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Learning to fight infection
Tokyo, Japan – Scientific advancements have often been held back by the need for high volumes of data, which can...
Did our ancestors have better microbiomes? For maize, maybe!
At today’s backyard barbeques, we enjoy corn on the cob with hundreds of sweet juicy kernels. But if we were...
Climate and conflict
An extended period of turmoil in the prehistoric Maya city of Mayapan, in the Yucatan region of Mexico, was marked...
Worms as a model for personalized medicine
Tailoring a person’s diet or medicine based on their genomes has been a goal of the medical community for decades,...
Rattlesnakes diversify venom to stay ahead of evolving prey
A new study by a team that includes biologists from The University of Texas at Arlington describes how rattlesnakes diversify...
Mark Anderson, renowned cardiac expert and medical leader, named to lead University of Chicago Medicine
Mark Anderson, MD, PhD, a renowned scholar, physician and caregiver, has been appointed to lead the University of Chicago’s field-defining...
BETting on COVID-19: Study probes role of BET proteins in coronavirus infection
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—A while ago, some researchers had suggested that blocking a set of proteins, known as bromodomain and extraterminal...
Songbird can keep time with the best of them
When it comes to keeping time, an unassuming species of songbird is on a par with professional musicians, according to...
Go with the flow: New findings about moving electricity could improve fusion devices
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have found that updating a mathematical model...
Vaccine-induced immune response to omicron wanes substantially over time
WHAT: Although COVID-19 booster vaccinations in adults elicit high levels of neutralizing antibodies against the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, antibody...
Chiral sources for metamaterial interface waveguides
Metamaterial interface waveguides can confine and guide electromagnetic (EM) waves, which has attractive potential in integrated photonics physics and wireless...
Influenza surveillance system may have shown early signs of COVID-19 pandemic
Outliers in the number of cases of influenza-like illness (ILI) that tested negative for influenza were present in global influenza...
Study finds why many IVF embryos fail to develop
'sNEW YORK, NY--In humans, a fertilized egg is no guarantee of reproductive success. Most embryos stop developing and perish within days of fertilization, usually because they...
Insilico Medicine appoints Sujata Rao, M.D., as Senior Vice President to oversee clinical development
July 19, 2022, New York---Insilico Medicine, a clinical-stage end-to-end artificial intelligence (AI) driven drug discovery company, has appointed Dr. Sujata...
UTMB study shows vaccine rapidly protects against lethal Lassa fever
GALVESTON, TEXAS -- Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch have achieved success with a new vaccine developed to...
The zinc link: Unraveling the mechanism of methionine-mediated pluripotency regulation
Differentiation of pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) is regulated through a methionine-mediated mechanism, which has now been pinpointed by Tokyo Tech...
Five leading children’s hospitals secure $29M in federal funding to enhance future pandemic readiness
A group of children’s hospitals from across the country will coordinate on the response to future pandemics and other disasters...
Booster shots offset some of Omicron immune evasion tactics
Although Omicron subvariants of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic coronavirus have evolved to evade antibody responses from the primary COVID-19 vaccine series,...
Nasal sprays will be essential to thwart variants, UVA collaborative research confirms
Those widely available COVID-19 vaccinations keeping the majority of the population free from serious illness will not be enough to...
New aerogel maintains functionality, superelasticity at extreme temperatures
Aerogel materials serve a vital role as protective materials needed for many fields, including as electromagnetic interference shielding material for...
