Drug delivery to the colon is an ongoing challenge to physicians. Many drugs are destroyed by stomach acids before they’ve had a chance to reach the intestine,…
The biodegradable plastics could replace conventional plastics that are used to make stretch wrap for large cargo items, food containers, eating utensils and…
They will present the research at the 233rd national meeting of the American Chemical Society in Chicago March 25-29.“We use visible light to signal the…
Representing Virginia Tech faculty members and students from engineering, chemistry, and veterinary medicine, Chemistry Professor Tim Long will give an invited…
Isocyanates are important to many products we take for granted – from paint to spandex running shorts. But the high reactivity for which the chemical group is…
The Green Chemistry and the Consumer annual symposia bring together a diverse audience of representatives from consumer product supply chains, academics, NGOs,…
The major stumbling block, says Dr Muhammad Mohiuddin (US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) in a paper in PLoS Medicine, is that the immune system in…
Social-psychologist Veling proved that the brain selects incoming information to remember useful things. Distracting information is refused and neutral…
The older we get the more 'reserve-parts' we need. Up until now placing such parts yielded advantages, but also disadvantages such as inflammations and immune…
Professor Luke O'Neill from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, identified the protein in 2001. The protein, known as Mal, alerts the immune system to respond…
The concept has been demonstrated in worms and researchers hope that the same concept can help extend human life and reduce the risk of cancer and other…
This new grant program will make funds available to individuals and scientific teams researching issues relating to macular degeneration, a degenerative…
Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are now developing a tool to tackle this problem. David M. Lynn and his colleagues have created ultrathin,…
The concept has been demonstrated in worms and researchers hope that the same concept can help extend human life and reduce the risk of cancer and other…
“If we find the patients in time, their risk of developing chronic pain as adults declines,” says dentist Ing-Marie Nilsson, who recently defended her doctoral…
They have succeeded in making whole mouse brains transparent and then to reconstruct parts of their neuronal networks with a computer. During their…
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