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Analytical Chemistry Dec 1, 2020

Detection of cancer from exhaled breath

The air we exhale contains information that can assist with the diagnosis of disease. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Project Hub for Microelectronic and Optical Systems for Biomedicine MEOS are now developing solutions designed ...

Plants & Animals Nov 25, 2020

New discovery allows early detection of shade avoidance syndrome in plants

Researchers from the Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT's research enterprise ...

Analytical Chemistry Nov 2, 2020

Microfluidics helps engineers watch viral infection in real time

A virus attaches to a cell, picks the lock and enters, then takes control of genetic production and pumps out many versions of itself that explode out through the cell wall.

Evolution Oct 28, 2020

Scientists discover new organic compounds that could have helped form the first cells

Chemists studying how life started often focus on how modern biopolymers like peptides and nucleic acids contributed, but modern biopolymers don't form easily without help from living organisms. A possible solution to this ...

Environment Oct 13, 2020

Mental accounting is impacting sustainable behavior

Mental accounting is a concept that describes the mental processes we employ to organize our resource use. Human beings tend to create separate mental budget compartments where specific acts of consumption and payments are ...

Biochemistry Oct 5, 2020

Cyanobacteria as 'green' catalysts in biotechnology

Researchers from TU Graz and Ruhr University Bochum show in the journal ACS Catalysis how the catalytic activity of cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, can be significantly increased. This brings biotechnological ...

Political science Sep 30, 2020

Friend-to-friend texting may be the most effective voter mobilization tactic during 2020 election

Friend-to-friend text messaging may be the new door-to-door canvassing leading up to the 2020 election.

Bio & Medicine Aug 28, 2020

Giant nanomachine aids the immune system

Cells that are infected by a virus or carry a carcinogenic mutation, for example, produce proteins foreign to the body. Antigenic peptides resulting from the degradation of these exogenous proteins inside the cell are loaded ...

Biotechnology Aug 6, 2020

Algorithm created by deep learning finds potential therapeutic targets throughout genome

A team of researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed an algorithm through machine learning that helps predict sites of DNA methylation—a process ...

Environment Aug 4, 2020

Fine particle air pollution decreases, but stubborn disparities remain, say economists

Fine particle air pollution in the United States has decreased sharply over the past 40 years, but communities that were polluted four decades ago remain polluted today, according to research by two University of Virginia ...

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