Scientists have developed machine learning algorithms that can predict yeast metabolism from its protein content. The…
Month: September 2018
A ‘homing system’ targets therapeutic T-cells to brain cancer
Researchers have developed a new strategy to overcome one of the main obstacles in the treatment…
Radio observations confirm superfast jet of material from neutron star merger
The supersharp radio 'vision' of a continent-wide collection of radio telescopes has answered an outstanding question…
The alchemy of healing: Researchers turn open wounds into skin
Scientists have developed a technique to directly convert the cells in an open wound into new…
Could a ‘demon’ help create a quantum computer?
Physicists have employed a version of Maxwell's demon to reduce entropy in a three-dimensional lattice of…
Increased cortical activation in cannabis users’ brains in resting state, research suggests
Recent research shows that cannabis users experience increased cortical activation during the brain's resting state when…
New source of formic acid discovered over Pacific, Indian oceans
Insights from experiments designed to push chemical systems far from equilibrium allowed an international group of…
Genes are key to academic success, study suggests
Parents always worry about whether their children will do well in school, but their kids probably…
Family tree of blood production reveals hundreds of thousands of stem cells
Adult humans have ten times more blood-creating stem cells in their bone marrow than previously thought,…
Physicists implement a version of Maxwell’s famous thought experiment for reducing entropy
Reduced entropy in a three-dimensional lattice of super-cooled, laser-trapped atoms could help speed progress toward creating…