Focus: Hidden - DC

• share
• favorite_border

Crumpling reduces rigidity in an otherwise stiff material, making it less prone to catastrophic failure.

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

DHS S&T is developing a millimeter wave imager that will screen for potential threat items unobtrusively as people pass by, without slowing them down.

• share
• favorite_border

New approach offers data across species, sites, and canopies, providing insights into carbon uptake by forests.

• share
• favorite_border

NovoPath, Inc. announces the integration of the NovoPathTM Anatomic Pathology Software Platform with Philips IntelliSite Pathology Solution and Wholeslide Imaging System.

• share
• favorite_border

Applications are now being accepted for the NextGen First Responder Technologies solicitation, an opportunity for a maximum conditional grant of up to $1 million, jointly funded by DHS S&T and the Israel Ministry of Public Security (MOPS).

• share
• favorite_border

WASHINGTON – AACC has issued a new guideline detailing how healthcare providers can use laboratory tests to manage treatment of pain and prevent prescription drug overdoses. Especially relevant in light of the worsening opioid epidemic, the guideline emphasizes increased collaboration between clinicians and laboratory experts as well as the use of more precise drug tests as key to identifying pain patients who are abusing their opioid prescriptions.

• share
• favorite_border

A new study that seeks to better ascertain HIV mortality rates in Zambia could provide a model for improved national and regional surveillance approaches, and ultimately, more effective HIV treatment strategies.

• share
• favorite_border

Kidney specialists face increasing work demands, high rates of burnout, and declining interest in nephrology as a career. A group of articles publishing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN) sheds light on how that these factors threaten to reduce job satisfaction and impair the delivery of high-quality care to patients with kidney diseases.

• share
• favorite_border

Midwives at MedStar Washington Hospital Center can now remotely monitor their pregnant patients’ progress and health using the Babyscripts app. It’s the first mobile clinical tool that allows the midwives to elevate the prenatal care experience for their maternity patients.

• share
• favorite_border

The magnetic noise caused by adsorbed oxygen molecules is “eating at” the phase stability of quantum bits, mitigating the noise is vital for future quantum computers.

• share
• favorite_border

The PhRMA Foundation will provide $1.3 million in funding for the development of transformative strategies to better assess the value of medicines and health care services while improving patient outcomes and reducing inefficiency in health care. Funding will establish two national value-assessment Centers of Excellence and support the work of several researchers focused on value-based health care.

• share
• favorite_border

An electric field switches the conductivity on and off in atomic-scale channels, which could allow for upgrades at will.

• share
• favorite_border

Water passes through human-made straws faster than the “gold standard” protein, allowing us to filter seawater.

• share
• favorite_border

Join S&T’s Dr. Angela Ervin and dbs Productions’ Bob Koester on Jan. 25 at 2 p.m. EST for a Facebook Live Tech Talk on the Lost Person Locator suite of SAR resources.

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

Machine learning and neural networks are the foundation of artificial intelligence and image recognition, but now they offer a bridge to see and recognize exotic insulating phases in quantum materials.

• share
• favorite_border

A revolutionary material harbors magnetism and massless electrons that travel near the speed of light—for future ultrasensitive, high-efficiency electronics and sensors.

• share
• favorite_border

S&T’s Office of Standards understood the need to gather in-depth data to determine how to construct the next-generation icebreaker. To do that, they needed to see, first hand, how changes to the current construct reacted to ice.

• share
• favorite_border

Observed atomic dynamics helps explain bizarre flow without friction that has been puzzling scientists for decades.

• share
• favorite_border

Electrons are forced to the edge of the road on a thin sheet of tungsten ditelluride.

• share
• favorite_border

The Endocrine Society applauded the move to extend older Americans’ access to insulin delivery devices used to treat diabetes as part of Medicare Part D.

• share
• favorite_border

The most commonly used gene expression profile test, Oncotype DX®, used to help predict breast cancer recurrence may not be as cost-effective as once thought, say a team of researchers.

• share
• favorite_border

New Dean Announced for the American University School of Public Affairs

• share
• favorite_border

People with low incomes and racial/ethnic minority populations experience greater levels of stress than their more affluent, white counterparts, which can lead to significant disparities in both mental and physical health that ultimately affect life expectancy, according to a report from the American Psychological Association.

• share
• favorite_border

The Council on Undergraduate Research's new endowment will support a CUR Arts and Humanities Mentor Award as well as other initiatives to nurture arts and humanities research involving faculty members and undergraduates.

• share
• favorite_border

This year’s success can be attributed to S&T’s growing ability to identify and accelerate maturation of technologies to meet the growing need in the public and private sectors for solutions to complex cybersecurity problems.

• share
• favorite_border

Stephen Teach, MD, MPH, has been appointed associate dean of pediatric academic affairs at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

• share
• favorite_border

DHS S&T issued a Request for Innovators (RFI) seeking to prototype, test and transition cutting-edge emergency response technologies.

• share
• favorite_border

Transitioning away from a popular contraceptive shot known as DMPA could help protect women in Sub-Saharan Africa and other high-risk regions from becoming infected with HIV, according to a research review published in the Endocrine Society’s journal Endocrine Reviews.

• share
• favorite_border

George Washington University's Department of Physical Therapy and Health Care Sciences has been renamed to Department of Health, Human Function, and Rehabilitation Sciences.

• share
• favorite_border

DHS S&T has awarded 418 Intelligence Corporation of Herndon, Virginia $350,000 to develop a forecasting platform that will help critical infrastructure owners and system operators share and keep abreast of the latest developments in cybersecurity protection.

• share
• favorite_border

New book highlights the three drivers of failure with 'interesting' and 'amusing' stories to help everyone make better decisions from the boardroom to the classroom and everywhere in between.

• share
• favorite_border

A first-of-its-kind study published in the Pain Management issue of AACC’s The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine shows that a new drug testing approach dramatically improves detection of illicit benzodiazepine use. This could help to curb abuse of these drugs, which are second only to opioids as a cause of prescription drug overdose deaths in the U.S.

• share
• favorite_border

A special issue of AACC’s The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine, “Laboratory Support of Pain Management,” features groundbreaking new drug tests that could reverse the staggering climb of prescription drug overdoses in the U.S.

• share
• favorite_border

Innovative research published in the Obesity issue of AACC’s journal, Clinical Chemistry, demonstrates that people are at greater risk for obesity if they produce higher than normal levels of insulin after eating processed carbohydrates. These findings support the still controversial theory that refined carbs are driving the obesity epidemic.

• share
• favorite_border

Laboratory medicine experts are using genomics, metabolomics, and other cutting-edge clinical testing methods to advance the understanding of obesity. A special issue of AACC’s journal Clinical Chemistry, “Obesity: Innovative Approaches to Overcome Obstacles,” highlights the latest innovations in the field that could lead to more effective public health policies to curb this epidemic.

• share
• favorite_border

Detector measures the energy a neutrino imparts to protons and neutrons to help explain the nature of matter and the universe.

• share
• favorite_border

WASHINGTON -- The drive to be perfect in body, mind and career among today’s college students has significantly increased compared with prior generations, which may be taking a toll on young people’s mental health, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

In an effort to provide patients the opportunity to share practical health consumer perspectives, the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN) is including Patient Voice editorials that will accompany certain journal articles. In the first editorial, Paul T. Conway, a past recipient of the ASN President’s medal, highlights 2 CJASN articles that focus on patient comprehension of how treatments align with their individual interests.

• share
• favorite_border

In this month’s release, find new embargoed research that links increased hepatitis C numbers to the opioid epidemic, shows Medicaid expansion increasing cancer diagnoses, the ACA expanding breastfeeding and the prevalence of osteoarthritis growing

• share
• favorite_border

Lab Tests Online, AACC’s award-winning public resource on laboratory testing, is pleased to announce that it has launched a dynamic redesign of labtestsonline.org to better help patients, caregivers, and medical professionals understand the many lab tests that are an integral part of healthcare.

• share
• favorite_border

Recently, CAVM partnered with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center (ATC) to develop a reusable Aircraft Explosive Testing Simulator that facilitates the explosive testing of new generation commercial aircraft.

• share
• favorite_border

Real-time imaging shows how hydrogen causes oxygen to leave a buried surface, transforming an oxide into a metal.

• share
• favorite_border

Research to develop and test an intervention that reduces the threat of this health problem for women of childbearing age

• share
• favorite_border

Delivering drugs specifically to cancer cells is one approach researchers are taking to minimize treatment side effects. Stem cells, bacteria and other carriers have been tested as tiny delivery vehicles. Now a new potential drug carrier to treat gynecological conditions has joined the fleet: sperm. Scientistsreport in the journal ACS Nano that they have exploited the swimming power of sperm to ferry a cancer drug directly to a cervical tumor in lab tests.

• share
• favorite_border

Silver nanoparticles are being used in clothing for their anti-odor abilities but some of this silver comes off when the clothes are laundered. The wastewater from this process could end up in the environment, possibly harming aquatic life, so researchers have attempted to recover the silver. Now, one group reports in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering that detergent chemistry plays a significant role in how much of this silver can be removed from laundry wastewater.

• share
• favorite_border

Dementia affects millions of people worldwide, robbing them of their ability to think, remember and live as they once did. In the search for new ways to fight cognitive decline, scientists report in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry that blueberry vinegar might offer some help. They found that the fermented product could restore cognitive function in mice.

• share
• favorite_border

Simply applying a small voltage dramatically changes the atomic structure, vital to creating materials for advanced computer memory.