Wildlife hunting motivations vary across Africa and Europe
Wildlife hunting motivations and resulting ecological consequences vary depending on the socio-economic context across Africa and Europe, according to a ...
Month: August 2022
New therapeutic prospect for preeclampsia
Preeclampsia is a condition that affects the placenta during pregnancy and is dangerous for both the fetus and the mother. ...
Returning to football after COVID-19 infection
BATON ROUGE - A first-of-its-kind study conducted in collaboration with LSU’s School of Kinesiology, LSU Athletics, Pennington Biomedical Research Center ...
Treating, preventing heart attacks with human tissue models
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2022 – A heart attack, or myocardial infarction, is one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide, ...
Medieval mass burial shows centuries-earlier origin of Ashkenazi genetic bottleneck
In 2004, construction workers in Norwich, UK, unearthed human skeletal remains that led to a historical mystery—at least 17 bodies ...
Low-cost disease diagnosis by mapping heart sounds
WASHINGTON, August 30, 2022 – Aortic valve stenosis occurs when the aortic valve narrows, constricting blood flow from the heart ...
Studying the OCD cycle
Ikoma, Japan – Scientists from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute international, and Tamagawa ...
Study will sharpen understanding of precipitation’s influence on aerosols in the atmosphere
LAWRENCE — A new $620,000, three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy will enable a University of Kansas atmospheric ...
Gender-diverse teams produce more novel, higher-impact scientific discoveries, study shows
The number of medical science publications by mixed-gender teams has grown rapidly over the past two decades, but remains underrepresented ...
Sensor-based early detection of age-related diseases from home
Specific changes in our movement patterns can be indicators of several health problems: For instance, decrease in strength often correlates ...
Hydrogel glass: a novel glass design for energy saving in buildings
Energy use in buildings contributes to over 40% of the world’s total energy consumption, of which lighting and space cooling ...
Bone transplant could resolve aging jaw defects
Tohoku University scientists in Japan have made a scaffold that supports the growth of new bone in large jaw defects ...
Dual temperature control system to regulate isoprene biosynthesis in the Baker’s yeast
The Baker’s yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has been extensively engineered to produce a vast variety of chemicals that are not naturally ...
Study reveals molecular brain changes linked to APOE4, the main susceptibility gene for Alzheimer’s disease
Recent breakthroughs have revealed a great deal about Alzheimer’s disease, but researchers have yet to paint a complete picture of ...
Risk of non-typhoidal salmonella vascular infection increases with atherosclerosis, find NCKU researchers
Although foodborne bacteria are a common occurrence, some of them can cause serious and life-threatening infections. Non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) is ...
Danish Minister for Health visits the International Vaccine Institute during official visit to Republic of Korea
Credit: IVI Danish Government to contribute 4 million Danish kroner to IVI in 2022 IVI and the Embassy of Denmark ...
ALMA witnesses deadly star-slinging tug-of-war between merging galaxies
While observing a newly-dormant galaxy using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), scientists discovered ...
Youth engaged in digital self-harm 9 to 15 times more likely to attempt suicide
In the United States, suicide is the second leading cause of death among 10 to 19 year olds, eclipsed only ...
SUTD researchers develop new strategies to teach computers to learn like humans do
Demonstrated by breakthroughs in various fields of artificial intelligence (AI), such as image processing, smart healthcare, self-driving vehicles and smart ...
Global digital health leaders propose framework to enhance research using real-world data
Credit: Cottonbro Journal The BMJ DOI 10.1136/bmj-2021-069048 Article Title CODE-EHR best practice framework for the use of structured electronic healthcare ...