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This study is led by Prof. Shou-Hang Bo (Global Institute of Future Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University) and Prof. Jun Cheng...

Tailings dams degrade the upstream variety and abundance of fish species

Streams are complex habitats that can be affected by changes further upstream or downstream. Even small dams and reservoirs can modify significant ecological processes, such...

CWRU researchers Agata Exner and Pinunta “Petch” Nittayacharn

Improving gene therapy with tiny bubbles

CLEVELAND—Beyond vaccines, mRNA offers immense potential to fight disease, but targeting the genetic material to specific diseased cells is challenging—requiring a new method. Credit: Case Western...

Merons and antimerons

Sliding and twisting of van der Waals layers can produce fascinating physical phenomena. In a recent publication in Nature Communications, Daniel Bennett, Eric Bousquet and...

New airway cell type holds promise for respiratory diseases

During specialization, the individual cells form different airway cell types, a process that can include a period of uncertainty, although they are seemingly coded to...

Mutant forms of Salmonella and ntestinal tract of chickens

Mutant strains of Salmonella make infection more aggressive in commercial poultry, study shows

In Brazil, a group of researchers supported by FAPESP created mutant forms of Salmonella to understand the mechanisms that favor colonization of the intestinal tract of chickens...

New findings that map the universe’s cosmic growth support Einstein’s theory of gravity

For millennia, humans have been fascinated by the mysteries of the cosmos.Credit: ACT Collaboration For millennia, humans have been fascinated by the mysteries of the...

Do respondents feel they have enough CRC information

Over 60 percent of Saudi Arabian respondents never took a colorectal cancer test | BGI Insight

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the most diagnosed cancer among males and third among females in Saudi Arabia, with up to two-thirds diagnosed at an advanced...

Male yellow crazy ants are real-life chimeras

The yellow crazy ant, or Anoplolepis gracilipes, has the infamous distinction of being among the worst invasive species in the world. However, this is not...

Trees in areas prone to hurricanes have strong ability to survive even after severe damage

As their plane flew low on its approach to land at the airport on the island of Dominica, researchers from Clemson and Harvard universities looked...

Mint flavor makes vape juice more toxic, damaging to lungs

PITTSBURGH, April 10, 2023 – Adding mint flavor to e-cigarette liquids produces more vapor particles and is associated with worse lung function in those who...

A new primary care model proves effective for patients with severe mental illness

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Over the past few years, the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry in UNC’s School of Medicine have...

Vaccine hesitancy has become a nationwide issue: What can science do about it?

South Carolina residents were more hesitant than Americans as a whole to receive the COVID-19 vaccine during the fall of 2020, report researchers in the...

Roundtable on community engagement in data decision-making

A Roundtable Discussion was recently held to discuss the importance of community voice in developing 21st century public health systems. Expert panelists emphasized the need...

Crosstalk between triple negative breast cancer and microenvironment