Mouse study finds link between gut disease and brain injury in premature infants
Credit: C. Zhou, C. Sodhi and D. J. Hackam, Johns Hopkins Medicine Physicians have long known that necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), ...
Month: January 2021
A new approach to study autoimmune diseases
Research team determines that the "Immune only" focus of current research must be updated to better understand autoimmune diseases such ...
uOttawa study shows that mindfulness can help ease the pain of breast cancer survivors
Credit: University of Ottawa A study led by University of Ottawa researchers provides empirical evidence that mindfulness has a significant ...
Light-based processors boost machine-learning processing
Credit: University of Oxford The exponential growth of data traffic in our digital age poses some real challenges on processing ...
Toxin chimeras slip therapeutics into neurons to treat botulism in animals
Credit: Taking advantage of the chemical properties of botulism toxins, two teams of researchers have fashioned non-toxic versions of these ...
Resist the resistance: fighting the good fight against bacteria
Credit: The Medina Group/Penn State Drug-resistant bacteria could lead to more deaths than cancer by 2050, according to a report ...
Majority of biotech companies completing an IPO from 1997-2016 achieved product approvals
Biotech companies completing IPOs continue to initiate new product development, but 78% were conventional small molecule drugs, not biologicalsCredit: Center ...
Physicists observe competition between magnetic orders
Nature study: Research team at the University of Bonn gains insights into novel quantum phenomenaCredit: © Marcell Gall, Nicola Wurz ...
Old silicon learns new tricks
Researchers from Nara Institute of Science and Technology fabricated arrays of atomically smooth iron-coated silicon pyramids, with unusual magnetic propertiesCredit: ...
Citizenship tasks tax women physicians
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, January 6, 2021--Women physicians feel pressured to spend more time in ...
A prognostic Alzheimer’s disease blood test in the symptom-free stage
Memory deficit is a normal side effect of aging; at what point does memory loss become pathological?Credit: Michael Schwettmann Using ...
Light-carrying chips advance machine learning
International team of researchers uses photonic networks for pattern recognitionCredit: WWU/AG Pernice In the digital age, data traffic is growing ...
Guinea baboons grunt with an accent
Credit: Julia Fischer/German Primate Center Musical masterworks as the Queen of the Night's Aria from Mozart's The Magic Flute, are ...
Researchers turn coal powder into graphite in microwave oven
Credit: Chris Masi Using copper foil, glass containers and a conventional household microwave oven, University of Wyoming researchers have demonstrated ...
A better pen-and-ink system for drawing flexible circuits
Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsaelm.0c00866 Conductive ink is a great tool for printing flexible electronic ...
Israel can expect a major earthquake of 6.5 on the Richter scale in the coming years
For the first time in Israel: Drilling under the bed of the Dead Sea; Documents 220,000 years of earthquakesCredit: Tel ...
DNA-editing method shows promise to treat mouse model of progeria
Using a recently developed DNA base-editing technique, researchers correct accelerating aging disorderCredit: Ernesto del Aguila III, NHGRI Researchers have successfully ...
Chinese scientists uncover gene for rice adaption to low soil nitrogen
Credit: IGDB Chinese scientists from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have ...
When Uber and Lyft enter cities, vehicle ownership increases
Credit: Jeremy Michalek When ridesourcing companies Uber and Lyft show up in urban areas, vehicle registrations per capita increase by ...
2D CaCl crystals with +1 calcium ions displaying unexpected metallicity and ferromagnetism
Credit: @Science China Press Calcium ions are presented in rocks, bones, shells, biominerals, geological deposits, ocean sediments, and many other ...
