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... Read more
Understanding the mechanisms behind quill penetration and extraction could help engineers design better medical devices. Anyone unfortunate enough to encounter a porcupine’s quills... Read more
“This is also exciting because we think it’s a therapeutic approach that could apply to other muscle-wasting diseases” Scientists have discovered that injecting a... Read more
These tiny mirror-like devices dissolve harmlessly at predetermined rates and require no surgery to remove them Tufts University School of Engineering researchers have demonstrated... Read more
New computer model takes a page from weather forecasting to predict regional peaks in influenza outbreaks Scientists have developed a system to predict the timing and severity of s... Read more
Discovery Could Lead to Billions of Dollars in Energy Savings Vision researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute have made a groundbreaking discovery into the optimization of ligh... Read more
A way to take adult stem cells and convert them so they have the properties of embryonic stem cells A team of Duke Medicine researchers has engineered cartilage from induced plurip... Read more
A new Ebola virus study resulting from a widespread scientific collaboration has shown promising preliminary results, preventing disease in infected nonhuman primates using monoclo... Read more
Early signs of lung cancer could be diagnosed using a simple blood test following a new discovery by scientists at the University of York. Early detection of lung cancer has been s... Read more
Imagine a computer chip that can assemble itself. According to Eric M. Furst, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware, engineers and scient... Read more
The financial viability of wind power has been demonstrated in Europe, China, and parts of the United States New estimates of the potential for wind power and the research that bac... Read more
Responding to an urgent need for better antibacterial coatings on surgical sutures, scientists are reporting the discovery of a new coating that is almost 1,000 times more effectiv... Read more
A robot that can change colour to either blend in with or stand out from its surroundings has been created by scientists. The machine, designed by researchers at Harvard University... Read more
The biggest challenge has been quickly examining billions of rapidly moving blood cells in a sample Cells that break away from a cancerous tumor and circulate in the bloodstream ar... Read more
A statistical analysis shows how things really are heating up ARE heatwaves more common than they used to be? That is the question addressed by James Hansen and his colleagues in a... Read more
