A common medication used to treat glaucoma could also be used to treat tuberculosis, even…
Month: July 2015
Cages offer new direction in sustainable catalyst design
Engineers have developed a new approach to structuring the catalysts used in essential reactions in…
Managers: Beware of gender faultlines
Do you have gender ‘faultlines’ in your organization? New research suggests that such fissures appear…
Scientists identify schizophrenia’s ‘Rosetta Stone’ gene
A breakthrough reveals gene’s influence in a vulnerable period of the brain’s development. Researchers hope…
New chiral property of silicon discovered: Photonic applications
By encoding information in photons via their spin, ‘photonic’ computers could be orders of magnitude…
Promising treatment for devastating genetic disorder found
A multi-institutional team of researchers has identified an apparently successful treatment for a genetic immune…
Mammoths killed by abrupt climate change
New research has revealed abrupt warming, that closely resembles the rapid man-made warming occurring today,…
Ultra-thin hollow nanocages could reduce platinum use in fuel cell electrodes
A new fabrication technique that produces platinum hollow nanocages with ultra-thin walls could dramatically reduce…
Potential new targets for treating kidney disease
Proteins in the Wnt signaling pathway help drive kidney scarring that can lead to chronic…
Why West Nile virus is more dangerous in the elderly
West Nile virus (WNV) is particularly dangerous in older people, who account for a large…