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Strongest Arctic cyclone on record led to surprising loss of sea ice
A warming climate is causing a decline in sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, where loss of sea ice has...
UTIA professor wins FDRS Emerging Leadership Award
University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture professor Andrew Muhammad has been awarded the 2022 Patrick J. Byrne Emerging Leadership Award...
UTIA research seeks to improve price discovery and market transparency in hay markets
A team of researchers from the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture is launching a study to improve price discovery...
Tropical wildlife follow the same daily patterns worldwide
HOUSTON – (Nov. 29, 2022) – How do animals in the wild use their time? A researcher at Rice University...
Urologists investigate climate change, health rights and gender equity
A urologist is a doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating diseases of the urinary tract and reproductive organs in...
Increasing crop yields by breeding plants to cooperate
A simple breeding experiment, combined with genetic analysis, can rapidly uncover genes that promote cooperation and higher yields of plant...
Bats use death metal “growls” to make social calls
Bats use distinct structures in the larynx to produce high-frequency echolocation calls and lower-frequency social calls, according to a study...
Bats growl like death metal singers and Mongolian throat singers
Many animals produce sound to communicate with each other, and bats are no exception. But bats are extreme when it...
Oncotarget | Myeloid-derived suppressor cells: Cancer, autoimmune diseases, and more
“MDSCs are heterogeneous immature myeloid cells that possess important actions in immune tolerance and tumor expansion.”Credit: 2022 Shibata et al....
To track disease-carrying mosquitoes, researchers tag them with DNA barcodes
West Nile, Zika, dengue and malaria are all diseases spread by bites from infected mosquitoes. To track the threat of...
Sex roles in the animal kingdom are driven by the ratio of females to males
How picky should females and males be when they choose a mate? How fiercely should they compete for mates? And...
Too many – or too few – job demands can spoil a good night’s sleep
Media contact: John Dudley National media relations manager (814) 490-3290 [email protected] TAMPA, Fla. (Nov. 29, 2022) -- Conventional wisdom suggests...
Retinal cells may have the potential to protect themselves from diabetic retinopathy
Philadelphia, November 29, 2022 – About one third of patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) develop diabetic retinopathy (DR), a leading...
Blood tests could predict survival odds for patients with metastatic cancer
As cancers grow and potentially spread to new parts of the body, they often shed cells and DNA into the...
Dr. Sameer Sheth announced as director of the Gordon and Mary Cain Pediatric Neurology Research Foundation Laboratories at Texas Children’s Hospital
Dr. Sameer Sheth, Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, has been named the new Director of the Gordon and Mary...
Modified enzyme brings value to lignin monomers
The chemical industry faces the challenge of replacing fossil-based building blocks with green alternatives. Biomass is an interesting source of...
Soft touch sensitivity
A soft and flexible electronic “e-skin,” so sensitive it can detect the minute temperature difference between an inhaled and an...
Diagnoses of suicidal ideation surged among Black pregnant women in 10-year study
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Diagnoses of suicidal ideation soared by more than 700% among Black women in the year before childbirth,...
Transcranial magnetic stimulation design goes deeper into brain
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2022 – As a noninvasive neuromodulation method, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) shows great potential to treat a...
Plastic additives contaminate the sea and selectively harm corals’ reproduction processes
A new study by Tel Aviv University and the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat examined the effect of...
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