Neural network learns to select potential anticancer drugs
Credit: MIPT Press Office Scientists from Mail.Ru Group, Insilico Medicine and MIPT have for the first time applied a generative neural network to create new...
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Scientists estimate solar nebula’s lifetime
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- About 4.6 billion years ago, an enormous cloud of hydrogen gas and dust collapsed under its own weight, eventually flattening into a...
Chemicals hitch a ride onto new protein for better compounds
Credit: Shixian Lin/Berkeley Lab Chemists have developed a powerful new method of selectively linking chemicals to proteins, a major advance in the manipulation of biomolecules...
New engineered material can cool roofs, structures with zero energy consumption
A team of University of Colorado Boulder engineers has developed a scalable manufactured metamaterial -- an engineered material with extraordinary properties not found in nature...
Methane levels have increased in Marcellus Shale region despite dip in well installation
Despite a slow down in the number of new natural gas wells in the Marcellus Shale region of Northeast Pennsylvania, new research led by Drexel...
Scientists identify aggressive pancreatic cancer cells and their vulnerability
HOUSTON - Researchers have identified a gatekeeper protein that prevents pancreatic cancer cells from transitioning into a particularly aggressive cell type and also found therapies...
Endangered African penguins are falling into an ‘ecological trap’
Credit: SANCCOB As the climate changes and fisheries transform the oceans, the world's African penguins are in trouble, according to researchers reporting in Current Biology...
Stanford researchers among those discussing the future of conservation
Credit: Anthony?D.?Barnosky Conservationists need to adopt a critical shift in thinking to keep the Earth's ecosystems diverse and useful in an increasingly "unnatural" world. That...
UTIA project named Project of the Year for DoD Environmental Security Technology
Credit: Photo by M. Emery, courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A project to identify and track threatened, endangered and at-risk avian species on U.S. Department...
A new sensitive and stable self-powered photodetector
WASHINGTON D.C., February 9, 2017 -- Researchers in Singapore and China have collaborated to develop a self-powered photodetector that can be used in a wide...
Bacteria fed synthetic iron-containing molecules turn into electrical generators
(Cell Press) The bacterial world is rife with unusual talents, among them a knack for producing electricity. In the wild, 'electrogenic' bacteria generate current as...
New mechanobiology technique to stop cancer cell migration
Credit: OIST's Bioinspired Soft matter Unit Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate university (OIST) have developed a novel technique that stops...
The Internet and your brain are more alike than you think
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(February 9, 2017) Although we spend a lot of our time online nowadays--streaming music and video, checking email and social media,...
Researchers show how Lou Gehrig’s disease progression could be delayed
(University of California - Riverside) A team of biomedical scientists led by researchers at the University of California, Riverside has identified a molecule (123C4) that...
University of Maryland researchers make strides in Schizophrenia diagnosis research
COLLEGE PARK, MD -- Researchers from the University of Maryland College Park (UMD) and Baltimore (UMB) campuses have developed a blood test that could help...
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