New high-tech startup developing smart contact lenses for glaucoma diagnosis and management
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Optometrists, ophthalmologists and their patients will benefit from new, high-tech tools to detect glaucoma at its ...
Decoding brain arteriovenous malformations in the Asian population: a Chinese Neurosurgical Journal study
Brain arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is the abnormal entanglement of arteries and veins in the brain, which disrupts the normal flow ...
What does the eye have to do with the language?
Eyes provide us with most information about the surrounding world. Yet, the eye, especially that of a human, enables not ...
Researchers study new particle formation events in the urban atmosphere
An international research team has conducted a study of new particle formation (NPF) events in the atmosphere of Beijing, which ...
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 ...
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 ...
