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More than forty million people worldwide live with type 1 diabetes, which means they live with 1-2 insulin injections every single day. It’s painful, it’s annoying, and it interferes with their quality of life. Worse, because most people don’t like needles, they often skip injections they desperately need.   In the words of the research Read the full article…

Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin have made an exciting breakthrough, and they’ve done it in the unlikeliest way imaginable. They developed an innovative device that’s surprisingly good at identifying hard-to-detect nerve agents like Sarin gas and VX.   That by itself is exciting news, but the team did it using free software, Read the full article…

  If you’ve ever suffered a broken bone, you know the story. The bone is set, or in the case of an especially bad break, plates or screws are inserted, followed by a cast designed to keep everything stable, and then comes the waiting. Weeks and weeks of waiting for the bone to mend. It’s Read the full article…

  Researchers at Kyoto University, in Japan, have stumbled onto something big. They’ve designed a prototype material that can change and retain its shape, which is a function known as the “shape-memory effect.”   It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, and until recently it has been, but the team has made amazing progress. Read the full article…

  You may not have heard of Lee Berk, but if you’re a chocoholic, he and his research team have just given people who love chocolate (dark chocolate, that is) all the more reason to smile.   Mr. Berk is the associate dean of research affairs at the School of Allied Health Professions at Loma Read the full article…

  Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” as it is more commonly called, has become a highly politicized issue with loud voices on both sides engaged in a continuous tug of war.   On one side are the people speaking for industry, citing jobs and the various economic benefits by finding new ways to get our hands Read the full article…

Amy Gimson and her research team at the UK’s University of Southampton’s Faculty of Medicine has been busy. They recently completed a massive meta study, sifting through mountains of data contained in more than 3500 studies that have been done on the long-term effects of anxiety.   It was a tricky proposition, given that anxiety Read the full article…

Almost everyone diets at some point in their life, and it’s no secret that we’ve got a large and growing problem with obesity in the United States, so clearly, the diets (which are part of a vast, multi-billion dollar industry) aren’t working as advertised.  If they were, we wouldn’t be in the pickle we’re currently Read the full article…

An exciting new study, recently published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry promises to change the game where dealing with drug-resistant bacteria is concerned.   The CDC has been warning for years that antibiotic resistance is “one of the world’s most pressing public health problems,” and the statistics certainly bear this out.  Each year, estimates Read the full article…

An exciting development from the National University of Singapore, where researchers have developed a microfluidic chip that uses a standard laboratory microscope and is able to reliably spot nano-biomolecules without the use of fluorescent dyes, no complex lab equipment needed.   The chip was developed by a team led by Professor Zhang Yong from the Read the full article…