Want in on nanotechnology? Capitalize on collaborative environments

Patent law experts demonstrate that private-public partnerships lead to promising innovation output measured in patents. Collaborations…

How our body ‘listens’ to vibrations

We all know the feeling of a mobile phone vibrating in our hands. We perceive these…

Gut instinct: Bile acid-triggered bacterial adaptation characterized

An international team has shown how the Salmonella protein RamR senses bile acids present in the…

Seeing through food and drug fakes and frauds

A simple new technique developed by engineers can detect fake drugs from a video taken as…

Fish-inspired material changes color using nanocolumns

Inspired by the flashing colors of the neon tetra fish, researchers have developed a technique for…

Radiomics predicts who will benefit from chemotherapy

Using data from computed tomography (CT) images, researchers may be able to predict which lung cancer…

Are there Zika reservoirs in the Americas?

A researcher travels the Americas, collecting feces from nonhuman primates to determine the risk of Zika…

Chicago’s Large Lot Program sowing change in inner-city communities

Chicago's Large Lot Program is promoting positive change in inner-city neighborhoods by enabling residents to buy…

How hot spots of genetic variation evolved in human DNA

New research investigates hot spots of genetic variation within the human genome, examining the sections of…

Prescribing healthy food in Medicare/Medicaid is cost effective, could improve health

A team of researchers modeled the health and economic effects of healthy food prescriptions in Medicare…