Month: February 2021

Credit: Courtesy of Darren Bidulka (Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, Toronto)--Results of a world-first Canadian pilot study on patients treated with ...

How SARS-CoV-2’s sugar-coated shield helps activate the virus

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is coated with sugars called glycans, which help it evade the immune system; new ...

Antibodies recognize and attack different SARS-CoV-2 spike shapes

The spikes on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, change shapes; new research reveals ways that antibodies can recognize these ...

Scientists reveal details of antibodies that work against Zika virus

Research from the California Institute of Technology shows exactly how antibodies stick to and block the Zika virus, which will ...

Scientists uncover new details of SARS-CoV-2 interactions with human cells

In order to infect cells, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, needs to insert itself into the membrane of human ...

Why some coronavirus strains are more infectious than others

The coronaviruses that cause SARS and COVID-19 have spike proteins that move into 'active' and 'inactive' positions, and new research ...

Chimpanzees and humans share overlapping territories

Credit: E Bersacola and Kim Hockings / Cantanhez Chimpanzee Project Chimpanzees and humans "overlap" in their use of forests and ...

Allergy season starts earlier each year due to climate change and pollen transport

Scientists in Munich study how pollen from far distances -- sometimes hundreds of kilometers away -- affects the length of ...

A-maze-ing pheasants have two ways of navigating

Credit: Pip Laker Pheasants fall into two groups in terms of how they find their way around - and the ...

UM scientists achieve breakthrough in culturing corals and sea anemones cells

Credit: Mike Connelly MIAMI--Researchers have perfected the recipe for keeping sea anemone and coral cells alive in a petri dish ...

CAR T-cell therapy generates lasting remissions in patients with multiple myeloma

In the KarMMa trial, ide-cel produces remissions in almost 75% of patients who had relapsed after several previous treatments; Trial ...

Bearded seals are loud — but not loud enough

Vocal threshold may hamper survival of this Arctic speciesCredit: Michael Cameron, NOAA Ithaca, NY-- During mating season, male bearded seals ...

Study finds human-caused North Atlantic right whale deaths are being undercounted

As recent sightings of entangled whales raise alarm, scientists say annual counts of right whale carcasses do a poor job ...

New shape-changing 4D materials hold promise for morphodynamic tissue engineering

Shape-changing scaffold for tissue engineeringCredit: Yu Bin Lee New hydrogel-based materials that can change shape in response to psychological stimuli, ...

Parker Solar Probe offers stunning view of Venus

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured stunning views of Venus during ...

Researchers use machine learning to identify autism blood biomarkers

Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - Feb. 24, 2021 - Using machine learning tools to analyze hundreds of proteins, ...

Paleontologists discover new insect group after solving 150-year-old mystery

SFU-led research team uncovers how fossil dragonfly relatives have been misclassified due to their striking similarityCredit: Copyright Zootaxa, used by ...

Tool that more efficiently analyzes ocean color data will become part of NASA program

Stevens uses machine learning-driven techniques to develop a long-awaited tool that better reveals the health of Earth's oceans and the ...

Embracing our excremental selves

In her latest book, Mary Foltz examines the ways several postmodern authors produce scatological works to critique how humans treat ...

Over 80% of Atlantic Rainforest remnants have been impacted by human activity