A University of Alberta research team has identified a new drug target to treat harmful E. coli bacteria—which cause nearly 250,000 deaths a year from urinary tract infections (UTI) and are becoming ...

Experiments reveal that unsaturated lipid membranes promote vesicle fusion and DNA retention during freeze–thaw cycles, highlighting icy environments as potential drivers of protocell evolution. Today ...

Osmotic energy, existing between the seawater and river water, is a renewable energy source, which can be directly converted ...

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are tiny membrane-bound particles released by cells to transport proteins and other molecules to neighboring cells. Because of this natural delivery ability, EVs have ...

George Pólya’s random walk theorem absolved him of being a lurker and revealed how the laws of chance interact with physical ...

Professor Zhen Zhang's research group at the State Key Laboratory of Bionic Interface Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, proposed and constructed a neuromorphic ...

The cells generate electricity by combining hydrogen and oxygen, using a membrane as the electrolyte. Huang noted that Nafion 211 can lose conductivity at high temperatures, is costly to produce, and ...

Can advances in technology help stop chronic diseases before they start? The authors of a new perspective article argue that by identifying ‘biological drifts’ in each person, scientists may be able ...

Two businesses with ties to the University of Wyoming, UW Nano and Wyonics, participated in national venture capital firm gener8tor’s gBETA Wyoming startup accelerator, sponsored by Microsoft, ...

Monmouth College senior Cassandra Nolasco earns a national award for research inspired by her grandmother’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

Industrial separations sit quietly at the heart of modern manufacturing, yet they consume enormous amounts of energy and generate significant environmental costs. A new membrane technology developed ...

The neuron’s inner scaffold, once viewed as static support, now looks like a gatekeeper. Research findings are available ...