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New brain cancer guidelines to improve care, patient survival
New guidelines for treating cancers that have spread to the brain are poised to improve care for patients and help...
Zoologist solves the 100-year-old mystery of the floating phantom midge
VANCOUVER—In spring 2018, Dr. Philip Matthews spent a typical afternoon capturing dragonflies in the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) experimental...
New research strengthens link between glaciers and Earth’s ‘Great Unconformity’
HANOVER, N.H. – January 25, 2022 – New research provides further evidence that rocks representing up to a billion years...
Scientists discover new avian immunological pathway
RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A research team led by a biomedical scientist at the University of California, Riverside, has discovered a...
Hungry yeast are tiny, living thermometers
Link to full release:Credit: Luther Davis/Alexey Merz/University of Washington Link to full release: https://www.washington.edu/news/2022/01/25/yeast-phase-separation/ FROM: James Urton University of Washington...
Fat injections could treat common cause of foot pain
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 25, 2021 – A novel technique that transplants a patient’s own fat into the sole of their foot...
NIH study classifies vision loss and retinal changes in Stargardt disease
National Eye Institute researchers developed and validated an artificial-intelligence-based method to evaluate patients with Stargardt, an eye disease that can...
Using the eye as a window into heart disease
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS PRESS RELEASE Credit: University of Leeds. UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS PRESS RELEASE Under embargo until 16.00 (UK time)/11.00 (US...
Simulation models exercise, age effects on plaque formation in arteries
WASHINGTON, January 25, 2022 -- Plaque formation in the arteries carrying blood to the head and neck is a serious...
‘Lefty’ tightens control of embryonic development
HOUSTON – (Jan. 25, 2021) – A protein known as Lefty pumps the brakes as human embryos begin to differentiate into the...
An unexpected attraction of nucleic acids and fat
Lipids and RNA are two of the essential building blocks of cells. Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a versatile molecule. On...
Alzheimer’s disease: an alternative hypothesis based on synaptic alterations
New research published today in Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association could explain why neurons fail to...
Sediments a likely culprit in spread of deadly disease on Florida coral reefs, study finds
MIAMI—A new study found that seafloor sediments have the potential to transmit a deadly pathogen to local corals and hypothesizes...
Study details changes in omicron’s spike protein
An international team of scientists has determined the precise structural changes in the spike protein of the omicron variant. Their...
COVID-19 vaccines don’t cause infertility or harm pregnancy chances, Boston University research shows
Having a COVID-19 vaccine doesn’t impact a couple’s chances of becoming pregnant—but skipping the shots and landing a coronavirus infection...
New study calls into question the importance of meat eating in shaping our evolution
WASHINGTON (Jan. 24, 2022) — Quintessential human traits such as large brains first appear in Homo erectus nearly 2 million...
Roswell Biotechnologies demonstrates molecular electronics sensors on a semiconductor chip in peer-review paper
The first molecular electronics chip has been developed, realizing a 50-year-old goal of integrating single molecules into circuits to achieve...
Current vaccines teach T cells to fight Omicron
LA JOLLA, CA—Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have found that four COVID-19 vaccines (Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, J&J/Janssen, and...
Squatina mapama, new species from Panama: first report of an angel shark from the Central American Caribbean
Between 2010 and 2011, two research expeditions sponsored by the Spanish government exploring the biodiversity of benthic organisms —those living...
Calf personality, feeding, and growth: When one style doesn’t fit all
Philadelphia, January 24, 2022 – In a natural setting, cows and nursing calves together set the feeding schedule for the...
