An international research collaborative has determined that a promising anti-malarial compound tricks the immune system to rapidly destroy red blood cells infected with the malaria parasite... Read more
UCSB’s Paul Atzberger uses mathematics to advance problems in the sciences In popular culture, mathematics is often deemed inaccessible or esoteric. Yet in the modern world, it plays an ever... Read more
Scientists discover variant plants with straw that is more easily digested for biofuel production Critically the plants are not significantly smaller or weaker than normal plants The discove... Read more
Columbia Business School experiments show that hiring managers chose men twice as often for careers in science, technology, engineering and math With everyone from the federal government to ... Read more
This method could usher in a new approach to delivery of drugs in general Freiburg researchers find purely chemical way to target therapeutic nano-containers to cells Scientists have discove... Read more
London scientists have made a breakthrough fighting the scourge of multiple sclerosis, fine-tuning MRIs to detect the disease before it ravages its victims. “This could be a real game-change... Read more
Using human pluripotent stem cells and DNA-cutting protein from meningitis bacteria, researchers from the Morgridge Institute for Research and Northwestern University have created an efficie... Read more
“Besides serving as a food source, the starch can be used in the manufacture of edible, clear films for biodegradable food packaging,” Zhang said. “It can even serve as a high-density hydro... Read more
Next steps in the application of this new technique include fabrication of different types of functional tissues Researchers at Columbia Engineering have developed a new “plug-and-play” meth... Read more
By using microfabrication techniques and incorporating the unique design of transistor-based heating with individual reaction volumes, ‘laboratory-on-a-chip’ technologies can be scaled down... Read more
The increasing production and use of antibiotics, about half of which is used in animal production, is mirrored by the growing number of antibiotic resistance genes, or ARGs, effectively red... Read more
Injection-free vaccination technique could address global vaccine challenge for diseases such as HIV and malaria Scientists at King’s College London have demonstrated the ability to deliver... Read more
“This approach avoids the peaks and valleys of drug concentrations that these patients often experience” Duke University biomedical engineers have developed a new delivery system... Read more
Opens the door to the development of a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease and a vaccine to prevent the illness A team of researchers from Université Laval, CHU de Québec, and pharmaceut... Read more
Chemists at the University of California, Davis, have engineered blue-green algae to grow chemical precursors for fuels and plastics — the first step in replacing fossil fuels as raw m... Read more
