Women with higher urinary concentrations of a common type of flame retardant had reduced likelihood of…
Month: August 2017
Next-generation drug testing on chips
Researchers have designed a small 'body-on-a-chip' device that can test the side effects of drugs on…
Recipe for safer lithium batteries — Just add diamonds
While lithium-ion batteries, widely used in mobile devices from cell phones to laptops, have one of…
Endangered sharks, rays further threatened by global food markets
A majority of shark fins and manta ray gills sold around the globe for traditional medicines…
Implementation of a Space Communications Cognitive Engine
Abstract: Although communications-based cognitive engines have been proposed, very few have been implemented in a full…
Researchers predicted when cholera epidemic in Yemen would peak
Scientists have developed a new mathematical model which accurately forecast that a devastating cholera epidemic in…
The pancreas provides a potential drug candidate for brain disease
Researchers show FGF21, a factor secreted by the pancreas, promotes remyelination in the central nervous system…
Improving the bonding of plastics in high-precision microfluidic chips
Microfluidics technology could revolutionize point-of-care medicine by making it possible to fabricate cheap, disposable card-sized plastic…
Measles vaccine: Some developed countries should target adolescents and adults
Even if measles infection incidence has decreased by at least 90% all over the world since…
New wrapping material enables high quality bioimaging
A nanosheet made of organic polymers has been developed to prevent the drying and deforming of…