Engineers Build Chemically Driven Wheels That “Morph” Into Gears to Perform Mechanical Work
Shifting Gears Toward Chemical Machines The gear is one of the oldest mechanical tools in human history1 and led to machines ranging from early irrigation…
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Method Invented to “Sketch” Quantum Devices With Focused Electrons
Technique is 10,000 faster than previous methods, and can create active nanostructured gates directly below two-dimensional materials such as graphene. It has long been a…
Llama Nanobodies Could Be a Powerful New Weapon Against COVID-19
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine describe, in the journal Science, a new method to extract tiny but extremely powerful SARS-CoV-2 antibody…
Rapid Method Finds Potent COVID-19 Antibody Among a Trillion Possibilities
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists have discovered the fastest way to identify potent, neutralizing human monoclonal antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes…
Why Pandemics and Epidemics – Such As COVID-19 – Can Exacerbate Racism and Xenophobia
When viruses, parasites, and other pathogens spread, humans and other animals tend to hunker down with immediate family and peer groups to avoid outsiders as…
Ab8 COVID-19 Drug Breakthrough: Tiny Antibody Component Completely Neutralizes the SARS-CoV-2 Virus
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists have isolated the smallest biological molecule to date that completely and specifically neutralizes the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is…
Individual Biocontainment Unit – Because Plexiglass Alone Doesn’t Protect Against Aerosolized SARS-CoV-2
Especially in settings where personal protective equipment, or PPE, is in short supply, intubation — inserting a breathing tube down a patient’s throat — poses…
Survival in Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients Improved With Corticosteroids
In a tremendous demonstration of global collaboration, clinician-scientists have pooled data from 121 hospitals in eight countries to find that inexpensive, widely available steroids improve…
Learning of Foreign Language Sounds Boosted by Non-invasive Nerve Stimulation
New research by neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh and University of California San Francisco (UCSF) revealed that a simple, earbud-like device developed at UCSF…
Men Scoring Higher on “Man Box” Scale Are Prone to Mental Illness and Violence
Researchers at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and Promundo-US found that men who harbor more harmful attitudes about masculinity — including beliefs about aggression and…
Artificial Intelligence Identifies Prostate Cancer With Near-Perfect Accuracy
A study published today (July 27, 2020) in The Lancet Digital Health by UPMC and University of Pittsburgh researchers demonstrates the highest accuracy to date in…
Why Do People Believe Con Artists?
What is real can seem pretty arbitrary. It’s easy to be fooled by misinformation disguised as news and deep fake videos showing people doing things…
Mini Human Livers Grown in Lab Successfully Transplanted Into Rats
Using skin cells from human volunteers, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have created fully functional mini livers, which they then transplanted…
Promising New COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Developed
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists today announced a potential vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic. When tested in mice,…
Discovery of a New Electronic State of Matter May Advance Second Quantum Revolution
Discovery shows electrons can bind together in ways similar to how quarks combine to form neutrons and protons. A research team led by professors from…
Got Slime? Regenerative Biology Used to Restore Mucus Production
Lance Davidson of the University of Pittsburgh published an article in Nature Communications detailing that tissue mechanics can drive the regeneration of goblet cells on…
Dramatically Improved Potency When TB Vaccine Delivered Intravenously
Worldwide, more people die from tuberculosis (TB) than any other infectious disease, even though the vast majority were vaccinated. The vaccine just isn’t that reliable….
Carbon Nanotubes Show a Love/Hate Relationship With Water
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are valuable for a wide variety of applications. Made of graphene sheets rolled into tubes 10,000 times smaller than a human hair,…
