Speciesism, like racism, imperils humanity and the planet
With the world’s population topping 8 billion last year, it’s clear that humans have achieved a unique status in Earth’s ...
Month: January 2023
Another step toward an insulin tablet
For the millions of people living with diabetes, insulin is a life-saving drug. Unlike many other medicines, though, insulin cannot ...
Families with food insecurity have greater health care expenditures
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Jan. 9, 2023 – Food insecurity, which is the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe ...
NSF awards UMBC’s Lauren Clay $624K Convergence Accelerator grant to address food insecurity in disasters
Longstanding food insecurity problems in the U.S. and around the world, exacerbated by the pandemic, are projected to increase over ...
Nanoplastics unexpectedly produce reactive oxidizing species when exposed to light
Plastics are ubiquitous in our society, found in packaging and bottles as well as making up more than 18% of ...
nTIDE December 2022 Jobs Report: Hot job market continues for people with disabilities despite efforts to cool the economy
East Hanover, NJ – January 6, 2023 – Persistent efforts to cool the economy had no effect on jobseekers with ...
Study reveals average age at conception for men versus women over past 250,000 years
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The length of a specific generation can tell us a lot about the biology and social organization ...
Rice University scientists get fungi to spill their secrets
HOUSTON – (Jan. 6, 2023) – As anyone who has ever attended a cocktail party can tell you, shedding inhibitions ...
Indigenous territories and protected areas are key to forest conservation in the Brazilian Amazon, study shows
A research study led by researchers with the Center for Earth Observation and Modeling at the University of Oklahoma analyzed ...
First-in-kind amputated human limb model to study imaging probes for human tissues
The nascent field of fluorescence-guided surgery (FGS) is fast growing, with potential to vastly improve the safety and efficacy of ...
Lab lights way to simple chemical synthesis
HOUSTON – (Jan. 6, 2023) – Inexpensive iron salts are a key to simplifying the manufacture of essential precursors for ...
Genes & Cancer | Pathogenesis to management of hepatocellular carcinoma
BUFFALO, NY- January 6, 2023 – A new review was published in Genes & Cancer on December 13, 2022, entitled, ...
Advancing health and health equity across the globe
Joint press release by Charité and the Einstein Foundation Berlin A new platform for global health is being created within ...
New Chinese Medical Journal article discusses metabolic reprogramming of tumor-associated macrophages
Cancer is a complex disease and although billions of dollars have been spent on finding safe and effective therapeutics for ...
Marine plankton tell the long story of ocean health, and maybe human too
Using samples from an almost century-old, ongoing survey of marine plankton, researchers at University of California San Diego School of ...
From grave to cradle: Collagen-induced gut cell reprogramming
Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) find that collagen deposition at sites of intestinal injury activates inflammatory and ...
Electricity harvesting from evaporation, raindrops and moisture inspired by nature
Raindrops, evaporating water, and even moisture in the air are all potentially sources of decentralized clean electricity generation, but many ...
Cooling 100 million degree plasma with a hydrogen-neon mixture ice pellet
At ITER – the world’s largest experimental fusion reactor, currently under construction in France through international cooperation – the abrupt ...
Physicists confirm effective wave growth theory in space
A team from Nagoya University in Japan has observed, for the first time, the energy transferring from resonant electrons to ...
BRIGHT outlook: A brief cognitive behavioral therapy appears promising for head and neck cancer survivors suffering from body-image distress
Talking, smiling, eating together – these are all social activities that are inherent to the human experience. But for some ...
