Homing system delivers drugs to specific neurons
Loading video... Credit: Mike Tadross, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers have developed a way to deliver drugs to specific types of neurons in...
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A NASA infrared look at the Southern Indian Ocean’s 15th tropical cyclone
Credit: Credits: NASA JPL, Ed Olsen NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone 15S in the Southern Indian Ocean and obtained temperature data on the...
Cardiologist warns against dissolvable stents in NEJM
Credit: Photo by Tommie Morelos/TTUHSC El Paso. EL PASO, Texas -- In a New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) editorial published last week, Debabrata Mukherjee,...
Salk scientists expand ability of stem cells to regrow any tissue type
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(April 6, 2017) When scientists talk about laboratory stem cells being totipotent or pluripotent, they mean that the cells have the...
Lenvio Inc. exclusively licenses ORNL malware behavior detection technology
Credit: Jason Richards, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., April 6, 2017 - Virginia-based Lenvio Inc. has exclusively licensed a cyber security...
Distinct bacterial communities share nutrients for the common good
Credit: Jintao Liu, Suel lab, University of California, San Diego While researchers have not known whether bacteria in separate populations can communicate to coordinate behavior,...
Irish researchers make major breakthrough in smart printed electronics
Credit: AMBER, Trinity College Dublin Researchers in AMBER, the Science Foundation Ireland-funded materials science research centre hosted in Trinity College Dublin, have fabricated printed transis..
UMD-led study finds ancient Earth’s fingerprints in young volcanic rocks
Credit: USGS/J.P. Eaton Earth's mantle is made of solid rock that nonetheless circulates slowly over millions of years. Some geologists assume that this slow circulation...
Coming to a lab bench near you: Femtosecond X-ray spectroscopy
Credit: Kristina Chang/Berkeley Lab The ephemeral electron movements in a transient state of a reaction important in biochemical and optoelectronic processes have been captured and,...
156 early career engineering researchers to journey to frontiers of their fields.
Credit: NSF/Google Maps Today, 156 early career engineering faculty begin a five-year journey that will take them to the frontiers of fundamental engineering research. Supported...
Study helps explain varying outcomes for cancer, Down Syndrome
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Aneuploidy is a condition in which cells contain an abnormal number of chromosomes, and is known to be the cause of many...
WSU researchers improve technology to save sperm stem cells
Credit: Washington State University PULLMAN, Wash.--Washington State University researchers have found a promising way to preserve sperm stem cells so boys could undergo cancer treatment...
SNMMI publishes appropriate use criteria for bone scintigraphy in prostate and breast cancer
The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) has published appropriate use criteria (AUC) for bone scintigraphy (scans to identify bone metastases) in patients...
How a beneficial gut microbe adapted to breast milk
Credit: Yamada and Gotoh et al. Breast milk provides vital nutrients not only to infants, but also to beneficial microbes that inhabit the gastrointestinal tract....
Stem cell consortium tackles complex genetic diseases
Credit: Andrew Tang Much of stem cell research over the past decade has focused on Mendelian disorders -- those caused by a single gene, such...
