Soft material research provides flexibility for new engineering, biotechnology – Daily Bruin
UCLA researchers have been developing flexible materials and structures that can perform a variety of tasks, from delivering drugs to specific parts of human body to making aircraft more efficient.
Developing and integrating soft materials...
Supportive families and schools help prevent substance use among trans youth: UBC study
Credit: University of British Columbia
Strong family and school connections are helping prevent transgender youth from smoking cigarettes and using marijuana, even among those targeted by violence....
Long-term islet transplant recipients show near-normal glucose control
Continuous glucose monitoring demonstrates improved time-in-range, key metabolic data compared to hybrid closed-loop systems
Credit: Diabetes Research Institute/University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) evaluations in islet transplant recipients who have been...
How do foams collapse?
Two distinct physical mechanisms identified for how simple foams collapse
Credit: Rei Kurita
Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have successfully found two distinct mechanisms by...
Epigenetic Changes To Germline Convey Learned Danger Avoidance Behavior to Worm Offspring
Princeton University researchers Rebecca Moore, PhD, Rachel Kaletsky, PhD, and Coleen Murphy, PhD, have discovered that learned behaviors can be inherited for multiple generations in C. elegans, transmitted from parent to progeny via eggs...
Study provides new insight into how brain stem cells are activated
Our brains are notoriously bad at regenerating cells that have been lost through injury or disease. While therapies using neural stem cells (NSCs) hold the promise of replacing lost cells, scientists need to better...
Smart phone health monitoring devices will revolutionize healthcare
Bodily fluids from saliva to sweat may soon be tested using smartphones instead of being sent to a lab, providing real time health insights thanks to a new research collaboration between Australian and Chinese...
The nicotine in e-cigarettes appears to impair mucus clearance
Credit: ATS
June 7, 2019–E-cigarette vaping with nicotine appears to hamper mucus clearance from the airways, according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
In...
Innovations: Making the desert bloom with biotechnology – The Jerusalem Post
THE NATIONAL Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev in Beersheba. (photo credit: DANI MACHLIS)
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Mind the Yap! Single-Cell Transcriptomes Reveal Drivers of Intestinal Regeneration
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