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Time Needed to Sequence Key Molecules Could Be Reduced From Years to Minutes
Neuroscience News - 9 Mar 2021 02:40
Machine learning quickly and accurately identified sugar chains based on electrical signals generated as they passed through tiny holes in a crystal wafer. The technology could reduce the time for sequencing glycosaminog...
Photonic Berry curvature in double liquid crystal microcavities with broken inversion symmetry
Phys.org - 9 Mar 2021 17:10
Researchers at Skoltech and their colleagues proposed a photonic device from two optical resonators with liquid crystals inside them to study optical properties of this system that can be useful for future generations of...
Saudi Arabia's wants to build a 105-mile-long 'Line' city in the desert
Live Science - 9 Mar 2021 16:00
Saudi Arabia's proposed linear city relies on technology that doesn't exist yet and on a design idea that has failed in the past.
MD Anderson's Therapeutics Discovery division, Orionis Biosciences launch Project Helios to advance novel small-molecule cancer medicines
EurekAlert! - 9 Mar 2021 09:00
(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) MD Anderson's Therapeutics Discovery division and Orionis Biosciences today announced the launch of Project Helios, a new collaboration designed to unlock new drug devel...
Clemson, Nephron driving pharmaceutical manufacturing with new benchtop industrial robot
EurekAlert! - 9 Mar 2021 09:00
(Clemson University) Led by Dr. Yue 'Sophie' Wang, the ambitious project combines robotics and medicine to ensure sterility, quality, safety and efficiency in pharmaceutical manufacturing. The team worked in partnership ...
Opinions and Attitudes Can Last When They Are Based on Emotion
Neuroscience News - 10 Mar 2021 01:57
Attitudes and opinions based on emotion can last a lifetime, a new study reports.
Myelin Loss Is a Major Factor in Age-Related Brain Deterioration
Neuroscience News - 10 Mar 2021 01:20
Cells that drive myelin repair become less efficient due to aging. Myelin loss results in cognitive decline and is central to a number of neurodegenerative diseases.
Rare meteorite, a 'relic of the early solar system,' falls on a driveway in England
Live Science - 10 Mar 2021 01:18
The meteorite likely formed at the same time as the first planets in the solar system.
Quitting Smoking Linked to Improved Mental Health
Neuroscience News - 10 Mar 2021 00:59
Quitting smoking can help reduce depression and anxiety within weeks, a new study reports.
New organelle involved in cancer metastasis
Science Daily - 10 Mar 2021 00:38
Researchers discovered a new, still-unnamed organelle that plays a role in bone metastasis and is formed via liquid-liquid phase separation -- when liquid blobs of living materials merge into each other.
Researchers see need for warnings about long-range wildfire smoke
Science Daily - 10 Mar 2021 00:38
The team believes that evacuation efforts and media coverage of local wildfires may have helped protect residents from adverse health effects of smoke exposure as well as direct impacts of the fires.
Immune cell implicated in development of lung disease following viral infection
Science Daily - 10 Mar 2021 00:38
Scientists have implicated a type of immune cell in the development of chronic lung disease that sometimes is triggered following a respiratory viral infection. The evidence suggests that activation of this immune cell s...
It's Not Just Doorways That Make Us Forget What We Came for in the Next Room
Neuroscience News - 10 Mar 2021 00:35
Multi-tasking, and not the "doorway effect" may be responsible for why we sometimes forget the reason we enter into a room.
Universe's oldest known quasar discovered 13 billion light-years away
Live Science - 10 Mar 2021 00:21
Astronomers have found the farthest known source of radio emissions in the universe: a galaxy-swallowing supermassive black hole.
A Single Head Injury Increases Dementia Risk Later in Life
Neuroscience News - 10 Mar 2021 00:10
A single head injury can increase the risk of developing dementia, especially in women. Suffering more than one head injury increases the risk further, a new study reports.
Injectable Porous Scaffolds Promote Better and Quicker Healing After Spinal Cord Injuries
Neuroscience News - 9 Mar 2021 23:52
A newly developed hydrogel scaffold with regularly spaced pores assists in spinal cell growth and neuron regeneration following spinal cord injury.
People Who Frequently Mislead Others Are Less Able to Distinguish Fact From Fiction
Neuroscience News - 9 Mar 2021 23:32
People who frequently engage in "persuasive BS" are less able to identify when another person is intentionally misleading them. Researchers say those who frequently mislead others are much more likely to fall for fake ne...
New Brain Sensor Offers Alzheimer's Answers
Neuroscience News - 9 Mar 2021 23:12
A new sensor can monitor communication within the brain in ways never previously possible. The sensor has already deciphered why some Alzheimer's drugs have limited effectiveness and why patients often regress after stop...
Quantum Mechanics, the Chinese Room Experiment and the Limits of Understanding
Scientific American - 9 Mar 2021 23:00
All of us, even physicists, often process information without really knowing what we’re doing --
Rare Mutations May Have Big Impact on Schizophrenia Pathology
Neuroscience News - 9 Mar 2021 22:53
Somatic gene mutations in brain cells could account for some of the pathology of schizophrenia.
Man accidentally gets 2 COVID-19 shots in one day, goes into shock
Live Science - 9 Mar 2021 22:48
There was a mix-up between patients at his rehabilitation center.
Therapy sneaks into hard layer of pancreatic cancer tumor and destroys it from within
Science Daily - 9 Mar 2021 22:26
Researchers demonstrated that a new tumor-penetrating therapy could enhance the effects of chemotherapy, reduce the spread of pancreatic cancer and increase survival in animal models.