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Terasaki Innovation Summit to bring academic and industry leaders together to tackle challenges of bringing biomedical innovations to patients
Los Angeles, CA – Feb. 16, 2023 – The Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI) is proud to announce the...
New study identifies key success factors for large carnivore rewilding efforts
EMBARGOED UNTIL THURSDAY 16 FEBRUARY 01:00 AM GMT/UTC (20:00 15 FEBRUARY ET)Credit: Caption: The 2022 release of a collared leopard...
Mothers’ alcohol consumption before and during pregnancy is linked to changes in children’s face shapes
Researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning technology to find a link between alterations in the shape of...
Novel optical and fMRI platform identifies brain regions that control large-scale brain network
When we daydream or revisit memories, a large group of regions within our brain “lights up,” or becomes more active....
Transgender health in correctional systems
In the article titled “Trans and Living in Prison: A First-Person Perspective,” Ruth Utnage describes her experience in prison as...
Aging | Immune-mediated platelet depletion augments Alzheimer’s disease in mice
“Our study suggests that platelets might contribute to limiting amyloid plaque size and neuronal damage, having a beneficial role in...
Proposed quantum device may succinctly realize emergent particles such as the Fibonacci anyon
Long before Dr. Jukka Vayrynen was an assistant professor at the Purdue Department of Physics and Astronomy, he was a...
‘Innovative and Impactful’
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — UC Santa Barbara assistant professors Sagar Vijay and Tejaswi Nerella have been selected to receive prestigious...
Putting particle accelerator cavities to the test
NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Since it first went online more than 30 years ago, the Vertical Test Area at the...
Five Tufts faculty named National Academy of Inventors Senior Members
Five Tufts faculty have been named as senior members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), a prestigious recognition awarded...
Engineers discover a new way to control atomic nuclei as “qubits”
In principle, quantum-based devices such as computers and sensors could vastly outperform conventional digital technologies for carrying out many complex...
Pregnant women who fast during Ramadan tend to give birth to babies with lower weights, but this effect is reduced in women consuming a high fat diet outside of fasting hours
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281051Credit: Pexels, Pixabay, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281051 Article Title: Ramadan during pregnancy and neonatal health—Fasting, dietary composition...
Being bullied is associated with mental distress and suicide attempts in teens
Some forms of bullying are significantly correlated with feeling sad or hopeless and attempting suicide, according to a new study...
Back to the time of the first Homo Sapiens with a futuristic clock, the new Radiocarbon 3.0
It is called Radiocarbon 3.0: it is the newest method developments in radiocarbon dating, and promises to reveal valuable new...
Working timelines for Swedish employees revealed over 15 years
A new analysis of employment timelines of Swedish workers highlights varying patterns of active work and work interruptions over 15...
Dolphin-like kentriodontids species might have gone extinct because of global cooling 14 million years ago
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0280218Credit: Guo, Kohno, 2023, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0280218 Article Title: An Early Miocene kentriodontoid...
Purdue-connected digital health startup wins phase 1 of NIH competition for maternal health
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – HemaChrome, a digital health startup that uses smartphone technology to noninvasively and instantly measure blood hemoglobin levels,...
HIV treatment and prevention in Zambian prisons may be model for prisons worldwide
A recent study performed in Zambia by University of Maryland School of Medicine’s (UMSOM) Institute of Human Virology researchers found...
Chinese Medical Journal study highlights epilepsy trends in China between 1990 and 2019
Epilepsy—a common neurological disorder characterized by the abnormal firing of neurons in the brain—affects nearly 70 million people worldwide. The...
Government’s role in promoting wood burning stove emissions unveiled in new study
The number of stove models officially exempt from UK smoke control regulations has increased ten-fold since 2010, a new study...
