Flexible ‘skin’ can help robots, prosthetics perform everyday tasks by sensing shear force
Credit: UCLA Engineering If a robot is sent to disable a roadside bomb -- or delicately handle an egg while cooking you an omelet --...
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Keratin, proteins from 54-million-year-old sea turtle show survival trait evolution
Researchers from North Carolina State University, Lund University in Sweden and the University of Hyogo in Japan have retrieved original pigment, beta-keratin and muscle proteins...
Pair of discoveries illuminate new paths to flu and anthrax treatments
Two recent studies led by biologists at the University of California San Diego have set the research groundwork for new avenues to treat influenza and...
GA4GH strikes formal collaborations with 15 international genomic data initiatives
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) has struck formal collaborations with 15 international genomic data initiatives as 2017 Driver Projects, including Genomics England,...
How bees find their way home
How can a bee fly straight home in the middle of the night after a complicated route through thick vegetation in search of food? For...
Domestication has not made dogs cooperate more with each other compared to wolves
Credit: Wolf Science Center/Vetmeduni Vienna Following domestication, dogs should be more tolerant and cooperative with conspecifics and humans compared to wolves. This is at least...
HIV infection, even with antiretroviral therapy, appears to damage a growing child’s brain
HIV infection alters brain development in young children, even when they receive antiretroviral treatment early in life, shows a report in Frontiers in Neuroanatomy. Children...
Three Bentham Open Journals indexed in The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) has accepted to index three Open Access journals published by Bentham Open. The titles recently accepted to be indexed...
Microbes leave ‘fingerprints’ on Martian rocks
Credit: Copyright: Tetyana Milojevic At the Department of Biophysical Chemistry at the University of Vienna, Tetyana Milojevic and her team have been operating a miniaturized...
MIPT scientists revisit optical constants of ultrathin gold films
Credit: MIPT Researchers at MIPT have conducted highly precise measurements of the optical constants of ultrathin gold films with thicknesses ranging from 20 to 200...
Keratin, proteins from 54 million-year-old sea turtle show survival trait evolution
Researchers from North Carolina State University, Lund University in Sweden and the University of Hyogo in Japan have retrieved original pigment, beta-keratin and muscle proteins...
Schizophrenia disrupts the brain’s entire communication system, researchers say
Credit: Courtesy of Paul Thompson, Ph.D., Neda Jahanshad, Ph.D., and Conor Corbin, USC Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics...
‘Hiding in plain sight’ — Discovery raises questions over scale of overlooked biodiversity
Credit: David Bilton - University of Plymouth Scientists have used cutting-edge DNA technology and museum samples collected over the past two centuries to reveal a...
New assay may boost targeted treatment of non-hodgkin lymphoma
Credit: Philippe Ruminy Philadelphia, PA, October 17, 2017 - Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is an aggressive cancer and the most frequently diagnosed non-Hodgkin lymphoma...
Saving hearts after heart attacks: Overexpression of a gene enhances repair of dead muscle
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - University of Alabama at Birmingham biomedical engineers report a significant advance in efforts to repair a damaged heart after a...
