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Nearly 700 million people suffer from mosquito-borne diseases — such as malaria, West Nile, Zika and dengue fever — each year, resulting in more than 1 million deaths. Increasingly, many species of mosquitoes have become resistant to the popular pyrethroid-based insecticides. Today, researchers report a new class of mosquito repellents based on naturally occurring compounds

Researchers at Western University have developed a new way to deliver the DNA-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 into microorganisms in the lab, providing a way to efficiently launch a targeted attack on specific bacteria. Published today in Nature Communications, this study opens up the possibility of using CRISPR to alter the makeup of the human microbiome in a way that could be personalized

A new transistor based on organic materials has been developed by scientists at Linköping University. It has the ability to learn, and is equipped with both short-term and long-term memory. The work is a major step on the way to creating technology that mimics the human brain. Until now, brains have been unique in being

Noninvasive CT angiography and stress tests can help predict which patients are likely to suffer a heart attack or other adverse cardiovascular event, according to a new study appearing online in the journal Radiology. Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death worldwide. Bypass surgery or stent placement is often recommended in people with certain

A project of the U.S. Army has developed a new framework for deep neural networks that allows artificial intelligence systems to better learn new tasks while forgetting less of what they have learned in previous tasks. The North Carolina State University researchers, funded by the Army, have also demonstrated that using the framework to learn

Umbilical cord blood from human newborns, and in particular a single protein contained in it, boosted old mice’s brain function and cognitive performance, new research from Stanford shows. Human umbilical cord blood can rejuvenate learning and memory in older mice, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The researchers

Image via Wikipedia SHARED NATURAL RESOURCES UNDERPIN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, BUT OUR CURRENT ECONOMIC SYSTEM DOES NOT ACKOWLEDGE THEIR WORTH. CAN A MAJOR NEW EFFORT TO ASSESS THE COSTS OF BIODIVERSITY LOSS FORCE A PARADIGM SHIFT IN WHAT WE VALUE? Amid the dark clouds of the 2008 financial crisis, as the media documented a litany

CCT’s non-shrinking flowable fill is outperforming every product on the market   The innovative cement experts at Cellular Concrete Technologies (CCT) are once again creating groundbreaking answers to the question, “How can we make concrete that is better for builders and buildings?” CCT has crafted an air-entrainment system that far exceeds the capabilities of anything

Isothermal compressed air A University of Minnesota invention could help make storage of solar and wind energy more efficient and economical. The invention was licensed to SustainX, a leading global developer of grid-scale energy storage solutions that use patented isothermal compressed air methods to store large amounts of energy cleanly and economically. “A lot of renewable