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‘Give me the calcium!’ Tulane virus takes over cellular calcium signaling to replicate
Credit: The Hyser lab Some gastrointestinal viruses need calcium. They need calcium ions to carry out several essential aspects of...
Artificial intelligence to run the chemical factories of the future
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new proof-of-concept study details how an automated system driven by...
Few-cycle pulses break the 300 W barrier
Credit: MBI A team led by researchers from the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI),...
Perovskite solar cells: Possible aspects of high efficiency uncovered
Credit: HZB Solar cells based on perovskites have reached enormously high efficiencies within a few years, only. Those containing hybrid...
Urban development reduces flash flooding chances in arid West
Credit: Lauren McPhillips Urban development in the eastern United States results in an increase in flash flooding in nearby streams,...
Long-term blood pressure variation and risk of dementia
Credit: rawpixel, Pixabay In a new research study published in the open access journal PLOS Medicine, Albert Hofman and colleagues...
Explosion in Tianjin Port enhanced atmospheric nitrogen deposition over the Bohai Sea
Credit: Zheng Zong Total production and the scale of industrial enterprises in China have expanded greatly since late 1970s. As...
The effects of a mock shelter environment on sleep
Are evacuation shelters too cold in winter?Credit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. In the Building Environment...
Alzheimer’s Association receives 1.34M from NIH for psychosocial research in dementia care
Credit: Alzheimer's Association CHICAGO, November 13, 2019 - The Alzheimer's Association® announced that it has received a $1.34 million dollar...
Healthy mangroves help coral reef fisheries under climate stress
Credit: The University of Queensland Healthy mangroves can help fight the consequences of climate change on coral reef fisheries, according...
NIH grant to study unstructured data that can improve patient safety
Credit: Virginia Tech Reports that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States have led...
System by which plants have formed secondary buds since ancient times illuminated
Credit: Kobe University A collaborative research group has succeeded in identifying an important transcription factor, GCAM1, which allows liverwort plants...
Novel mathematical framework provides a deeper understanding of how drugs interact
Credit: CeMM / Franzi Kreis Combining two or more drugs can be an effective treatment of diverse diseases, such as...
Body language key to zoo animal welfare
Credit: Paul Rose Watching the behaviour and body language of zoo animals could be the key to understanding and improving...
Epitaxially-grown molybdenum oxide advances as a bulk-like 2D dielectric layer
Credit: JongHoon Kim Since the successful isolation of graphene from bulk graphite, remarkable properties of graphene have attracted many scientists...
Plants might be helping each other more than thought
Credit: Scientific illustration created by Dr I M Berenjeno (DhramaBeren Studio, www.dharmaberen.com) Contrary to the long-held belief that plants in...
A study warns about the ecological impact caused by sediment accumulation in river courses
Water ecosystems with high nitrate concentrationCredit: Rubén Ladrera (University of La Rioja, Spain) Insects, crustaceans and other water macroinvertebrates are...
TU Graz researchers develop new 3D printing for the direct production of nanostructures
Credit: © Harald Plank, Institute of Electron Microscopy and Nanoanalysis at TU Graz In the nanometer range, complex, free-standing 3D...
Forget the Chardonay, pass me the grape stems! Anti-tumor activity in prostate cancer cells
Credit: Hidefumi Makabe & Hiroshi Fujii, Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Shinshu University, Japan Grape stems are discarded en masse during...
American Pediatric Society honors Dr. Kathryn M. Edwards with 2020 APS John Howland Award
Credit: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine The American Pediatric Society (APS) is pleased to announce Kathryn M. Edwards, MD, as...
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