Month: February 2021

Credit: Rayne Zaayman-Gallant/EMBL In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was established that SARS-CoV-2 infects cells by binding ...

Cold sores: Discovery reveals how stress, illness and even sunburn trigger flareups

Credit: Courtesy Cliffe lab at UVA Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have shed light on what ...

Mail-in sperm testing system just as reliable in predicting male fertility as tests performed in clinic settings

Keck Medicine of USC study shows that semen can accurately be tested up to 52 hours after being collected, offering ...

New coloring book salutes women pioneers in STEM

In honor of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Vilcek Foundation shares a free publication celebrating women ...

Common pipistrelle bats attracted to wind turbines

Credit: Fiona Mathews One of the most abundant bats in Europe may be attracted to wind turbines, a new study ...

Bringing bad proteins back into the fold

Study reveals mechanism used to regulate chaperone proteins, which guide other proteins into proper shapesCredit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS ...

Gene variants increase risk of Addison’s disease

Credit: Karolinska Institutet Variants of nine genes increase the risk of developing Addison's disease, a rare disease in which the ...

Family ties explain mysterious social life of coral gobies

Credit: Jim Greenfield The strange social structure of tiny fish called emerald coral gobies may be explained by family loyalty, ...

New turntable-like catalytic reactor promises more sustainable chemical manufacturing

Spinning Disc Mesh Reactor developed by Bath chemical engineers could make pharmaceuticals production safer and more sustainableCredit: University of Bath ...

Tiny population of neurons may have big role in depression

Credit: Phil Jones, freelance photographer A tiny population of neurons known to be important to appetite appear to also have ...

Biosensors monitor plant well-being in real time

Diurnal in vivo xylem sap glucose and sucrose monitoring using implantable organic electrochemical transistor sensorsCredit: Thor Balkhed Researchers at Linköping ...

Researchers explore how to protect gut integrity to improve outcomes in blood cancers

Cancer researchers at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center discovered that a single strain of Bacteroides fragilis significantly reduced graft-versus-host disease by ...

COVID-infected mothers separated from their babies affects breastfeeding outcomes

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, February 10, 2021--It may be safe for COVID-infected mothers to maintain ...

Caution: 1918 influenza provides warning for potential future pandemic reemergence

Credit: Siddarth Chandra EAST LANSING, Mich. - The 1918 influenza pandemic provides a cautionary tale for what the future may ...

Nanoparticle gel unites oil and water in manufacturing-friendly approach

Novel gel-creation method could open applications in water filtration, other applicationsCredit: N. Hanacek / NIST Oil and water may not ...

Hidden conflict in the mutually beneficial relationship between legumes and rhizobia

Credit: K. Quides Orange, Calif. - The mutually beneficial relationship between legumes and rhizobia, the nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria that make ...

Computational medicine — moving from uncertainty to precision

Collaboration between Dell Med, Oden Institute, TACC, industry, government establishes Texas as a leader in computational medicineCredit: UT Austin Individual ...

HL-LHC Accelerator Upgrade Project receives approval to move full-speed-ahead from DOE

Credit: Photo: Ryan Postel, Fermilab The U.S. Department of Energy has formally approved the start of execution of the High-Luminosity ...

Origami powered by light

Pitt and CMU researchers develop high-torque light-powered actuatorCredit: Mahnoush Babaei If you watch the leaves of a plant long enough, ...

New targets for the development of a drug treatment for obesity and type 2 diabetes