Going for gold: Nanotech design opens door to new cancer treatments
To develop cancer drugs, researchers often have to make tough trade-offs. Most drugs potent enough to kill tumors also cause ...
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New tool to study hepatitis B could open the door to a cure
Hepatitis C and hepatitis B viruses both attack the liver, eventually causing deadly cirrhosis or cancer. But while antivirals can ...
Patients with schizophrenia have favorable surgical risk, opening the door for ethical consideration of neurosurgical interventions like Deep Brain Stimulation
AURORA, Colo. (April 3, 2023) – A study published in Frontiers in Surgery finds that people with schizophrenia (SZ) and ...
Structure of ‘oil-eating’ enzyme opens door to bioengineered catalysts
UPTON, NY—Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have produced the first atomic-level structure of an enzyme ...
Optical switching at record speeds opens door for ultrafast, light-based electronics and computers
Imagine a home computer operating 1 million times faster than the most expensive hardware on the market. Now, imagine that ...
Scientists open door to manipulating ‘quantum light’
For the first time, scientists at the University of Sydney and the University of Basel in Switzerland have demonstrated the ...
Observations open door to improved luminous efficiency of organic LEDs
Electroluminescence is the production of light with an electrical current, without relying on heat or chemical reactions. This makes electroluminescent ...
Enzyme ATE1 plays role in cellular stress response, opening door to new therapeutic targets
A new paper in Nature Communications illuminates how a previously poorly understood enzyme works in the cell. Many diseases are ...
New podcast gives parents a “Pediatrician Next Door”
Imagine if harried parents could get the scientific and clinical expertise of a pediatrician just by walking only a few ...
Cleveland researchers reveal how oxygen is delivered to tissues, open door to new class of drugs
CLEVELAND—Cardiovascular medicine, hematology and pulmonary medicine may soon have the first-ever therapies to correct poor tissue oxygenation, a key driver ...
Reaching like an octopus: A biology-inspired model opens the door to soft robot control
Octopus arms coordinate nearly infinite degrees of freedom to perform complex movements such as reaching, grasping, fetching, crawling, and swimming. ...
Secret recipe for limonoids opens door for bee-friendly crop protection
Innovative research has uncovered the secret of how plants make limonoids, a family of valuable organic chemicals which include bee-friendly ...
Light-analyzing ‘lab on a chip’ opens door to widespread use of portable spectrometers
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Scientists including an Oregon State University materials researcher have developed a better tool to measure light, contributing ...
A ‘door’ into the mitochondrial membrane
Mitochondria — the organelles responsible for energy production in human cells — were once free-living organisms that found their way into ...
Discovery of potential biological cause for postpartum depression opens door to new treatments
Newly discovered biological changes in mothers who suffer postpartum depression may help explain the condition, yield long-sought treatments and let doctors identify ...
Message received: Scientists identify the molecular mechanisms behind learning and memory, may open door to new therapeutic strategies for Alzheimer’s disease
Acetylcholine (ACh) is a neuromodulator with a central role in aversive learning—rapid conditioning to unpleasant smell, taste, or touch. These ...
New understanding of congenital heart disease progression opens door to improved treatment options
A team of investigators from Texas Heart Institute, Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine uncovered new insights into ...
Molecular pathway driving maladaptive processes in heart failure elucidated by scientists at Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, opening door to new therapeutic strategies
Under stress, the human heart struggles to pump blood efficiently through the body. Over time, as the heart overexerts itself ...
Graphene and an intense laser open the door to the extreme
Osaka, Japan – Laser-driven ion acceleration has been studied to develop a compact and efficient plasma-based accelerator, which is applicable ...
Karikó, Langer and Weissman win the Frontiers of Knowledge Award for propelling the advance of messenger RNA therapeutics, opening the door to vaccines and treatments for multiple diseases
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biology and Biomedicine has gone in this fourteenth edition to Katalin Karikó, ...
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A new synthesis method for three-dimensional nanocarbons
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Within just a few months a deadly epidemic killed all the black sea urchins in the Gulf of Eilat – a great threat to the coral reef in Eilat
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How eating natto might help to distress
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GPS tracking reveals how a female baboon stopped using urban space after giving birth
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Promising building blocks for photonic quantum simulators
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Study highlights long-term benefits of family-based care following institutional care