Tech and Gadget Healthcare AI is Booming | Digital Science Sep 10, 2018 Emerging technologies are disrupting the healthcare system as we know it—none more so than artificial intelligence (AI), which has a wide range of…
Tech and Gadget How a hormone helps plants build leaves’ ventilation system | Digital Science Sep 8, 2018 As the world heats up, plants face a dilemma — the same tiny holes they have to open to exchange gases also let out water. They can close the holes,…
Tech and Gadget Unleashing TIGER on small RNAs | Digital Science Sep 8, 2018 Credit: CC0 Public Domain Efforts to explore the landscape of small RNAs (sRNAs)—short RNA molecules that are poorly understood—often use…
Tech and Gadget Alpha Tau raises $29M to fund trials of alpha-emitting seeds for treating solid tumors | Digital… Sep 8, 2018 Tel Aviv-based Alpha Tau Medical has raised $29 million in private financing to support its radiation-emitting implants for treating various solid…
Tech and Gadget Protecting rice plants by exploiting their natural defences | Digital Science Sep 7, 2018 The extraction process. Credit: Universiti Putra Malaysia An analysis of the chemical signals sent out by rice plants under attack by the brown…
Tech and Gadget Researchers study how a hormone helps plants build leaves’ ventilation system | Digital Science Sep 7, 2018 View through a microscope of a young, wild-type Arabidopsis thaliana seedling with fluorescent protein marking the plasma membrane. Credit: Anne…
Tech Tips & Tricks Five Women Who Changed Modern Technology and Science | Tips & Tricks Sep 6, 2018 Women are thought generally to have the biggest impact on the families they may raise. However a woman’s influence often times spreads far, and…
Tech News update Theranos bleeds dry, company to dissolve: WSJ | Digital Science Sep 6, 2018 Theranos, the one-time Silicon Valley biotech star valued at more than $9 billion, has ultimately run out of money, employees and time. It will…
Tech News update Sexual development in fungi | Digital Science Sep 5, 2018 Biologists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen have gained new insights into specific enzymes that effect the…
Tech and Gadget Fulcrum Therapeutics gets off $80M series B round | Digital Science Sep 5, 2018 Fierce 15 winner Fulcrum Therapeutics has pulled in an impressive $80 million series B financing deal as it looks to push on with its lead drug into…