When conditions cool down, a bacterial prey species becomes the predator
In a new study, two species of bacteria grown in a lab reversed their predator-prey relationship after one species was grown at a lower temperature....
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New checklist to help researchers accurately and consistently report consensus methods used in biomedical research
Author Interview:Credit: Gattrell WT et al., 2024, PLOS Medicine, (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Author Interview: Why did you create this reporting guideline? We created this reporting...
A new 3D bioprinted model offers a novel tool to study common liver disease, and perhaps find an effective treatment
Metabolic dysfunction- associated steatohepatitis, or MASH, is an inflammatory, liver-scarring disease that has reached epidemic proportions, with an estimated 1.5% to 6.5% of U.S. adults...
Ageism, mistaken beliefs complicate acceptance of older adults’ sexuality
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — More than 25% of the young adults surveyed in a recent study mistakenly believed that sexual activity increases older adults’ risk of...
Liquid lithium on the walls of a fusion device helps the plasma within maintain a hot edge
Emerging research suggests it may be easier to use fusion as a power source if liquid lithium is applied to the internal walls of the device housing...
Dirk Görlich receives Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine 2024
The Louis-Jeantet Foundation honors the Director at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences for discovering a new kind of biological matter that acts...
Bloom-forming cyanobacteria and dinoflagellates in five Argentinian reservoirs: a multi-year sampling
Harmful algal blooms (HABs), characterized by the proliferation of detrimental algae and cyanobacteria, occur worldwide. HABs include any event causing adverse effects on human health,...
Complex green organisms emerged a billion years ago
Of all the organisms that photosynthesize, land plants have the most complex bodies. How did this morphology emerge? A team of scientists led by the...
Updated edition of the “Handbook of Obesity,” edited by former Pennington Biomedical Executive Directors Dr. George Bray and Dr. Claude Bouchard, now available
BATON ROUGE – The two-volume set of the “Handbook of Obesity,” edited by former Pennington Biomedical Research Center Executive Directors Dr. George Bray and Dr....
Three-year population study supports fight to save Cameroon’s Kordofan giraffe
Crucial new data about the numbers of Critically Endangered Kordofan giraffe living within Cameroon’s Bénoué National Park has been released, supporting conservation efforts to save...
Study: AI surveillance tool successfully helps to predict sepsis, saves lives
Each year, at least 1.7 million adults in the United States develop sepsis, and approximately 350,000 will die from the serious blood infection that can...
Deep underground laboratory will be a first for Africa
Africa’s first deep underground science laboratory may become a reality in the next five to ten years with the establishment of the Paarl Africa Underground...
Researchers find new multiphoton effect within quantum interference of light
An international team of researchers from Leibniz University Hannover (Germany) and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (United Kingdom) has disproved a previously held assumption...
Research from the Korea University College of Medicine explores the combined health impact of diabetes and sarcopenia in the elderly
Diabetes mellitus and sarcopenia pose a substantial challenge to public health, especially among the elderly. These conditions share common pathophysiological mechanism and are linked bidirectionally,...
KAIST research team breaks down musical instincts with AI
Music, often referred to as the universal language, is known to be a common component in all cultures. Then, could ‘musical instinct’ be something that...
