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Bugula neritina is a rather inconspicuous marine organism. It looks like purplish seaweed, but it's actually a branching colony of individual, tentacled zooids (the technical term for individuals in a colonial invertebra...

Smoking: It's bad for you. Take the smoke out of smoking, though, and you might be on to something. That, at least, is the thought process behind newly-emerging smokeless forms of nicotine, the most prominent right now b...

Product Announcement The Captive Screw Design has been added to their line of two-piece and hinged shaft collars and couplings to prevent screws from dislodging ... Contributed Author: Stafford Manufacturing Corp.

News By improving our understanding of blood flow in vivo the nanoprobes represent an opportunity to help in the early diagnosis of disease ... Contributed Author: University of Birmingham Topics: Medical Diagnostics

News The sensor developed by the scientists uses a chip coated with a porous film of special semiconducting nanoparticles ... Contributed Author: ETH Zurich Topics: Medical Diagnostics

News There is a demand for sensors that are compact, affordable, noninvasive and can be incorporated into everyday life ... Contributed Author: American Chemical Society Topics: Wearables

News A step-index fiber has a core material that transmits light and a cladding that protects the core and keeps the light from escaping ... Contributed Author: Penn State

Certain biomarkers might be insufficient methods to tell whether or not a woman is infertile. In a new study, researchers found that low egg count might have no relation to reproductive potential.

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros appoints Cook Islands' Elizabeth Iro as WHO's Chief Nursing Officer

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) High cholesterol levels have been associated with breast cancer spreading to other sites in the body, but doctors and researchers don't know the cause for the link. A new stud...

(American Geophysical Union) Combination of El Niño and 2016 Ecuador earthquake likely worsened Zika outbreak

(University of British Columbia Okanagan campus) UBC researchers are cautioning policy makers not to alter a cannabis distribution system that -- while not legal yet -- works well. Associate professor Zach Walsh, who tea...

(Georgia State University) Ischemic stroke patients who do not receive intravelous (IV) alteplase, a clot-dissolving medication, are significantly less likely to survive, according to researchers at Georgia State Univers...

(University of Cincinnati) Doctors long have stressed the importance of good nutrition for expectant mothers. Now biologists at the University of Cincinnati say the father's diet, too, could play a similar role in the he...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Aside from inflicting devastating natural disasters on often vulnerable communities, climate change can also spur outbreaks of infectious diseases like Zika , malaria and ...

(Virginia Tech) The team -- which includes ecologists, social scientists, geologists and engineers -- was awarded a $1 million National Science Foundation Smart and Connected Communities grant to develop a system that ca...

(Medical Research Council) Fifty-two previously unidentified genes that are critical for hearing have been found by testing over 3,000 mouse genes. The newly discovered genes will provide insights into the causes of hear...

(University of Houston) To address the limited clinical opportunities nursing students have to experience palliative care and end-of-life conversations, the University of Houston College of Nursing is now using a high-fi...

(The Optical Society) Research in Optica offers the first demonstration of optical fibers sturdy enough to sense a wide range of human motion.

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) For the first time, researchers have identified neural signatures of explicit and implicit learning.

(Monell Chemical Senses Center) Leadership at Jefferson and the Monell Center announced today the signing of a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) to move forward with discussions of merging the two organizations.

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Working with mice and rats, Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a way to successfully deliver nano-sized, platinum-based chemotherapy drugs to treat a form of bladder cancer called nonmuscle...