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New data suggests COVID vaccine design ideas with better variant resilience
Latest research findings show that vaccine-elicited neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 are mostly directed against one of the two main domains...
Surgical masks are not inferior to N95 masks for health-care workers providing routine COVID-19 care
Media ReleaseCredit: McMaster University Media Release Embargoed by the Annals of Internal Medicine...
New method to detect oxygen consumption in the brain
The human brain consumes an immense amount of energy and needs an uninterrupted supply of oxygen to maintain its activity....
Fertilizing the ocean to store carbon dioxide
By Beth MundyCredit: Illustration by Stephanie King | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory By Beth Mundy The urgent need to remove...
Quantitative diagnosis of bowel ischemia with deep learning
Bowel ischemia is a potentially fatal medical condition caused by a decrease or obstruction of blood flow to the intestine....
Researchers investigate neuron differentiation in fruit fly brains
The brains of all higher order animals are filled with a diverse array of neuron types, with specific shapes and...
Tuberculosis and COVID-19 lung lesions revealed by high-resolution three-dimensional imaging
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Gross anatomy reveals three-dimensional shapes of pathology at a large scale. Histology, in contrast, reveals the microscopic...
Scientists discover secret to waking up alert and refreshed
Do you feel groggy until you’ve had your morning coffee? Do you battle sleepiness throughout the workday? You’re not alone....
Strongest Arctic cyclone on record led to surprising loss of sea ice
A warming climate is causing a decline in sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, where loss of sea ice has...
UTIA professor wins FDRS Emerging Leadership Award
University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture professor Andrew Muhammad has been awarded the 2022 Patrick J. Byrne Emerging Leadership Award...
UTIA research seeks to improve price discovery and market transparency in hay markets
A team of researchers from the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture is launching a study to improve price discovery...
Tropical wildlife follow the same daily patterns worldwide
HOUSTON – (Nov. 29, 2022) – How do animals in the wild use their time? A researcher at Rice University...
Urologists investigate climate change, health rights and gender equity
A urologist is a doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating diseases of the urinary tract and reproductive organs in...
Increasing crop yields by breeding plants to cooperate
A simple breeding experiment, combined with genetic analysis, can rapidly uncover genes that promote cooperation and higher yields of plant...
Bats use death metal “growls” to make social calls
Bats use distinct structures in the larynx to produce high-frequency echolocation calls and lower-frequency social calls, according to a study...
Bats growl like death metal singers and Mongolian throat singers
Many animals produce sound to communicate with each other, and bats are no exception. But bats are extreme when it...
Oncotarget | Myeloid-derived suppressor cells: Cancer, autoimmune diseases, and more
“MDSCs are heterogeneous immature myeloid cells that possess important actions in immune tolerance and tumor expansion.”Credit: 2022 Shibata et al....
To track disease-carrying mosquitoes, researchers tag them with DNA barcodes
West Nile, Zika, dengue and malaria are all diseases spread by bites from infected mosquitoes. To track the threat of...
Sex roles in the animal kingdom are driven by the ratio of females to males
How picky should females and males be when they choose a mate? How fiercely should they compete for mates? And...
Too many – or too few – job demands can spoil a good night’s sleep
Media contact: John Dudley National media relations manager (814) 490-3290 [email protected] TAMPA, Fla. (Nov. 29, 2022) -- Conventional wisdom suggests...
