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The Lancet: Experts call for urgent action to reduce global burden of cardiovascular disease in women by 2030
Credit: The Lancet The Lancet women and cardiovascular disease Commission outlines 10 ambitious recommendations to improve health outcomes for millions...
Dr. Marie-Claude Morice to receive the 2021 Andreas Gruntzig Ethica Award
Dr. Morice's contributions to the PCR mission are to be recognised at the EuroPCR 2021 CourseCredit: PCR EuroPCR, taking place...
Commencement of full operation of research data management platform “GakuNin RDM”
to support management/sharing of research data among Japanese academic institutions nationwideCredit: © National Institute of Informatics NII developed GakuNin RDM...
Etching process enhances the extraction of hydrogen during water electrolysis
Credit: The authors Extracting hydrogen from water through electrolysis offers a promising route for increasing the production of hydrogen, a...
Terpen-tales: The mystery behind the unique fragrance of the lovely lavender
Scientists explain the genetics of what makes the smell of lavender specialCredit: Horticulture Research Even the mention of lavender evokes...
Compound may prevent risk of a form of arrhythmia from common medications
Multi-institutional team combined expertise to make discoveryCredit: University of Missouri Dozens of commonly used drugs, including antibiotics, antinausea and anticancer...
People at high genetic risk for colorectal cancer benefit more from lifestyle changes
Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center People with a high polygenic risk score for colorectal cancer could benefit more at preventing...
Heart attack recovery aided by injecting heart muscle cells that overexpress cyclin D2
Researchers used a pig model of heart attacks, which more closely resembles the human heart in size and physiology, and...
Harvesting light like nature does
Synthesizing a new class of bio-inspired, light-capturing nanomaterialsCredit: (Illustration by Stephanie King | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) Inspired by nature,...
Building a foundation for high-power tech
Pitt researchers receive $820K from Office of Naval Research for work on ultra-high frequency soft magnet technologyCredit: University of Pittsburgh...
Cataloging breast cells to find cancer origins
Credit: Camila dos Santos/dos Santos lab, CSHL/2021 What if you could predict which cells might become cancerous? Breast tissue changes...
Fruit flies and mosquitos are ‘brainier’ than most people suspect, say scientists
Findings provide baseline number of brain cells likely needed for complex behaviorsCredit: Joshua Raji and Christopher Potter, Johns Hopkins Medicine....
New research shows: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek led rivals astray
Credit: Rijksmuseum Boerhaave/TU Delft A microscope used by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to conduct pioneering research contains a surprisingly ordinary lens,...
Fibre-optics used to take the temperature of Greenland Ice Sheet
Credit: Poul Christoffersen and RESPONDER team Scientists have used fibre-optic sensing to obtain the most detailed measurements of ice properties...
New cyanobacteria species spotlights early life
Anthocerotibacter panamensis, a newly discovered species of cyanobacteria, can help researchers study the dawn of oxygenic photosynthesisCredit: Fay-Wei Li ITHACA,...
Scientists rewrite the genesis of mosquito-borne viruses
Better designed vaccines for insect-spread viruses like dengue and Zika now possibleCredit: Associate Professor Fasseli Coulibaly Better designed vaccines for...
New pre-clinical model could hold the key to better HIV treatments
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH A team led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Children's National...
MIT unveils a new action plan to tackle the climate crisis
The Institute commits to net-zero emissions by 2026, charts course marshaling all of MIT's capabilities toward decarbonizationCredit: Image: Christopher Harting...
Is the past (and future) there when nobody looks?
Credit: © Aloop, IQOQI-Wien, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften In 1961, the Nobel prize winning theoretical physicist Eugene Wigner proposed what...
Earth’s oldest minerals date onset of plate tectonics to 3.6 billion years ago
Ancient zircons from the jack hills of western Australia hone date of an event that was crucial to making the...
