Bioengineering
Giving voice to the voiceless through assistive technology
Artificial skin coupled with sensors and machine learning technology allows people with voice disorders to communicate using soundless mouth movements.
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Bioengineering
A new approach to rare disease diagnosis
An innovative AI-based tool leverages varied symptom descriptions, along with evidence from the scientific literature and genomic datasets, to pinpoint disease-associated gene variants.
Bioscience
COVID-19 mutations and their links with excessive immune responses
Mutations on a key SARS-CoV-2 viral protein are linked to extreme immune responses and could offer a novel vaccine target.
Bioengineering
Fungal enzymes may enhance provitamin A content and stability in crop plants
A simple enzymatic pathway taken from fungi can enhance the production and storage of provitamin A in crop plants.
Applied Physics
Rethinking and rigor brings promising protein for cancer therapy
Drugs that inhibit a key protein should offer new targeted cancer therapy for leukemia and breast cancer.
Chemistry
Scintillating new X-ray imaging
Less hazardous and more sensitive and eco-friendly scintillating compounds could greatly improve X-ray imaging technologies.
Chemistry
Laser treatment boosts battery performance
Pulses of light tune MXene’s structure to improve energy storage and battery stability.
Marine Science
Ocean current comes to the rescue for Pacific island reefs
Surprising changes to a Pacific Ocean current during one of the strongest recorded El Niños saved a remote island’s coral reefs while others were devastated by mass bleaching.
Computer Science
Smart in-memory light sensors perform image recognition
Light-sensitive memory elements that can be programmed optically offer promise for more efficient real-time image analysis.
Plant Science
Uncovering new mechanisms for wheat rust resistance
Research highlights the emerging role of unusual kinase fusion proteins in wheat disease resistance.
Chemical Engineering
Renewable route to rubber material
A venerable industrial method for making butadiene bounces back to prominence.
Material Science and Engineering
Single-atom catalyst for cancer detection
An electronic sensor based on individual atoms anchored to MXene nanomaterials can detect tumor-specific biomarkers.
Marine Science
Tools for coral gardening at the landscape scale
Minimalist art has inspired a set of tools to maximize coral restoration.
Mechanical Engineering
Droplets reach lift-off
A drop of water is completely removed from a surface when a deformable sphere falls on it.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Bacterial route to cleaner catalysis
An electroactive bacterium generates well-defined nanosized metal catalysts with remarkable water-splitting performance.
Bioscience
RNA: Don’t kill the messenger
A newly found protein complex plays a vital role in RNA protection and stability during its journey between DNA and the cell’s protein factory.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Upcycled plastic membrane helps clean up waste
Plant-derived biosolvents enable the sustainable conversion of plastic waste into valuable membrane materials.
Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering
Understanding how gas evolves could help the transition from fossil fuels
A novel modeling technique provides
valuable insights into the maturation of oil and gas in the Tuwaiq Mountain shale
formation.
Marine Science
Northern Red Sea reefs resist bleaching in warming seas
While corals die out worldwide, resistant reefs in the northern Red Sea could endure a dire global warming scenario.
Electrical Engineering
Metalens offers superior off-axis focus
A flat all-dielectric reflector metalens
design could benefit optical imaging, manipulation and
communications.