Manipulating non-magnetic atoms in a chromium halide enables tuning of magnetic properties
New approach creates synthetic layered magnets with unprecedented level of control over their magnetic properties
Credit: Fazel Tafti
Chestnut Hill, Mass. (7/24/2020) – The magnetic properties of a...
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Mosquitoes’ Preference to Bite Humans Traced to Climate
Most mosquitoes bite a range of animals, but only a few of the 3,500 mosquito species around the world have evolved to prefer humans. These are the mosquitoes that have become dangerous vectors of...
Swiss Company Raises €23M to Smash Cancer with Bacteria
Basel-based T3 Pharmaceuticals has closed its third financing round, worth over €23.3M (CHF 25M), to develop a bacterial cancer therapy.
Since T3 Pharma was spun off from the University of Basel in 2015, the firm...
Researchers design new version of protein to develop COVID-19 vaccine
Responding to a need to quickly develop billions of doses of lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines, a scientific team at The University of Texas at Austin has successfully redesigned a key protein from the coronavirus, and...
New genome-editing technologies can help understand disease-associated genetic mutations
New genome-editing technologies developed by researchers in J. Keith Joung's laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have the potential to help understand disease-associated genetic mutations that are based on C-to-G (cytosine to guanine)...
Tandem catalytic system efficiently converts carbon dioxide to methanol
Encapsulating multiple molecular catalysts in nanoporous metal-organic frameworks central to efficient transformation
Credit: Frank Tsung
Chestnut Hill, Mass. (7/24/2020) – Converting carbon dioxide to methanol, a potentially renewable...
Genomic Basis of Bat Superpowers Could Provide New Insights into Coronavirus Resistance
Scientists have for the first time sequenced the genetic material that codes for bats’ unique adaptations and superpowers, such as the ability to fly, to use sound to move effortlessly in complete darkness, to...
New biomolecules can benefit agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors
These molecules of plant origin may be of use to the agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors.
Researchers from the Biochemistry and Biotechnology Research Group at the Universitat Jaume Ihave identified and obtained biomolecules of plant origin,...
Big wheel ruts, big economic losses
Credit: Jodi DeJong-Hughes
Excessively wet field conditions at harvest throughout the North Central and upper Midwest regions resulted in many fields with deep wheel-traffic compaction as evident...
