UTA engineer earns grant to develop materials for 3-D printed blood vessels for children
Credit: UTA An engineer at The University of Texas at Arlington has been awarded a $211,000 R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health to...
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PharmaMar to host research and development event on April 24, 2017
The event will be hosted by members of PharmaMar's senior management team and will feature presentations from expert speakers. Management and speakers will discuss scientific...
Solving medical ‘cold cases’ through genetics
Montreal, April 6, 2017 - Researchers have identified the genetic mutation responsible for one patient's serious health problems, finally solving a medical mystery that has...
Honey bees have sharper eyesight than we thought
Credit: Dr Elisa Rigosi, Lund University. Research conducted at the University of Adelaide has discovered that bees have much better vision than was previously known,...
Hearing and touch mediate sensations via osseointegrated prostheses
Credit: Anna-Lena Lundqvist A new study has found that people with a prosthesis attached directly to their skeleton can hear by means of vibrations in...
Synthetic biologists engineer inflammation-sensing gut bacteria
Credit: J. Tabor/Rice University Synthetic biologists at Rice University have engineered gut bacteria capable of sensing colitis, an inflammation of the colon, in mice. The...
Prestigious international award for leading QUT biomaterials scientist
Professor Hutmacher's work has been acknowledged with the Society's International Award which is bestowed on scientists who have been internationally recognized, have a high scientific...
UN-backed report: Record new renewable power capacity added worldwide at lower cost
Credit: UN Environment Frankfurt / Nairobi - As the cost of clean technology continues to fall, the world added record levels of renewable energy capacity...
EU Excellence Award for research on matter-antimatter plasma
Credit: Graphic: IPP The European Research Council (ERC) is awarding 2.4 million euros in support of the research on a matter-antimatter plasma composed of electrons...
Buckle up! Climate change to increase severe aircraft turbulence
Credit: Advances in Atmospheric Sciences; image credit: Paul Williams Turbulence strong enough to catapult unbuckled passengers and crew around the aircraft cabin could become twice...
Further reductions in radiotherapy to young children with brain tumors less successful
Credit: CHLA A team of investigators has determined that young children participating in a clinical trial to assess the effectiveness of reduced radiotherapy did worse...
For horseshoe bats, wiggling ears and nose makes biosonar more informative
Credit: Logan Wallace/Virginia Tech Humans, and most other mammals, have just four muscles joining their ears to their head. Bats have more than 20, and...
Living in an area with high air pollution may impact women’s breast density
A study of nearly 280,000 women in the United States has found that living in areas with a high level of fine particles from air...
Project Hotspot
Credit: J.A. Kessler, The Geological Society of America, and Lithosphere Boulder, Colo., USA: In their study published in Lithosphere this week, James Kessler and colleagues...
Chemical sensor on the basis of materials possessing molecular memory created
Credit: Vita Nikitina Scientists from the Faculty of Chemistry of the Lomonosov Moscow State University have elaborated an electrochemical sensor on the basis of polymers...
