Image: Luca installs BioRock
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it is off to work the microbes go.
Space Exploration
Aug 20, 2019
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Lab-on-a-chip drives search for new drugs to prevent blood clots
A tiny lab the size of a postage stamp could be the next big thing in the search for safer anti-clotting drugs to prevent heart attacks and strokes.
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 20, 2019
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Inappropriate housing causing disabled people 'physical and mental harm'
Leading housing experts are warning that disabled home-seekers are experiencing adverse emotional and mental distress due to a lack of suitable accommodation.
Social Sciences
Aug 20, 2019
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Statistics plot pollution to inform policy
The spatial variation in different air pollution components helps identify possible targets for pollution control.
Environment
Aug 20, 2019
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Connected forest networks on oil palm plantations key to protecting endangered species
Connected areas of high-quality forest running through oil palm plantations could help support increased levels of biodiversity, new research suggests.
Environment
Aug 20, 2019
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Rebuilding after wildfire is not enough to curb future disasters
Wildfires in the West are becoming inevitable, and communities that rethink what it means to live with them will likely fare better than those that simply rebuild after they burn. This is the conclusion of a recently published ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 20, 2019
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All-in-one: New microbe degrades oil to gas
Crude oil and gas naturally escape from the seabed in many places known as "seeps." There, these hydrocarbons move up from source rocks through fractures and sediments toward the surface, where they leak out of the ground ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 20, 2019
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A new path to cancer therapy: Developing simultaneous multiplexed gene editing technology
Dr. Mihue Jang and her group at the Center for Theragnosis of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST, President Byung-gwon Lee) announced that they have developed a new gene editing system that could be used ...
Bio & Medicine
Aug 20, 2019
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Fossil fuel drilling could be contributing to climate change by heating Earth from within
Almost all scientists agree that burning fossil fuels is contributing to climate change. But agreement is less clear cut on how exactly it's influencing rising global temperatures.
Environment
Aug 20, 2019
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Assessing the possible safety issues in the second nuclear era
A team of researchers with the Chinese Academy of Sciences has carried out an assessment of possible safety issues tied to the rise of the second nuclear era. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy ...
