First human case of avian influenza A(H5N1) in Europe
Following an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) in a flock of around 125 Muscovy ducks in a domestic ...
Month: February 2022
Researchers aim to improve stroke recovery with new granular biomaterials
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that someone in the United States has a stroke every 40 seconds. ...
Approval for testicular re-implantation to restore fertility after childhood cancer treatment
The research group of Prof Dr Ellen Goossens (VUB) hopes to be the first in the world to re-implant previously ...
Detecting Diagnostic DNA: A Microfluidic Gated Device for Extraction of Cell-free DNA
In the war against cancer, the first step towards treating them is an accurate diagnosis of the problem. A technique ...
Underwater ‘breathing’ plants could be key to stress-resistant crops
Wetland plants have a high tolerance against flooding due to the formation of “lysigenous aerenchyma,” air channels that help transfer ...
University of South Florida awarded five-year, $1.35 million NIH institutional grant to train scientists in vascular inflammation and injury research
TAMPA, Fla. (Feb. 4, 2022) -- The University of South Florida recently received a highly competitive National Institutes of Health ...
Mosquitoes are seeing red: These new findings about their vision could help you hide from these disease vectors
Beating the bite of mosquitoes this spring and summer could hinge on your attire and your skin. New research led ...
Fluent speech is guided by a sensorimotor error-detection network in the brain
Research by Adeen Flinker and Müge Özker at New York University reports regions of the brain that signal when the ...
Improving air quality associated with slower cognitive decline in women
Improvements in air quality are associated with slower cognitive decline in women, according to a new study led by Diana ...
How to get chloride ions into the cell
Many bacteria and unicellular algae have light-driven pumps in their cell membranes: proteins that change shape when exposed to photons ...
Sharp decline in reported severity of ocean acidification impacts on fish behaviour
As humans fill the atmosphere with excess carbon dioxide, much of it gets absorbed by the oceans, acidifying them—a potential ...
Are scientists being fooled by bacteria?
For decades, a small group of cutting-edge medical researchers have been studying a biochemical, DNA tagging system, which switches genes ...
Celebrating its 10th year, the Capture the Fracture network welcomes its 700th FLS
The International Osteoporosis Foundation’s (IOF) Capture the Fracture® program, which this year proudly marks a decade of operation, has welcomed the 700th ...
When it comes to obesity, the problem isn’t an excess of fat but its loss of function, researchers argue
Obesity is known to cause cardiometabolic diseases like hypertension and diabetes but attributing these diseases to merely an overabundance of ...
Silencing tool quashes gene activity across generations
A gene-silencing tool could enable new opportunities for advancing basic biomedical research and drug development.Credit: © 2022 KAUST; Veronica Moraru. ...
We are what we eat, and more: Shaping our microbiome
We now know that the microbes that live in our intestines – our microbiome – influence our health in many ...
Cutting off liver cancer’s nutrient supply chain
The World Health Organization projects that starting in 2030, over a million people will die each year from liver cancer. Cold Spring ...
Study reveals how migraine pain signals are generated—and blocked
An international team of researchers has discovered that Schwann cells—which are abundant in the peripheral nervous system and create a ...
Wisdom engendered: study finds men and women have different strengths
Previous studies have shown that wisdom is a personality trait underpinning mental health and well-being. Recently, researchers at University of ...
Tackling an epidemic
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced that drug overdose deaths topped 100,000 for the first time ...
