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Cells adjacent to injured areas within the heart sense the damage and ensure immediate survival and could be exploited to increase the long term recovery...

Inventions for developing world lead to Lemelson-MIT Prize for ASU engineering professor

ASU engineering professor Cody Friesen will donate $500,000 prize to Colombian communityCredit: Zero Mass Water TEMPE, Ariz. - Dedication to inventing solutions for social and...

Modifying the structure to meet the demands

Credit: ©Science China Press Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are robust crystalline porous polymer with predictable structural composition and functions. The bottom-up synthesis of COFs allows...

Tensile strength of carbon nanotubes depends on their chiral structures

Toward realization of lightweight and high strength structural materialsCredit: Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan - Single-walled carbon nanotubes should theoretically be extremely strong, but it remains...

Microbe from New Jersey wetlands chomps PFAS

Credit: Peter Jaffé Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are building up in the environment, and scientists are becoming concerned. These substances, ubiquitous as water-repellent or...

Microbe chews through PFAS and other tough contaminants

Credit: David Kelly Crow In a series of lab tests, a relatively common soil bacterium has demonstrated its ability to break down the difficult-to-remove class...

Scientists construct energy production unit for a synthetic cell

Credit: Bert Poolman / BaSyC consortium Scientists at the University of Groningen have constructed synthetic vesicles in which ATP, the main energy carrier in living...

Guppies teach us why evolution happens

Places, not predators, are evolution catalystsCredit: David Reznick / UCR Guppies, a perennial pet store favorite, have helped a UC Riverside scientist unlock a key...

Researchers develop thermo-responsive protein hydrogel

NYU Tandon-led team crosses barrier needed to deliver drugs at the cellular level and to engineer tissueCredit: NYU Tandon BROOKLYN, New York, Tuesday, September 17,...

Sesame yields stable in drought conditions

Credit: Irish Lorraine B. Pabuayon Texas has a long history of growing cotton. It's a resilient crop, able to withstand big swings in temperature fairly...

Fruit flies’ microbiomes shape their evolution

Biologists from the School of Arts and Sciences observed distinct shifts in the genomes of fruit flies fed different bacterial species after just five generationsCredit:...

Microbiome may be involved in mechanisms related to muscle strength in older adults

Study identifies differences in gut microbiome composition in physically high-functioning vs low-functioning older adults, successfully transfers some of these effects into miceCredit: Pixabay BOSTON (Sept....

NASA’s Terra Satellite sees the birth of Tropical Storm Imelda

Credit: NASA Worldview NASA's Terra satellite passed over the western Gulf of Mexico during the early afternoon of Sept. 17 and captured a visible image...

Pitt receives $10 million to boost racial and ethnic diversity in STEM

The grant will create a network of precollege programs with accreditation standards to boost college enrollment for underrepresented studentsCredit: John Altdorfer PITTSBURGH - A University...

Revolutionary laser instrument receives $4.7 million boost from the National Science Foundation