Nuclear Engineering expert honored by Health Physics Society
Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Nuclear engineering expert George Xu, the Edward E. Hood Jr. Endowed Chair of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been selected...
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Hydrangeas, the strange color-changing flowers (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, June 22, 2018 -- Savvy gardeners know that they can adjust the color of hydrangea blossoms between pink and...
Decellularized cartilage-based scaffold promotes bone regeneration at fracture site
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 22, 2018--To help prevent possible complications such as nonunion at large fracture sites, researchers have...
Office of Naval Research invests in Purdue battery safety technology
Credit: Purdue University image/Vincent Walter WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Fundamental Purdue University research on making batteries safer has been targeted by the U.S. Office of...
The advances of Blockchain for Healthcare to be presented at the Basel Life Conference
Friday, June 22, 2018, Rockville, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company specializing in the application of artificial intelligence for drug discovery, biomarker development and...
An emerging drug discovery approach to combat cancer
According to the World Cancer Report 2014, cancer accounted for 14.6% of all human deaths in 2012, equal to 8.2 million lives. If considered as...
Starving fungi could save millions of lives each year
Credit: Carlos Furtado, Western Sydney Local Health District Researchers have identified a potentially new approach to treating lethal fungal infections that claim more than 1.6...
The FASEB Journal: Gender-specific differences in intestinal lining
A new study published online in The FASEB Journal pinpoints several gender-specific differences in intestinal environment that could be significant for both intestinal and non-intestinal...
Miniature testing of drug pairs on tumour biopsies
Credit: IMAGE - Ramesh Utharala, EMBL Combinations of cancer drugs can be quickly and cheaply tested on tumour cells using a novel device developed by...
Mosquito-borne diseases in Europe: Containment strategy depends on when the alarm sets off
Credit: Paolo Tonato The arrival of travelers infected by mosquito-borne pathogens, coming from endemic regions can trigger sustained autochthonous transmission of diseases such as Zika,...
Important step towards a computer model that predicts the outcome of eye diseases
Credit: Drinnenberg et al Our eye hosts a powerful biological computer, the retina. Understanding how the retina transforms images from the outside world into signals...
Yellowstone’s ‘landscape of fear’ not so scary after all
Credit: Credit: Chad Wildermuth LOGAN, UTAH, USA- After wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the mid-1990s, some scientists thought the large predator reestablished...
What causes the sound of a dripping tap — and how do you stop it?
Credit: University of Cambridge Scientists have solved the riddle behind one of the most recognisable, and annoying, household sounds: the dripping tap. And crucially, they...
TGen-led study identifies gene expression patterns associated with fatty liver disease
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- June 22, 2018 -- A fatty liver disease known as NASH -- non-alcoholic steatohepatitis -- is the nation's major cause of chronic...
Experiments of the Russian scientists in space lead to a new way of 3D-bioprinting
Credit: Vladislav A Parfenov et al // Biofabrication, 2018 Thanks to the research of magnetic levitation in the conditions of microgravity, a new technology for...
