Usher syndrome: Gene therapy restores hearing and balance
Credit: © Institut Pasteur Hearing loss, sometimes associated with other disorders such as balance defects, is the most common sensory deficit, affecting more than 280...
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QUT creates Australia’s first lithium-ion battery
QUT researchers have produced Australia's first lithium-ion battery after establishing the country's only facility capable of such manufacturing. Key facts: QUT has developed Australia&#..
Party discipline for jumping genes
Credit: Martin Kapun The genome of a typical organism consists of many genes that are stringed like beads. This alignment has been surprisingly stable even...
A sustainable future powered by sea
Credit: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Quantum Wave Microscopy Unit Professor Tsumoru Shintake at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology...
Tackling air pollution in Sub-Saharan Africa
Credit: University of Portsmouth The University of Portsmouth is helping to tackle air pollution and its harmful effects in Sub-Saharan Africa. Researchers from the University's...
Leopoldina Annual Assembly focuses on genome editing issues
The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina today opened its 2017 Annual Assembly in Halle (Saale), with this year's theme being "Genome Editing - Challenges...
Assembly of nanoparticles proceeds like a zipper
Credit: Dr. Nonappa and Ville Liljeström It has always been the Holy Grail of materials science to describe and control the material's structure-function relationship. Nanoparticles...
Rainbow colors reveal cell history
(Technische Universität Dresden) Dr. Nikolay Ninov, group leader at the DFG research center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, Cluster of Excellence at the TU Dresden, and...
Crowning the ‘King of the Crops’: Sequencing the white Guinea yam genome
Credit: Creative Commons by International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Licensed with CC BY NC 2.0 An international collaboration involving the Earlham Institute, Norwich, UK, and...
HSE scholars measure prestige of fashion models
Beginning models should choose independent magazines in order to be successful in the fashion industry, but they should also keep in mind that the fashion...
700 years old saint myth has been proven (almost) true
Scientists confirm that the age and content of an old sack is in accordance with a medieval myth about Saint Francis of Assisi. For more...
New gene delivery approach could allow long-term persistence in proliferating cells
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Sept. 22, 2017 -- Researchers added a scaffold/matrix attachment region (S/MAR) to a conventional adeno-associated virus...
Seven exciting studies on membrane technologies explained
Credit: World Scientific With an increasing demand for clean energy due to environmental concerns, natural gas has emerged as a desirable option but an energy-efficient...
Our weight tells how we assess food
"It can be considered an instance of 'embodiment' in which our brain interacts with our body". This is the comment made by Raffaella Rumiati, neuroscientist...
A global perspective: Can humans mitigate risks associated with natural disasters?
Credit: World Scientific No corner of the world has escaped unscathed from climate change. The recent unprecedented increase in natural disasters around the world reaffirms...
