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Human rights in biomedicine: action plan 2020-2025
Added: 25 Jun 2020
On 24 June 2020, in Strasbourg, the Bioethics Committee launched its new action plan on human right…
Honey, I shrunk the cell culture
Added: 24 Jun 2020
From ‘Fantastic Voyage’ to ‘Despicable Me’, shrink rays have been a science-fiction staple on scree…
Synthetic materials mimic living creatures
Added: 24 Jun 2020
Northwestern University researchers have developed a family of soft materials that imitates living …
Is teleportation possible? Yes, in the quantum world
Added: 23 Jun 2020
Last year scientists confirmed that information could be passed between photons on computer chips e…
Higher rates of severe COVID-19 in ethnic minorities remain unexplained
Added: 23 Jun 2020
Higher rates of severe COVID-19 infections among ethnic minorities are not explained by socioeconom…
The many lifetimes of plastics
Added: 16 Jun 2020
Infographics strive to give us a sense of how long plastic goods will last in the environment but i…
First adjuvanted quadrivalent influenza vaccine receives EU approval
Added: 15 Jun 2020
The European Commission has now given regulatory approval for the first adjuvanted quadrivalent inf…
Webinar: Accepting animal-free bacterial endotoxin testing
Added: 15 Jun 2020
European, US, Japanese and Chinese pharmacopeia will include a synthetic substitute for horseshoe c…
Machine learning predicts nanoparticle structure and dynamics
Added: 12 Jun 2020
Researchers at the Nanoscience Center and at the Faculty of Information Technology at the Universit…
Reactive 3D printing for autonomous shapeshifting materials
Added: 12 Jun 2020
Soft robots and biomedical implants that reconfigure themselves upon demand are closer to reality w…
Survival of coronavirus in different cities, on different surfaces
Added: 11 Jun 2020
One of the many questions researchers have about COVID-19 is how long the coronavirus causing the d…
Magma movements suggest long-term seismic risk for Northern Europe
Added: 11 Jun 2020
Scientists have discovered new evidence for active volcanism next door to some of the most densely …
Widespread facemask use could shrink the 'R' number and prevent a second COVID-19 wave
Added: 10 Jun 2020
Population-wide use of facemasks keeps the coronavirus 'reproduction number' under 1.0, and prevent…
Global alliance for collaborative digital health
Added: 10 Jun 2020
The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that works to lower barriers to innovation …
Dose controlled drug delivery via 3D printed electromagnetic capsule
Added: 10 Jun 2020
Doctors could soon be administering an entire course of treatment for life-threatening conditions w…
Researchers uncover a world of life on the back of a turtle
Added: 4 Jun 2020
Much to the delight of all Hindu’s and fans of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, researchers have…
Materials Informatics: The Time For Adoption is Now
Added: 4 Jun 2020
Materials Informatics is the key to enabling a paradigm shift in our approach to materials science …
Viable sodium-ion battery for sustainable energy storage
Added: 3 Jun 2020
Washington State University (WSU) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers have…
ESPRESSO confirms Earth-sized planet around the nearest star
Added: 2 Jun 2020
The existence of a planet the size of Earth around the closest star in the solar system, Proxima Ce…
Oil-hungry smart sponge could restore our oceans
Added: 2 Jun 2020
A Northwestern University-led team has developed a highly porous smart sponge that selectively soak…
