New study enhances knowledge about widespread diseases
Credit: Johan Wingborg When proteins in the brain form deposits consisting of insoluble aggregates, diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's can occur. Now a research...
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Bone bandage soaks up pro-healing biochemical to accelerate repair
Trapping adenosine at the site of a bone break speeds recovery in miceCredit: Shyni Varghese, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at Duke University have...
Bone bandage soaks up pro-healing biochemical to accelerate repair
Trapping adenosine at the site of a bone break speeds recovery in miceCredit: Shyni Varghese, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at Duke University have...
Strengthening European biology
EMBL joins Instruct-ERICCredit: PHOTO: Udo Ringeisen / EMBL European biomedical research capabilities, and services to industry, will be further enhanced following a new partnership announced...
Researchers create synthetic nanopores made from DNA
Credit: Rasmus Peter Thomsen, Aarhus University In 2015, the first commercial nanopore DNA sequencing device was introduced by Oxford Nanopore Technologies. Based on a synthetically...
Simultaneous emission of orthogonal handedness in circular polarization
Credit: by Kyungmin Baek, Dong-Myung Lee, Yu-Jin Lee, Hyunchul Choi, Jeongdae Seo, Inbyeong Kang, Chang-Jae Yu, and Jae-Hoon Kim Control of the polarization of light...
Finding a killer electron hot spot in Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts
Credit: ERG Science Team A collaboration between researchers in Japan, the USA, and Russia has found a hot spot in Earth's radiation belt where killer...
IQ test for artificial intelligence systems
Credit: WSU Washington State University researchers are creating the first-ever "IQ test" for artificial intelligence (AI) systems that would score systems on how well they...
Rectal microbes influence effectiveness of HIV vaccine
Credit: CNPRC photo. Microbes living in the rectum could make a difference to the effectiveness of experimental HIV vaccines, according to researchers at the University...
Norwegian researcher wins IEEE Control Systems Society BODE award
First Norwegian and only the second woman to win the awardCredit: Eelume Scientists have been working on snake robots for more than 30 years, but...
Success in metabolically engineering marine algae to synthesize valuable antioxidant astaxanthin
Credit: Kobe University A research group led by Professor HASUNUMA Tomohisa of Kobe University's Engineering Biology Research Center have succeeded in synthesizing the natural pigment...
Scientists and innovators present the Circular Carbon Economy at COP25
Credit: KAUST 12/12/2019 - COP25 MADRID, International scientists and innovators present the concept and components of the Circular Carbon Economy, including nature-based elements, technological underpinnings...
Perinatal exposure to flame retardant alters epigenome, predisposing metabolic disease
UMass Amherst scientist expanding chemical exposure research to include humansCredit: UMass Amherst Studies have shown that perinatal exposure of rats and mice to common flame...
Breast cancer patients with government insurance at higher risk of death
Medicare and Medicaid patients with breast cancer also had an increased likelihood of stopping their clinical trial treatment early, same study foundCredit: None A retrospective...
Study shows novel protein plays role in bacterial vaginosis
UArizona College of Medicine -- Phoenix study increases understanding of most common bacterial infection in US womenCredit: Image Courtesy of Dr. Melissa Herbst-Kralovetz Lab, UArizona...
