Electrospun fibers weave new medical innovations
Novel applications of a technology called coaxial electrospinning could improve contraceptive products and help patients with brain tumorsCredit: Joseph Fuqua II/UC Creative Services When you...
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Public, schools are invited to join interactive broadcasts from the Antarctic
Polar scientists to share how region is responding to rapid warmingCredit: United States Antarctic Program KINGSTON, R.I., - October 25, 2019 - Starting Monday, Oct....
Super-strong magnetic supercrystals can assemble themselves
Credit: Photo: Nancy Bazilchuk/NTNU Verner Håkonsen works with cubes so tiny that nearly 5 billion of them could fit on a pinhead. He cooks up...
Fighting the herpes virus
Credit: Felix Petermann, MDC New insights into preventing herpes infections have been published in Nature Communications. Researchers from the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology...
New procedure for obtaining a cheap ultra-hard material that is resistant to radioactivity
Boron carbide is used in the design of planes, trains and carsCredit: Universidad de Sevilla University of Seville researchers, led by the professor Francisco Luis...
Broadly protective antibodies could lead to better flu treatments and vaccines
Credit: NIAID WHAT: A newly identified set of three antibodies could lead to better treatments and vaccines against influenza, according to a paper published this...
Can solar technology kill cancer cells?
Credit: Photo by Derrick Turner EAST LANSING, Mich. - Scientific breakthroughs don't always happen in labs. For Sophia and Richard Lunt, Michigan State University researchers,...
Sharing solar technology with developing countries
£800,000 award for Swansea-led projectCredit: Sunrise Project, Swansea University A Swansea-led project which will help communities in developing countries to generate their own solar power...
Tuberculous infection is not life-long in most people
Penn-led study suggested majority will not develop disease even if test shows positive resultsCredit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - A new analysis challenges the longstanding notion...
One step toward using insulating antiferromagnetic materials in future computers
Physicists at Mainz University and cooperation partners observe reading and writing of digital information with antiferromagnetic materialsCredit: Ill./©: Lorenzo Baldrati, JGU Future computer technology based...
Nerve cell protection free from side effects
Göttingen scientists are on the trail of an alternative erythropoietin receptorCredit: Ralf Heinrich The hormone erythropoietin (Epo) is a well-known doping substance that has a...
Dynamic images show rhomboid protease in action
Credit: Barth van Rossum, FMP Rhomboid proteases are clinically relevant membrane proteins that play a key role in various diseases. Using solid-state NMR spectroscopy, researchers...
IKBFU researchers have discovered another natural antioxidant — alder bark
An alder bark may become a great source of anti-aging and anti-disease natural antioxidantsCredit: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University An alder bark may become a...
Informal sharing of breast milk gains popularity among women, despite safety risks
Research focuses on reasons women turn to other mothers for breast milk instead of milk banksCredit: Sood/Milanaik NEW ORLEANS - Women who are unable to...
Survey completeness of a global citizen-science database of bird occurrence
Credit: Blythe Mettitt, courtesy Cornell Lab of Ornithology There are many shortfalls in knowledge of the world's biodiversity, and one of the most basic is...
