BEIJING, Feb 10– Researchers in China have developed improved at-home test strips that can quickly and accurately detect feline and canine parvoviruses, potentially helping pet owners identify life-threatening infections earlier, according to a study published…
TOKYO, Feb 6 – Japanese and German researchers have independently synthesized a new class of silicon-based compounds that could expand the element’s role beyond semiconductors and industrial materials. A team led by Professor Takeaki Iwamoto…
Fluorescent polymer points the finger at traces of explosive devices. [caption id="attachment_13248" align="alignright" width="300"] The polymer-coated polymer readily could detect fingerprints contaminated with traces of four common high explosives, including TNT Reprinted from Ref. 1…
An investigational treatment that mimics a key clotting enzyme is effective, safe, and may one day eliminate the need for blood products for people with the rare, life-threatening blood disease hereditary thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP),…
[caption id="attachment_13241" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit: ESA/Herschel/NASA/JPL-Caltech; acknowledgement: R. Hurt (JPL-Caltech), CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO[/caption] This delicate image showing the intricacies of interstellar bubbles and wisps reveals great turmoil in the W3/W4/W5 complex of molecular clouds…
[caption id="attachment_13237" align="alignnone" width="643"] UW–Madison Arboretum ecologist Brad Herrick displays several jumping worms that surfaced to escape irritating mustard poured on the soil. PHOTO: ERIC HAMILTON[/caption] From Fitchburg to Governor’s Island and Monona to Middleton,…