In the battle against cancer and other diseases, precise analysis of specific proteins can point the way toward targeted treatments. Scientists at…
While these nanostructures have electrical and other properties that make them attractive to use as artificial neural bundles in prosthetic devices, the…
A multi-site study led by an Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute researcher has identified set criteria that could be used to help …
A group of scientists led by researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has engineered a type of artificial optical material—a…
Deleting a gene in mouse embryos caused cardiac defects and early death, leading researchers to identify a mechanism that turns developmental genes off and on…
University of Michigan professors are working to understand and improve this procedure in an effort to speed up development of affordable biofuels that could…
Aydogan Ozcan, whose invention of a novel lensless imaging technology for use in telemedicine could radically transform global health care, has now taken his…
This discovery has broad implications in a wide range of fields, including medical gene therapy and bioengineering of crop plants. The discovery could be…
Although genetics is the most significant known determinant of human intelligence, how specific genes affect intelligence remains largely unknown. A…
The Galapagos Islands, made famous by Charles Darwin, have a unique biota now highly threatened by invasive species because of increased tourism and population…
TRMM, managed by NASA and the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) passed over System 91S early today, April 22 at 3:08 Eastern Daylight Time (0708 UTC) and captured a…
Just as electronic circuits intelligently route the flow of electricity on computer chips without external controls, these microfluidic circuits regulate the…
“When injected into the body, the Gastrin Releasing Peptide (GRP) cancer receptor serves as a signaling device to the gold nanoparticle, which allows for…
“Brains are often compared to computers, but apart from the trivial fact that both process information using a complex pattern of connections in a physical…
Since early 2010, these questions are being addressed in the collaborative research project “Natural Human-Robot Interaction in Dynamic Environments,” (NIFTi)….
In work published in the April issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine, simple and interesting heart rate dynamics in premature human infants is reported –…