Pluripotent cells can give rise to all cells of the body, a power that researchers are eager to control because it opens the door to regenerative medicine and organ culture for transplants. But pluripotency is still a black ...
Cell & Microbiology
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The spatial variation in different air pollution components helps identify possible targets for pollution control.
Environment
14 hours ago
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When food is recalled due to contamination from bacteria such as salmonella, one may wonder how a tainted product ended up on store shelves. New technology being developed at the University of Missouri could give retailers ...
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 15, 2019
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Bacteria, like people, have complicated relationships: they can either be friendly, neutral, or antagonistic toward each other, and those relationships can change depending on the situations in which they find themselves. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 14, 2019
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Staphylococcus aureus bacteria are a major cause of serious infections that often persist despite antibiotic treatment, but scientists at the UNC School of Medicine have now discovered a way to make these bacteria much more ...
Biochemistry
Aug 14, 2019
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A low-cost intervention aimed at fostering a growth mindset in students gave the students more confidence in their entrepreneurship abilities and helped them persist when challenges arose.
Education
Aug 13, 2019
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When your breakout book is reviewed by Essence, Bitch Media and Ms., you know your topic has struck a chord. That's the case with Sabrina Strings' Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, which hit shelves ...
Social Sciences
Aug 13, 2019
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A novel water treatment device that delivers chlorine automatically via public taps without the need for electricity, reduced child diarrhoea by 23% compared with controls (156 cases out of 2,073 child measurements [7.5%] ...
Environment
Aug 09, 2019
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In the last 150 years, engineers have developed and mastered ways to stabilize dynamic systems, without lag or overshoot, using what's known as control theory. Now, a team of University of Arizona researchers has shown that ...
Biotechnology
Aug 08, 2019
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Corn starch, an abundant, cheap and biodegradable raw material, is the basis for a novel larvicide developed by researchers at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in São Paulo State, Brazil. The material is used in microcapsules ...
Other
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