Active implants: How gold binds to silicone rubber
Flexible electronic parts could significantly improve medical implants. However, electroconductive gold atoms usually hardly bind to silicones. Researchers from the ...
A docking site per calcium channel cluster
Credit: (c) by Walter Kaufmann and Ryuichi Shigemoto A study co-led by Ryuichi Shigemoto, Professor at the Institute of Science ...
Opioid epidemic hits nearly all age groups in both rural and urban US areas
Credit: FAIR Health In rural areas around the country, in the period 2007 to 2016, private insurance claim lines with ...
Body contouring is only for the rich and insured
Only a small percentage of obese patients who have undergone bariatric surgery to help them control their weight follow up ...
Do anti-wrinkle creams work? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, June 13, 2017 -- Want a younger, more perfect-looking you? Skin can stay firm ...
Human reproduction likely to be more efficient than previously thought
How difficult is it to conceive? According to a widely-held view, fewer than one in three embryos make it to ...
Why does an anesthetic make us lose consciousness?
Credit: Stefan_Schranz/ pixabay, CC 0 FRANKFURT. To date, researchers assumed that anesthetics interrupt signal transmission between different areas of the ...
Finland has the world’s most energy-saving supermarket
Savings are also being achieved by levelling out power consumption peaks Under VTT's leadership, Finland has the world's most energy-efficient ...
£1.4M EPSRC Fellowship for physicist
(Lancaster University) A Lancaster University physicist has been awarded a £1.4M EPSRC Career Fellowship over five years.Dr Dmitry Zmeev is ...
C-Path and CDISC announce public review period for Duchenne Therapeutic Area Standard
TUCSON, Ariz., and AUSTIN, Texas - June 13, 2017 - The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) and Critical Path ...
Spying on fish love calls could help protect them from overfishing
Credit: Jenna Luecke/Univ. of Texas at Austin About a third of the world's fish stocks are being overfished, meaning they're ...
Mosquito-killing fungi engineered with spider and scorpion toxins could help fight malaria
Credit: Brian Lovett Malaria kills nearly half a million people every year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In ...
Autism risk linked to fever during pregnancy
Fever during pregnancy may raise the risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the child, according to a study led ...
What makes a mother risk her life to protect her children
Credit: Shira Lottem/ Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown From birds to mammals, from fish to reptiles, the immediate reaction to ...
Study shows pharmacists knew more about penicillin allergy than MDs
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (June 13, 2017 - 12:01 am ET) - If you have gone through life avoiding certain antibiotics ...
A SMARTer way to discover new stroke treatments
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Mich. - A sequential multiple assignment randomized (SMART) trial allows researchers to test two hypotheses ...
New technology enables effective simultaneous testing for multiple blood-borne pathogens
Credit: Thermo Fisher Scientific Philadelphia, PA, June 13, 2017 - The emergence of new pathogens like West Nile Virus, Ebola, ...
‘Big Food’ companies have less power than you might think
A Dartmouth study finds that "Big Food" companies are striving to make food more sustainable from farm to factory but ...
Where cigarette smoking’s damage is done… down to your DNA
Credit: Christ-claude Mowandza-ndinga (UNC Health Care) Scientists have known for decades that smoking cigarettes causes DNA damage, which leads to ...
New cancer drug makes commonly prescribed chemo drug more effective when given together
GALVESTON, Texas - Researchers have found a way to increase the effectiveness of a widely used cancer drug while decreasing ...
