Instead of searching for a needle in a haystack, what if you were able to sweep the entire haystack to one side, leaving only the needle behind? That’s the strategy researchers in the University of Georgia College of Engineering followed in developing a new microfluidic device that separates elusive circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from a sample of whole blood.
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Stanford Researchers Map Symbiotic Relationships Between Trees and Microbes Worldwide
In and around the tangled roots of the forest floor, fungi and bacteria grow with trees, exchanging nutrients for carbon in a vast, global marketplace.
How We Make Complex Decisions
When making a complex decision, we often break the problem down into a series of smaller decisions.
Scientists Find 238 Tons of Plastic Waste on Remote Indian Ocean Islands
The Cocos Keeling Islands, a remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean, are covered with an estimated 414 million pieces of plastic pollution, weighing 238 tons, according to a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports.
Study Finds 24 Percent of West Antarctic Ice Is Now Unstable
In only 25 years, ocean melting has caused ice thinning to spread across West Antarctica so rapidly that a quarter of its glacier ice is now affected, according to a new study.
Some Populations May Disappear Faster Than Anticipated, According to Researchers
Accurately predicting whether, and when, a species may go extinct has never been more critical.
