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Researchers design 'biological flashlight' using light-producing ability of shrimp: Using the natural light-producing ability

Researchers design 'biological flashlight' using light-producing ability of shrimp: Using the natural light-producing ability of deep-sea shrimp, a UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher and a team of scientists developed a new imaging tool to help cancer researchers better track tumor...
Source: medicalxpress.com

Disease free water, a global health challenge, commands an international team effort: Peter Vikesland, an expert in the

Disease free water, a global health challenge, commands an international team effort: Peter Vikesland, an expert in the optimization of drinking water disinfection practices and a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, is the principal investigator for a new five-year $3.6...
Source: eurekalert.org

Developing a website in Comic Sans - a dyslexia-friendly site consistent with equality and diversity training. Thanks for

Developing a website in Comic Sans - a dyslexia-friendly site consistent with equality and diversity training. Thanks for the challenge Simon! Here is the work in progress. It turns out that Comic Sans is not entirely web friendly (who'd have thought) but the team at www.comicneue.com have sorted out...
Source: wikipedia.org

Blood-cleansing biospleen device developed for sepsis therapy: Things can go downhill fast when a patient has sepsis, a

Blood-cleansing biospleen device developed for sepsis therapy: Things can go downhill fast when a patient has sepsis, a life-threatening condition in which bacteria or fungi multiply in a patient's blood—often too fast for antibiotics to help. A new device inspired by the human spleen and developed...
Source: medicalxpress.com

The tropical steam-engine: how does El Niño warm the entire globe?: El Niño has a hugely pervasive effect on global temperatures

The tropical steam-engine: how does El Niño warm the entire globe?: El Niño has a hugely pervasive effect on global temperatures - for every degree the tropical Pacific warms, land temperatures warm by 1.5 degrees. How? Because the tropical ocean is a very good heater.
Source: theconversation.com