Month: April 2020

Credit: Marisa Estivill Deaths of children and adolescents in China due to infectious diseases were becoming rare prior to the ...

Daughter cells carry memory from mother on decision to divide

Credit: Mingwei Min When do cells decide to divide? For 40 years, the textbook answer has been that this decision ...

A combined optical transmitter and receiver

Bidirectional optical signal transmission between two identical devices using perovskite diodesCredit: Magnus Johansson Researchers at Linköping University, together with colleagues ...

Researchers develop a computer simulator that recreates the spread of COVID-19 in Europe

Credit: UC3M A team of Spanish researchers have designed and validated a simulator to enable study of the evolution of ...

New molecular mechanism that regulates the sentinel cells of the immune system

CNIC's study suggests that it may be possible to regulate the number and activity of these macrophages with drugs that ...

ASCE/EMI awards Dan M. Frangopol 2020 Alfred M. Freudenthal Medal

Lehigh University civil engineering professor, life-cycle engineering pioneer recognized with lifetime achievement awardCredit: Lehigh University Dan M. Frangopol, the inaugural ...

Study shows ICU patients with low-risk penicillin allergies can be tested and treated

Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center Many patients previously diagnosed with a penicillin allergy can have their allergy label removed after ...

When three species of human ancestor walked the Earth

Credit: Angeline Leece. An international team, including Arizona State University researcher Gary Schwartz, have unearthed the earliest known skull of ...

Gut communicates with the entire brain through cross-talking neurons

Credit: University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. - You know that feeling in your gut? We think of it as an ...

Coastal pollution reduces genetic diversity of corals, reef resilience

Credit: Zac Forsman A new study by researchers at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth ...

Scientists show how parasitic infection causes seizures, psychiatric illness for some

Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists show how infection rewires brainCredit: Virginia Tech Think about traffic flow in a city - ...

Researchers solve structure of ‘inverted’ rhodopsin

Credit: K. Kovalev et. al. Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, working with Spanish, French, and German ...

Scientists develop ‘backpack’ computers to track wild animals in hard-to-reach habitats

Lightweight wireless network enables precise mapping of bats' social networksCredit: Simon Ripperger COLUMBUS, Ohio - To truly understand an animal ...

A new way to fine-tune exotic materials: Thin, stretch and clamp

Turning a brittle oxide into a flexible membrane and stretching it on a tiny apparatus flipped it from a conducting ...

Trial drug can significantly block early stages of COVID-19 in engineered human tissues

'There is hope for this horrible pandemic,' says UBC scientist Dr. Josef PenningerCredit: IMBA/Tibor Kulcsar An international team led by ...

Trial drug may block early stages of COVID-19, study in human cells shows

Credit: Bildmakarna A drug already tested against lung disease could potentially inhibit COVID-19 by reducing the coronavirus load that enters ...

New app could help panic attack sufferers manage anxiety during coronavirus pandemic

Credit: Sally McC ay For the nearly 36 million Americans who experience panic attacks, the coronavirus pandemic is a potentially ...

Study synthesizes what climate change means for Northwest wildfires

Credit: Darryl Lloyd Recent years have brought unusually large and damaging wildfires to the Pacific Northwest - from the Carlton ...

Colorado study overturns ‘snapshot’ model of cell cycle in use since 1974

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Cells have a big decision: Should they replicate or sleep? Healthy cells can go ...

Turning cells into computers with protein logic gates