IMAGE: Neural Engineer Qi Wang has won an NSF CAREER Award to develop new technologies for restoring and enhancing sensory functions and cognition through brain-machine interfaces. view more Credit: Jane Nisselson/Columbia Engineering New York, NY–March 05, 2019–Qi Wang, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has won a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation,…
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IMAGE: Elizabeth Phillips, MD, right, Katherine Konvinse, MS, and colleagues have identified a gene that increases the risk for a severe and potentially life-threatening reaction to the commonly prescribed antibiotic vancomycin…. view more Credit: Photo by Anne Rayner Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and colleagues have identified a gene that increases the risk for a…
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TUCSON, Ariz. – Children with Type 1 diabetes have only one option to control their blood sugar: insulin treatment. Ravaged by an autoimmune disease that attacks their own pancreas and islets — microscopic clusters of cells that sense blood sugar and produce insulin — patients are forced to rely on insulin from an external source.…
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Music has the ability to captivate us; when listeners engage with music, they follow its sounds closely, connecting to what they hear in an affective and invested way. But what is it about music that keeps the audience engaged? A study by researchers from The City College of New York and the University of Arkansas…
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The tsetse fly has wreaked devastation across large swaths of sub-Saharan Africa. About the size of a housefly, the insect transmits a parasite that can be lethal to both humans (sleeping sickness) and animals (nagana) – especially cattle. In many countries of the sub-Sahara, there are large regions where farmers cannot raise cattle; most eventually…
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SEATTLE – At what age do you feel 65? A 30-year gap separates countries with the highest and lowest ages at which people experience the health problems of a 65-year-old, according to a new scientific study. Researchers found 76-year-olds in Japan and 46-year-olds in Papua New Guinea have the same level of age-related health problems…
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IMAGE: Bacillus bacteria, marked with green fluorescence, changed its growth pattern around other members of the THOR community, spreading around and over other bacteria. view more Credit: Gabriel Lozano and Jo Handelsman MADISON, Wis. — “Microbial communities run the world,” says Jo Handelsman, director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “People…
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IMAGE: This is Meghna Tare, UTA chief sustainability officer. view more Credit: UT Arlington What began as a brainstorming session last year about how to unify sustainability efforts across North Texas is now the North Texas Regional Center of Expertise, or RCE, thanks to efforts led by Meghna Tare, University of Texas at Arlington chief sustainability…
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NHS-approved PARP inhibitor therapy found to boost the body’s immune response Drugs could be used to increase number of patients who respond to immunotherapies Treatment developed for ovarian and breast cancers could also work in some lung cancers Precision cancer drugs called PARP inhibitors have a previously unknown ability to boost the immune system, and…
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IMAGE: Predictions of antimicrobial abundance in all countries and territories in the world. Map coloured according to predicted abundance of antimicrobial from light blue (low abundance) to dark blue (high abundance). view more A comprehensive analysis of sewage collected in 74 cities in 60 countries has yielded the first, comparable global data, which show the levels…
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