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Using 4D Printing To Enable Vascularization, Bone Tissue Regeneration, Spinal Fusion

WASHINGTON, May 4, 2021 — Spinal fusion is frequently performed to restore spinal stability in patients with spinal diseases, such as spinal stenosis, vertebral fractures, progressive deformities, […]

Circadian Rhythm Research Could Turn Early Birds into Night Owls

WASHINGTON, May 4, 2021 — How body clocks work could lead to science that can turn an early bird into a night owl or vice versa as […]

Cellphone Converts Into Powerful Chemical Detector

WASHINGTON, May 4, 2021 — Scientists from Texas A&M have developed an extension to an ordinary cellphone that turns it into an instrument capable of detecting chemicals, […]

Polymer-Based Coatings on Metallic Implants Improve Bone-Implant Integration

WASHINGTON, April 27, 2021 — Traffic accidents, tumor resections, and congenital diseases can cause significant trauma, which can lead to large bone deformations and/or bone loss. Although […]

Nontoxic, Flexible Energy Converters Could Power Wearable Devices

WASHINGTON, April 27, 2021 — A wide variety of portable and wearable electronics have become a large part of our daily lives, so a group of Stanford […]

Solar-Powered Desalination Unit Shows Great Promise

WASHINGTON, April 27, 2021 — Despite the vast amount of water on Earth, most of it is nonpotable seawater. Freshwater accounts for only about 2.5% of the […]

Benefits of AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Outweigh Its Risks

WASHINGTON, April 27, 2021 — The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is suspected of being linked to a small number of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) cases, which recently emerged […]

Detecting, Exploiting Non-Line-of-Sight Paths for Terahertz Signals in Wireless Communications

WASHINGTON, April 27, 2021 — If a base station in a local area network tries to use a directional beam to transmit a signal to a user […]

Boosting Fiber Optics Communications with Advanced Quantum-Enhanced Receiver

WASHINGTON, April 20, 2021 — Fiber optic technology is the holy grail of high-speed, long-distance telecommunications. Still, with the continuing exponential growth of internet traffic, researchers are […]