Using cutting-edge imaging technology, biologists have determined that uncontrolled fluctuations (known at “noise) in the…
Month: April 2016
‘Odd couple’ monolayer semiconductors align to advance optoelectronics
Scientists synthesized a stack of atomically thin monolayers of two lattice-mismatched semiconductors and created an…
New snakebite treatment under development
Thousands are bitten by rattlers and other venomous snakes each year, and a new treatment…
New method to reduce accumulation of damaging Huntington’s disease protein
There may be a new way to change the damaging course of Huntington disease, researchers…
Researchers identify enzyme link between excessive heart muscle growth, cancer growth
Cardiology researchers have identified molecular ties between the growth of cancer cells and heart cells…
Mothers’ milk and the infant gut microbiota: An ancient symbiosis
Mothers’ milk guides the development of neonates’ gut microbiota, nourishing a very specific bacterial population…
Long-term benefits to the kidney in simultaneous liver-kidney transplant
There may be long-term benefits to simultaneous liver-kidney transplantation versus kidney transplantation alone, new research…
In these microbes, iron works like oxygen
New light has been shed on a curious group of bacteria that use iron in…
First-ever videos show how heat moves through materials at the nanoscale and speed of sound
Using a state-of-the-art ultrafast electron microscope, researchers have recorded the first-ever videos showing how heat…
New debugger finds security flaws in popular web apps
By exploiting some peculiarities of the popular Web programming framework Ruby on Rails, researchers have…