Twin brothers Bader and Mohammed Alhathal took first place for best undergraduate student technical paper at the 2017 Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Global Conference in Philadelphia, following their win at the Western Regional IISE Conference in Oregon.
More than one-and-a-half years after implantation, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the San Diego Veterans Administration Medical Center report that human neural stem cells (NSCs) grafted into spinal cord injuries in laboratory rats displayed continued growth and maturity, with functional recovery beginning one year after grafting.
A new app from University of Washington researchers could lead to earlier detection of pancreatic cancer -- simply by snapping a smartphone selfie. The disease kills 90 percent of patients within five years, in part because no telltale symptoms or non-invasive screening tools exist to catch a tumor before it spreads.
Statins are highly effective for preventing heart attacks by reducing low-density lipoprotein or “bad” cholesterol. However, 10 to 20 percent of patients taking statins report muscle-related symptoms including aches, pains and cramps that prevent the use of recommended doses. Patients who have difficulty taking statins have a high risk of cardiovascular events, resulting in higher health care costs. To address these concerns, Mount Sinai researchers are providing approaches to optimize cardiovascular risk reduction for these patients. The findings will be published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology on Monday, August 28, at 2 pm.
Mammal embryos shed paternal mitochondria within days of fertilization, perhaps to ensure the offspring a healthy life, a new study shows. Researchers from the California Institute of Technology will present their findings today at the American Physiological Society’s Physiological Bioenergetics: Mitochondria from Bench to Bedside conference in San Diego.
Weizmann Institute scientists find that self-assembling protein complexes based on a single mutation could provide scaffolding for nanostructures
The Weizmann Institute's Prof. Eran Bouchbinder has a new theory about why materials usually fail along the edges of a crack. His method will help calculate and predict the behavior of cracks in different materials and different conditions. In a separate project, he advanced understanding of the “glassy state” of matter.
Assistant professor aims to identify drugs that deplete tumors of nutrition.
When the Boxers take to the gridiron Sept. 2 to kickoff the 2017 football season, they will be among the first of Pacific University’s athletic teams to compete on the newly named Ledbetter Field.The state-of-the-art artificial turf playing field at Hanson Stadium in Lincoln Park was resurfaced this summer as it hit the end of its original lifespan.
The Southern California Consortium for Technology and Innovation in Pediatrics (CTIP), based at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, has awarded $165,000 in seed grants to accelerate projects specifically designed to improve the safety and delivery of care to infants and children.
A science team at Berkeley Lab has precisely measured some previously obscured properties of a 2-D semiconducting material known as moly sulfide, which opens up a new avenue to applications. “That provides very important guidance to all of the optoelectronic device engineers. They need to know what the band gap is” in orderly to properly connect the 2-D material with other materials and components in a device, Yao said. Obtaining the direct band gap measurement is challenged by the so-called “exciton effect” in 2-D materials that is produced by a strong pairing between electrons and electron “holes” – vacant positions around an atom where an electron can exist. The strength of this effect can mask measurements of the band gap. Nicholas Borys, a project scientist at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry who also participated in the study, said the study also resolves how to tune optical and electronic properties in a 2-D material. “The real power of our technique, and an importa
Feature describes PPPL contribution to resumption of research on the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator in Germany.
Doctors believe there is some good to be found in nicotine, the highly addictive drug in tobacco products. Lung experts at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center are testing whether nicotine can help people with a chronic inflammatory lung disease called sarcoidosis.
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