Key switchgrass genes identified, which could mean better biofuels ahead
Credit: Jason Bonnette, The University of Texas at Austin Biologists believe they are one step closer to a long-held goal ...
Month: January 2021
Targeted health messaging needed in era of vaping, researchers say
Credit: University of Otago Health authorities should develop targeted health messages for vaping product and e-liquid packaging to encourage smokers ...
How climate caprices can trigger plants
Credit: (Picture: Kenji Fukushima) Plants and other organisms can adapt their phenotypes to fluctuating environmental conditions within certain limits. The ...
Engineers share model for ventilating two patients with one ventilator
Open-source model is shared to help medics around the world case of ventilator shortfallsCredit: University of Bath As Covid-19 continues ...
Griffith receives 2021 Pioneer in Basic Science Award
Credit: UTHSC Memphis, Tenn. (January 26, 2021) -When Andrew Griffith, MD, PhD, looks at the inner ear, he sees what ...
Researcher receives grant to study poverty-health connection in primary care delivery
Credit: UTHSC Memphis, Tenn. (January 26, 2021)- Shelley White-Means, PhD, a professor of health economics at the University of Tennessee ...
Unlocking PTSD: New study reveals why trauma-focused psychotherapy treatment works
Credit: Dell Medical School p>AUSTIN, Texas -- Trauma-focused psychotherapy is widely considered the best available treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder ...
New study identifies bird species that could spread ticks and Lyme disease
Global synthesis reveals bird traits that promote Lyme and flags high-risk speciesCredit: Credit: Fyn Kynd. Birds play an underrecognized role ...
RENACER, a national hospital network to boost research into brain metastases, is launched
Credit: CNIO Last January 25th, the bylaws of the National Brain Metastasis Network (or RENACER, its acronym in Spanish) were ...
Toho university scientists find new mechanism to keep cell death pathway suppressed
Credit: Hiroyasu Nakano In our body, unnecessary cells are removed by regulated cell death. Understanding of the mechanism underlying regulated ...
Healthy lifespan analysis using nematodes
New technology enables the search for genes and substances that could extend healthy lifespansCredit: Associate Professor Tsuyoshi Shuto A research ...
A vacuum-ultraviolet laser with submicrometer spot for spatially resolved photoemission spectroscopy
Credit: by Yuanhao Mao, Dong Zhao, Shen Yan, Hongjia Zhang, Juan Li, Kai Han, Xiaojun Xu, Chuan Guo, Lexian Yang, ...
Ultra-absorptive nanofiber swabs could improve SARS-CoV-2 test sensitivity
Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04956 Rapid, sensitive diagnosis of COVID-19 is essential for early treatment, contact tracing ...
Carbon-chomping soil bacteria may pose hidden climate risk
Credit: Judy Q. Yang Much of the earth's carbon is trapped in soil, and scientists have assumed that potential climate-warming ...
Ancient proteins help track early milk drinking in Africa
New research shows milk consumption in eastern Africa began before the evolution of lactase persistenceCredit: A. Janzen Tracking milk drinking ...
Genome-editing tool TALEN outperforms CRISPR-Cas9 in tightly packed DNA
Credit: Composite photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers used single-molecule imaging to compare the genome-editing tools CRISPR-Cas9 ...
Children can bypass age verification procedures in popular social media apps
Lero study shows children can bypass apps' age verification measures by lyingCredit: Photo by Piquant Children of all ages can ...
Pace of prehistoric human innovation could be revealed by ‘linguistic thermometer’
Physics expert joins forces with linguists to better model the pastCredit: Image from Martin Sanchez on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/ Multi-disciplinary researchers ...
Secrets of traumatic stress hidden in the brain are exposed
Effects of an allostatic closed-loop neurotechnology (HIRREM) on brain functional connectivity laterality in military-relatedtraumatic stressCredit: © Cereset and Wake Forrest ...
World’s largest opinion survey on climate change: Majority call for wide-ranging action
UNDP's 'Peoples' Climate Vote' reflects views of over half the world's population after results processed by Oxford University; 64% believe climate change is a global emergencyCredit: UNDP ...
