Tag: Biomedical/Environmental/Chemical Engineering

March 5, 2019

Credit: © DGIST DGIST announced on Wednesday, February 20 that Professor Jae Eun Jang's team in the Department of Information ...

TIGER mouse debuts as model for neurological ailments

Credit: David Feliciano / Victoria Neckles CLEMSON, South Carolina - New research published today in Scientific Reports has devised a ...

Kidney disease killer vulnerable to targeted nano therapy

CLEMSON, South Carolina -- By loading a chelation drug into a nano-sized homing device, researchers at Clemson University have reversed ...

Renal reabsorption in living devices

3D bioprinted, vascularized proximal tubules mimic the human kidney's reabsorption functionsCredit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University (CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) -- Every ...

NextCure and Yale publish Nature Medicine paper detailing novel immunomedicine target Siglec-15

-- S15 represents a potential novel target for patients not responding to current immunotherapy drugs -- -- S15 is a ...

Gut immune cells play by their own rules

Revealing the gut's B-cell training program may point to new means of developing oral vaccines Only a few vaccines - ...

Chemists ‘print’ sensors for nano-objects

Young scientists from ITMO University proposed a new type of optical nano-sensors. Their operating principle is based on the interaction ...

Drying without dying: How resurrection plants survive without water

Aquaphotomics sheds light on how plants control their water structure to surviveCredit: Kobe University A small group of plants known ...

Turning algae into fuel

University of Utah engineers develop fast method to convert algae to biocrudeCredit: Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineering Biofuel ...

Spider silk could be used as robotic muscle

Unusual property of the ultrastrong material could be harnessed for twisting or pulling motions CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Spider silk, already ...

Study first to show processes determining fate of new RNA pesticide in soils

Researchers find that clinging to soil particles slows degradation in new, gene-silencing pesticide A new generation of pesticides can be ...

Researchers develop techniques to track the activity of a potent cancer gene

Researchers at the National Cancer Institute use novel tools to reveal that cancer gene MYC causes global changes in gene ...

Tool reveals molecular causes of disease, including infant cancer

Credit: Troyanskaya Lab Princeton University researchers are gaining new insights into the causes and characteristics of diseases by harnessing machine ...

No wires, more cuddles: Sensors are first to monitor babies in the NICU without wires