Withering away: How viral infection leads to cachexia
Cachexia is a multifactorial syndrome that occurs in patients suffering from chronic infections such as HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. In addition, 50% to 80% of...
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MIT and US Air Force sign agreement to launch AI Accelerator
New program will focus on rapid deployment of artificial intelligence innovations in operations, disaster response, and medical readiness. MIT and the U.S. Air Force have...
New method simplifies the search for protein receptor complexes, speeding drug development
Credit: Troye Fox For a drug to intervene in cells or entire organs that are not behaving normally it must first bind to specific protein...
SABER tech gives DNA and RNA visualization a boost
New DNA-nanotechnology-based method enhances nucleic acid analysis in cells and tissues, enabling parallel detection of many targets with high sensitivity and tunability and at low...
Scientists develop new recycling technology for heavy duty military batteries
Credit: ©Sergey Gnuskov/NUST MISIS NUST MISIS scientists together with JSC "Shchelkovo Plant of Secondary Precious Metals" developed an innovative cascade method for purifying silver from...
Researchers link new protein to Parkinson’s
Biochemistry shows how the protein MITOL kicks off Parkin activity Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Sciences are reporting new insight into how the...
Baylor Scott & White gastroenterology researchers share key takeaways from DDW 2019
Phone or in-person interviews at or after Digestive Disease Week available upon request Researchers from Baylor Scott & White Research Institute's Center for Esophageal Research...
Key drug target shown assembling in real-time
Study reveals a structural timeline of cellular signaling events Over one-third of all FDA-approved drugs act on a specific family of proteins: G-protein coupled receptors...
Fiber-based imaging spectrometer captures record amounts of data
Compact device could one day be used aboard unmanned aircraft for farming and environmental applications WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a new compact, fiber-based imaging...
Shedding light on cancer metabolism in real-time with bioluminescence
Credit: EPFL EPFL scientists have invented a new way to quantify - in real-time - glucose metabolism of cancerous tumors by making them bioluminesce. This...
Artificial intelligence becomes life-long learner with new framework
New technology brings AI a step closer to effectively helping Army missions RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (May 20, 2019) - A project of the U.S....
Cement as a climate killer: Using industrial waste to produce carbon neutral alternatives
Credit: Herbert Pöllmann / MLU Producing cement takes a big toll on our climate: Around eight per cent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions can...
People with benign skin condition willing to trade time, money to cure disorder
New study highlights the substantial effect that condition has on quality of life (Boston)--People with benign hyperpigmentation (the darkening or increase in the natural color...
New single vaccination approach to killer diseases
Scientists from the University of Adelaide's Research Centre for Infectious Diseases have developed a single vaccination approach to simultaneously combat influenza and pneumococcal infections, the...
Echolocation: Making the best of sparse information
New findings reported by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich researchers challenge a generally accepted model of echolocation in bats. They demonstrate that bats require far less...
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