Month: September 2020

A new tool developed by Penn Medicine researchers informs users about their potential exposure to hydraulic fracturing chemicalsCredit: Penn Medicine ...

Self-harm content on Instagram: “self-harm or self-help?”

Credit: University of Otago Instagram users who post self-harm content online are choosing ambiguous hashtags in an attempt to circumvent ...

Let them eat rocks

$4.2 million grant to uncover mysteries of deep earth-dwelling microbesCredit: (Danny Newman and Mia Maltz/UCR) UC Riverside is leading an ...

Photoacoustic microscopy for identifying sentinel lymph nodes of breast cancer

Credit: by Yanfeng Dai, Xiang Yu, Jianshuang Wei, Fanxin Zeng, Yiran Li, Xiaoquan Yang, Qingming Luo, Zhihong Zhang Accurate detection ...

New NCCN resource for understanding childhood leukemia

New NCCN Guidelines for Patients: Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia offers a comprehensive look at the latest expert recommendations for treating ...

Glycans in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein play active role in infection

Credit: Adapted from ACS Central Science 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.0c01056 As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, researchers are working overtime to ...

Breakthrough for tomorrow’s dentistry

Credit: Gustav Martensson New knowledge on the cellular makeup and growth of teeth can expedite developments in regenerative dentistry - ...

A cheaper, faster COVID-19 test

Credit: Stefan Zimmerman Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a method for fast, cheap, yet accurate testing for COVID-19 infection. ...

Fourth large-scale COVID-19 vaccine trial begins in the United States

Trial evaluating investigational Janssen COVID-19 vaccineCredit: The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson A fourth Phase 3 clinical trial ...

Jaws of death: USU Eastern paleontologist renames giant, prehistoric marine lizard

Prehistoric Museum curator Joshua Lively describes a new genus of mosasaur that roamed the oceansCredit: BYU PRICE, UTAH, USA - ...

Controlling ultrastrong light-matter coupling at room temperature

Credit: Illustration: Denis Baranov, Chalmers University of Technology Physicists at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, together with colleagues in ...

Startup focused on genomics data joins national health care accelerator

Credit: Karyosoft/Rajesh Perianayagam WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue Foundry-affiliated company with a growing reputation as a search engine for ...

Analysis reveals heart-related side effects of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine

Credit: Dr. Elad Maor As the antimalarial drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine have drawn attention as potential therapies for COVID-19 and ...

Inside the secret lives of synchronous fireflies

Credit: Peleg Lab During typical summers in the southeastern U.S., streams of visitors travel to Great Smoky Mountains National Park ...

Mount Sinai researchers develop COVID-19 mortality prediction model

Credit: Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Bottom Line: Given the toll that ...

Global change ecologist leads NASA satellite study of rapid greening across Arctic tundra

International team of researchers finds the region has become greener as warmer air and soil temperatures lead to increased plant ...

Stanford psychologists investigate COVID-19’s mental toll on teenagers

Credit: Rajpreet Chahal The COVID-19 crisis has taken a psychological toll on people of all ages, but one group especially ...

New approach to exotic quantum matter

Credit: ICFO While in a three-dimensional world, all particles must be either fermions or bosons, it is known that in ...

Perspective on employment rates after spinal cord injury – 30 years after the ADA

Experts detail new paradigms of vocational rehabilitation that are fostering measurable progress in employment outcomes for individuals with spinal cord ...

Wound therapy device might not lower infection risk in women with obesity after C-section