Tag: Biomedical/Environmental/Chemical Engineering

Credit: MUSC When the Zucker Institute for Applied Neurosciences at the Medical University of South Carolina needed to bring to ...

Technique to recover lost single-cell RNA-sequencing information

Boosting the efficiency of single-cell RNA-sequencing helps reveal subtle differences between healthy and dysfunctional cellsCredit: MIT CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Sequencing ...

Wearable IT devices: Dyeing process gives textiles electronic properties

Credit: Oliver Dietze Computer scientists at Saarland University show how these special textiles can be produced in a comparatively easy ...

Literal rise of the internet enables new climate science

NSF helps Rice University professor crunch data on atmospheric gravity wavesCredit: Loon HOUSTON - (Oct. 12, 2020) - An unintended ...

University of Houston partners with AuraVax Therapeutics on COVID-19 vaccine

Exclusive option agreement covers inhalation vaccine developed by UH professorCredit: University of Houston The University of Houston has entered into ...

Using robotic assistance to make colonoscopy kinder and easier

October 12, 2020

Credit: University of Leeds Scientists have made a breakthrough in their work to develop semi-autonomous colonoscopy, using a robot to ...

Engineers print wearable sensors directly on skin without heat

October 12, 2020

An international team of researchers developed a novel technique to produce precise, high-performing biometric sensorsCredit: Ling Zhang, Penn State/Cheng Lab ...

Professor Simon Pollard awarded OBE for services to the environment

October 9, 2020

Cranfield University Professor awarded OBE for services to environmental risk managementCredit: Cranfield University Professor Simon Pollard DSc FREng, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of ...

Building a Trojan Horse to fight breast cancer

October 9, 2020

Credit: Bryan Smith With a nearly $2.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Michigan State University researchers are ...

Juan Enriquez’s “Right/Wrong”

October 9, 2020

New book analyzes how technology transforms our ethicsCredit: The MIT PRESS, 2020. "This book will make you uncomfortable and it ...

Novel digital dashboard improves cancer case review efficiency

Dashboard reduced preparation time by 30%, improved access to data and decision-makingCredit: Justin Kelley Multidisciplinary tumor boards are vital to ...

The CNIO reprograms CRISPR system in mice to eliminate tumor cells without affecting healthy cells

Credit: CNIO The CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing tool is one of the most promising approaches to advancing treatments of genetic diseases - ...

Stem cell sheets harvested in just two days

Credit: POSTECH Stem cells are cell factories that constantly divide themselves to create new cells. Implanting stem cells in damaged ...

UCLA Health scientists pioneer faster, cheaper COVID-19 testing technology