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Medical Xpress / A potential game-changer for emergency medicine: Synthetic platelets
Imagine being a paramedic treating a trauma patient who's bleeding severely. You know your patient's life is in danger, but there's not much you can do because the patient needs an infusion of blood containing platelets. ...
Phys.org / Regulation needed to curb favoritism between countries and credit rating agencies, new research suggests
A country's financial health is rated more highly when its finance minister knows top executives in credit ratings agencies, new research led by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh suggests.
Phys.org / Biologists determine the Leep2 complex regulates macropinosome formation
The social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum is a valuable model to study the regulation of macropinocytosis. A research team led by Prof. Cai Huaqing from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...
Medical Xpress / Study: Women veterans at higher risk for repeat suicide attempts
In a new study, Oregon Health & Science University researchers find that women veterans who had recently attempted suicide were more likely than men to feel social rejection and betrayed by military institutions. They also ...
Phys.org / July's night sky notes: A hero, a crown, and possibly a nova
High in the summer sky, the constellation Hercules acts as a centerpiece for late-night stargazers. At the center of Hercules is the "Keystone," a near-perfect square shape between the bright stars Vega and Arcturus that ...
Phys.org / Functional predictability of universal gene circuits in diverse microbial hosts
Over the past 20 years, synthetic biologists have been trying to build biological circuits in living cells to enact specific behaviors such as Boolean logic gates, signal filters, oscillators, state machines, sensors, and ...
Tech Xplore / Just 15 cm of water can float a car—but we are failing to educate drivers about the dangers of floodwaters
Every year in Australia, people driving into floodwaters drown and many more are rescued. Do you know what to do when there's water on the road?
Phys.org / Hope for Mekong dolphins as Cambodia numbers increase: Minister
The number of Mekong dolphins has risen to more than 100 in Cambodia, the agriculture minister said Monday, raising a glimmer of hope for the endangered mammals.
Phys.org / Laser, sonar technology finds that a northern California reservoir's capacity has shrunk by 3%
The California state Department of Water Resources has started using laser and sonar technology to measure reservoir capacity, determining that Lake Oroville, the State Water Project's largest reservoir, has shrunk since ...
Medical Xpress / FDA approves new drug to treat Alzheimer's disease
A new drug to treat Alzheimer's disease was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday.
Medical Xpress / Bacteria detected in tattoo and permanent makeup inks
Researchers have detected anaerobic and aerobic bacteria in commercial tattoo and permanent makeup inks. The findings, reported in Applied and Environmental Microbiology demonstrate that the inks could be a source of human ...
Medical Xpress / Measuring body language to trace emotions
Is it possible to decode how we feel from our movements? How can emotions be studied "from the outside" by using empirical methods? To answer these questions, a large international and interdisciplinary research team led ...