Women with atrial fibrillation significantly benefit from pulsed field ablation procedures
Women with atrial fibrillation (AF) undergoing a procedure called pulsed field ablation (PFA) have just as good outcomes as men with AF undergoing the same...
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Sperm adjust their swimming style to adapt to fluctuating fluid conditions
Sperm can modulate their energetics by regulating their flagellar waveform—how the sperm oscillate their tails—in order to adapt to varying fluid environments, potentially optimizing their...
Immune checkpoint inhibition, when administered together with single fraction stereotactic radiosurgery, does not appear to increase risk of radiation necrosis in patients with brain metastases
MIAMI, FL – November 1, 2023 -- Miami Cancer Institute, part of Baptist Health South Florida, announced the publication of a multi-institutional retrospective cohort study about...
The American Pediatric Society honors Dr. Alan Jobe with the 2024 APS John Howland award
The American Pediatric Society (APS) is pleased to announce Alan Jobe, MD, PhD, as the 2024 APS John Howland Award recipient, the highest honor bestowed...
Research team at World Institute of Kimchi discovers lactic acid bacteria strains with high virus resistance from kimchi
Researchers at the World Institute of Kimchi have isolated lactic acid bacteria (LAB) strains with high levels of resistance to phages from kimchi fermented at...
Vaccine confidence falls as belief in health misinformation grows
PHILADELPHIA – Americans have less confidence in vaccines to address a variety of illnesses than they did just a year or two ago, and more...
Plastic-eating bacteria turn waste into useful starting materials for other products
Mountains of used plastic bottles get thrown away every day, but microbes could potentially tackle this problem. Now, researchers in ACS Central Science report that...
UTSA researchers develop energy-efficient AI with $2 million NSF grant
Fidel Santamaria, a professor in the UTSA College of Sciences’ neuroscience, developmental and regenerative biology department, received a $2 million grant through the National Science...
Mobile phone use may affect semen quality
Does electromagnetic radiation emitted by mobile phones affect semen quality? While various environmental and lifestyle factors have been proposed to explain the decline in semen...
Marine oxygen landscape shaped by plate movement and biological innovation
The oxygen content of seawater has a profound impact on the cycling of bioessential elements and the habitability of Earth. But how and why the...
NIH funding helps Ghose Lab invest in innovative imaging equipment
UTA will soon add a new piece of cutting-edge equipment to its already impressive and growing research armamentarium—a type of super-resolution microscope (SRM) that allows...
Hix, Lajoie elected Fellows of the American Physical Society
Physicists William Raphael “Raph” Hix of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and John Lajoie, who will join ORNL on Nov. 6 from...
Proteomic quantification of native and ECM-enriched mouse ovaries reveals an age-dependent fibro-inflammatory signature
“Overall, our study provides novel insight into how reproductive aging impacts the murine ovarian proteome and ECM.”Credit: 2023 Dipali et al. “Overall, our study provides...
Next-generation influenza B vaccines provide broad and long-lasting protection against flu viruses in preclinical tests
Recent preclinical results indicate novel next-generation vaccine candidates developed at Cleveland Clinic protect against multiple strains of influenza and last longer than vaccines currently in...
FSU-led research shows shifting nesting timing not enough to prevent fewer sea turtle hatchlings
New research led by a Florida State University professor shows that potential adaptive responses by sea turtles, such as shifting the timing of when they...
