Method to derive blood vessel cells from skin cells suggests ways to slow aging
Salk study is the first to reveal ways cells from the human circulatory system change with age and age-related diseasesCredit: ...
Month: September 2020
MIT press first reads series continues with ‘Viruses, pandemics, and immunity’
From MIT's Arup K. Chakraborty and immunologist Andrey ShawCredit: The MIT PRESS, 2020. Throughout history, humans have contended with pandemics. ...
Innovative, minimally invasive treatment can help maintain prostate cancer patients’ quality of life
New study suggests that high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation is effective against prostate cancer with decreased side effects and improved recovery ...
Glasgow Coma Scale: A simple tool to use when verbal component scores are missing
Credit: Copyright 2020 AANS. Charlottesville, VA (September 8, 2020). The University of Glasgow's Sir Graham Teasdale, co-creator of the Glasgow ...
Children use both brain hemispheres to understand language, unlike adults
Credit: Elissa Newport WASHINGTON -- Infants and young children have brains with a superpower, of sorts, say Georgetown University Medical ...
Acorn woodpeckers wage days-long battles over vacant territories, radio tag data show
Credit: Neil Losin When acorn woodpeckers inhabiting high-quality territories die, nearby birds begin a battle royal to win the vacant ...
African wild dogs have vestigial first digit and muscular adaptations for life on the run
Anatomists identify a vestigial first digit in the forelimb of the African wild dog and document anatomical adaptations to its ...
Viruses play critical role in evolution and survival of the species
Study says endogenous retroviruses help promote genetic diversity and speciationCredit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - As the world scrambles to control ...
Improving European healthcare through cell-based interceptive medicine
Credit: Felix Petermann, MDC Hundreds of innovators, research pioneers, clinicians, industry leaders and policy makers from all around Europe are ...
New surgical tools with smart sensors can advance cardiac surgery and therapy
A new class of medical instruments equipped with a soft electronics system improves diagnostic and therapeutic interventions in minimally invasive ...
The brain can induce diabetes remission in rodents, but how?
Fibroblast growth factor 1 effects on specific brain cell types, and on nets that enmesh neurons, inform how it restores ...
Genetic study of proteins is a breakthrough in drug development for complex diseases
Credit: Dr Jie Zheng An innovative genetic study of blood protein levels, led by researchers in the MRC Integrative Epidemiology ...
A new twist on DNA origami
Meta-DNA structures transform the DNA nanotechnology worldCredit: Hao Yan A team* of scientists from ASU and Shanghai Jiao Tong University ...
Gene test can predict risk of medications causing liver injury
Organoid-related discovery may also help drug makers screen potential pharmaceuticalsCredit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI--Scientists who were working on a way to ...
COVID-19 patients suffer long-term lung and heart damage but it can improve with time
Coronavirus patients recover faster if they undergo rehabilitation as soon as possible after coming off ventilators or leaving intensive careCredit: ...
Quality over quantity in recovering language after stroke
New Edith Cowan University (ECU) research has found that intensive therapy is not necessarily best when it comes to treating ...
New public-private projects to speed fusion energy development come to PPPL
Credit: Photos and collage by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications World-class expertise in confining and stabilizing the plasma that fuels ...
Painting with light: Novel nanopillars precisely control intensity of transmitted light
The approach has potential applications in improving optical communications and making currency harder to counterfeitCredit: T. Xu/Nanjing University By shining ...
Scientists predicted new hard and superhard ternary compounds
Credit: A. Kvashnin et al./Chemistry of Materials Scientists from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), Institute of Solid ...
How screen time and green time may affect youth psychological outcomes
Credit: Oswald TK, et al (2020); PLOS ONE, CC BY 4.0 Less screen time and more green time are associated ...
