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Credit: OIST Our body's ability to detect disease, foreign material, and the location of food sources and toxins is all...

Census 2020: Understanding the Issues

Springer book covers the US Census from its Constitutional founding through the upcoming 2020 count, discusses the unique significance of...

Flavor research for consumer protection

Flavorings containing benzaldehyde can develop benzene under the influence of lightCredit: Gisela Olias / Leibniz-LSB In 2013, the German Stiftung...

COVID-19 preventative vaccine trial for healthcare workers

Credit: MCRI Professor Kathryn North AC, Director of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, has announced its infectious...

Why life can get better as we age — study

Mindfulness helps wellbeing at all agesCredit: Flinders University People say life gets better with age. Now research suggests this may...

Holographic cosmological model and thermodynamics on the horizon of the universe

A Kanazawa University researcher proposes a novel cosmological model to study thermodynamics on the horizon of the universeCredit: Kanazawa University...

Enhanced 1.54 μm PL and EL on a perfluorinated Er3+ complex sensitized by an Ir3+ complex

Credit: by Hong-Fei Li, Xiao-Qi Liu, Chen Lyu, Jelena Gorbaciova, Li-Li Wen, Guo-Gang Shan, Peter. B. Wyatt, Huan-Qing Ye and...

Celebrating our genomic diversity: Fine-scale differences in the Japanese population

Researchers led by Osaka University use dimensionality reduction analyses to identify fine-scale differences in the Japanese population, revealing greater population...

Astronaut conducts heart research on station with former colleague

When NASA astronaut Jessica Meir recently slipped her hands into the Life Sciences Glovebox on the International Space Station to...

Insights into the diagnosis and treatment brain cancer in children

Credit: Kanazawa University Ependymoma is a rare form of brain cancer that implicates children and is often tricky to diagnose....

Overcoming primary resistance to checkpoint inhibition with selective inhibitor of TGFβ1

Selective inhibition of latent TGFβ1 activation with SRK-181 has demonstrated an improved preclinical safety profile compared to conventional inhibitors of...

Experimental model mimics early-stage myogenic deficit in boys with DMD

Large spike in TGFβ activity in injured muscle triggers a downward spiral leading to muscle degeneration and failed muscle regenerationCredit:...

Experiments in mice and human cells shed light on best way to deliver nanoparticle therapy for cancer

Credit: Robert Ivkov, Ph.D. Researchers in the cancer nanomedicine community debate whether use of tiny structures, called nanoparticles, can best...

Lipid helps heal the eye’s frontline protection

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University A species of a lipid that naturally helps skin injuries heal appears to...

Despite failures, chemo still promising against dangerous childhood brain cancer, DIPG

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center The pediatric brain cancer known as diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is almost uniformly...

Edmonton company Entos developing DNA vaccine against COVID-19

University of Alberta cancer researcher John Lewis's health-care biotechnology company is working on a vaccine to be delivered directly into...

OSU research paves way to improved cleanup of contaminated groundwater

Credit: OSU College of Engineering CORVALLIS, Ore. - Beads that contain bacteria and a slow-release food supply to sustain them...

Solving a 50-year-old puzzle in signal processing, part two:

Engineers explore algorithm's capabilities in special cases 'on the unit circle'Credit: Figure courtesy of Alexander Stoytchev. AMES, Iowa - Iowa...

A critical enzyme for sperm formation could be a target for treating male infertility

The protein, SKP1, drives a key transition step in male meiosis, the type of cell division process that results in...

Renewable energy developments threaten biodiverse areas