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New 'e-dermis' brings sense of touch, pain to prosthetic hands
(Johns Hopkins University) Engineers have created an electronic 'skin' in an effort to restore a real sense of touch for amputees using prosthetics.
In mice, stem cells seem to work in fighting obesity! What about stem cells in humans?
(Bentham Science Publishers) This release aims to summarize the available literature in regard to the effect of Mesenchymal Stem Cells transplantation on obesity and related comorbidities from the animal model. This helpful to justify going forward w...
Better model of water under extreme conditions could aid understanding of Earth's mantle
(University of Chicago) A team of University of Chicago scientists ran quantum simulations to develop a new model of the behavior of water at extremely high temperatures and pressures. The computational measurements, published June 18 in the Proceedi...
Rare in-vivo study shows weak brain nodes have strong influence on memory network
(City College of New York) The majority of existing simulation studies show that the parts of the brain with high connectivity, the so-called 'hubs', are most important when it comes to several different cognitive tasks. But the results of...
End the War on Weed
Federal marijuana laws are counterproductive and overly harsh-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The seed that could bring clean water to millions
(College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University) Carnegie Mellon University's Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering Professors Bob Tilton and Todd Przybycien recently co-authored a paper with Ph.D. students Brittany Nordmark and To...
Fossils show ancient primates had grooming claws as well as nails
(University of Florida) Humans and other primates are outliers among mammals for having nails instead of claws. But how, when and why we transitioned from claws to nails has been an evolutionary head-scratcher.
Chameleon-inspired nanolaser changes colors
(Northwestern University) Chameleons change color by controlling the spacing among nanocrystals on their skin. Northwestern University's nanolaser changes color similarly -- by controlling the spacing among metal nanoparticles.
Potential to replace race as a risk factor for kidney-transplant failure
(Children's National Health System) Marva Moxey-Mims, M.D., FASN, says APOLLO study researchers hope that clarifying the role of the APOL1 gene in kidney-transplant failure could lead to fewer discarded kidneys, which could boost the number of a...
Separating Families May Cause Lifelong Health Damage
A noted pediatrician and advocate for immigrant children says the effects will last well beyond the separation-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com