Month: October 2020

HKU researchers reveal the historic range and diversity of corals in the Greater Bay area for the last 5,000 yearsCredit: ...

Upgraded GMRT measures the mass of hydrogen in distant galaxies

Credit: Rakesh Rao A team of astronomers from the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA-TIFR) in Pune, and the Raman ...

Repurposing drugs for a pan-coronavirus treatment

Drug targets common across three coronavirus strains could be used for rapid treatment response against emerging coronavirus strainsCredit: Image: Svenja ...

Higher average life expectancy after obesity surgery

Credit: Photo by Malin Arnesson People who have undergone obesity (bariatric) surgery live three years longer, on average, than those ...

The rise of ‘zoom towns’ in the rural west

Growing populations in gateway communities cause urgent planning challenges; the GNAR initiative aims to help local officials prepareCredit: Brian Whitehead/National ...

Entos launches US-based spinout Aegis Life, Inc. to support its global vaccine strategy

Entos Pharmaceuticals announces launch of US-based spinout company Aegis Life, Inc. to support its global vaccine commercialization strategyCredit: Entos Pharmaceuticals ...

Scientists propose potential method for imaging-guided synergistic cancer therapy

Credit: LIU Hongji A joint research team led by Prof. WANG Hui and Prof. LIN Wenchu from the High Magnetic ...

Researchers seek to end unexpected bills for screening colonoscopies

Credit: UVA Health Nearly 1 in 8 commercially insured patients nationwide who underwent an elective colonoscopy between 2012 and 2017 ...

Small RNA as a central player in infections

Credit: (Image: Chair of Molecular Infection Biology II / University of Wuerzburg / SCIGRAPHIX) More than half of the world's ...

Insilico partners with Taisho on end-to-end AI-powered senolytic drug discovery

Insilico partners with Taisho Pharmaceutical on end-to-end AI-powered senolytic drug discovery. Leading Japanese pharmaceutical company to engage Insilico Medicine on ...

Star clusters are only the tip of the iceberg

Finding lost star siblingsCredit: © Stefan Meingast, made with Gaia Sky "Clusters form big families of stars that can stay ...

INRS invests $1 million in research on COVID-19 to respond to society’s urgent needs

INRS is announcing an investment of $1 million for research on COVID-19Credit: INRS Quebec City and Montreal, October 15, 2020 ...

Laser technology measures biomass in world’s largest trees

Credit: Mat Disney Laser technology has been used to measure the volume and biomass of giant Californian redwood trees for ...

New tool enables easy, effective disease tracking

Scientists in Cambodia have used the new IDseq tool to confirm and sequence the whole genome of the country's first ...

Australian research shows NASA’s James Webb telescopes will reveal hidden galaxies

Blinding glare of quasars can be overcomeCredit: NASA Two new studies from the University of Melbourne will help the largest, ...

Strategic interventions in dairy production in developing countries can help meet growing global demand for milk

Dairy production in developing countries highlighted in November issue of the Journal of Dairy Science®Credit: Adesogan, A.T. and G.E. Dahl. ...

Mapping out rest stops for migrating birds

New metric can help determine when birds fly over a site or stop to refuel or restCredit: Colorado State University/ ...

Could an existing vaccine make COVID-19 less deadly? Mexico City study provides support

A prospective observational study testing the concept of trained immunity for protection from severe COVID-19 reported milder symptoms in COVID ...

Beak bone reveals pterosaur like no other

Credit: Megan Jacobs, University of Portsmouth A new species of small pterosaur - similar in size to a turkey - ...

Glitter litter could be damaging rivers – study