Genomic stability: A double-edged sword for sharks
Sharks have been populating the oceans for about 400 to 500 million years. While our planet and many of its inhabitants have undergone massive changes...
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RCSI and Irish Blood Transfusion Service partnership to boost blood products for patients
Monday, 23 October 2023: Researchers from RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) are joining forces in a...
Mummified mice discovered atop sky-high Andean volcanoes
They were the summits of 20,000-foot volcanoes. Amid the driest desert on Earth. Where temperatures never breached freezing, where less than half of sea-level oxygen...
Interdisciplinary team receives $5 million grant to explore COVID-19 virus ecology at the human-animal interface
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Virginia Tech disease ecologists wondered if the virus was having the same effect on wildlife.Credit: Photo by Joseph...
An antidote for deadly mushrooms? (video)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, 2023 — Almost all mushroom-related fatalities worldwide are caused by a single group of molecules, cyclopeptides, which are found in death caps...
Mouse mummies point to mammalian life in “Mars-like” Andes
The dry, wind-swept summits of volcanoes in the Puna de Atacama of Chile and Argentina are the closest thing on Earth to the surface of...
Scientists develop ‘pseudo cell’ formulation for vitreoretinal disease therapy
Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Chaoyang Hospital have developed a new "pseudo cell" formulation...
Plants transformed into detectors of dangerous chemicals
What if your house plant could tell you your water isn’t safe? Scientists are closer to realizing this vision, having successfully engineered a plant to...
UTIA examines online grocery shopping attributes and subsequent influence on food choices
Researchers from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture have received a grant to examine delivery timing...
Researchers use pioneering new method to unlock brain’s noradrenaline system
An international team of researchers has provided valuable insights into the brain’s noradrenaline (NA) system, which has been a longtime target for medications to treat...
Chemists, engineers craft adjustable arrays of microscopic lenses
They number in the thousands, light striking the phalanx of lenses arrayed on a face in geometric pattern, the beams refracting through transparent mounds no...
Plant-based isn’t just about burgers anymore
A team of University of Waterloo researchers has created smart, advanced materials that will be the building blocks for a future generation of soft medical...
Bioengineering team wins health care innovation competition
Four senior bioengineering students at The University of Texas at Arlington have won the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Coulter College for Healthcare Innovation competition for...
Contaminants in cannabis and hemp flowers create potential for health risks
Cannabis use, even for medical purposes, could make some people sick due to harmful fungi that contaminate the plants.Credit: Photo from Frontiers in Microbiology, courtesy...
Why do some men not produce sperm?
KANSAS CITY, MO—October 20, 2023—Millions of couples worldwide experience infertility with half of the cases originating in men. For 10% of infertile males, little or...
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