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Study finds brain areas involved in seeking information about bad possibilities
Provides insight into how people decide whether they want to know what future holds The term "doomscrolling" describes the act...
AI predicts how patients with viral infections, including COVID-19, will fare
Gene expression patterns associated with pandemic viral infections provide a map to help define patients' immune responses, measure disease severity,...
Jan Hoeijmakers to present at the 8th Aging Research & Drug Discovery Meeting 2021
Jan Hoeijmakers to present new research in the biology of aging at the world's largest aging research for drug discovery...
A better understanding of ‘wet markets’ is key to safeguarding human health, biodiversity
PRINCETON, N.J.--Great uncertainty surrounds the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Early on, some suggested a link between COVID-19 and a seafood market...
Common diabetes drug shows promise as treatment for COVID-19 lung inflammation
The blood sugar-lowering drug metformin prevented pulmonary inflammation, a major factor in COVID-19 severity and mortality, in studies of mice...
Butterflies and moths have difficulty adjusting to a rapidly changing climate
Climate change exerts great pressure for change on species and biodiversity. A recent study conducted by the University of Helsinki...
UTIA professor receives community development early career achievement award
Sreedhar Upendram recognized for significant advancement of community development in Tennessee KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Sreedhar Upendram, assistant professor in the...
Study identifies how COVID-19 linked to Alzheimer’s disease-like cognitive impairment
Cleveland Clinic-led research team used artificial intelligence to uncover association between COVID-19 and brain changes June 10, 2021, CLEVELAND: A...
Machine learning model doubles accuracy of global landslide ‘nowcasts’
Every year, landslides - the movement of rock, soil, and debris down a slope - cause thousands of deaths, billions...
Forget me not: Novel target shows promise in treating Alzheimer’s and related dementias
A novel tau protein conformation, cis P-tau, is a toxic early driver of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and silencing...
Music listening near bedtime disruptive to sleep, Baylor study finds
Baylor sleep researcher Michael Scullin finds 'earworms' continue during sleep, can cause restless nights WACO, Texas (June 9, 2021) -...
New family of atomic-thin electride materials discovered
An exploratory investigation into the behavior of materials with desirable electric properties resulted in the discovery of a structural phase...
Florida Python Hunters May Have a New Tool Thanks to Optics Research at UCF
Special small, mobile cameras help detect more snakes and could lead to an automated python tracker. Just as the governor...
How do plants balance microbial friends and foes?
Plants are constantly exposed to microbes: pathogens that cause disease, commensals that cause no harm or benefit, and mutualists that...
Kurome Therapeutics closes $15 million Series A financing
Funding to develop targeted kinase inhibitors for treatment of hematopoietic cancers Kurome Therapeutics, a preclinical stage company dedicated to developing...
Printing flexible wearable electronics for smart device applications
Using conventional printing techniques to print flexible supercapacitors is economical, scalable WASHINGTON, June 10, 2021 -- The demand for flexible...
How butterflies make transparent wings: MBL scientists see the invisible
WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Many animals have evolved camouflage tactics for self-defense, but some butterflies and moths have taken it...
Children cannot understand sadness and happiness in people wearing facemasks
The study published in Frontiers in Psychology shows that children aged from 3 to 5 years old are able to...
Like night and day: Animal studies may not translate to humans without time considerations
In a recent survey of published animal studies, researchers at West Virginia University found disregarding the animals' circadian rhythms can...
Pinpointing how cancer cells turn aggressive
Penn scientists have developed a new method for tracing the lineage and gene expression patterns of metastatic cancer at the...
