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Helpful, Engineered ‘Living’ Machines in the Future?

April 21, 2021
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State College, PA — Engineered, autonomous machines combined with artificial intelligence have long been a staple of science fiction, and often in the role of villain like the Cylons in the “Battlestar...

Drug Development Platform could Provide Flexible, Rapid and Targeted Antimicrobials

April 21, 2021
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Boulder, CO — When disease outbreaks happen, response time in developing and distributing treatments is crucial to saving lives. Unfortunately, developing custom drugs as countermeasures is often a...

Surprising Ionic and Flow Behaviours with Functionalized Nanochannels

April 20, 2021
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College Park, MD — Nanochannels have important applications in biomedicine, sensing, and many other fields. Though engineers working in the field of nanotechnology have been fabricating these tiny,...

Tiny Implantable Tool for Light-Sheet imaging of brain activity

April 20, 2021
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Cardiff, UK — Tools that allow neuroscientists to record and quantify functional activity within the living brain are in great demand. Traditionally, researchers have used techniques such as functional...

Scientists Discover a New Gene Regulation Mechanism

April 19, 2021
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Moscow Oblast, Russia — A team of scientists from Russia studied the role of double-stranded fragments of the maturing RNA and showed that the interaction between distant parts of the RNA can regulate...

Simulations Reveal How Dominant SARS-CoV-2 Strain Binds to Host, Succumbs to Antibodies

April 19, 2021
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Los Alamos, NM — Large-scale supercomputer simulations at the atomic level show that the dominant G form variant of the COVID-19-causing virus is more infectious partly because of its greater ability...

Stretching the Boundaries of Medical Tech with Wearable Antennae

April 16, 2021
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State College, PA — Current research on flexible electronics is paving the way for wireless sensors that can be worn on the body and collect a variety of medical data. But where do the data go? Without...

Optically Active Defects Improve Carbon Nanotubes

April 12, 2021
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Heidelberg, Germany — The properties of carbon-based nanomaterials can be altered and engineered through the deliberate introduction of certain structural “imperfections” or defects. The...

Artificial Intelligence could ‘Crack the Language of Cancer and Alzheimer’s’

April 12, 2021
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Cambridge, UK — Powerful algorithms used by Netflix, Amazon and Facebook can ‘predict’ the biological language of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, scientists...

Scientists Identify a Potential Target to Treat Lung Cancer

April 9, 2021
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Barcelona, Spain — In cancer, personalised medicine takes advantage of the unique genetic changes in an individual tumour to find its vulnerabilities and fight it. Many tumours have a higher number...

Ultrashort Peptides Go a Long Way for Tissue Engineering

April 7, 2021
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Thuwal, Saudi Arabia — A new automated process prints a peptide-based hydrogel scaffold containing uniformly distributed cells. The scaffolds hold their shapes well and successfully facilitate cell...

Scientists Developed a Safe and Cheap Technology of Disinfection of Packed Eggs

April 7, 2021
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Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia — Russian researchers have developed an inexpensive, safe, and reliable packed eggs surface disinfection technology. This technology helps to kill bacteria, including salmonella,...

Researchers harvest energy from radio waves to power wearable devices

March 26, 2021
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State College, PA — From microwave ovens to Wi-Fi connections, the radio waves that permeate the environment are not just signals of energy consumed but are also sources of energy themselves. An international...

Artificial Neurons Help Decode Cortical Signals

March 24, 2021
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Moscow, Russia — Russian scientists have proposed a new algorithm for automatic decoding and interpreting the decoder weights, which can be used both in brain-computer interfaces and in fundamental...

Reading Minds with Ultrasound: A Less-Invasive Technique to Decode the Brain’s Intentions

March 23, 2021
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Pasadena, CA — What is happening in your brain as you are scrolling through this page? In other words, which areas of your brain are active, which neurons are talking to which others, and what signals...

Focusing on the Unhealthy Brain to Speed Drug Discovery

March 23, 2021
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Houston, TX — Though 40 million concussions are recorded annually, no effective treatment exists for them or for many other brain-related illnesses. In collaboration with Dragan Maric of the National...

Researchers Develop Ultra-Sensitive Flow Microsensors

March 23, 2021
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Amherst, MA — A team of scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed the thinnest and most sensitive flow sensor, which could have significant implications for medical research...

Artificial Neuron Device could Shrink Energy Use and Size of Neural Network Hardware

March 19, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Training neural networks to perform tasks, such as recognizing images or navigating self-driving cars, could one day require less computing power and hardware thanks to a new artificial...

Machine Learning can Identify Cancerous Cells by Their Acidity

March 17, 2021
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Washington, DC — Cancerous cells exhibit several key differences from healthy cells that help identify them as dangerous. For instance, the pH — the level of acidity — within a cancerous...

Faster Drug Discovery Through Machine Learning

March 16, 2021
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Cambridge, MA — Drugs can only work if they stick to their target proteins in the body. Assessing that stickiness is a key hurdle in the drug discovery and screening process. New research combining...

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