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Graphene-oxide membranes have attracted considerable attention as promising candidates for new filtration technologies. Now the much sought-after development of making membranes capable of sieving com..

Loading video... Credit: Chuan-Hua Chen, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Engineers have developed a technology to cool hotspots in high-performance electronics using the same physical...

ORLANDO--An artificial pancreas, which delivers insulin in an automated way to individuals with type 1 diabetes, appears to be safe and effective for use in...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Implantable fibers have been an enormous boon to brain research, allowing scientists to stimulate specific targets in the brain and monitor electrical...

A new research report in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology involving mice shows that antibiotic use very early in life that alters the normal development/growth...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 3, 2017-Medical use of a patient's genomic sequence information can improve diagnostic capabilities and enable...

Bisexuality is quite common among men and women whose mothers received additional doses of the sex hormone progesterone while pregnant. This is one of the...

Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using the precision of an electron beam to instantly adhere cathode coatings for...

Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists created an approach to get a better look at plant cell wall characteristics at high...

ORLANDO--The natural fetal estrogen estetrol, also called E4, is being tested as a new drug that may help treat advanced prostate cancer, according to an...

PHILADELPHIA - A new imaging test may provide the ability to identify ovarian cancer patients who are candidates for an emerging treatment that targets a...

Credit: RUB, Marquard Scientists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have established a process for identifying biomarkers for the diagnosis of different types of cancer. With the aid...

Credit: Stephen S.F. Yip, PhD, and Hugo Aerts, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston Massachusetts; John Kim, MD,...

Credit: Osaka University Osaka - Cytokines are proteins secreted by several types of immune cells in response to infection, inflammation, or injury. Interleukin-17 (IL-17) is...

Throughout the history of mankind, an anthropomorphic figure transcends time and distance to appear repeatedly and consistently wherever man resides. Ra, Tonatiuh, Sol Invictus, Taiyang...