Karger Publishers expands in the Middle East
On March 25, Karger Publishers opened a new Regional Office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates - an important step in expanding its existing business activities...
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Neural fingerprints of altruism
Credit: Moll et al., 2018 There are two war veterans, both with penetrating traumatic brain injury (TBI) caused by a gunshot. One of them tends...
Lung transplant drug enters human testing in culmination of decades of work
Credit: Josh Barney | UVA Health System In the culmination of decades of research at the University of Virginia Health System, doctors have begun human...
3-D Printed robot prosthetic limb for amputees created by students
Credit: Alex Agboola-Dobson and his team- - lead electrical engineer Sebastian Preston-Jensen, lead software engineer Panagiotis Papathanasiou and mechanical and software engineers Maximillian Rimmer ..
Obesity is shifting cancer to young adults
A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher has compiled evidence from more than 100 publications to show how obesity increases risk of 13...
Half of vision impairment in first world is preventable
Around half of vision impairment in Western Europe is preventable, according to a new study published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. The study was...
Patients to skip the lab, get immediate results with new blood test technology
Credit: Arsenii Zhdanov TAMPA, Fla. (March 26, 2018)- The often costly, time consuming process of obtaining bloodwork and urinalysis could soon get a major overhaul....
Ultrathin endoscope captures neurons firing deep in the brain
Credit: Shay Ohayon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed an endoscope as thin as a human hair that can image the activity...
Themed issue lays foundation for emerging field of collective movement ecology
On land, in air, and through water, many species of animals move together in groups. Thundering herds of wildebeest migrate across the Serengeti; murmurations of...
Caribou drone study finds ‘enormous variation’ within herd
Credit: Drone footage courtesy Andrew Berdahl et al. Camera footage courtesy Jeff Turner, River Road Films, Ltd. Edited by Nate Kitchens for the Santa Fe...
Prenatal stress changes brain connectivity in-utero
March 26, 2018 - Boston - The time babies spend in the womb is far from idle. The brain is changing more rapidly during this...
Worsening worldwide land degradation now ‘critical,’ undermining well-being of 3.2 billion people
Credit: Mclein/Shutterstock.com Medellin, Colombia -- Worsening land degradation caused by human activities is undermining the well-being of two fifths of humanity, driving species extinctions and...
A simple method developed for 3-D bio-fabrication based on bacterial cellulose
Credit: Luiz G. Greca Bacterial cellulose (BC) nanofibers are promising building blocks for the development of sustainable materials with the potential to outperform conventional synthetic...
New method speeds up development of medication
Credit: UZH One of the key steps in developing new drugs is determining the atomic structure of its biologically active substances. This generally involves performing...
Edges and corners increase efficiency of catalytic converters
Credit: Credit: DESY, Lucid Berlin Catalytic converters for cleaning exhaust emissions are more efficient when they use nanoparticles with many edges. This is one of...
