Racial and ethnic differences in gut microbiome emerge at 3 months old
Gut microbiome variation associated with race and ethnicity arises after three months of age and persists through childhood, according to a new study published August...
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Old brains, new tricks: Surprising plasticity in adult vision
Why Adult Plasticity MattersCredit: Hedi Young Why Adult Plasticity Matters Much like young children who swiftly acquire languages in their early years, our visual system...
We finally know why quantum ‘strange metals’ are so strange
For nearly 40 years, materials called ‘strange metals’ have flummoxed quantum physicists, defying explanation by operating outside the normal rules of electricity.Credit: Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Simons Foundation...
The scale of emissions inequality in U.S. society
Researchers have linked US household income data to greenhouse gas emissions generated in creating that income, and found that 40% of total emissions are associated...
LRT, REM, mass transit projects and their fuzzy reality
The city of Gatineau is planning a tramway network that will link up with Ottawa, where the Light Rail Transit (LRT) continues to be bogged...
New study offers information on bone regeneration and osteoporosis in the light of evolution
A new study of the PhyloBone project of the University of Turku, Finland, identifies hundreds of non-collagenous proteins in the bone matrix that may play...
New call for joint effort to bolster research integrity
Who’s responsible for upholding research integrity, mitigating misinformation or disinformation and increasing trust in research? Everyone – even those reporting on research – says a...
Powerful imaging technology used to investigate renal disease
Chandra Mohan, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Endowed Professor of biomedical engineering, is reporting the first use of the powerful imaging mass cytometry (IMC)...
Scientists use FAST to discover a new population of ‘dwarf’ pulses
Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), a research team led by Prof. HAN Jinlin from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy...
Rotman professors and Ph.D. students honored at academic conferences
August 17, 2023Credit: Jee-Eun Shin August 17, 2023 Rotman Professors and PhD Students Honoured at Academic Conferences Toronto – Faculty and doctoral students at the...
Exploring the relationship between klotho and telomere biology in high-stress caregivers
BUFFALO, NY- August 17, 2023 – A new research paper was published by Aging (listed by MEDLINE/PubMed as "Aging (Albany NY)" and "Aging-US" by Web...
Towards organ preservation: Animal resistance to cold reflected in stem cells
Researchers led by Genshiro Sunagawa at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan have shown that an animal’s stem cells possess the...
Pollutants are important to biodiversity’s role in spread of wildlife diseases
Conventional wisdom among ecologists holds that the more species there are inhabiting an ecosystem, the less vulnerable any one species will be to a threat...
HKU AGI welcomes 18 influential fellows from belt and road initiative countries and beyond
The Asia Global Institute (AGI) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is delighted to welcome 18 exceptional global influencers from 17 different countries to...
Chung-Ang University study validates the simple view of reading for enhancing second and foreign language learners’ experience
The simple view of reading (SVR) is a widely accepted theory that attempts to define the skills that contribute to early reading comprehension. It attributes...
