Malaria risk is highest in early evening, study finds
Credit: Eunho Suh, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Wide-scale use of insecticide-treated bed nets has led to substantial declines ...
Month: May 2020
User research at BESSY II: How new materials increase the efficiency of direct ethanol fuel cells
Credit: B.Matos/IPEN Ethanol has five times higher volumetric energy density (6.7 kWh/L) than hydrogen (1.3 kWh/L) and can be used ...
Russia creates its own humanized mice to test COVID-19 vaccines and drugs
Credit: Vladislav Maslov Following the recent Coronavirus outbreak, almost three million people have been infected worldwide, whereas the death toll ...
COVID-19 study: Impact of social distancing on older adults
Credit: University of Stirling The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social contact, loneliness, wellbeing and physical activity in older ...
To make an atom-sized machine, you need a quantum mechanic
Researchers in Singapore turn a single atom into a quantum engine and a quantum fridgeCredit: Aki Honda / Centre for ...
Study to determine incidence of novel coronavirus infection in US children begins
NIH-funded study also will ascertain percentage of infected children who develop COVID-19Credit: NIAID A study to help determine the rate ...
Activating an estrogen receptor can stop pancreatic cancer cells from growing
Penn study shows GPER activation in mice can also make tumors more visible to immune systemCredit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - ...
Eleven human genomes in nine days
The dawn of good, fast and cheap human genome assembly has arrived, thanks in part to collaboration and innovation by ...
Could a polio vaccine stop the coronavirus pandemic? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, May 4, 2020 -- The COVID-19 pandemic has scientists considering a few less-conventional options ...
Foraging Drosophila flies are open for new microbial partners
Their openness to associate with previously unknown yeasts could be a crucial factor for the emergence of new Drosophila speciesCredit: ...
How to put neurons into cages
Using microscopically fine 3D printing technologies from TU Wien (Vienna) and sound waves used as tweezers at Stanford University (California), ...
Discovery of bacterial enzyme activity could lead to new sugar-based drugs
Researchers from DTU have revealed the structure of an enzyme that can convert low-cost sugars into hard-to-produce alpha-GalNAc sugars with ...
NAU scientists develop interactive disease models to predict regional spread of COVID-19
Credit: Photo courtesy of Northern Arizona University Joe Mihaljevic, mathematical epidemiologist and assistant professor in Northern Arizona University's School of ...
Scientists invented an aging vaccine
Professor Viktor Seledtsov, a senior researcher at the IKBFU Center of Medical Biotechnologies and Alexei von Delwig, a researcher at ...