After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely? A few years ago, I started looking online to fill in chapters of my family history that no ...
Tags: imagining, post-antibiotics, future
Ultraviolet (UV) light usually are light waves with 100 to 280 nanometer (nm) wavelengths, according to a report by Chinese-language newspaper Science and Technology Daily. These lights are mostly used to kill germs, medically, and in ...
RWTH Aachen University has reported the first small-signal response frequency characteristics for p-channel gallium nitride (GaN) heterostructure field-effect transistors (HFETs) [Herwig Hahn et al, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., vol52, p128001, ...
Tags: GaN HFETs GaN MOCVD, Electrical, Electronics
Married couples who are heavy drinkers and those who don't drink tend to stay married, but couples with one heavy drinker tend to divorce, U.S. researchers say. Lead author Kenneth Leonard, director of the University of Buffalo Research ...
Almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamias, pecans, pine nuts and pistachios are linked to a 20 percent lower death rate, U.S. researchers say. Lead author Dr. Ying Bao of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School ...
DNA-based prediction of taller-than-average body height is feasible, say researchers in the Netherlands and Sweden. Professor Manfred Kayser of the Department of Forensic Molecular Biology at Erasmus University Medical Center in ...
Lower-income youth with kidney disease, even when prescribed growth hormone, are less likely to grow to a normal height, U.S. researchers say. Dr. Susan Furth, a researcher at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and lead author of the ...
UK festive shoppers are predicted to spend 19bn on food and drink over the Christmas and New Year period, says grocery think tank IGD. Festive finance: Food and drink spending is expected to reach 19bn this Christmas and New Year ...
Researchers from the University of Adelaide are trying their best to find out the ways to exploit nanoparticles and their interactions with light. A 1,700-year-old Roman glass cup has opened a gate for researchers, which they believe would ...
Tags: Nanoparticles Properties, Glass
Membrane-free electrodeionisation (MFEDI) has been proposed and tested for high-purity water production. Regeneration was also effective, with the resins retaining their good deionisation efficiency even after repeated regeneration. ...
US agriculture readies for China's baby boom? Apple's revamped 'Siri' takes on agriculture's questions California: Home of the food lawsuit Just as the State of California was readying growers for what they pretty much expected – ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Inovio Pharmaceuticals has announced that preclinical testing of a DNA synthetic vaccine for the virulent Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS) induced robust and durable immune responses, demonstrating the potential for a ...
Tags: DNA Vaccine, MERS Virus
Posted in Cardiovascular by Qmed Staff on November 22, 2013 Researchers at the Cardiovascular Innovation Institute hope to create a 3-D-printed bioartificial heart in the next decade. The bioartificial heart would be designed from a ...
If Sesame Street characters talk about healthy eating and exercise, preschoolers may listen, and their parents may learn as well, researchers in Colombia say. Dr. Jaime Cespedes, director of the Pediatric Hospital at the Cardioinfantil ...
Global crop production in 2013 will see slight increases in key crops with a more notable rise for wheat, Chinese researchers said in the country's maiden report for an initiative assessing crops around the world. Drafted by a research ...
Tags: Crop Output, Wheat, Food