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To protect nature’s benefits, focus on people
Credit: Luis Del Rio/Pexels To calculate the true value of a forest, we need to know how people benefit from...
Damaged muscles don’t just die, they regenerate themselves
A new mechanism for muscle stem cell activationSingle myofibers were isolated from mouse muscle tissue in a suspension cell culture....
Fuels, not fire weather, control carbon emissions in boreal forest
Credit: Victor Leshyk, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society As climate warming stokes longer fire seasons and more severe fires...
Sapphires show their true colors: Not water-loving
Credit: ©Science China Press In 1805, Thomas Young took the mechanical equilibrium at the solid/liquid/gas three-phase contact line into consideration...
Enzyme SSH1 impairs disposal of accumulating cellular garbage, leading to brain cell death
University of South Florida Health neuroscientists discover a defect early in autophagy that may help develop SSH1 inhibitors to treat...
Skeletal muscle development and regeneration mechanisms vary by gender
The functional importance of estrogen receptor betaCredit: Associate Professor Yusuke Ono Researchers at Kumamoto University, Japan generated mice lacking the...
Multi-state data storage leaving binary behind
Stepping 'beyond binary' to store data in more than just 0s and 1sCredit: Pixabay: Akela999 Electronic data is being produced...
Dual checkpoint blockade promising as pre-surgical approach for certain patients with localized bladder cancer
Phase I trial first to evaluate neoadjuvant combination immunotherapy for cisplatin-ineligible patients with high-risk diseaseCredit: The University of Texas MD...
Studying the sun as a star to understand stellar flares and exoplanets
Credit: ISAS/NAOJ New research shows that sunspots and other active regions can change the overall solar emissions. The sunspots cause...
Clinical study aims to better understand COVID-19 immunity
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. People who have recovered from COVID-19, and their close contacts, could...
Surface waves can help nanostructured devices keep their cool
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan -- The continuing progress in miniaturization of silicon microelectronic...
Computational approach to optimise culture conditions required for cell therapy
Collaboration by researchers in Singapore and Australia lead to first-of-its-kind computational biology algorithm that could enable more effective cellular therapies...
Stacking and twisting graphene unlocks a rare form of magnetism
Twisting a monolayer and a bilayer sheet of graphene into a three-layer structure leads to new quantum mechanical states.Credit: Columbia...
Using robotic assistance to make colonoscopy kinder and easier
Credit: University of Leeds Scientists have made a breakthrough in their work to develop semi-autonomous colonoscopy, using a robot to...
Scientists develop new precise therapeutic leukemia vaccine
Credit: WEI Wei Exploration of new leukemia antigens and construction of appropriate delivery systems using FDA-approved material are important strategies...
New virtual reality software allows scientists to ‘walk’ inside cells
Credit: Alexandre Kitching Virtual reality software which allows researchers to 'walk' inside and analyse individual cells could be used to...
Total deaths recorded during the pandemic far exceed those attributed to COVID-19
States that reopened sooner, such as Texas, Arizona and Florida, experienced summer surges, report says.Credit: Courtesy of JAMA Network RICHMOND,...
Mosquitoes’ taste for blood traced to four types of neurons
Credit: ©Alex Wild, used by permission It's one of the world's deadliest animals, and it has a taste for human...
MHz, multi-beams coherent XUV source by intracavity high-order harmonic generation
Credit: by Natsuki Kanda, Tomohiro Imahoko, Koji Yoshida, Akihiro Tanabashi, A. Amani Eilanlou, Yasuo Nabekawa, Tetsumi Sumiyoshi, Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami, and...
Scientists find neurochemicals have unexpectedly profound roles in the human brain
Dopamine, serotonin involved in sub-second perception, cognitionCredit: Virginia Tech In first-of-their-kind observations in the human brain, an international team of...
