Research adds new twist to fight against autoimmune diseases
Study in Nature Immunology finds new drivers of destructive inflammationCredit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Scientists describe in Nature Immunology an ...
Month: December 2019
Taking an X-ray of an atomic bond
Credit: Image courtesy of Tiffany Bowman, Brookhaven National Lab. Understanding the behavior of materials at their interfaces - where they ...
Turning light energy into heat to fight disease
Scientists have developed a method involving terahertz radiation to monitor temperature changes when laser light is focused on tiny gold ...
Consider marine life when implementing offshore renewable power
Credit: John Wang With countries such as Iceland, Costa Rica, New Zealand, and Norway adopting green energy practices, renewable energy ...
Nonlinear fureai: How connectedness can nurture complex dynamics across diverse networks
Credit: Ludovico Minati Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology have uncovered some new aspects of how connections in networks can ...
AI improves breast cancer risk prediction
Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. - A sophisticated type of artificial intelligence (AI) can outperform existing ...
New way to identify and track progression of Huntington’s disease
Credit: George Devitt Researchers at the universities of Southampton and Cambridge have developed a new technique to analyse biochemical changes ...
Gastric cancer susceptibility marker discovered
Credit: © Lionel Costa Gastric cancer, the third most common cause of cancer-related deaths, is often associated with a poor ...
Seasonal forecasts challenged by Pacific Ocean warming
Credit: CSHOR CSIRO research has found global warming will make it more difficult to predict multi-year global climate variations, a ...
Moths and perhaps other animals rely on precise timing of neural spikes
Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech Extracting nectar from flowers that may be dancing in the wind requires precise, millisecond timing ...
Study finds Chinese plant biodiversity at risk due to human activity: Narrow-ranged losers, widespread
Credit: WANG Yunquan With intensifying human activity, many species are threatened with extinction. However, many other species have expanded their ...
Protein injections in medicine
One day, medical compounds could be introduced into cells with the help of bacterial toxinsCredit: MPI f. Molecular Physiology Pathogens ...
SUTD scientists developed a sorting technology that isolates cells with high purity and viability
Credit: SUTD Fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) is a modern cell analysis technique for quantitative detection of physiological, biochemical, immunological, ...
Filtered coffee helps prevent type 2 diabetes, show biomarkers in blood samples
Credit: Yen Strandqvist, Chalmers University of Technology Coffee can help reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes - but ...
MIPT researchers close in on new nonvolatile memory
Credit: Andrei Zenkevich/MIPT Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, along with their colleagues from Germany and the ...
Even resilient common species are not immune to environmental crisis
Measures of genetic diversity of a fruit bat common in Singapore decreased 30-fold over the last 90 yearsCredit: ©2013 Simon ...
Good aerobic fitness doesn’t protect children against type 2 diabetes, staying active does
Credit: Eero Haapala Good aerobic fitness does not protect children against obesity-induced insulin resistance, which is a key risk factor ...
Here’s a bitter pill to swallow: Artificial sweeteners may be doing more harm than good
Credit: Creative Commons A $2.2 billion industry to help people lose weight through artificial sweeteners may be contributing to type ...
Agricultural parasite avoids evolutionary arms race, shuts down genes of host plants
Credit: Claude dePamphilis, Penn State A parasitic plant has found a way to circumvent an evolutionary arms race with the ...
Koalas climb like apes but bound on the ground like marsupials
Credit: Kate Berry Spread across the globe, from Central and South America to Japan, non-human primates have a toehold that ...
