What makes erionite carcinogenic?
Credit: Photo: Kilian Pollok/FSU Jena (Jena/Germany) The mineral erionite is considered to be highly carcinogenic and is on the World Health Organisation's list of substances...
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Sensory stimuli control dopamine in the brain
Credit: Photo: Research group Driever Regardless of whether we are sitting in a loud aeroplane or walking through a quiet forest clearing, how humans perceive...
Adaptive management of soil conservation is essential to improving water quality
Credit: Helen Jarvie The quality of our rivers and lakes could be placed under pressure from harmful levels of soluble phosphorus, despite well-intended measures to...
ACR applauds FDA guidance requiring distinct names and suffixes for biosimilars
WASHINGTON, DC (Jan. 13, 2017) - The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) today applauded final guidance from the Food and Drug Administration recommending distinct suffixes...
Composite material for water purification
Fresh, clean water coming directly from the tap is a true luxury. In developing countries, people often have no choice but to use a contaminated...
BLAST: Greater speed, accuracy in recognizing brain injury
Credit: (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Emmanuel Ramos) ARLINGTON, Va.--Modern body armor better protects warfighters against shrapnel from explosive blasts. However, they still face...
New technology enables 5-D imaging in live animals, humans
Credit: USC Translational Imaging Center A new image analysis technique makes it easier for scientists to quickly find and track important biological molecules including tell-tale...
Swimming for science
BROOKLYN, New York - Every year, approximately 20 million animals are used in scientific research. Increasingly these animals are zebrafish, which are quickly eclipsing rodents...
High-resolution pH imaging elucidates energy mechanisms in creating bacterial flagella
Credit: Osaka University Osaka University researchers develop methods to detect pH in vivo, and elucidate phenomena driving protein export in biological activities Osaka, Japan -...
Nigeria: Clean-burning stoves improve health for new mothers
Credit: Christopher S. Olopade, MD, MPH, University of Chicago Medicine In a small clinical trial that replaced widely used biomass and kerosene cookstoves with clean-burning...
Teens unlikely to be harmed by moderate digital screen use
Parents and pediatricians alike may worry about the effects of teens' screen time, but new findings from over 120,000 adolescents in the UK indicate that...
Scientists proposed a novel regional path tracking scheme for autonomous ground vehicles
Loading video... Credit: ©Science China Press For autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs), one of the most important issues is path tracking. Conventionally, steering and velocity control...
NUS researchers achieve major breakthrough in flexible electronics
Credit: Seah Zong Long Semiconductors, which are the very basic components of electronic devices, have improved our lives in many ways. They can be found...
Pig gene advance could boost sperm stocks from prized animals
Gene-editing techniques could help to improve stocks of farmed pigs by boosting supplies of sperm from prized sires. Scientists have created male pigs that could...
MIA transport protein no longer missing in action
Credit: The John Innes Centre John Innes Centre scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding how valuable anti-cancer compounds are produced in the Madagascar Periwinkle...
