Treating a rare genetic disorder that causes colon cancer in children
Credit: University of Houston A University of Houston pharmaceutical scientist is developing a new drug which could bring relief to children suffering with Familial Adenomatous...
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A Trojan horse delivery method for miRNA-enriched extracellular vesicles
A method for large-scale production of extracellular vesicles enriched with specific microRNAs (miRNAs) has been developed in the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM)...
Insilico Medicine to present its latest research in a talk and workshop at NIPS Expo
Credit: Insilico Medicine Tuesday, November 20, 2018, Rockville, Maryland. The Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) is the largest and the leading annual machine learning conference....
Fish can detox too — but not so well, when it comes to mercury
Credit: Melton Griggers It takes six months to get really good at accurately gauging the age of yelloweye rockfish. Because they can live for up...
Cutting the legs off cancer
Credit: Wellcome Images CC-BY-NC-ND http://www.cellimagelibrary.org/images/38960 Melanoma skin cancer tumors grow larger and are more likely to metastasize due to interactions between a pair of mole..
Study: Twitter bots had ‘disproportionate’ role spreading misinformation in 2016 election
Credit: Filippo Menczer, Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- An analysis of information shared on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election has found that automated...
Machine learning masters the fingerprint to fool biometric systems
BROOKLYN, New York, Tuesday, November 20, 2018 - Fingerprint authentication systems are a widely trusted, ubiquitous form of biometric authentication, deployed on billions of smartphones...
Smart car technologies save drivers $6.2 billion on fuel costs each year
(Hoboken, N.J. - Nov. 20, 2018) - On one of the busiest traveling holidays of the year, drivers may be focusing on getting to grandma's...
The shape of things to come: Flexible, foldable supercapacitors for energy storage
London, November 20, 2018 - A team of researchers from the Plasma Physics Research Centre, Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University in Tehran,...
UNH researchers create a more effective hydrogel for healing wounds
Credit: UNH DURHAM, N.H. - Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have created an easy-to-make, low-cost injectable hydrogel that could help wounds heal faster,...
HSPC ‘Seeds’ reveal VCAM-1+ macrophage role in homing process
Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells (HSPCs) give rise to all blood lineages that support people's life. HSPCs, like seeds, need a suitable microenvironment to maintain...
Regulating the immune system’s ‘regulator’
A research team at the Academy of Immunology and Microbiology, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has discovered a possible therapeutic target that pulls...
Chemists develop new method for selective binding of proteins
Credit: University of Münster - Bart Jan Ravoo A new method of selectively binding proteins to nanoparticles has been described by a team of German...
Project receives additional $13 million to accelerate progress to redesign photosynthesis
Credit: Claire Benjamin/RIPE Project This week, families across the U.S. will gather around Thanksgiving tables in a traditional celebration of the season's bounty. By improving...
Tropical fish adapt to cold temperatures in coordination with their microbiome
Credit: (c) Phil's 1stPix Scientists have discovered that tropical fish can control their gut microbes to better survive extremes of temperature, a study in eLife...
