Robots get creative to cut through clutter
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Personal Robotics Lab PITTSBURGH–Clutter is a special challenge for robots, but new Carnegie Mellon University software ...
Study shows how neurons reach their final destinations
As the human brain develops, neurons leave their birthplace and take a trip to distant locations. Once they reach their ...
New implantable VAD for severe heart failure in kids shows encouraging results in sheep
The number of children with severe heart failure is increasing. Over the last decade, ventricular assist devices (VADs) have become ...
Blocking known cancer driver unexpectedly reveals a new tumor-promoting pathway
While investigating a potential therapeutic target for the ERK1 and 2 pathway, a widely expressed signaling molecule known to drive ...
HIV vaccine design should adapt as HIV virus mutates
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Human immunodeficiency virus is known to be a highly variable virus that adapts to a person’s immune ...
NIH-funded study reveals how differences in male and female brains emerge
Nematode worms may not be from Mars or Venus, but they do have sex-specific circuits in their brains that cause ...
Rare human disease found in dogs
EAST LANSING, Mich. – A rare, severe form of pulmonary hypertension, which up until now, has only been classified as ...
Scientists find that cancer can arise from changes in the proteins that package DNA
A mutation that affects the proteins that package DNA–without changing the DNA itself–can cause a rare form of cancer, according ...
Lung cancer “breathalyzer” wins $100K Entrepreneurship Competition
A team of MIT and Harvard University students who invented a smartphone-connected sensor that detects lung cancer from a single ...
Ingestible robot operates in simulated stomach
Credit: Melanie Gonick/MIT In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach, researchers at MIT, the University of ...
NIH-led team discovers new HIV vaccine target
A team led by scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has reported a research trifecta. They discovered a ...
Gene regulatory mutation linked to rare childhood cancer
MADISON, Wis. — A single defect in a gene that codes for a histone — a “spool” that wraps idle ...
An old new weapon against emerging Chikungunya virus
Since 2013, the mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus has spread rapidly through South America and the Caribbean, and is now threatening Southern ...
Breast cancer drug found to reduce seizures
A class of drug that inhibits estrogen production and is used to treat breast cancer has been found to quickly ...
Crowd-augmented cognition
Credit: Aniket Kittur, Carnegie Mellon University Crowdsourcing has brought us Wikipedia and ways to understand how HIV proteins fold. It ...
New device developed at UBC could improve cancer detection
A new UBC-developed method to isolate cancer cells that have escaped from a tumour could soon pave the way for ...
Stem cells from diabetic patients coaxed to become insulin-secreting cells
Signaling a potential new approach to treating diabetes, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Harvard ...
A personalized virtual heart predicts the risk of sudden cardiac death
When electrical waves in the heart run amok in a condition called arrhythmia, sudden death can occur. To save the ...
Performing cellular surgery with a laser-powered nanoblade
Credit: Alexander N. Patananan To study certain aspects of cells, researchers need the ability to take the innards out, manipulate ...
Three lessons gut microbes have taught us about antibiotics
Antibiotics have proven to be a double-edged sword: capable of killing a range of bacteria that cause infections, but also ...
