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UTHSC Office of Research welcomes Wesley Byerly as New Senior Associate Vice Chancellor
Wesley G. Byerly, PharmD, has been hired as the senior associate vice chancellor for Research and Administration for the University...
Researchers identify ancient bird behind giant eggs from Down Under
A years-long research debate over which animal is the rightful mother of giant prehistoric eggs in Australia has been resolved....
Cryogenic electron microscopy reveals drug targets against common fungus
Most people carry the fungus Candida albicans on their bodies, without this causing many problems. However, a systemic infection with...
Firearm suicides fell worldwide since 1990, but rose in 31 countries
From 1990 to 2019, deaths from suicide by firearm declined throughout the world, but some countries saw an increasing trend....
Breastfeeding duration associated with cognition
Breastfeeding duration is associated with improved cognitive scores at ages 5 through 14, even after controlling for socioeconomic position and...
DWI for detection of locally recurrent pancreatic cancer
Leesburg, VA, May 25, 2022—According to ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), adding diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) to conventional MRI improves...
Dutch researchers teleport quantum information across rudimentary quantum network
Researchers in Delft have succeeded in teleporting quantum information across a rudimentary network. This first of its kind is an...
Hot-blooded T. rex and cold-blooded Stegosaurus: chemical clues reveal dinosaur metabolisms
For decades, paleontologists have debated whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded, like modern mammals and birds, or cold-blooded, like modern reptiles. Knowing...
Early urbanism found in the Amazon
More than 20 years ago, Dr. Heiko Prümers from the German Archaeological Institute and Prof. Dr. Carla Jaimes Betancourt from...
Killing cancers with Z-DNA: A new approach to treating therapy resistant tumors that targets a very-specific cell-death pathway
In a paper appearing in Nature today, an international group of scientists have unlocked a new way to kill hard...
Palaeospondylus: Long-standing mystery of vertebrate evolution solved using powerful X-rays
The Evolutionary Morphology Laboratory led by Shigeru Kuratani at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR) in Japan, along with collaborators, has...
Mice choose best escape route without ever experiencing threat
Escaping imminent danger is essential for survival. Animals must learn a new environment fast enough for them to be able...
Climate change reveals unique artefacts in melting ice patches
One day more than 3000 years ago, someone lost a shoe at the place we today call Langfonne in the...
UofL to create New Vision of Health Campus for pioneering work to increase health equity
The University of Louisville is creating a new campus in downtown Louisville to be known as the UofL Christina Lee Brown Envirome...
Researchers discover the mechanism responsible for information transfer between different regions of the brain
In the early 20th century scientists began to record brain activity using electrodes attached to the scalp. To their surprise,...
Why COVID vaccines are deemed non-essential for UK young children
THROUGHOUT the pandemic the University of Huddersfield’s Department of Pharmacy has been raising awareness on what vaccines are, how they are formulated,...
Some apes might pull a poker face
Kyoto, Japan -- How could a human mother tell that her child is upset? Humans can distinguish the meanings of...
Secrets of tree hyraxes in Kenya uncovered with new research techniques
Tree hyraxes are medium-sized mammals living in the canopies of tropical forests. They are shy and only move at night,...
When male buddies become less important than female mating partners
Male friends may provide emotional support; they can help in the defense of females against rivals or the acquisition of...
HKU Conservation Forensics Lab develops novel environmental DNA monitoring method for identifying rare and endangered fish species sold in Hong Kong wet markets
In a paper recently published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution, researchers in the Conservation Forensics Lab at The University of...
