Report : Best VPNs Service to Keep You Safe Online
The privacy of Internet users has become an extremely hot topic this year, largely thanks to the revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden.
As a result...
Sodium-based batteries could make your smartphone cheaper and cleaner
Sodium—one of the elements that make up table salt—could soon make cellphone batteries much cheaper and cleaner.
That's the goal of Chongwu Zhou, a professor...
New Method Enables High Quality Speech Separation
People have a natural knack for focusing on what a single person is saying, even when there are competing conversations in the background or...
The way spider glues function in humid conditions provides clues for better commercial adhesives
Ever wonder why paint peels off the wall during summer's high humidity?
It's the same reason that bandages separate from skin when we bathe or...
Decades of type 1 diabetes linked to mild drop in cognition
People who live with type 1 diabetes for very long duration show signs of mild decreases in cognitive abilities, primarily in memory, compared to...
Researchers engineer human bone marrow tissue
Researchers have developed an artificial tissue in which human blood stem cells remain functional for a prolonged period of time. Scientists from the University...
Biomaterial particles educate immune system to accept transplanted islets
By instructing key immune system cells to accept transplanted insulin-producing islets, researchers have opened a potentially new pathway for treating type 1 diabetes.
If the...
Bacterial conversations in cystic fibrosis
"A large part of my research is thinking about how bacteria communicate," says Sophie Darch.
The postdoctoral researcher works with School of Biological Sciences Professor...
Dogs can be a potential risk for future influenza pandemic
Dogs are a potential reservoir for a future influenza pandemic, according to a study published in the journal mBio. T
he study demonstrated that influenza...
Microbiome differences between urban and rural populations start soon after birth
An analysis comparing the intestinal microbiomes of both infants and adults living in rural and urban areas of Nigeria has revealed that not only...
Researchers repair acute spinal cord injury in monkeys
Spinal cord injuries are among the most severe and difficult-to-treat medical conditions, usually resulting in permanent disability including loss of muscle function, sensation and...
Researchers take a step closer to developing a DNA test for liver cancer
A group of researchers from Mayo Clinic and Exact Sciences Corporation have completed a phase II study comparing a set of DNA markers to...
Scientists work to dissolve the NETs that worsen TBI damage
Immune cells that are first responders to a traumatic brain injury appear to also contribute to the secondary damage that can occur even days...
DNA testing website MyHeritage hacked; 92 million user accounts stolen
MyHeritage, an Israeli DNA, and genealogy website has suffered a massive data breach in which email accounts and hashed passwords of 92 million users...
Apple will let users run iOS apps on macOS
Apple is making it easier for mobile developers to port their iOS apps to the next-generation macOS Mojave desktop platform—a major step in bringing the...
