Healing rays: Whoopi’s quick to mend
Credit: Migration Media 'Whoopi' the manta ray - a regular visitor to Western Australia's Ningaloo Reef - has helped University ...
Tag: Biomechanics/Biophysics
Newly developed mathematical model could be used to predict cancer drug side effects
Credit: Kobe University A research team at Kobe University Hospital have further illuminated the likelihood of cancer drug side effects ...
The Demon in the Machine is named physics book of the year in UKM
Credit: Arizona State University Paul Davies' newest book, The Demon in the Machine, takes aim at one of the great ...
A step closer to understanding evolution — mitochondrial division conserved across species
New study shows exactly how the manner in which mitochondria divide has remained the same since evolution beganCredit: Tokyo University ...
New method captures real-time movement of millions of molecules in 3D
The interferometry technique has applications for tracking molecules at a cell or tissue scaleCredit: Lisa Potter/University of Utah The human ...
Fluorescence spectroscopy helps to evaluate meat quality
Credit: Source: Islam K et al. Autofluorescence excitation-emission matrices as a quantitative tool for the assessment of meat quality. J. ...
Researchers discover how ant species uses abdomen for extra power during jumps
Researchers in the department of entomology at the University of Illinois have shown how a species of ant uses its ...
A new concept of future robot manipulators will be developed from studying elephants
The project PROBOSCIS has been funded by the European Commission with 3.5 million euros and it is coordinated by IIT-Istituto ...
Possible strategy for cancer treatment found in nuclear transport proteins
Credit: Mark_Kostich Shutterstock Although less often the focus of cancer research, recent studies have hinted at the possible importance of ...
Differentiating amino acids
Credit: Source: Nature Biotechnology A large part of the work inside cells is done by proteins acting as enzymes, transporters, ...
Moths and perhaps other animals rely on precise timing of neural spikes
Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech Extracting nectar from flowers that may be dancing in the wind requires precise, millisecond timing ...
Koalas climb like apes but bound on the ground like marsupials
Credit: Kate Berry Spread across the globe, from Central and South America to Japan, non-human primates have a toehold that ...
How does fat affect muscle function?
UMass Amherst researchers engaged in high-tech, multidisciplinary studyCredit: UMass Amherst From arthritis and heart failure to diabetes and menopause, many ...
Hydrogels control inflammation to help healing
Rice, Texas Heart Institute scientists model how synthetic gels can tune body's inflammatory responseCredit: Illustration by Tania Lopez-Silva/Rice University HOUSTON ...
Free tool simplifies cancer research
Credit: Ulf Sirborn Every cell contains a vast number of proteins, each of which has a specific function, for example ...
Following the lizard lung labyrinth
Savannah monitor lizards have a unique airflow pattern that is a hybrid of bird and mammal flow patternsCredit: Robert Cieri ...
City College leads new photonics breakthrough
Credit: ITMO University A new approach to trapping light in artificial photonic materials by a City College of New York-led ...
Tiny insects become ‘visible’ to bats when they swarm
3-D simulations could provide new insights into the evolution of bat echolocationCredit: Mor Taub. Small insects that would normally be ...
Chemists’ calculations may advance cancer prediction
Rice University scientists' approach to cell dynamics builds new view of lifetime riskCredit: Hamid Teimouri/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 12, ...
New insights to major disease pathways
Chemical tool identifies hundreds of modified proteinsCredit: Flinders University Australian researchers are making major inroads into finding the cause of ...