The complexity of modeling
In recent years, advances in materials synthesis techniques have enabled scientists to produce increasingly complex functional materials with enhanced or novel macroscopic properties. For example,...
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Friend or foe? How the unconscious mind picks out faces in a crowd
Credit: Hebrew University Imagine you're walking down a busy street like Times Square in New York. There are tons of people around. As you make...
Major new issue of CVIA on imaging
Credit: CVIA JOURNAL The new journal Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (CVIA) has just published the first issue of Volume 2, with a Special Issue on...
Genetic changes help mosquitoes survive pesticide attacks
Credit: Caroline Fouet, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. — For decades, chemical pesticides have been the most important way of controlling insects like the Anopheles mosquito...
Introducing iScience, Cell Press’s first interdisciplinary journal
Credit: Cell Press Cell Press, home of the flagship journals Cell, Chem, and Joule, welcomes a new addition for basic and applied research across life,...
Inpatient satisfaction improved by five-minute intervention, study…
Credit: UVA Health System As hospitals seek to improve inpatient satisfaction, one effective way takes only a few minutes and no expensive equipment. A study...
Researchers reveal new links between heart hormones, obesity, and…
Lake Nona, Fl., Feb. 17, 2016 – A new research study has revealed an important relationship between proteins secreted by the heart and obesity, glucose...
Study: Patients receive most opioids at the doctor’s office, not the ER
Credit: USC Schaeffer Center Around the country, state legislatures and hospitals have tightened emergency room prescribing guidelines for opioids to curb the addiction epidemic, but...
Study links athletic performance to mortality
Credit: University of Arizona It's not the locker room pep talk you'd expect, but new research from the University of Arizona suggests that athletes might...
Tissue engineers recruit cells to make their own strong matrix
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery but the best way to make something is often to co-opt the original process...
Daniel Alford, M.D., M.P.H., receives National Award from the American…
Credit: Boston Medical Center BOSTON — Daniel P. Alford, MD, MPH, FACP, has been awarded the American College of Physicians (ACP) Award for Distinguished Contributions...
How marriage may protect transgender couples
Credit: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. – Transgender people who are married are less likely to experience discrimination than their unmarried counterparts, indicates a...
Immune cells derived from specialised progenitors
Credit: © Photo: Volker Lannert/Uni Bonn Dendritic cells are gatekeepers of Immunity and are crucial for the detection and initiation of Immunity against pathogens and...
New study: Traumatic brain injury causes intestinal damage
University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers have found a two-way link between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and intestinal changes. These interactions may contribute...
Monocytes have many faces
Credit: © Foto: Barbara Frommann/Uni Bonn When the immune system mobilizes its troops, antigen-presenting cells play an important role. They can emerge from white blood...
