9 of Oncotarget features Figure 6, 'BCL6 knock-out in a DLBCL xenograft induces tumor stasis,' by Schlager, et al.Credit: Manfred Koegl...
A model proposed for predicting photodamage and development of plant protection mechanisms
The model developed by Lobachevsky University scientists can provide a tool for quantitative prediction of photodamage and development of adaptive changes of the plant photosynthetic...
Better planning could save millions in health care costs
Credit: PxHere EAST LANSING, Mich. - Nearly 30% of the $3.6 trillion spent on health care costs in the United States is wasted. New research...
Honeybee dance dialects
Credit: (Photos: Patrick Kohl / Fabienne Maihoff) After more than 70 years, a great mystery of zoology has been solved: Honeybees actually use different dance...
Destruction of an Atlantic rain forest fragment raises the local temperature
Brazilian researchers show that if 25% of a one-hectare forest remnant is cut down, the impact on the local climate will be a temperature increase...
New type of indoor solar cells for smart connected devices
Credit: Marina Freitag In a future where most things in our everyday life are connected through the internet, devices and sensors will need to run...
Virginia Tech, University of Virginia work to safeguard US tomato industry
Credit: Virginia Tech Virginia Tech entomologist Muni Muniappan has warned of Tuta absoluta's likely arrival into the United States since he began monitoring the pest's...
High-tech contact lenses correct color blindness
Researchers apply metasurfaces to standard contact lenses for customizable color correctionCredit: Sharon Karepov, Tel Aviv University WASHINGTON -- Researchers have incorporated ultra-thin optical devices known...
Birds of a feather better not together
'Homogenization' threatens ecosystems at larger geographic scalesCredit: Courtesy Proceedings of the Royal Society B Diversity plays a key role in maintaining the stability of plant...
Using ultrasound localization microscopy to detect oxygen levels in tissues
Credit: Doris Dahl, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are using...