Creating good friction: Pitt engineers aim to make floors less slippery
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More than 140,000 workers suffer from fall-related injuries each year, causing significant human suffering and an economic cost of $10 billion in Workers’ Compensation. Approximately half of occupational falls are caused by slipping. An under-explored way to prevent these slip-and-fall events is to design flooring for workplaces with high friction performance. Supported by a NIOSH grant, University of Pittsburgh professors will study the flooring factors that lead to friction.
In mice with high-risk neuroblastoma, tumors disappeared in response to a new combination treatment with precision medicines, a recent study from University of Gothenburg researchers shows. This is a vital step toward a potentially curative treatment for a form of cancer affecting young children that is currently difficult to treat.
The National Cancer Institute has awarded Mount Sinai researchers $3.15 million in grant funding to assess the potential of a multidisciplinary drug development platform to identify new biological targets for precision-based therapeutics for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The platform includes precision mouse models, tumor 3D organoids, and a proprietary library of small molecule inhibitors.
According to a new study from the University of Vaasa, bank liquidity creation decreases systemic risk at the individual bank level in the U.S. Nevertheless, the results also indicate that liquidity creation can strengthen the systemic linkage of individual banks to severe shocks in the financial system.
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the establishment of a new Collaborative Research Center (CRC) in the field of materials science, in which Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) is participating with a pioneering subproject. In addition, the existing CRC 1292 coordinated by JGU was approved for a further funding period of four years.
The reason some people get COVID-19, face hospitalization and die may have more to do with underlying health conditions, where they were born, live and work, and their access to testing and care, according to a new Rutgers study.
New research by RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences suggests that effective wound healing may be aided by replicating a crucial component of our blood.