Month: October 2020

Credit: RMIT University Scientists have developed a next generation wound dressing that can detect infection and improve healing in burns, ...

Immune failure can cause serious COVID-19

Persons with critical corona-disease may have antibodies blocking the body´s most important defence mechanisms.Credit: Ingvild Festervoll Melien While most people ...

FAU researchers receive $1.3 million NIH grant for stem cell research

FAU Schmidt College of Medicine scientists will analyze stem cell activation with a focus on age-related and degenerative diseasesCredit: Alex ...

From puppyhood to senior age: Different personality traits age differently

Dogs' personality changes over time, but these changes occur unevenly during the dogs' life, and each trait follows a distinct ...

Study confirms plastics threat to south pacific seabirds

Credit: Canterbury Museum Plastic gathered from remote corners of the South Pacific Ocean, including nesting areas of New Zealand albatrosses, ...

Wolves attached – Adult wolves miss their human handler in separation similar to dogs

Adult, intensively socialised wolves form individualized social bonds with their human handlersCredit: Photo: Paula Pérez Fraga Based on the new ...

Research demonstrates a molecular dance that keeps your heart beating

Credit: WSU It might look like a little game at the molecular scale. Filament-like proteins in heart muscle cells have ...

Finding its way to the top: How a cell surface receptor reaches its destination

Credit: Kim Ratliff, Production Coordinator, Augusta University Dr. Guangyu Wu is dissecting the molecular homing that enables a nascent protein ...

An innovative method to tune lasers toward infrared wavelengths

Researchers at Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) have discovered a cost-effective way to tune the spectrum of a ...

Scientists shed new light on viruses’ role in coral bleaching

Credit: (photo by Andrew Thurber, OSU). CORVALLIS, Ore. - Scientists at Oregon State University have shown that viral infection is ...

DNA-peptide interactions create complex behaviours which may have helped shape biology

Researchers find that simple DNA-peptide interactions create a surprising diversity of compartmentalised higher-ordered phase behaviours, suggesting that these polymers' primordial ...

American Pikas show resiliency in the face of global warming

Credit: Andrew Smith, Arizona State University The American pika is a charismatic, diminutive relative of rabbits that some researchers say ...

3D metal printer at College of Dental Medicine expands possibilities for innovation

Credit: MUSC When the Zucker Institute for Applied Neurosciences at the Medical University of South Carolina needed to bring to ...

Trees and lawns beat the heat

Mixed landscapes are the best way to adapt to climate change and mitigate the heat island effect in semi-arid regionsCredit: ...

To make mini-organs grow faster, give them a squeeze

Study finds that compressing cells, and crowding their contents, can coax them to grow and divideCredit: Yiwei Li The closer ...

NASA sees Tropical Storm Nangka soaking Hainan Island

Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL Using a NASA satellite rainfall product that incorporates data from satellites and observations, NASA estimated Nangka's rainfall ...

College of Medicine researcher makes novel discoveries in preventing epileptic seizures

Credit: Colin Hackley A team of researchers from the Florida State University College of Medicine has found that an amino ...

Sleep health dictates success of practicing mindfulness

Credit: University of South Florida Sleeping an extra 29 minutes each night can be the key to improving mindfulness, a ...

Kegels: Underused by women to treat and prevent urinary incontinence

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 13, 2020—Kegels are underused to treat and prevent urinary incontinence, ...

Foreign election interference: A global response