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Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Migrating birds complete long non-stop flights of many hours for songbirds and days for ...

Mulling over the aromas of wine

A fine wine has an ideal balance of ingredients. Too much or too little of a component could mean the ...

Detecting long-term concussion in athletes

Credit: Sebastien Tremblay Lawyers representing both sides in concussion lawsuits against sports leagues may eventually have a new tool at ...

Rice team developing flat microscope for the brain

Credit: Rice University HOUSTON - (July 12, 2017) - Rice University engineers are building a flat microscope, called FlatScope TM, ...

Antibiotic nanoparticles fight drug-resistant bacteria

CAMBRIDGE, MA - Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem, especially among a type of bacteria that are classified as "Gram-negative." ...

Accessing DNA in the cell’s powerhouse to treat disease

Credit: Kyoto University iCeMS For the first time, a synthetic compound has been made that can bind to DNA in ...

Elena Castro receives a Young Investigator Award from the Prostate Cancer Foundation

Credit: CNIO The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) today announced its 2017 Young Investigator (YI) Awards, which support early career scientists ...

NRL scientists find high prevalence of antibiotic resistance in Kenya

Credit: U.S. Naval Research Laboratory/Lt. Cmdr. Michael Prouty-NAMRU-2 (Released) WASHINGTON - Antibiotic resistance is one of the most significant global ...

Clean water that’s ‘just right’ with Sandia sensor solution

Credit: (Image courtesy Sandia National Laboratories) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Water utilities have a Goldilocks problem: If they don't add enough ...

Prosthetic knee type may determine cost of care for amputees

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- In a new study published in Prosthetics and Orthotics International, Mayo Clinic researchers describe the direct medical ...

Key immunological mechanism for regulating intestinal flora discovered

Credit: Jose Cano Researchers at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) have shown for the first time that ...

Artificial intelligence to uncover human biases

Credit: Insilico Medicine Since 2015 artificially-intelligent systems surpassed human accuracy in many tasks including image recognition, voice recognition, autonomous driving ...

Squeezing innovation out of the NASA Twins study: Pipetting and cell isolation in space

Credit: NASA Just like early explorers, NASA Twins Study investigators are venturing into new territory. Conducting human omics research on ...

Preclinical results support entinostat’s role in targeting the tumor microenvironment

WALTHAM, Mass., PHILADELPHIA and INDIANAPOLIS, July 11 2017 - Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Syndax," the "Company" or "we") (Nasdaq:SNDX), a clinical ...

Brown U. to receive up to $19M to engineer next-generation brain-computer interface

Credit: Nurmikko lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With a grant of up to $19 million from the Defense ...

Nature-inspired material uses liquid reinforcement

Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Materials scientists at Rice University are looking to nature -- at the discs in human spines ...

Researchers revolutionize brain-computer interfaces using silicon electronics

Credit: Photo courtesy of Ken Shepard New York, NY--July 10, 2017--Today, implanted electrode devices for stimulating the brain are extremely ...

Survey reveals widespread bias in astronomy and planetary science

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- In an online survey about their workplace experiences, 88 percent of ...

Wyss Center joins $19M project to engineer brain-computer interface network

The Wyss Center in Geneva is set to work with Brown University on a US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...

CNIO scientists link new cancer treatments to cardiovascular alterations