Researchers at the University of Southampton and the University of Leicester are trialling a drug that could boost the body’s immune system to fight off mesothelioma, which can be caused
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Instagram launches Story Search for hashtags and locations
Instagram Stories wants to be your window into what’s going on around a topic or place right now, so it’s adding a way to search Stories two months after Snapchat
Pinterest brings full dish recognition to its Lens camera search
In a move that may seem like an early step toward hitting a ridiculously high valuation, Pinterest is now adding to its Lens camera search the ability to recognize complete dishes.
Twitter is giving brands a new way to promote their chatbots
Twitter has found its own way to participate in the growing chatbot trend. The company announced today a new feature for advertisers, which allows businesses on Twitter to promote ads designed
Life in the Precambrian may have been much livelier than previously thought
Scientists have found It extremely difficult to fit these Precambrian species into the tree of life. That is because they lived in a time before organisms developed the ability to
Study shows differences in brain activity between men, women who are obese
Researchers from UCLA found that women who are obese showed more prominent changes in the reward system related to dopamine responsiveness, suggesting that emotion-related and compulsive eating play a larger
Herpetologists describe an elf frog from the elfin forests in southern Vietnam
The name of the new amphibian (Ophryophryne elfina) derives from European mythology and translates to “elfish eyebrow toad.” Despite being recently discovered, the new species is already considered to be
Epigenetic program leading to vessel differentiation
Regenerative medicine has made remarkable progress due to research with embryonic stem (ES) cells and induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. However, the mechanism of how blood vessels are constructed from
Using seaweed to kill invasive ants
The researchers found the “hydrogel” baits, which look like liquid gel pills but have a jello-like consistency, reduced ant populations 40 to 68 percent after four weeks. After a second
Using seaweed to kill invasive ants
The researchers found the “hydrogel” baits, which look like liquid gel pills but have a jello-like consistency, reduced ant populations 40 to 68 percent after four weeks. After a second
Understanding the architecture of our ‘second brain’
The findings, published in Science, reveal how the enteric nervous system — a chaotic network of half a billion nerve cells and many more supporting cells inside the gut wall
Fueling the future
The Royal Society of Chemistry journal Energy Environmental Science recently published research by a team from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Oklahoma investigating the full life cycle
Researchers develop protocol to analyze many cells at once
With the new FISH-Flow protocol, researchers are able to evaluate multitudes of cells at once for telltale mRNA species and proteins. The blended procedure provides a chance to see how
Snapchat now lets you create custom stories for groups of friends and family
Snapchat is adding the ability to create custom stories limited to specific friends, or to direct contacts and their friends within a geofenced area. These new custom sttories otherwise operate
Predicting influenza outbreaks faster with a digitally-empowered wearable device
“The fact that we were able to predict influenza outbreaks faster than China’s national surveillance programs really shows the capacity for everyday, wearable digital health devices to track the spread