Drug treatment could combat hearing loss
Credit: Will McLean, Ph.D. CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Within the inner ear, thousands of hair cells detect sound waves and translate them into nerve signals that...
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Research teams hone in on Zika vaccines, but challenges remain
In less than one year, researchers have developed multiple vaccine platforms that provide robust protection against Zika virus challenge in animal models. Multiple phase 1...
Frequency announces a revolutionary small-molecule approach to restore hearing
Credit: Will McLean, Ph.D., Co-founder and Vice President, Biology and Regenerative Medicine of Frequency Therapeutics Approach to regenerate inner ear sensory hair cells lays the...
New technique generates high volume of sensory cells needed for hearing
Credit: Will McLean, Albert Edge, Massachusetts Eye and Ear (BOSTON) - The loss of tiny, sound-sensing cells in the inner ear, known as "hair cells,"...
NASA’s SnowEx challenges the sensing techniques…’until they break’
Credit: Credits: NSIDC/Jeff Deems A NASA-led team will kick off an ambitious airborne campaign to determine which combination of sensors would work best at collecting...
New window into the nanoworld
Credit: Photo by John Ulan for the University of Alberta. For the first time ever, scientists have captured images of terahertz electron dynamics of a...
Penn engineers overcome a hurdle in growing a revolutionary optical metamaterial
When John Crocker, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering in the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science was a graduate student,...
New approach to measure fluid drag on the body during swimming
Credit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan - A key factor to improve swimming performance is reducing resistance that water exerts on the moving body. This...
New data about 2 distant asteroids give a clue to the possible ‘Planet Nine’
Credit: Julia de León (IAC). In the year 2000 the first of a new class of distant solar system objects was discovered, orbiting the Sun...
Tune your radio: Galaxies sing when forming stars
Credit: Maud Galametz. Almost all the light we see in the universe comes from stars which form inside dense clouds of gas in the interstellar...
What’s the healthiest way to eat your veggies? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Feb. 21, 2017 -- Vegetables are chock-full of essential vitamins and minerals, but how should you eat them to...
Study finds significant limitations of physician-rating websites
An analysis of 28 commercial physician-rating websites finds that search mechanisms are cumbersome, and reviews scarce, according to a study appearing in the February 21...
Deep Learning predicts hematopoietic stem cell development
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Autonomous driving, automatic speech recognition, and the game Go: Deep Learning is generating more and...
The smallest Cas9 genetic scissors (so far)
Credit: IBS Scientists at the Center for Genome Engineering, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), in collaboration with KIM Eunji (ToolGen Inc.) and KIM...
Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute awarded $3 million to develop biological pacemakers
LOS ANGELES (Feb. 21, 2017) - With a new $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute investigators are moving closer...
