Teaching physics from the din of flying discs #Acoustics23
SYDNEY, Dec. 4, 2023 – Disc golf is booming, with record numbers of players turning up each year to partake in the disc-throwing sport. It is also whizzing and whistling. In fact, the sound...
Pathogens use force to breach immune defenses, study finds
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Similar to a burglar breaking a window to get into a house, Indiana University researchers have discovered a previously unknown process by which pathogens enter a cell with physical force, breaching...
StockWatch: CAR-T Shares Mostly Flat as FDA Probes Risk of New Cancers
By Alex Philippidis
Shares of companies that develop chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapies stayed mostly flat this week after the FDA announced it was assessing the need for new regulations addressing what it called...
A color-based sensor to emulate skin’s sensitivity
Robotics researchers have already made great strides in developing sensors that can perceive changes in position, pressure, and temperature – all of which are important for technologies like wearable devices and human-robot interfaces. But...
Hevolution Foundation Grant Expands New Investigator Awards in Geroscience
The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) received a $16 million grant from the Hevolution Foundation to expand the Hevolution-AFAR New Investigator Awards in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research program, which is designed to enable...
How Subsecond Changes in Brain Dopamine Levels Impact Human Behavior
What happens in the human brain when we learn from positive and negative experiences? To help answer that question and better understand decision making and human behavior, scientists are studying dopamine, a neurotransmitter produced...
A patch of protection against Zika virus
A simple-to-apply, needle-free vaccine patch is being developed to protect people from the potentially deadly mosquito-borne Zika virus.
Credit: UQ
A simple-to-apply, needle-free vaccine patch is being developed to protect people from the potentially deadly mosquito-borne...
Human Glia Reprogrammed into Neuron-Generating Cells
In humans and other mammals, loss of neurons in the retina due to trauma or disease is an irreversible process that can lead to blindness. But unlike humans, some animals, such as fish, have...
Applications of macrocyclic molecules in cancer therapy: Target cancer development or overcome drug resistance
This review was designed by Professor Xiaoling Song and Professor Biao Jiang and written by Pr. Xiaoling Song and a Ph.D. student, Yifan Wu (Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech University) to summarize...
C-Path’s TRxA and Celdara Medical announce MOU to identify and advance promising new therapeutics
Critical Path Institute's (C-Path) Translational Therapeutics Accelerator (TRxA) and Celdara Medical today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) aimed at identifying and advancing promising new therapeutics in areas of high unmet...
