University of Sydney partners with Korean steelmaker, POSCO
Credit: Sandra Margon, The University of Sydney The University of Sydney's Faculty of Engineering and IT has today announced its partnership with Korean multinational steelmaker,...
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HKBU and Tencent break world record for fast and accurate AI training
Credit: HKBU Researchers at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) have partnered with a team from Tencent Machine Learning to create a new technique for training...
Scientists to track the reaction of crystals to the electric field
Credit: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University The international scientific team, which included the researchers and alumni of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic...
Removing multi-resistant bacteria from sewage
Credit: Bin im Garten, CC BY-SA 3.0 According to the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, 700 to 800 t of antibiotics are...
External structure can affect the function of enzymes
Credit: RUB, Marquard A research team from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and from South Africa has analysed two enzymes with identical substrate binding pockets that nevertheless...
Supermarket produce harbors antibiotic-resistance genes
Washington, DC - November 6, 2018 - Researchers from the Julius Kühn Institut, Germany have found that produce is a reservoir for transferable antibiotic resistance...
Eat your vegetables (and fish): Another reason why they may promote heart health
Rockville, Md. (November 6, 2018)--Elevated levels of trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO)--a compound linked with the consumption of fish, seafood and a primarily vegetarian diet--may reduce hypertension-re..
Women who are ‘larks’ have a lower risk of developing breast cancer
Glasgow, UK: Women who are "larks", functioning better at the beginning of the day than the end of the day, have a lower of risk...
Doctors and nurses reluctant to recommend e-cigarettes to cancer patients
Glasgow, UK: Twenty-nine per cent of health professionals would not recommend e-cigarettes to cancer patients who already smoke, according to research presented at the 2018...
Gap in research means millions living with long-term consequences of cancer
Glasgow, UK: Millions of people are living with the long-term consequences of cancer and its treatment, but currently there is very little research on the...
Gut stem cells offer clues for preventing tumours in inherited bowel cancer
Glasgow, UK: Treating pre-cancerous stem cells at an early stage could be key to preventing bowel cancer in people born with a very high risk...
New analysis about synchronization transitions improves knowledge of physical, biological systems
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--In physical, biological and technological systems, the time that a system's components take to influence each other can affect the transition...
Machine-learning system could aid critical decisions in sepsis care
Researchers from MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have developed a predictive model that could guide clinicians in deciding when to give potentially life-saving drugs...
ASU researcher helps develop prosthetic hand system, allowing user to ‘feel’ again
Arizona State University researcher James Abbas is part of a multi-institutional research team that has developed a new prosthetic hand system with a fully implanted,...
Open source machine learning tool could help choose cancer drugs
Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech The selection of a first-line chemotherapy drug to treat many types of cancer is often a clear-cut decision governed by...
