Monthly Archives: Maggio 2018
Dilemma for cancer patients as life-saving meds are tied to vision loss
A newer type of cancer treatment may offer the chance of longer survival, but the drugs could also trigger new side effects, such as...
Researchers found that zinc sulfide crystals were brittle under normal lighting conditions at room...
Researchers found that zinc sulfide crystals were brittle under normal lighting conditions at room temperature, but highly plastic when deformed in complete darkness.
Deformation of...
Robotic Assembly of the World’s Smallest House
A French nanorobotics team from the Femto-ST Institute in Besançon, France, assembled a new microrobotics system that pushes forward the frontiers of optical nanotechnologies.
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Researchers have developed a new technique that combines graphene based biointerfaces with light to...
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and their collaborators have developed a technique that allows them to speed up or...
A new study will look at how sleep deprivation affects cognitive flexibility and cognitive...
Sleep deprivation can take a heavy toll on our ability to make sound decisions, with potentially disastrous outcomes.
With support from a $2.8 million...
Researchers report intuition is the result of information processing in the brain that results...
Imagine the director of a big company announcing an important decision and justifying it with it being based on a gut feeling.
This would...
Add Language to Math to Help Kids Succeed at School
Research shows that the more skills children bring with them to kindergarten – in basic math, reading, even friendship and cooperation – the more...
A way to prevent pancreatic cancer from spreading post-surgery?
Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have solved a mystery about how pancreatic cancer spreads following surgery in patients whose tumor is successfully...
Researchers crowdsource brain mapping with gamers, discover six new neuron types
With the help of a quarter-million video game players, Princeton researchers have created and shared detailed maps of more than 1,000 neurons—and they're just...
New era for blood transfusions through genome sequencing
Most people are familiar with A, B, AB and O blood types, but there are hundreds of additional blood group "antigens" on red blood...
US approves new drug for prevention of migraines
Migraine sufferers on Thursday got some relief from US regulators who approved the first of a new class of drugs for migraine prevention.
The United...
Researchers are identifying the key players involved in the gut-brain connection and their role...
A study published this week in Nature sheds new light on the connection between the gut and the brain, untangling the complex interplay that allows the...
Robotic approach could accelerate regenerative medicine research and drug discovery
An automated system that uses robots has been designed to rapidly produce human mini-organs derived from stem cells. Researchers at the University of Washington...
Smarter brains run on sparsely connected neurons
The more intelligent a person, the fewer connections there are between the neurons in his cerebral cortex.
This is the result of a study conducted...
More than a living syringe: Mosquito saliva alone triggers unexpected immune response
Mosquito season is around the corner, bringing with it a higher risk of catching potentially serious diseases transmitted by their bite. Mosquitoes also may...
