Collaborate Disseminate
While we’ve been hearing a lot about wearable piezoelectric devices that produce electricity from people’s movements, such gadgets don’t work well under certain conditions. A new bioelectric wearable, however, could excel where they falter.Continue Rea… Continue reading Stretchable wearable device uses tiny magnets to generate electricity
Microbial fuel cells are a promising new technology for generating electricity, but so far they’re plagued by inefficiency. Now, researchers at UCLA have found a way to wring more energy out of them, by feeding the bacteria silver to make them more con… Continue reading Silver-infused bacteria build more efficient microbial fuel cells
An international team of scientists has calculated that a crewed mission to Mars should only last a maximum of four years if the astronauts’ health isn’t to be endangered by prolonged exposure to cosmic radiation.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, Scienc… Continue reading Radiation could restrict crewed Mars missions to less than four years
An experimental gene therapy developed to treat children born with a rare immunodeficiency disease has demonstrated extraordinary efficacy according to a new long-term follow-up study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.Continue ReadingCat… Continue reading Experimental gene therapy points to cure for rare immune disease
Spinal cord injuries lead to permanent paralysis, and unfortunately there isn’t much that doctors can do to repair the damage. But a new study may help improve the outcomes, with researchers from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) showing … Continue reading Injectable scaffolds help repair nerves after spinal injuries
Growing simplified, miniature versions of human brains in the lab can provide researchers with an invaluable model for studying cognitive disorders and how disease takes hold in this incredibly complex organ, and recently we’re seeing how these organoi… Continue reading Lab-grown brain organoids found to mature at same rate as an infant’s
Five years ago, we heard how a team at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) had used ultrasound to seemingly “jump start” a patient out of a coma. At the time, the scientists wondered if such results could be repeated, or if their success w… Continue reading Two more coma patients’ brains jump-started with ultrasound
A new study from researchers at Princeton University and the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, projects the COVID-19 pandemic to potentially generate the largest single-year decline in US life expectancy since the 1918 influenza pandemic…. Continue reading COVID-19 pandemic triggers largest drop in US life expectancy in decades
Lightning strikes are a major trigger for wildfires, including the record-breaking blazes that devastated Australia, California and other regions this year. An international research team has now demonstrated a method that could effectively control whe… Continue reading Graphene tractor beams could one day redirect lightning strikes
Scar tissue is an effective short-term solution to quickly patch up wounded skin, but it’s not so great long-term. Now, researchers at Duke University and UCLA have created a new hydrogel that can trigger a regenerative immune response, helping skin he… Continue reading Wound-healing hydrogel reduces scars by triggering immune response