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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...

Northern entrance to Huguenot tunnel, Du Toits Kloof mountains

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...

Artistic representation of quantum interference between a thermal state and a heralded parametric single-photon state

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...

Unraveling the Combined Health Impact of Diabetes and Sarcopenia in Aging Populations

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...

Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation awarded NIH grant to develop allograft-rejection-on-a-chip model

(LOS ANGELES) – January 23, 2024 - Vadim Jucaud, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation, has been awarded a grant from...

As a carbon offset, cookstove emission credits are greatly overestimated

The fastest growing type of offset on the global carbon market subsidizes the distribution of efficient cookstoves in developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,...

UW researchers uncover news clues about the cause of common birth defects

MADISON, WI.-- Cleft lip and palate are the most common craniofacial birth defects in humans, affecting more than 175,000 newborns around the world each year....

Shallow soda lakes show promise as cradles of life on Earth

Charles Darwin proposed that life could have emerged in a “warm little pond” with the right cocktail of chemicals and energy. A study from the...

Tiny worm, giant leap: Discovery of highly specific fatty acid attachment to proteins

In a world where the intricacies of molecular biology often seem as vast and mysterious as the cosmos, a new groundbreaking study delves into the...

Hooked tarpon make an easy target for hungry hammerheads.

Don’t blame the sharks: Research led by UMass Amherst reveals why more hooked tarpon are being eaten

In wave-making research recently published in Marine and Coastal Fisheries, a team of researchers, led by biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has quantified...

A new drug candidate can shrink kidney cysts

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), the most common form of polycystic kidney disease, can lead to kidney enlargement and eventual loss of function. The...

Chandra Mohan, University of Houston Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Endowed Professor of Biomedical Engineering

New biomarkers for active lupus nephritis discovered

New biomarkers with improved diagnostic performance for early detection of lupus nephritis have been discovered in the University of Houston lab of Chandra Mohan, a...

Manipulated hafnia paves the way for next-gen memory devices

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STEP Demo pilot plant makes new breakthrough for sCO2 power generation