Location: Cambridge, United States
High blood pressure is a common risk factor for heart attacks, strokes and
aneurysms, so diagnosing and monitoring it are critically important. However,
getting reliable blood pressure readings is not always easy.
Visits to the...
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Location: Indianapolis, United States
Researchers at Purdue University have developed a technique using spun-sugar
filaments to create a scaffold of tiny synthetic tubes that might serve as
conduits to regenerate nerves severed in accidents or blood vessels damaged by...
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Location: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, United States
Researchers at the
University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine discovered that the activity of a specific family of
nanometer-sized molecular motors called myosin-I...
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Location: UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States
Tiny strands of genetic material called RNA – a chemical cousin of DNA – are
emerging as major players in gene regulation, the process inside cells that
drives all biology and that scientists seek to control in order to fight
disease....
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Location: massachusetts, United States
Having found that whether bacteria stick to surfaces depends partly on how stiff those surfaces are, it has been created ultra thin films made of polymers that could be applied to medical devices and other surfaces to control microbe accumulation....
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Location: Purdue University, United States
A team led by a
Purdue University
researcher has achieved images of a virus in detail two times greater than had
previously been achieved.
Wen...
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Location: University of Minnesota, United States
Researchers at the
University of
Minnesota studying bacteria capable of generating electricity have
discovered that riboflavin (commonly known as...
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Location: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States
Researchers from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have identified a key molecular mechanism
that may account for the development of cystic fibrosis, which about 1 in 3000...
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Location: University of Southern California, United States
Quickly moving your fingertips to tap or press a surface is essential for
everyday life to, say, pick up small objects, use a BlackBerry or an iPhone. But
researchers at the University of...
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Location: University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Denizens of oceans, lakes and even wet soil, diatoms are unicellular algae
that encase themselves in intricately patterned, glass-like shells. Curiously,
these tiny phytoplankton could be harboring the next big breakthrough in
computer...
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Location: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States
In studies involving more than 35,000 people and a survey across the entire
human genome, an international team supported in part by the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) has found evidence...
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Location: University of California , Los Angeles, United States
It's good news that we are living longer, but bad news that the longer we
live, the better our odds of developing late-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Many Alzheimer's researchers have long touted fish oil, by pill or diet, as
an...
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Location: Purdue University, United States
A group of Purdue University researchers
has captured a key step in the metabolic process that allows materials, such as
nutrients and drug treatments, to move in and out of cells.
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Location: Duke University, United States
Scientists at Duke University have created
the first map of imprinted genes throughout the human genome, and they say a
modern-day Rosetta stone – a form of artificial intelligence called machine
learning –...
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Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Treating breast
cancer with a type of heat therapy derived from MIT
radar research can significantly increase the effectiveness of...
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Location: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, United States
A new study provides the first evidence that people with higher body mass
index (BMI) may have a greater response to ozone than leaner people. Short-term
exposure to atmospheric ozone has long been known to cause a temporary drop in
lung...
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Location: Brown University, United States
Nearly a century ago, Dutch physicist Kamerlingh Onnes discovered that some
metals transform into perfect electrical conductors when cooled to temperatures
near absolute zero. Once started, their currents of electrons can flow...
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Location: Department of Electrical Engineering, MIT, United States
MIT scientists have devised remotely
controlled nanoparticles that, when pulsed with an electromagnetic field,
release drugs to attack tumors. The innovation, reported in the Nov. 15 online
issue of Advanced...
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