A Louisiana bill proposed fining pedestrians $25 for using cell phones in crosswalks. The bill's sponsor aimed to promote public safety and situational awareness. It faced bipartisan opposition, with ...

Data centres use huge amounts of energy and chips are in high demand – could brain cells be the answer? Australia-based start-up Cortical Labs has announced it is building two “biological” data ...

Mitochondria are essential for cell survival, repair, and adaptation. Not only do they generate most of the energy needed during a cell's life, but they also regulate cell death, calcium balance, and ...

Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and ...

The Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (iCONM, Center Director: Prof. Kazunori Kataoka) is pleased to announce that research conducted by a group led by Shingo Ueno, Deputy Principal Research Scientist ...

Gov. JB Pritzker is renewing his push to ban students from using cell phones in Illinois schools, aiming to improve student performance and protect children's mental health. The governor is backing ...

A bipartisan bill that would prohibit student cell phone use during the school day passed the Pennsylvania State Senate on Tuesday and now moves to the House for consideration. A cell phone locker is ...

Legislation to ban student cell phone use in class moved one step closer to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's desk. The Michigan Senate voted on a pair of bills Thursday, Jan. 22 that would prohibit students ...

Aging taps us on the shoulder in many ways: wrinkles, thinning hair, loss of flexibility, slowing of the brain. But the process also unfolds at a more fundamental, microscopic level, as the energy ...

Iron-nitrogen-carbon catalysts have the potential to replace the more expensive platinum catalysts currently used in fuel cells. This is shown by a study conducted by researchers from the ...

Phenotypical screening assays involving adherent cell culture are essential for research in cell biology and toxicology as well as drug discovery. Such assays often involve hundreds of culture ...