STEM News from Around The World

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  New Therapy for Hearing Loss

  October 17, 2018

  Researchers have taken an important step toward what may become a new approach to restore the hearing loss. In a new study, out today in the European Journal of Neuroscience, scientists have been able to regrow [...]
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  First example of a bioelectronic medicine

  October 15, 2018

  Researchers at Northwestern University and Washington University School of Medicine have developed the first example of a bioelectronic medicine: an implantable, biodegradable wireless device that speeds nerve regeneration and improves the healing of a damaged [...]
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  GHSCIENTIFIC RECEIVES WELLCOME FUND FOR A HISTORIC ART AND SCIENCE PROJECT.

  October 8, 2018

  GhScientifc has today announced the receipt of £87,600 from Wellcome as part of the newly launched Wellcome engagement fund. The project, “Evolution of science in Ghana (Past, Present, Future)” is a 30 months partnership project [...]
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  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2018

  October 5, 2018

  The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition [...]
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  Sound can be used to print

  September 1, 2018

  Harvard University researchers have developed a new printing method that uses sound waves to generate droplets from liquids with an unprecedented range of composition and viscosity. This technique could finally enable the manufacturing of many [...]
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  A good night’s sleep: Not too long and not too short

  September 1, 2018

  Researchers have found a sweet spot of six to eight hours sleep a night is most beneficial for heart health. More or less is detrimental. Their findings are presented today at ESC Congress 2018. Study [...]