Conditions affecting the arterial vasculature present pressing challenges in global health. Yet, the complex mechanisms underlying artery formation remain elusive, impeding the development of new treatments.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 3, 2024
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Entropy is often associated with disorder and chaos, but in biology it is related to energy efficiency and is closely linked to metabolism, the set of chemical reactions that sustain life.
Bio & Medicine
Mar 6, 2024
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Researchers from the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences have published a new study exploring the use of positron emission particle tracking (PEPT) in a living subject for the first time.
Bio & Medicine
Jan 19, 2024
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Equine scientists at Nottingham Trent University wanted to see how the level of arousal in horses—the extent to which they might be excited or stressed for instance—affected their performance in a cognitive task.
Plants & Animals
Jan 16, 2024
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How much stress do pipes undergo when a liquid flows through them, and how does it depend on the degree of curvature of the pipe?
Toothpaste has a hard job. Not only does it have to perform essential functions like scrubbing that coffee residue from your pearly whites, but it also must stay in the tube, exit smoothly under pressure and balance on a ...
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 9, 2023
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An international team of interdisciplinary researchers has successfully created a method for better 3D modeling of complex cancers. The University of Waterloo-based team combined cutting-edge bioprinting techniques with synthetic ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 21, 2023
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Despite their public image as torpid, lumbering creatures, many dinosaurs were evidently warm-blooded, highly active animals, capable of prolonged and strenuous aerobic exercise.
Paleontology & Fossils
Oct 3, 2023
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For decades, researchers have been looking for ways to make the active ingredient acetylsalicylic acid (ASA)—the active ingredient of aspirin—more water-soluble. It's used not only as pain relief, but also to prevent ...
Materials Science
Sep 13, 2023
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Researchers have developed and demonstrated a new method for high-throughput single-cell sorting that uses stimulated Raman spectroscopy rather than the traditional approach of fluorescence-activated cell sorting. The new ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 28, 2023
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