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Retinal cell map could advance precise therapies for blinding diseases
Researchers have identified distinct differences among the cells comprising a tissue in the retina that is vital to human visual...
Saving the Mekong delta from drowning
Southeast Asia’s most productive agricultural region and home to 17 million people could be mostly underwater within a lifetime. Saving...
United States, France cooperation advances international weather research
NORMAN, OKLA. – The University of Oklahoma and several research universities in France have signed a memorandum of understanding to...
Clasper appendages discovered in mid-Cambrian trilobite show horseshoe crab-like mating behavior
Fossils can tell scientists a lot about an animal such as their morphology, their environment, and where to place them...
NIH launches clinical trial of Epstein-Barr virus vaccine
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched an early-stage...
Self-frequency-conversion nanowire lasers
Nanowire (NW) lasers with the NW simultaneously acting as gain medium and optical cavity are attractive for miniaturized photonic integration...
Active phase calorie restriction enhances longevity, UT Southwestern neuroscience study reveals
A new study in mice led by neuroscientists at UT Southwestern’s Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute shows that it’s not just calories...
“Digital twins” – an aid to give individual patients the right treatment at the right time
An international team of researchers have developed advanced computer models, or “digital twins”, of diseases, with the goal of improving...
‘Stressed’ cells offer clues to eliminating build-up of toxic proteins in dementia
It’s often said that a little stress can be good for you. Now scientists have shown that the same may...
Intelligent metasurface could revolutionize our lives
The manipulation of electromagnetic waves and information has become central to our daily lives. Intelligent metasurfaces have emerged as smart...
Obesity threatens US military readiness
Philadelphia, May 6, 2022 – Obesity is recognized as a public health crisis with serious medical and economic effects, but...
Revealing the individual immune cells inside the plaque that causes life-threatening heart attacks
Through single-cell RNA sequencing, a research group has successfully illuminated the characteristics of Myeloid immune cells in coronary plaque, which...
BTI’s Greg Martin elected to National Academy of Sciences
Greg Martin, Boyce Schulze Downey Professor at the Boyce Thompson Institute and Professor in the School of Integrative Plant Science...
Why do some people get sicker than others from COVID?
COVID-19 vaccines have saved at least a million lives in the United States alone, but for many people, a lingering fear remains:...
Cell division in moss and animals more similar than previously thought
For a new plant to grow from a seed, cells need to divide numerous times. Daughter cells can each take...
UCI researchers reveal possible molecular blood signature for suicide in major depression
Irvine, CA – May 5, 2022 – A University of California, Irvine-led team of researchers, along with members of the...
Brazilian COVID-19 deaths could have been undercounted by as much as 18%, as death certificates often failed to list COVID-19 as the cause of death
Brazilian COVID-19 deaths could have been undercounted by as much as 18%, as death certificates often failed to list COVID-19...
DNA sites linked with physical differences between sexes now also linked to disease risk
Some physical traits that differ between sexes are known to be linked to certain single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in chromosomes...
Critically endangered vaquita porpoise not doomed to extinction by inbreeding depression
Unchecked gillnetting has pushed the world’s smallest porpoise to the brink of extinction: there are roughly 10 vaquitas remaining in...
Vaccines induce multiple immune system mechanisms to protect against severe COVID-19 illness
Globally, breakthrough COVID-19 infections among vaccinated people are increasing, raising concerns about the durability of protection against emerging, highly contagious...
