Joining efforts in research on antibiotic resistance
Research on antibiotic resistance will broaden significantly when the Center for Antibiotic Resistance Research (CARe) in Gothenburg expands. Bacterial resistance ...
PolyU researchers compile world’s first “atlas” of airborne microbes that provides an important new perspective for public health research
Bacteria are truly abundant across the Earth’s surface, from the soil to the oceans. The microbial population of the air ...
COVID-19: a respiratory vaccine effective in mice
Less known to the general public, mucosal vaccination via the mucus membranes could provide robust protection against SARS-CoV-2 infections. Immune ...
Fostering policy dialogue and knowledge exchange of pollinator protection: new Safeguard policy brief
Safeguard’s policy brief was distributed at a side event of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to ...
POSTECH-Catholic University researchers develop myocardial infarction treatment patch
Myocardial infarction is an ischemic disease in which a coronary artery supplying blood to the heart muscle is stenotic or ...
Scientists develop low-cost system to measure space weather without leaving the ground
A research team from the Institute of Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE) at Nagoya University in Japan used a sensor manufactured ...
Child labor contributes to the preservation of forest cover
The work with forest preservation in southwestern Ethiopia, where smallholder coffee farmers play an important part, is essential for global ...
Flip-flopping cholesterol in the cell membrane
Cholesterol is an essential component of the membrane surrounding every human cell, despite its poor reputation as a health concern ...
Walnuts the new brain food for stressed university students
Stressed university students might want to add walnuts to their daily diet in the weeks leading up to their next ...
Wood-eating clams use their poop to dominate their habitat
Deep beneath the waves, tiny clams with shells usually about as big as a pea bore into pieces of sunken ...
Baylor Chemistry researchers synthesize new groundbreaking compound
Creating new synthetic compounds is often a complex and multi-step process that can take years of research. Caleb D. Martin, ...
Follow-up clinic visits with a nephrologist after hospital discharge may improve survival in patients with acute kidney injury
Outpatient clinic visits with a nephrologist and attention to kidney complications and cardiovascular disease were associated with 29% lower risk ...
Artificial Intelligence searches an early sign of osteoarthritis from an x-ray image – might save from unnecessary treatments and examination
Researchers from the University of Jyväskylä and the Central Finland Health Care District have developed an AI based neural network ...
Harnessing smartphones to track how people use green spaces
A new study demonstrates how anonymized GPS data from people’s smartphones can be used to monitor the public’s use of ...
Dynamical fractal discovered in clean magnetic crystal
The nature and properties of materials depend strongly on dimension. Imagine how different life in a one-dimensional or two-dimensional world ...
Florida International University researchers patent synthetic antibiotic
Florida International University researchers have moved a step closer to producing synthetic arsenic-based drugs in their quest to solve an ...
Wearable electronics from starch to prevent e-waste
Soft, wearable sensors can improve our lives, but these soft and stretchable electronic devices are nearly impossible to recycle. As ...
How a policy to address a groundwater shortage inadvertently increase air pollution in northern India
New research from Harvard University finds that a government policy that delayed rice planting in northwest India may have had ...
“Virgin birth” in aquarium sharks– even when potential mates are nearby
Asexual reproduction is common for animals like starfish, deep-sea worms, and stick insects, but among vertebrates, it’s a rarity. A ...
New methodology for the synthesis of benzazepines, a highly interesting bioactive molecule
Benzazepines can be found in a wide variety of natural products and pharmaceuticals. Many of these compounds are chiral, being ...
