Smokers increasingly using e-cigarettes to quit, New Zealand survey shows
Credit: University of Otago People who smoke are increasingly using e-cigarettes to try to quit smoking, a study by researchers...
Tool uses fat in bone and muscle to diagnose disease, predict falls and fractures
Doctors will soon be able to use fat to diagnose musculoskeletal disease within seconds and predict the risk of falls...
Confidence in the authorities’ handling of COVID-19 provides good mental health
Credit: Jonatan Ottesen/UiT In March 2020, Covid-19 was declared a global pandemic, and governments around the world imposed restrictions to...
How researchers look at the bird brain in action
Credit: RUB, Marquard How do birds make decisions and which brain regions are particularly active when they solve tasks? Researchers...
Evolutionary paths: Scientists have found new patterns in protein evolution
Credit: A. V. Stolyarova, et al/ Nature Communications A group of scientists from Russia studied the trends in the evolution...
Potential new drug to mitigate SARS-CoV-2 infection consequences
Researchers at the University of Malaga study how '4-PBA' treatment modulates the inflammatory response in severe cases of COVID-19Credit: University...
Scientists predict economically important traits of crops
Researchers developed a new mathematical model to predict economic performance of cropsCredit: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Researchers...
New way to halt leukemia relapse shown promising in mice
Credit: Kazuhito Naka, Hiroshima University Researchers have identified a second path to defeating chronic myelogenous leukemia, which tends to affect...
Increasing the effectiveness of cancer treatments: Anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy
Credit: Department of Molecular Genetics,TMDU An international research team of Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) and Harvard Medical School...
Aberrant electronic and structural alterations in pressure tuned perovskite NaOsO3
Credit: Raimundas Sereika The perovskite NaOsO3 has a complicated, but interesting temperature dependent metal-insulator transition (MIT). A team led by...
Unverricht-Lundborg disease is more common in Finland than elsewhere in the world
Credit: Kuopio University Hospital Epilepsy Center Based on reported cases, Unverricht-Lundborg disease, also known as progressive myoclonic epilepsy-1A, EPM1, is...
Predicting the future of liver-safe drugs
Credit: Institute of Research,TMDU Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) in collaboration with Takeda-CiRA program and other international...
SUTD researchers develop simple method to 3D print milk products
Additive free, multimaterial 3D printing is achieved for milk-based products without temperature controlCredit: SUTD Researchers from the Singapore University of...
Nano-microscope gives first direct observation of the magnetic properties of 2D materials
Discovery means new class of materials and technologiesCredit: David A. Broadway Australian researchers and their colleagues from Russia and China...
Stroke patients with COVID-19 have increased inflammation, stroke severity and death
This study of ischemic stroke patients is the first to associate the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio in patients with COVID-19 and ischemic...
Rapid 90-minute COVID-19 test shown to be highly accurate
A 90-minute COVID-19 test has been shown to have over 94 per cent sensitivity, and 100% specificity in a new...
Genetic adaptation to climate change is swift in crop pests
Credit: N/A Fruit flies have the uncanny ability to wake up from a months-long hibernation right when their food of...
‘Cellular compass’ guides stem cell division in plants
Credit: Andrew Muroyama The stem cells tasked with creating and maintaining biological tissues have a difficult job. They have to...
Invasive shrimp-sucking parasite continues northward Pacific expansion
Credit: Amanda Bemis and Gustav Paulay/Florida Museum CALVERT ISLAND, British Columbia --- Researchers have identified an invasive blood-sucking parasite on mud shrimp in...
Scientists to explore new frontiers in Parkinson’s disease research with $7.2M grant
Aligning science across Parkinson's initiative supports international project aiming to unravel the biology of a gene linked to Parkinson's diseaseCredit:...
