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Thousands of miles of buried fiber optic cable in densely populated coastal regions of...
Thousands of miles of buried fiber optic cable in densely populated coastal regions of the United States may soon be inundated by rising seas,...
Electronic stickers can turn ordinary toy blocks into high-tech sensors within the ‘internet of...
Billions of objects ranging from smartphones and watches to buildings, machine parts and medical devices have become wireless sensors of their environments, expanding a...
A magnetic wire used to snag scarce and hard-to-capture tumor cells could prove to...
A magnetic wire used to snag scarce and hard-to-capture tumor cells could prove to be a swift and effective tactic for early cancer detection,...
Yale researchers have tested a new method for directly measuring synaptic loss in individuals...
Yale researchers have tested a new method for directly measuring synaptic loss in individuals with Alzheimer's disease.
The method, which uses PET imaging technology to...
A City of Hope scientist has discovered a gene-editing technology that could efficiently and...
This editing platform, discovered by City of Hope's Saswati Chatterjee, Ph.D., eventually may be used to cure inherited and acquired diseases.
"Our editing platform provides...
Washington University School of Medicine : New ALS therapy in clinical trials – drug...
About 20,000 people in the United States are living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
The invariably fatal disease kills...
Think you’re totally in control of your thoughts?
Maybe not as much as you think, according to a new San Francisco State University study that examines how thoughts that lead to actions...
Even if it’s not visible to the naked eye, blood in the stool can...
This could include circulatory, respiratory, digestive, blood, hormonal or neuropsychological diseases, the Scottish scientists said.
A test that picks up unseen blood in feces, called...
Scientists from Google AI and the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology describe a method...
The function of the brain is based on the connections between nerve cells.
In order to map these connections and to create the connectome, the...
Without T cells, we could not survive
The exact way that these receptors are distributed over the surface of the T cells is still not completely understood, but the analyses by...
Rehabilitating the mind could improve outcomes after spinal cord injury
A study led by Heriot-Watt University has explored how individuals with spinal cord injuries perceive the space around them.
The findings suggest additions are needed...
Israeli handheld ultrasound could revolutionize keeping tabs on breast cancer
Device is brainchild of a former biomedical scientist at NASA, Yehudit Abrams, an ultra-Orthodox Jew now living in Jerusalem
Early breast cancer detection may soon...
Norwegian researchers hit silicon jackpot for top battery solution
Steve Hanley certainly wrote what we are all thinking—groan, not another story about a battery "breakthrough." So many blares from a trumpet begin to...
Imperial researchers are looking to protein fragments to help people build up resistance to...
For hay fever sufferers, the end may be in sight for another year of sniffles, sneezes and itchy eyes caused by grass pollen.
But while...
Molecular/carbon nanotube network devices enable artificial spiking neurons that mimic nerve impulse generation
The brain requires surprisingly little energy to adapt to the environment to learn, make ambiguous recognitions, have high recognition ability and intelligence, and perform...
