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Size of connections between nerve cells determines their signaling strength
Credit: Kristian Herrera and authors The neocortex is the part of the brain that humans use to process sensory impressions,...
The immune system mounts a lasting defense after recovery from COVID-19
Credit: Laboratory of Molecular Immunology at The Rockefeller University As the number of people who have fought off SARS-CoV-2 climbs...
Drug-delivery microcapsules tagged with zirconium-89 can be tracked by PET imaging
If these hollow capsules are modified to target a solid tumor, PET imaging and therapeutic ultrasound can be used to...
Natural hazard events and national risk reduction measures unconnected
Credit: Mikael Wallerstedt Countries where massive natural hazard events occur frequently are not more likely than others to make changes...
World’s largest lakes reveal climate change trends
Credit: Karl Bosse/MTRI NASA-funded research on the 11 largest freshwater lakes in the world coupled field and satellite observations to...
INL partners with Coreform to improve open-source modeling and simulation tool MOOSE
Credit: Idaho National Laboratory Long before an advanced nuclear reactor begins to generate power or another complicated project comes to...
Hope for a vaccination against Staphylococcus areus infections?
An epitope based immunisation as a new vaccination strategyCredit: NIAID Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) ranks among the globally most important...
CAREER awardee investigates quantum’s ‘sweet spot’
Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Boulat Bash applies quantum methods to super-secret sensing and communication.Credit: University of Arizona College...
Scientists discover how the potentially oldest coral reefs in the Mediterranean developed
Credit: ICM-CSIC, University of Southampton A new study from the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC, Spain) and the National...
The physics behind tumor growth
New theory uses physics to predict the growth stages of cancerous tumorsCredit: Bean, et al. Mol. Cell, 2006. DOI: 10.1016/j....
Estrogen receptors in mom’s placenta critical during viral infection
Innate immune response would harm the fetus, so placenta tamps it downCredit: Nicholas Heaton Lab, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -...
Ten suggestions for female faculty and staff during the pandemic
Credit: University of California San Diego When university campuses sent students, staff and faculty members home in March, Padmini Rangamani,...
Message in a bottle: Info-rich bubbles respond to antibiotics
Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. Once regarded as merely cast-off waste products of cellular life, bacterial membrane...
Electrons caught in the act
Scientists at the University of Tsukuba combine scanning tunneling microscopy with ultrafast spectroscopy to image the motion of electrons with...
Memory fail controlled by dopamine circuit, study finds
'Transient forgetting' mechanism revealed; pauses thought without abolishing long-term memoriesCredit: Scripps Research JUPITER, FL - In a landmark neurobiology study,...
Inflammation caused by scorpion venom should be blocked immediately, study shows
In an article published in Nature Communications, Brazilian researchers show for the first time that in severe cases of scorpion...
CNIO participates in a study that defines the most important genes that increase breast cancer risk
The most ambitious international research ever conducted on the inheritance of breast cancer, based on the analysis of 113,000 samplesCredit:...
Innovations through hair-thin optical fibres
Study by the University of Bonn shows what miniaturised optical filters make possibleCredit: © Uni Bonn Scientists at the University...
NUI Galway contribute to significant breast cancer risk genes study
NUI Galway breast cancer specialists contribute to international study on the identification of nine breast cancer risk genesCredit: NUI Galway...
As oceans warm, large fish struggle
New tool gauges impacts of warming waters on over 200 fish speciesCredit: Credit: Ludovic Lhotte Warming ocean waters could reduce...
