NASA infrared data shows strength in Fengshen
Credit: Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson Tropical Storm Fengshen's cold cloud top temperatures revealed that the storm was maintaining strength as a strong tropical storm. Forecasters...
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Digital data and AI to improve the lives of people with diabetes
Credit: LIH Until now, medical doctors have used biomarkers to determine the health status of people with diabetes (PWDs). These markers measure the blood glucose...
TACC key collaborator in new NIH grant to explore chronic pain and opioid reliance
New 'meta-portal' to provide researchers with access to analytics tools and data sets for private, public dataCredit: Jorge Salazar, TACC Pain impacts nearly every individual...
New process kills mosquito larvae using bacteria in the male’s gut microbiome
Ben-Gurion University team wins gold medal for research at 2019 iGem CompetitionCredit: Ben-Gurion University/IGem BEER-SHEVA, Israel...November 14, 2019 - A team of undergraduate student researchers...
MicroRNA comprehensively analyzed
Credit: @tsarcyanide/MIPT Press Office Messenger RNA transmits genetic information to the proteins, and microRNA plays a key role in the regulation of gene expression. Scientists...
What felled the great Assyrian Empire? A Yale professor weighs in
Credit: The British Museum The Neo-Assyrian Empire, centered in northern Iraq and extending from Iran to Egypt -- the largest empire of its time --...
FDA accepts submission for selumetinib as treatment for neurofibromatosis
Would become first approved drug for genetic disorder affecting millionsCredit: Children's Tumor Foundation AstraZeneca and MSD (Merck) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug...
Global climate change concerns for Africa’s Lake Victoria
UH researcher develops model to project lake levels in world's largest tropical lakeCredit: Emily Beverly Global climate change could cause Africa's Lake Victoria, the world's...
Breakthrough in malaria research
Credit: Institut für Zellbiologie, Universität Bern Despite great efforts in medicine and science, more than 400,000 people worldwide are still dying of malaria. The infectious...
Bottlebrushes rise up to control coatings
Rice University engineers find bottlebrush copolymers can be tailored for applicationsCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Nov. 14, 2019) - A microscopic polymer in the...
A turbocharger for the supercomputer JUWELS
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Atos and ParTec with NVIDIA and Mellanox plan expansion of the Jülich supercomputerCredit: Copyright: Forschungszentrum Jülich / Ralf-Uwe Limbach The Jülich supercomputer JUWELS...
A step closer to cancer precision medicine
Credit: University of Helsinki Researchers from the Faculty of Medicine and the Institute for Molecular Medicine (FIMM) at the University of Helsinki have developed a...
New material breaks world record turning heat into electricity
A new type of material generates electrical current very efficiently from temperature differences. This allows sensors and small processors to supply themselves with energy wirelessly.Credit:...
Sociable crows are healthier — new research
Study shows link between health and size of social groupCredit: Photo by Dr Claudia Wascher, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) A new study has found that...
Architecture of a bacterial power plant decrypted
Credit: Rudolf-Virchow-Zentrum / University of Würzburg Both humans and many other creatures need oxygen for survival. In the conversion of nutrients into energy, the oxygen...
