New sensors can detect single protein molecules
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- For the first time, MIT engineers have designed sensors that can detect single protein molecules as they are secreted by cells or...
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Large pre-ACA Medicaid expansion did not level health disparities in cancer surgery
Credit: Georgetown University WASHINGTON -- An analysis of the New York State's Medicaid expansion, which predated the 2010 Affordable Care Act, finds substantial decrease in...
News media registration open for ENDO 2017: The 99th Annual Meeting & EXPO in Orlando, Fla.
Washington, DC--Members of the media can now register to cover the latest advances in hormone health and science at ENDO 2017, the Endocrine Society's 99th...
Timing of chemo affects inflammation, mice study suggests
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The time of day that breast cancer chemotherapy drugs are given affects the amount of damaging inflammation in the body, a new...
Role of thrust and drag clarified for swimming microorganisms
Credit: Felderhof WASHINGTON, D.C., Tuesday, January 24, 2017 -- For years, B. Ubbo Felderhof, a professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Germany's RWTH...
Modeling the rhythmic electrical activities of the brain
Credit: Leandro Alonso WASHINGTON, D.C., January 24, 2017 -- Researchers studying the brain have long been interested in its neural oscillations, the rhythmic electrical activity...
Prenatal infection may alter brain development via epigenetic changes
Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 24, 2017 - Maternal infection during pregnancy increases the risk for psychiatric disorders in the child, but the path between the two...
Can mushrooms help delay or prevent Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease?
Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Jan. 24, 2017 -- Certain edible and medicinal mushrooms contain bioactive compounds that may enhance nerve...
Scientists lay foundations for new type of solar cell
Credit: Dirk Raiser, MPIbC/DESY An interdisciplinary team of researchers has laid the foundations for an entirely new type of photovoltaic cell. In this new method,...
Monash awarded grant to lead global slum revitalization research
Credit: CRC Water Sensitive Cities A global charitable foundation has awarded an AUD $14 million grant to an international research consortium led by Monash University....
Your (social media) votes matter
Credit: Barbara Johnston/University of Notre Dame When Tim Weninger conducted two large-scale experiments on Reddit - otherwise known as "the front page of the internet"...
New discovery: Nanometric imprinting on fiber
Credit: EPFL Researchers at EPFL's Laboratory of Photonic Materials and Fibre Devices, which is run by Fabien Sorin, have come up with a simple and...
What holds the heart together
Credit: Uli Benz / TUM Our hearts beat a life long. With every beat our heart muscle contracts and expands. How this can work throughout...
Micro spacecraft investigates cometary water mystery
Credit: NAOJ/ESA/Go Miyazaki In September 2015, a team of astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, University of Michigan, Kyoto Sangyo University, Rikkyo University...
Can we see beginnings of state failure in the US and Europe?
The United States and Europe face an increasing risk of state failure in coming years due to the escalation of interlinked environmental, energy and economic...
