Location: Jerusalem, Israel
By injecting stem cells directly into the brain, scientists have successfully reversed neural birth defects in mice whose mothers were given heroin during pregnancy. Even though most of the transplanted cells did not survive, they induced the...
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Location: CNRS, France
One of the main topics of developmental biology is to understand how gene regulatory networks are linked to the form of multicellular beings. While the genes indirectly control the geometry of the tissue by affecting chemical and mechanical...
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Location: New York, United States
Orolia group company, SpectraTime today confirms its position as a strategic supplier in the market for atomic clocks on board and as the world leader in technologies clocks to satellite navigation. Less than a month after winning a program in the...
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Location: James Cook University, Australia
You can tell when a fish has changed sex just by looking at its ears.
At least, Australian marine biologists Stefan Walker and Mark McCormick can - just having pioneered a new breakthrough for studying the behavior and productivity of fish...
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Location: Lund, Sweden
Mould toxins in buildings damaged by moisture are considerably more prevalent than was previously thought, according to new international research. Erica Bloom from the Division of Medical Microbiology at Lund University in Sweden has contributed...
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Location: Bochum, Germany
Prof.. Dominik Marx of the Ruhr University-Bochum (RUB), will be supported by the resources for German Research (DFG) to the tune of 1 million over 5 years under the program Reinhart Koselleck to support research projects with particularly...
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Location: University of Bonn, Germany
Researchers at the University of Bonn in cooperation with American and Israeli colleagues have identified a molecule that may be responsible for the recurrence of seizures. According to statistics, a German victim is over 20, during his life,...
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Location: NIST, United States
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated their ability to measure relatively low levels of stress or strain in regions of a semiconductor device as small as 10 nanometers across. Their recent...
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Location: Michigan, United States
A type of device called a "lab-on-a-chip" could bring a new generation of instant home tests for illnesses, food contaminants and toxic gases. But today these portable, efficient tools are often stuck in the lab themselves. Specifically, in the...
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Location: Montreal, Canada
A discovery by Canada-U.S. biophysicists will improve the understanding of ion channels, akin to little 'nano-machines' or 'nano-valves' in our body, which when they malfunction can cause genetic illnesses that attack muscles, the central nervous...
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Location: MIT, United States
The WiTricity system developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is capable of supplying wireless bulb from 60W up to 2 meters away.
A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has managed to operate a 60W bulb by...
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Location: National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States
Guest researcher John Jendzurski prepares the NIST electromagnetic phantom for passage through the walk-through metal detector behind it. The carbon-polymer blocks of the phantom are arranged in a form that simulates the mass and height of the...
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Location: Berkeley, United States
The laws of physics dictate that traditional lenses can't focus light onto a spot narrower than half the wavelength of the light. But converting the light into waves called plasmons can get around this limitation. Plasmonic lithography, which uses...
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Location: Weizmann Institute, Israel
A lot of research on metal structures / molecules / semiconductor are currently in Israel and the world, but they generally have to advance molecular electronics or develop chemical or biochemical detectors. Research designed specifically to...
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Location: Michigan, United States
Artificial bone marrow that can continuously make red and white blood cells has been created in a University of Michigan lab.
This development could lead to simpler pharmaceutical drug testing, closer study of immune system defects and a...
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Location: Toulouse, France
Over the last 60 years, ever-smaller generations of transistors have driven exponential growth in computing power. Could molecules, each turned into miniscule computer components, trigger even greater growth in computing over the next 60?
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Location: Humburg, Germany
At the time of construction of a new energy and climate strategy for Europe, development of renewable energy is presented as a necessity to switch to a sustainable economy of low carbon. Thus, the EU has set itself the target of satisfying 20% of...
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Location: New Orleans, United States
The failure of the New Orleans' levees after Hurricane Katrina struck the coastal city in 2005 is now labeled "the worst engineering disaster of the United States" by a professional organization that knows –– the American Society of...
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Location: Malibu, CA, United States
A pair of research groups, working independently, report making graphene-based transistors that work at the highest frequencies reported to date. The new transistors are a promising first step toward ultrahigh radio-frequency (RF) transistors,...
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Location: Hawaii, United States
For over two centuries, meteorologists were puzzled by the observation that atmospheric pressure in the tropics peaks at 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. nearly every day. In the late 1960s, a theory was proposed that these surface pressure variations result...
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