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A Swiss supermarket is doing its part to get Westerners hooked on the eco-friendly superfood of the future: bugs. Coop is one of Switzerland's largest food retailers with over 2,200 outlets throughout the country, and it...

Product Announcement Combining channel density with exceptional flexibility, the first two Flex I/O models each feature four input channels ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler

News They developed an airway-specific method to remove the pulmonary epithelium ... Contributed Author: Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science

News Until now, micro- and nanomachines have been restricted to navigation that uses a closed-loop control system ... Contributed Author: Lisa Zyga

News This technology could allow more scientists to study single neurons and learn how they interact with other cells to enable cognition ... Contributed Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Videos The device can be applied to technology, such as steerable catheters ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler

Pallid bats (Antrozous pallidus) are quirky little creatures, the sole species in their genus. Their long ears, which can equal half their body length, make them look quintessentially batty, but unlike most of their nigh...

(Nanjing University School of Life Sciences) Honeybee larvae develop into workers but not queens, in part, because their diet of beebread/pollen is enriched in plant miRNAs. While miRNAs are generally negative regulators...

(University of Michigan) Elderly Chinese-Americans feel helpless when faced with racial biases and become twice as likely to consider suicide than those who don't encounter similar discrimination, according to a new Univ...

(International & American Associations for Dental Research) IADR and AADR have published an article titled 'Periodontitis in Chédiak-Higashi Syndrome: An Altered Immunoinflammatory Response' in the JDR Clinical & Transl...

(University of Bristol) University of Bristol scientists have found that the delivery of a group of proteins involved in the information flow between the brain's nerve cells to the synapse is much more sophisticated than...

(American Geriatrics Society) In a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, researchers note that little is known about treating symptoms of multiple illnesses because people with two or more co...

(Penn State) Inflammation is traditionally thought of as a symptom of sleep apnea, but it might actually precede the disorder, potentially opening the door for new ways to treat and predict sleep apnea, according to rese...

(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) SIAM is proud to award Lek-Heng Lim, University of Chicago, with the James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing in 2017.

(Society for Academic Emergency Medicine) Low health literacy is a risk factor for potentially preventable emergency department (ED) visits, particularly those that result in hospital admission.

(Mayo Clinic) For the first time, Mayo Clinic researchers and colleagues present data on how nervous system tumors, called neuroblastomas, spread. Their paper, published in Cancer Cell, clarifies the relationship between...

(Boston Children's Hospital) Less than 2 decades after publication of the National Academy of Medicine's (formerly the Institute of Medicine) Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, quality ...

(Frontiers) American scientists have investigated mind wandering in volunteers during a driving simulation. Astonishingly, during the simulation, the volunteers reported mind wandering 70 percent of the time. The researc...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Sleep apnea, left untreated for even a few days, can increase blood sugar and fat levels, stress hormones and blood pressure, according to a new study of sleeping subjects. A report of the study'...

(University of Otago) An unexpected role for a white blood cell called the Natural Killer (NK) cell -- a critical cell for ridding the body of infection and cancer, has been discovered by researchers t New Zealand's Univ...

(Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research) Researchers from Hebrew SeniorLife's Institute for Aging Research have developed and validated a new assessment to predict the risk of falls in long-term care patients. Th...

(Florida State University) During major epidemics, cramped airplane cabins are fertile ground for the spread of infection, but new research suggests changing routine boarding protocols could be a key to reducing rampant ...