High-salt diet impacts health of gut microbiome
Credit: Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (June 9, 2020) - Particularly in females with untreated hypertension, reducing salt intake to what's ...
Month: June 2020
Snapshot of exploding oxygen
New experimental technique with Goethe University's reaction microscope allows 'X-ray' of individual moleculesCredit: Till Jahnke, Goethe University Frankfurt "The smaller ...
Happiness might protect you from gastrointestinal distress
Study suggests that serotonin, known for encouraging happiness and well-being, reduces virulence in pathogenic gut bacteriaCredit: UT Southwestern Medical Center ...
Orthotics breakthrough helps children with Cerebral Palsy walk and play
Children with Cerebral Palsy have more energy to play and be physically active for longer thanks to specially designed orthotics.Credit: ...
An alternative route for studying the intrinsic properties of solid-state materials
Credit: MPI CPfS The physical and chemical properties of intermetallic compounds are governed by the real structure of synthesized materials ...
Phenothiazine derivatives may find use in photodynamic therapy
A paper by Kazan Federal University was published in Russian Chemical BulletinCredit: Kazan Federal University A group on organic compounds ...
Biohybrid model uses organic lungs, synthetic muscles to re-create respiration mechanics
A benchtop model consisting of real lungs, artificial muscles and a diaphragm made of thermoplastic and elastometric material re-creates the ...
New solutions for fabric biogas storage systems
At a test plant, KIT researchers studied how fabric biogas storage systems can be improvedCredit: Photo: Rosemarie Wagner, KIT Biogas ...
California’s climate refugia: Mapping the stable places
Which lands stand the best chance for conservation and wildfire restoration?Credit: UC Davis Some landscapes can hold their own against ...
Student research competition winners honored for outstanding computing projects
Graduate and undergraduate students received travel grants to present their work at major ACM conferencesCredit: Association for Computing Machinery The ...
Disjunct distribution across the equator
A new riffle beetle from Kyushu, JapanCredit: Pensoft publishing The family Elmidae (riffle beetles) is well studied and the existence ...
Spontaneous formation of nanoscale hollow structures could boost battery storage
Credit: Matthew McDowell, Georgia Tech An unexpected property of nanometer-scale antimony crystals -- the spontaneous formation of hollow structures -- ...
Immune cell discovery could improve the fight against hepatitis B
Credit: The Westmead Institute for Medical Research (WIMR) For the first time, researchers at The Westmead Institute for Medical Research ...
Scientists use machine learning to predict major clinical forms of drug cardiotoxicity
Credit: Insilico Medicine June 9, 2020 - We announce the publication of a new research paper titled 'Dual transcriptomic and ...
Magnesium ductility improvement elucidated thru first principles and molecular dynamics simulation
Credit: Daisuke Matsunaka, Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Shinshu University Magnesium is a promising material for use in structural materials ...
New pathway to attack tumor cells identified
Credit: INC-UAB A study led by the Institut de Neurociències (INc-UAB) describes a new strategy to tackle cancer, based on ...
Oregon timber harvests don’t appear to affect rare salamander, study finds
Credit: Tiffany Garcia, Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - A seven-year field experiment on 88 tree stands across Oregon's western ...
Machine learning predicts nanoparticles’ structure and dynamics
Credit: Antti Pihlajamäki/The University of Jyväskylä Researchers at the Nanoscience Center and at the Faculty of Information Technology at the ...
Human presence weakens social relationships of giraffes
Credit: Christian Kiffner The effects of human presence on the social relationships of wild animals have rarely been studied. Even ...
Feeding habits differ by age and sex in Asian black bears: Data may help wildlife experts better manage bears’ habitats
Credit: Hiroshi Yokota A ten-year study shows that Asian black bears' diets vary greatly depending on sex, stage of life, ...
