Seeing is believing: Monitoring real time changes during cell division
Credit: Lancaster University Scientist have cast new light on the behaviour of tiny hair-like structures called cilia found on almost every cell in the body....
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Where you go tells who you are — and vice versa
Credit: Zhenyu Shou, Zhaobin Mo/Columbia Engineering New York, NY--November 19, 2018--Estimating travel demand in a city is a critical tool for urban planners to understand...
New drug discovery could halt spread of brain cancer
Credit: Virginia Tech The tissues in our bodies largely are made of fluid. It moves around cells and is essential to normal body function. But...
New report outlines cancer screening’s future potential
Cancer screening has contributed substantially to reduced incidence, morbidity, and mortality, but issues like access and quality care and have kept screening from fulfilling its...
NRL demonstrates new non-mechanical laser steering technology
Credit: (Jason Myers/U.S. Naval Research Laboratory) WASHINGTON -- Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have recently demonstrated a new nonmechanical chip-based beam steering technology...
Researcher gets $485,263 grant to study how to control materials moving through tiny spaces
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Dr. Gangli Wang, professor of chemistry at Georgia State University, has received a three-year, $485,263 federal grant to study how nanostructured...
Getting things under control: New mouse model aids study of immunomodulation
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan-Because mice do not respond to immunomodulatory drugs (IMiDs), preclinical therapeutic and safety studies of the effects of IMiDs have not...
New blood test detects early stage ovarian cancer
Research on a bacterial toxin first discovered in Adelaide has led to the development a new blood test for the early diagnosis of ovarian cancer...
Study: In-person, but not online, social contact may protect against psychiatric disorders
Credit: Michael Moody In-person social contact seems to offer some protection against depression and PTSD symptoms, but the same is not true of contact on...
Less pollution can add a year to the lives of Copenhageners in 2040
Copenhagen has been struggling with air pollution for many years now. Pollution from lorries, vans, busses and cars each year costs lives. Now research conducted...
Artificially intelligent food solutions reduce the waste of resources
Credit: Daniel Schultz Madsen Klavs Martin Sorensen is an associate professor in the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH FOOD), in...
Research focuses on a new frontier in circadian rhythms
Credit: Rensselaer TROY, N.Y. -- A new frontier in the science of circadian rhythms - whose disruption is linked to major diseases like cancer and...
A major step toward non-viral ocular gene therapy using laser and nanotechnology
(Polytechnique Montréal) Gold nanoparticles, which act like 'nanolenses,' concentrate the energy produced by the extremely short pulse of a femtosecond laser to create a nanoscale...
Scientists trained a computer to classify breast cancer tumors
Using technology similar to the type that powers facial and speech recognition on a smartphone, researchers at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer...
Current climate models underestimate warming by black carbon aerosol
Credit: Washington University in St. Louis Soot belches out of diesel engines, rises from wood- and dung-burning cookstoves and shoots out of oil refinery stacks....
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