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Industrial Bread Dough Kneaders Could Use Physics-Based Redesign

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 26, 2019 — Bakers have been crafting bread for more than 6,000 years with four simple ingredients: flour, salt, water and yeast. Apart from […]

Laying Out Directions for Future of Reliable Blood Clotting Molecule Models

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 19, 2019 — Blood clots have long been implicated in heart attacks and strokes, together accounting for almost half of deaths annually in the […]

Birds of a Feather Flock Together, But How Do They Decide Where to Go?

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 19, 2019 — Coordinated behavior is common in a variety of biological systems, such as insect swarms, fish schools and bacterial colonies. But the […]

Tiny Filters Help Detect Cancerous Blood Cells

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 19, 2019 — Multiple myeloma is a type of blood cancer in which malignant plasma cells, a type of white blood cell, accumulate in […]

Spray Painting Fiber Bandages onto Wounds

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 12, 2019 — With newly developed technology, medical personnel can manufacture a bandage with drug-delivery capabilities directly onto a wound. Electrospinning is a well-developed […]

Using Sound Waves to Remotely Target Drugs to Tumors

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 12, 2019 — The lack of a clinically viable method to track and direct cancer drugs to tumors is a big problem for targeted […]

Century-Old Food Testing Method Updated to Include Complex Fluid Dynamics

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 8, 2019 — The texture of food, including properties that determine how consumers experience biting and swallowing, is an important part of development of […]

Structured Light Promises Path to Faster, More Secure Communications

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 29, 2019 — Structured light is a fancy way to describe patterns or pictures of light, but deservedly so as it promises future communications […]

Prisoner’s Dilemma Game Reveals Cooperation Leads to Leadership

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 23, 2019 — Game theory is a field which applies mathematics to understand the science behind logical decision-making behavior and social structures. Game theory […]