Participants in the study on empathy were asked to react quickly to an image and determine whether or not the image displayed something painful.
Credit: Patrick Mansell
When people scan the latest political headlines or watch a video from a war-ravaged...
When pipetting: Associate professor Dr. Philipp Koch, Dr. Julia Ladewig and Vira Iefremova.
Credit: (c) Barbara Frommann/Uni Bonn
A new method could push research into developmental brain disorders an important step forward. This is shown by a recent study at the...
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Graphene-oxide membranes have attracted considerable attention as promising candidates for new filtration technologies. Now the much sought-after development of making membranes capable of sieving common salts has been achieved.
New research demonstrates the real-world potential...
A Rice University-led study showed people who feel lonely are likely to report more severe symptoms from the common cold.
Credit: Illustration by Valentina Gonzalez/Rice University
Suffering through a cold is annoying enough, but if you're lonely, you're likely to feel...
A new EMBL-EBI study reveals that aging causes cell coordination breakdown.
Credit: Spencer Phillips, The European Bioinformatics Institute
Researchers from the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), University of Cambridge, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Cancer Research UK-Cambridge Institute (CRUK-CI) have...
This guided drug delivery system targets solid tumors.
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These multilayer capsules show three traits that have been difficult to achieve in a single entity. They have good imaging contrast that allows detection with low-power ultrasound, they can stably and...
In a study of 365,000 NIH grants — nearly every NIH grant awarded for 27 years — researchers found that 31 percent produce articles that are later cited by patents in the biomedical sector.
Credit: Christine Daniloff/MIT
Research grants issued by...
Blind tadpoles with eyes grafted onto their tails were able to process visual information after being treated with a small molecule neurotransmitter drug.
Credit: Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University.
Blind tadpoles were able to process visual information from eyes grafted...
Emily S. Jungheim, MD, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, examines oocytes retrieved during an in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure. Jungheim treats patients at the university's Fertility and Reproductive...
People screened for blood-lead level at age 11 and IQ-tested in childhood and at age 38, reveal an association between childhood lead exposures and a decline in IQ. Higher doses led to greater losses, including having occupational standing lower...
The maturation of fibres of a brain structure called the arcuate fascicle (green) between the ages of three and four years establishes a connection between two critical brain regions: A region at the back of the temporal lobe (brown)...
