A dash of gold improves microlasers
Gold. The word brings to mind wedding rings, buried treasure and California in the 1840's. But when gold is reduced to 1/100,000 the size of...
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New techniques may help scientists understand and manipulate bone remodeling
Osteoporosis is a disease categorized by brittle bones and increased risk of fracture. Individuals with osteoporosis, and diseases like it, have access to a number...
UTA develops cutting-edge lubricant technologies to improve gas mileage, reduce wear
Credit: UTA Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have developed a pipeline of new vehicle lubricant technologies that lower greenhouse gas emissions, reduce...
DNA damage caused by cancer treatment reversed by ZATT protein
Credit: Scott Williams An international team led by scientists at the National Institutes of Health is the first to discover a new way that cells...
Gluten intolerance appears largely undiagnosed in Canada
Research on a large sample of Canadians suggests that most people with celiac disease don't know they have it. Ahmed El-Sohemy, a professor of Nutritional...
30,000-year old Sungir Homo sapiens visualized for the first time in 3-D virtual reality
Visual Science and the RAS Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, with support from the All-Russian Science Festival "Nauka 0+", have reconstructed the faces of the...
Jim Mellon announces launch of new book juvenescence: Investing in the Age of Longevity
Credit: Jim Mellon & Al Chalabi Wednesday, October 4th, 2017, London, UK: Biogerontology Research Foundation Trustee Jim Mellon announces the publication of his newest book,...
Preeclampsia triggered by an overdose of gene activity
Preeclampsia is the most dangerous form of hypertension during a pregnancy and can be fatal for both mother and child. Though it is known to...
Predicting insect feeding preferences after deforestation
Credit: Felix Fornoff, University of Freiburg Like a scene from the movie Alien, insect parasitoids inject their eggs into unsuspecting hosts, their offspring grow and...
Plant cells survive but stop dividing upon DNA damage
Credit: Masaaki Umeda (Nara, Japan) The cell cycle is the system through which a cell grows and divides. It is also how a cell passes...
Researchers help develop new antifungal drug
University of Liverpool researchers, working with F2G Limited (Eccles, Manchester), have developed a new antifungal drug to help in the treatment of life threatening invasive...
Penn team shows how seemingly acute viral infections can persist
Credit: University of Pennslyvania Infections caused by viruses, such as respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, measles, parainfluenza and Ebola, are typically considered acute. These viruses...
The Gold Standard: John Innes Centre receives Athena SWAN Gold award
Credit: John Innes Centre A world-leading plant and microbial science institute, the John Innes Centre, has become the first institution in the UK to achieve...
Imaging agents developed to better monitor growth of tumors
Credit: University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB) UAlberta researchers have created two new imaging agents that could help physicians visualize the formation of tumour-associated blood vessels,...
CRI study challenges long-standing concept in cancer metabolism
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Oct. 5, 2017 - Scientists at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have discovered that lactate...
