New insights suggest that the source of human cells used to generate new tissues and…
Month: February 2016
Chagas disease: A wake-up call to accelerate the diagnosis, treatment and research
Without a more efficient treatment, more than 200,000 people living with Chagas disease will die…
Graphene slides smoothly across gold
Graphene, a modified form of carbon, offers versatile potential for use in coating machine components…
Moving around more linked to longer life
Medical researchers found that for adults aged 50 to 79 moving more, even 10 minutes…
What makes the brain tick so fast?
Surprisingly complex interactions between neurotransmitter receptors and other key proteins help explain the brain’s ability…
Microrobots learn from ciliates
Ciliates can do amazing things: Being so tiny, the water in which they live is…
Genome editing: US could apply UK’s approach to evaluate safety, ethics
Two potential ways of stamping out serious disease by manipulating the genomes of human embryos…
Braille maps for blind, visually impaired created with 3-D printer at Rutgers
Using a high-tech 3-D printer, a student and his professor created sophisticated braille maps to…
Zeroing in on ‘super spreaders,’ other hidden patterns of epidemics
The complex properties driving today’s disease transmission — and the speed at which an epidemic…
Ozone does not necessarily promote decline of natural ecosystems
Species-diverse unmanaged forests may be less susceptible to the damaging effects of ground-level ozone —…