NYU Tandon’s Elza Erkip garners prestigious engineering award
BROOKLYN, New York - Elza Erkip, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, will be the 2016 recipient...
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Artificial intelligence toolkit spots new child sexual abuse media online
Amsterdam, December 1, 2016 - New artificial intelligence software designed to spot new child sexual abuse media online could help police catch child abusers. The...
Four weeks to prepare cancer patients for surgery
Just four weeks of prehabilitation may be enough to help some cancer patients get in shape for surgery. That's according to a recent study of...
NEOMED researchers identify link between brain and bone in Alzheimer’s disease
ROOTSTOWN, OH--Researchers at NEOMED have just identified a major connection between areas of the brainstem - the ancient area that controls mood, sleep and metabolism...
Experts argue it’s time to stop using bite marks in forensics
Researchers are increasingly skeptical about the validity of bite-mark identification as trial evidence. A new paper in Journal of Law and the Biosciences describes the...
IUPUI chemists develop new technique that could speed drug development
Credit: Whitney Walker, School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS -- Synthesizing useful new compounds is what pharmaceutical discovery and development is a..
New findings boost promise of molybdenum sulfide for hydrogen catalysis
Researchers from North Carolina State University, Duke University and Brookhaven National Laboratory have found that molybdenum sulfide (MoS2) holds more promise than previously thought as...
Tangled threads weave through cosmic oddity
Credit: NASA, ESA/Hubble, A. Fabian New observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the intricate structure of the galaxy NGC 4696 in greater...
Northern Ohio institutions become laboratories for future energy usage
Credit: Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University, NASA Glenn Research Center and the University of Toledo will serve as "living laboratories" that demonstrate...
Einstein and Penn State researchers awarded $12.2 million to study Alzheimer’s disease
December 1, 2016 -- (BRONX, NY) --The National Institutes of Health has awarded researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Pennsylvania State University a...
Research team discovers a pathogen’s motility triggers immune response
Credit: Rada Lab/by Madison Floyd Until now, a pathogen's ability to move through the body has been overlooked as a possible trigger of immune response,...
New in the Hastings Center Report
Ethics of crowdfunding for medical care, an argument for fewer clinical trials, and more in the November-December 2016 issue. Crowdfunding for Medical Care: Ethical Issues...
ACS and Surgical Infection Society announce guidelines for prevention, treatment of SSIs
CHICAGO (December 1, 2016): Newly released guidelines for the prevention, detection, and management of surgical site infections (SSIs) issued by the American College of Surgeons...
ANU demonstrates ‘ghost imaging’ with atoms
Credit: ANU A team of physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) have used a technique known as 'ghost imaging' to create an image of...
Improving the mechanical properties of polymer gels through molecular design
Credit: Yukikazu Takeoka Nagoya, Japan - A polymer gel consists of a three-dimensional cross-linked polymer network swollen with liquid molecules. However, most conventional polymer gels...
