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Early blood tests predict death, severe disability for traumatic brain injury
A study finds that blood tests taken the day of a traumatic brain injury can predict which patients are likely...
Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding: rebleeding rates and rebleeding predictors found
Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (OGIB) is defined as gastrointestinal bleeding from a source that cannot be determined even after upper or...
Novel hypotheses that answer key questions about the evolution of sexual reproduction
Two novel hypotheses have been proposed that address the “two-fold cost of sex”: one of the biggest enigmas in the...
Medieval friars were ‘riddled with parasites’, study finds
A new analysis of remains from medieval Cambridge shows that local Augustinian friars were almost twice as likely as the...
A breakthrough in magnetic materials research could lead to novel ways to manipulate electron flow with much less energy loss
Newly discovered magnetic interactions in the Kagome layered topological magnet TbMn6Sn6 could be the key to customizing how electrons flow...
Next generation patient avatars: Expanding the possibilities with MicroOrganospheres
(LOS ANGELES) – A team of scientists, led by Xiling Shen, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, and Professor at the Terasaki...
RIPE researchers prove bioengineering better photosynthesis increases yields in food crops for the first time ever
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — For the first time, RIPE researchers have proven that multigene bioengineering of photosynthesis increases the yield of...
First in nation: UC San Diego health offers treatment for hereditary amyloidosis
UC San Diego Health is first in the nation to offer a new injectable medication to patients with nerve damage...
Zhang and colleagues win an $11.2 million NIH program project grant
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year, $11.2 million program project grant, or PPG, to...
Machine learning model predicts fall risk for lower limb amputees with up to 80% accuracy, with implications for future smartphone apps
In your coverage, please use this URL to provide access to the freely available article in PLOS Digital Health: https://journals.plos.org/digitalhealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pdig.0000088 Credit:...
Engineers fabricate a chip-free, wireless electronic “skin”
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Wearable sensors are ubiquitous thanks to wireless technology that enables a person’s glucose concentrations, blood pressure, heart...
Touch and sight are linked before birth
In embryonic stages, tactile stimuli simultaneously activate tactile and visual neural pathways. Shortly after birth, both pathways reorganize to allow...
COVID-19 disrupted the agriculture sector in India, but not agricultural practices
India’s agricultural system is largely based on input-intensive monocropping of staple crops. A study publishing August 18th in PLOS Sustainability...
Study of more than 150,000 people identifies genes strongly linked to autism and neurodevelopmental disorders
A new study of genes underlying neurodevelopmental differences has uncovered more than 70 that are very strongly associated with autism...
UTIA receives grant to analyze and develop price risk management tools
Beef cattle producers are all too familiar with economic losses stemming from uncontrollable events such as drought and disease; however,...
Scientists create new map of the developing cerebral cortex
CHAPEL HILL, NC – Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine have mapped the surface of the cortex of the...
UF Scripps study: Opioid drug tolerance develops from interplay of key gene and cholesterol
JUPITER, Fla. — UF Scripps Biomedical Research scientists have a discovered a key gene that is shedding light on how people...
As oceans warm, snapping shrimp sound a warning
Woods Hole, MA — In a warming ocean, snapping shrimp might be the acoustic canary in the coal mine.Credit: Image...
Exploring quantum electron highways with laser light
Topological insulators, or TIs, have two faces: Electrons flow freely along their surface edges, like cars on a superhighway, but...
Immune cell model paves way for new treatments targeting common infection amongst immunocompromised children
Researchers have successfully engineered human immune cells to model an infection common among immunocompromised people in a breakthrough discovery, paving...
