Surprise Finding in study of environmental bacteria could advance search for better antibiotics
**EMBARGOED UNTIL THURSDAY, AUG. 15, AT 9 A.M. ET** **EMBARGOED UNTIL THURSDAY, AUG. 15, AT 9 A.M. ET** In what they labeled a “surprising” finding,...
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$1.2 million in federal funding to study women Veterans experiencing homelessness
A first-of-its-kind study led by Lawson Health Research Institute is receiving $1.2 million in funding from the federal government, delivered through the Veteran Homelessness Program, to...
Racial, economic barriers hinder access to medicine for treating opioid use disorder
PORTLAND, Ore. – Patients with a prescription for an opioid use disorder medication may have a tough time getting it filled if their pharmacy is...
Candidate malaria vaccine provides lasting protection in NIH-sponsored trials
WHAT: Two National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported trials of an experimental malaria vaccine in healthy Malian adults found that all three tested regimens were safe....
Galaxies in dense environments tend to be larger, settling one cosmic question and raising others
Link to release: Link to release: https://www.washington.edu/news/2024/08/14/galaxy-size/ FROM: James Urton University of Washington 206-543-2580 [email protected] (Note: researcher contact information at the end) For decades,...
Unveiling the brain’s reward circuitry
PHILADELPHIA (August 14, 2024) – A research team – co-led by Penn Nursing – has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the complex neural circuitry...
Manard chosen for Society of Applied Spectroscopy’s Lester W. Strock Award
Benjamin Manard, an analytical chemist in the Chemical Sciences Division of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will receive the 2024 Lester W....
Brian Peters part of multi-disciplinary team awarded $3.9 million to study mixed fungal-bacterial infections
Brian Peters, PhD, First Tennessee Endowed Chair of Excellence in Clinical Pharmacy and professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Translational Science at the...
Integrating positive psychology and autism: A roundtable
A new Roundtable Discussion in the peer-reviewed journal Autism in Adulthood explores how the two fields of positive psychology and autism might integrate and benefit each other,...
Alzheimer’s cognitive decline predicted by patient’s age, sex, and irregular heart rhythm
Older age, female sex, irregular heart rhythms, and daily activity levels can help to predict how much Alzheimer’s Disease patients’ cognitive function will decline, and...
Consumers continue to lower food inflation expectations and estimates
Consumers continue to lower food inflation expectations and estimates Consumers continue to lower food inflation expectations and estimates Food inflation rate remains steady at 2.2%...
Purdue physicists throw world’s smallest disco party
Physicists at Purdue are throwing the world’s smallest disco party. The disco ball itself is a fluorescent nanodiamond, which they have levitated and spun at...
NTU Singapore launches Innovation Port to support entrepreneurs and accelerate commercialization of technologies
To support budding entrepreneurs and speed up the commercialisation of technologies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has launched the NTU Innovation Port. To support...
uOttawa contributes to global amphibian conservation effort
The University of Ottawa’s Department of Biology made a significant contribution to the comprehensive 2024 Amphibian Conservation Action Plan (ACAP). Professor Vance L. Trudeau’s work...
Recalibrating principles of epigenetic aging clocks in human health
“Our study revealed that the composition of immune cells significantly affects the variation in EAA across six common blood epigenetic clocks." “Our study revealed that...
