What is your dog’s lifespan? You might be surprised
How old is your dog in human years? And what factors contribute to a long and healthy life for a ...
Month: February 2022
Liang named Medical Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender Health
Johns Hopkins Medicine has announced that plastic and reconstructive surgeon Fan Liang, M.D., will become the next medical director of ...
FAU scientists uncover ‘missing’ plastics deep in the ocean
About 51 trillion microplastics are floating in the surface waters of oceans around the world. Originating from various types of ...
COVID forecasting method using hospital and cellphone data proves it can reliably guide US cities through pandemic threats
AUSTIN, Texas – Using cellphone mobility data and COVID-19 hospital admissions data, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin ...
Improving vascular graft integration into the body
A graft can be a life-saving device for coronary heart disease, which remains the leading cause of death for both ...
Unique strengths and facilitators in American Indian and Alaska Native communities can help reduce food insecurity
Philadelphia, February 2, 2022 -- Urban dwelling American Indian and Alaska Native older adults face multiple layers of challenges related ...
Hummingbirds exert fine control over body heat
Ithaca, NY—At night, hummingbirds lower their body temperature and metabolism drastically by dropping into an energy-saving state of inactivity called ...
Scientists pack centuries of organic chemistry into neat 2D visualization
Researchers from Skoltech, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and Sirius University of Science and Technology have proposed a new method for visualizing ...
Genome study finds unexpected variation in a fundamental RNA gene
A genome study undertaken by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers to look for variants in a gene considered a ...
NIAID pandemic preparedness plan targets ‘prototype’ and priority pathogens
WHAT: As the global COVID-19 pandemic continues into its third year, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), ...
SwRI add capability for testing hydrogen and natural gas blends
SAN ANTONIO — Feb. 2, 2022 —Southwest Research Institute has upgraded its test equipment to allow for testing the effects ...
Flavor your food with ‘flavanols’ to burn excess fat, new study suggests
In cold conditions, brown adipose tissue (BAT) or brown fat generates heat to keep the body warm. Compared with white ...
The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Fahrig, Levin and Pickett for incorporating the spatial dimension into ecological science and applying it to the design of nature reserves and more sustainable cities
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology has gone in this fourteenth edition to the ...
Untangling a DNA replication mystery may lead to new antimalarial drugs
The function of an enzyme, critical to most forms of life, has been revealed. Credit: Shannon McKie The function of an ...
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