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- 2021.01.14 Research Results Engineering
- Nanobubbles offer green solution for inhibiting corrosion
- Environmentally friendly, low-cost, and easy-to-use nanobubbles shown to mitigate steel corrosion in acidic geothermal water
- 2021.01.08 Research Results Medicine/Dentistry/Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Which came first, sleep or the brain?
- Researchers find that, despite lacking a brain, Hydra exhibit characteristics at a molecular and genetic level associated with sleep in animals with central nervous systems
- 2021.01.06 Research Results Medicine/Dentistry/Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Mechanism connects epilepsy and enzyme deficiency
- Findings also valuable for the 2% of Japanese with less-active version of the key enzyme
- 2021.01.05 Research Results Engineering
- Long live the efficient, pure-blue OLED
- Novel approach shows promise for overcoming the bottleneck of blue emission in displays using organic light-emitting diodes
- 2020.12.24 Research Results Medicine/Dentistry/Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Diseased gums shown to produce Alzheimer’s-related protein fragments
- Study provides clues to the mechanism linking periodontitis and Alzheimer's disease
- 2020.12.24 Research Results Agriculture
- Life arrives at same solution using different molecular approaches
- Study shows that two catalysts with the same function essentially employ the same technique despite being based on different molecular species
- 2020.12.22 Research Results Medicine/Dentistry/Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Barrier ahead? No problem for DNA replication
- Study gives new insight into the mechanism underlying maintenance of genome stability in difficult-to-replicate regions
- 2020.12.17 Research Results Medicine/Dentistry/Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Oh so simple: Eight genes enough to convert mouse stem cells into oocyte-like cells
- Surprisingly simple method could provide a new tool for producing specialized cytoplasm for reproductive medicine
- 2020.12.14 Research Results Medicine/Dentistry/Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Viewing cell colony expansion through statistical physics
- Study gives new insight into how cell colonies spread
- 2020.12.10 Research Results Medicine/Dentistry/Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Inflammation and biology’s “ubiquitous” protein
- Ubiquitin-decorated ubiquitin-writing immune signaling regulator found to control inflammation
- 2020.12.04 Research Results Physical Sciences Engineering
- Molecules convert visible light into ultraviolet light with record efficiency
- Newly developed molecular system makes possible the efficient conversion of even weak visible light from sunlight and indoor LEDs into ultraviolet light
- 2020.12.03 Research Results Medicine/Dentistry/Pharmaceutical Sciences Design
- Mental health app supports university students
- Pilot study of app with user-centered design shows promise as mental health support tool
- 2020.11.26 Research Results Medicine/Dentistry/Pharmaceutical Sciences Design
- Safe, easy, and rapid measurement of eye lens opacity and transmission
- Newly developed system can analyze key properties of the lens without disturbing the eye
- 2020.11.25 Research Results Medicine/Dentistry/Pharmaceutical Sciences
- New mechanism of pain control revealed
- Discovery of a distinct group of astrocytes in the spinal cord overturns thinking on role of descending neurons in pain transmission
- 2020.11.18 Research Results Engineering
- Directly capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere with membranes
- Gas separation membrane systems can enable ubiquitous CO₂ removal from the atmosphere
- 2020.11.13 Research Results Engineering
- Researchers develop ultra-fast polymer modulators that can take the heat
- Silicon-polymer hybrid modulators capable of optical data rates of 200 Gbit/s at temperatures up to 110 °C could help reduce datacenter cooling costs
- 2020.11.13 Research Results Medicine/Dentistry/Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Specific personality improves odds of identifying depression with blood tests
- Study adds new biological understanding to the link between personality and depression
- 2020.11.06 Research Results Physical Sciences Engineering
- Higher-resolution imaging of living, moving cells using plasmonic metasurfaces
- Metasurface of self-assembled gold nanoparticles shown to improve resolution of fluorescence images of living cells under a widefield optical microscope to the theoretical limit
- 2020.11.06 Research Results Engineering
- Converting body heat to electricity efficiently
- Inexpensive, flexible, and non-toxic thermoelectric converters producing high voltages at body temperature achieved
- 2020.11.04 Research Results Engineering
- Biocompatible and second only to diamond in hardness
- Cubic boron nitride shown to be promising as an ultrahard coating for bio-applications
