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As some countries and companies roll out new rules to limit animal testing in pharmaceutical products designed for people, scientists are stepping in with a new way to test therapeutic drug candidates and determine drug safety and drug interactions — without using animals. The development of “chemosynthetic livers,” which could dramatically alter how drugs are made, was presented at the 247th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society.
The detection of gravitational waves by the BICEP2 experiment at the South Pole supports the cosmic inflation theory of how the universe came to be. The discovery, made in part by Stanford University Assistant Professor Chao-Lin Kuo, supports the theoretical work of Stanford's Andrei Linde.
Participation made possible by combination of NSF and industry funds.
Indiana University plays key role in consortium; 1,468 new genes discovered.
Study of records from the University of California system reveals surprising findings
Study shows that dogs, like humans, sometimes inappropriately choose to ignore the quantity of a reward
Sparks fly when head hits rocks in the rough, potentially igniting brush
Physicists reveal that the real-time dynamics in a football game are subject to self-similarity characteristics in keeping with the laws of physics
A new app which turns any smartphone into a portable medical diagnostic device could help in the fight against diseases including HIV, tuberculosis and malaria in the developing world.
Influential policy-informing 'evidence' that children's brains are irreversibly 'sculpted' by parental care is questionable.
What can fruitflies tell us about decision making?
