25 years of learning to combat cervical cancer
Credit: (A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (2018). Volume 68, Issue: 6, Pages: 394-424. doi: 10.3322/caac.21492) According to the World Health Organization, cervical cancer is the...
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Clean carbon nanotubes with superb properties
Scientists at Aalto University, Finland, and Nagoya University, Japan, have found a new way to make ultra-clean carbon nanotube transistors with superior semiconducting propertiesCredit: Aalto...
Deep-sea bacteria copy their neighbors’ diet
A new group of symbiotic bacteria living with deep-sea mussels surprises with the way they fix carbon.Credit: Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology / Nikolaus...
Simultaneous measurement of biophysical properties and position of single cells in a microdevice
Credit: SUTD Tracking the lateral position of single cells and particles plays an important role in evaluating the efficiency of microfluidic cell focusing, separation and...
Cellular calpain proteases can cleave the enteroviral polyprotein
Research highlights the potential of calpain inhibitor as an antiviral against enterovirusesCredit: The University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Despite their prevalence, there are no antivirals on...
Atoms don’t like jumping rope
Scientists have removed an important obstacle to the practical use of nanooptical traps.Credit: Mathieu L. Juan By controlling individual atoms, quantum properties can be investigated...
Konstanz scientists among the world’s most influential
Credit: Gabriel Miller and Tobit Dehnen Two collective behaviour researchers, Professor Iain Couzin and Dr Damien Farine, have been named in the Highly Cited Researchers...
New species of seaweed uncovered by genetic analyses
Credit: Kobe University Genetic analyses have revealed remarkably higher species diversity in common red seaweed than previously assumed. It was thought that there were only...
Be aware of potential complications following tongue-tie surgery in babies
Credit: University of Otago Complications following a procedure to treat tongue-tie in babies are occurring that can result in admission to hospital, something a University...
Development of magneto-optic effect measurement device using dual-comb spectroscopy
New tools for polarization and spectroscopic measurement and material developmentBlock diagram of Faraday effect measurement system using dual-comb spectroscopy. Professor Kaoru Minoshima from the University...
MU researchers describe catatonia in Down syndrome
First longitudinal study highlights positive responses to established catatonia therapiesCredit: MU News Bureau COLUMBIA, Mo. - Down syndrome, due to an extra chromosome 21, occurs...
‘Face blindness’ may involve a failed brain network, and could shed light on autism
Study of 44 people with prosopagnosia after stroke details brain areas involved in face processing; new work will investigate face processing in an autism-related conditionCredit:...
Anal cancer rates and mortality have risen dramatically among Americans
Credit: UTHealth Rates of new anal cancer diagnoses and deaths related to human papillomavirus (HPV), the most common sexually transmitted infection, have increased dramatically over...
Exoplanet axis study boosts hopes of complex life, just not next door
Credit: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope "They're out there," goes a saying about extraterrestrials. It would seem more likely to be true in light of a...
Scientists develop a new method to detect light in the brain
Researchers from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, University of Salento, and Harvard Medical School have developed a new light-based method to capture and pinpoint the epicenter...
