Effective material developed to prevent post-surgical adhesion
(a) The live cells outside the 1 μL dot of PEC indicate that the material does not create a toxic environment (Scale bar: 500 μm)....
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Taking a deep look: a near infrared fluorescent dye for long term bioimaging
Credit: ITbM, Nagoya University A team of researchers at Nagoya University, RIKEN and Ehime University has succeeded in developing a photostable fluorescent labeling agent that...
Arctic seabird populations respond to climate change
Seabirds such as gulls can be key indicators of environmental change as their populations respond to shifts in their ocean habitat over time. A new...
3-D inks that can be erased selectively
Credit: Nature Communications 3D printing by direct laser writing enables production of micro-meter-sized structures for many applications, from biomedicine to microelectronics to optical metamater..
NUS study: RUNX proteins act as regulators in DNA repair
Credit: National University of Singapore A study by researchers from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore has...
New research predicts landslide boundaries two weeks before they happen
University of Melbourne researchers have developed a software tool that uses applied mathematics and big data analytics to predict the boundary of where a landslide...
Penn Medicine’s Carl June Receives 2018 Albany Prize
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Carl June, MD, a gene therapy pioneer at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, will receive the...
Rosenberg, NCI-supported researchers to receive 2018 Albany Prize
Credit: Rhoda Baer Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D., of the Center for Cancer Research (CCR) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), has been named a...
OU study shows effects of climate warming in tallgrass prairie ecosystem
Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma professor, Jizhong Zhou, and his team have completed a new study on the effects of climate warming...
Models give synthetic biologists a head start
Credit: Illustration by David Zong/Rice University HOUSTON - (Aug. 14, 2018) - Synthetic biologists have the tools to build complex, computer-like DNA circuits that sense...
Natural refrigerant replacements could reduce energy costs and conserve the environment
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 14, 2018 -- The 1987 Montreal Protocol and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol called for countries around the world to phase out substances...
Light-engineered bacterial shapes could hold key to future labs-on-a-chip
Credit: Frangipane et al., 2018 Scientists have used light patterns to control the swimming speed of bacteria and direct them to form different shapes, according...
NSF awards grant to Portland State for state-of-the-art instrument
Portland State University investigators from the Departments of Chemistry and Biology have received a $350,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a state-of-the-art liquid...
Substances associated with bee ferocity are discovered
Credit: Iago Bueno da Silva / UNESP Brazilian researchers may have discovered why Africanized honeybees are so aggressive. The scientists detected higher levels of certain...
Scientists get new tool to track new pathogen killing frogs
Credit: University of Central Florida An undergraduate researcher has developed a method to screen frogs for an infectious disease that has been linked to mass...
