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Unlocking a cure for carbon monoxide poisoning
Carbon monoxide is an odorless and colorless gas made when fossil fuels burn incompletely. It’s also a silent killer.Credit: Droege...
‘Eye-catching’ smartphone app could make it easy to screen for neurological disease at home
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a smartphone app that could allow people to screen for...
Actigraphy shows promise as objective noninvasive measure of sleep-wake regulation in children with brain injury admitted for pediatric rehabilitation
East Hanover, NJ. April 29, 2022. A team of New Jersey researchers conducted a sleep study in inpatients in pediatric...
Study: Unprecedented increase in number of border wall falls and trauma
Since 2019, there has been a five-time increase in the number of high-severity injuries occurring at the U.S.-Mexico border wall...
Stress, anxiety and depression during pregnancy may hinder toddler’s cognitive development
Women’s elevated anxiety, depression and stress during pregnancy altered key features of the fetal brain, which subsequently decreased their offspring’s...
New strategies for engineering stable articular cartilage
A new study assess the effect of the gremlin-1 (GREM1) protein on the in vitro and in vivo stability of...
New approach may help clear hurdle to large-scale quantum computing
Building a plane while flying it isn’t typically a goal for most, but for a team of Harvard-led physicists that...
Global warming accelerates the water cycle, with relevant climatic consequences
Researchers at the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) in Barcelona have found that global warming is accelerating the water...
How genome organization influences cell fate
RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Understanding the molecular mechanisms that specify and maintain the identities of more than 200 cell types of...
More women electrophysiologists needed to address significant gender disparity in this male-dominated field
Philadelphia, April 29, 2022 – Cardiovascular medicine is ranked among the lowest in terms of female representation in the United...
UTEP receives $5M NIH grant to build Imaging and Behavioral Neuroscience facility
EL PASO, Texas (April 28, 2022) – A cutting-edge research facility being developed at The University of Texas at El...
Scientists with NASA’s MMS mission crack 60-year mystery of fast magnetic explosions
In just minutes, a flare on the Sun can release enough energy to power the whole world for 20,000 years....
Research discovers new bacteria that stick to plastic in the deep sea to travel around the ocean
Newcastle University scientists have found new types of plastic loving bacteria that stick to plastic in the deep sea that...
Unlocked enzyme structure shows how strigolactone hormone controls plant growth
As sessile organisms, plants have to continually adapt their growth and architecture to the ever-changing environment. To do so, plants...
Additions to natural history collections declining
Ithaca, NY—A new study from the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates reveals that new additions of vertebrate specimens to natural...
High-frequency spinal cord stimulation shows improved longer lasting pain relief
Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) for chronic pain involves delivering low levels of electricity directly into the spinal cord using an...
Neural pathway key to sensation of pleasant touch identified
Studying mice, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a neural circuit and a neuropeptide...
Genetic links revealed between severe COVID-19 and other diseases
A new analysis of data from the Veterans Affairs Million Veteran Program has uncovered genetic links between COVID-19 severity and...
SwRI’s Dr. Hal Levison receives Dirk Brouwer Career Award
SAN ANTONIO — April 28, 2022 — Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Hal Levison has been awarded the 2022 Dirk Brouwer...
Patagonian sheepdogs are the closest living representative of the ancestor of sheepdog from UK
Modern day Patagonian sheepdogs are the closest living relative to now-extinct varieties of herding dogs of Victorian era Britain, according...
