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Social media giants join forces to tackle spread of fake coronavirus news

Social media giants such as Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Reddit, Twitter, and YoutTube have, for the first time, joined hands to fight the spread of fake news on their platforms. They have issued a joint statement.

18 Mar 2020

New AI system can predict air pollution levels hours in advance

An unusual concept for us here in the UK, but it is a genuine concern for communities all over the world with air pollution killing an estimated seven million people every year.

18 Mar 2020

New book offers a journey through the history of 'death-defying' technologies

By the Director for the Centre of Death Studies, a book about death which takes the reader on a journey through the history of 'death-defying' technologies, from nineteenth-century embalming machines to the modern medical machinery deployed expressly to keep human bodies from dying, blurring the boundary between alive and dead.

17 Mar 2020

Scientists develop single-step method to produce water-soluble fullerene compounds for medicine

Scientists from the Skoltech Center for Energy Science and Technology and the Institute for Problems of Chemical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences in collaboration with researchers from the Catholic University of Leuven developed a single-step method to obtain water-soluble fullerene compounds with remarkable biological properties, such as the ability to effectively suppress the human immunodeficiency virus

17 Mar 2020

AI-powered, smart insole turns any shoe into portable gait-analysis laboratory

Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have developed an AI-powered, smart insole that instantly turns any shoe into a portable gait-analysis laboratory.

17 Mar 2020

Experts provide evidence to support the feasibility of coronavirus mobile app for instant contact tracing

A team of medical research and bioethics experts at Oxford University are supporting several European governments to explore the feasibility of a coronavirus mobile app for instant contact tracing.

17 Mar 2020

TTP plc establishes new partnership to enable better clinical management of patients with atrial fibrillation

TTP plc, a leading independent technology and product development company, today announced it has established a partnership with NHS Highland and The University of the Highlands and Islands, to use clinical data interpretation and machine learning algorithms to predict which patients with atrial fibrillation are able to be successfully treated using electrical cardioversion.

17 Mar 2020

Charity seeks out non-drug approaches to treat Parkinson’s

Parkinson’s UK is launching a new funding program to support innovative studies into non-drug treatments for Parkinson’s.

17 Mar 2020

Cannabinoid 1 receptor expression displays sexually dimorphic pattern in the mouse brain

A major challenge in neuroscience lies in understanding how molecular and circuit differences in the brain synergistically contribute to sex differences in behavioral phenotypes. Sex differences in the brain may arise from the identity, distribution and relative abundance of cell types.

17 Mar 2020

Scientists use artificial intelligence to create new proteins unseen in nature

Researchers have presented a artificial intelligence method for developing new proteins that have never been seen in nature.

17 Mar 2020

Equal Pay Day: How fair is your company?

Entrepreneur Alexandra Knauer is committed to more wage justice and is convinced that both, companies and the economy in Germany will benefit from that.

From KNAUER Wissenschaftliche Geräte GmbH 17 Mar 2020

Gyrolab technology to be incorporated into Jefferson Institute for Bioprocessing specialized teaching curriculum and training programs

Gyros Protein Technologies and JIB announced that Gyrolab xPlore™ immunoassay system from Gyros Protein Technologies will be integrated into JIB’s curriculum.

From Gyros Protein Technologies AB 17 Mar 2020

Beijing Tide Pharmaceutical and Insilico Medicine announce cancer drug discovery collaboration

Beijing Tide Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Sino Biopharmaceutical Limited, and Insilico Medicine, an artificial intelligence company developing end-to-end drug discovery pipelines, announced today that they are entering a collaboration, applying artificial intelligence technology to drug discovery, to jointly accelerate the process for multiple types of cancer treatment.

16 Mar 2020

Chronic microfiber exposure causes aneurysms, cellular changes in fish

Chronic exposure to microplastic fibers causes aneurysms, erosion of surface layers and other serious damage to fish gills, and increases egg production in female fish, a sign that chemicals in the fibers may be acting as endocrine disruptors, a new study by U.S. and Chinese scientists finds.

16 Mar 2020

New study shines light on international energy inequality

A new study examines energy inequality for income classes across 86 countries, from highly industrialized to developing ones, revealing extreme disparity in energy footprints, both within nations and globally.

16 Mar 2020

Researchers show possibility of blending two incompatible components in one nanofiber

Russian researchers from the Federal Research Clinical Center of Physical-Chemical Medicine, the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and Lomonosov Moscow State University showed the possibility of blending two incompatible components -- a protein and a polymer -- in one electrospun fiber.

16 Mar 2020

Harvard Chan School and Thrive Global announce launch of The Health And Wellness For All Program

Building on its renowned commitment to support the public health community around the world, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health announced today the launch of The Health and Wellness For All Program in collaboration with Thrive Global, the behavior change technology company founded by Arianna Huffington to help people adopt healthier habits to reduce stress and improve health and performance.

16 Mar 2020

Technology News and Research

Social media giants join forces to tackle spread of fake coronavirus news

New AI system can predict air pollution levels hours in advance

New book offers a journey through the history of 'death-defying' technologies

Scientists develop single-step method to produce water-soluble fullerene compounds for medicine

AI-powered, smart insole turns any shoe into portable gait-analysis laboratory

Experts provide evidence to support the feasibility of coronavirus mobile app for instant contact tracing

TTP plc establishes new partnership to enable better clinical management of patients with atrial fibrillation

Charity seeks out non-drug approaches to treat Parkinson’s

Cannabinoid 1 receptor expression displays sexually dimorphic pattern in the mouse brain

Scientists use artificial intelligence to create new proteins unseen in nature

Equal Pay Day: How fair is your company?

Gyrolab technology to be incorporated into Jefferson Institute for Bioprocessing specialized teaching curriculum and training programs

Beijing Tide Pharmaceutical and Insilico Medicine announce cancer drug discovery collaboration

Chronic microfiber exposure causes aneurysms, cellular changes in fish

New study shines light on international energy inequality

Researchers show possibility of blending two incompatible components in one nanofiber

Harvard Chan School and Thrive Global announce launch of The Health And Wellness For All Program

New method could help facilitate transition of medical technology from lab to market

Researchers develop new kind of CRISPR screen technology to target RNA

U-M startup offers free coronavirus sequencing kits for researchers

Industry Focus eBook - Cell biology (5th edition) eBook

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

Advancing Intracellular Delivery with LumiPore®

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