Sustainable process for the production of vanillin from lignin makes further progress
The demand for vanillin vastly outstrips the natural resources of this flavoring agent. A chemical process is thus used to produce the required large quantities...
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Gut bacteria are crucial for liver repair
When parts of the liver are removed, the body can replace the missing tissue. A team of researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)...
Chinese Medical Journal study identifies major risk factors of pulmonary tuberculosis in patients with pneumoconiosis in China
Pneumoconiosis comprises a group of heterogeneous lung diseases resulting from the inhalation of mineral dust. It is an occupational hazard with significant economic and social...
JAMA Network names new editor in chief of JAMA Internal Medicine
Chicago, March 1, 2023 — Sharon K. Inouye, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Milton and Shirley F. Levy Family...
Book tackles myths about science of menstruation
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new book from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign anthropology professor Kathryn Clancy takes an unflinching look at the many ways humans have...
Woodcocks have the brightest white feathers ever measured
The mainly brown woodcock uses its bright white tail feathers to communicate in semi-darkness, reflecting 30% more light than any other known bird. Credit: Jean-Lou...
Pink + pink = gold: hybrid hummingbird’s feathers don’t match its parents
The Pink-throated Brilliant hummingbird, Heliodoxa gularis, has, unsurprisingly, a brilliant pink throat. So does its cousin, the Rufous-webbed Brilliant hummingbird, Heliodoxa branickii. When scientists found...
Ochsner Health Network leads the way in value-based care
Ochsner Health Network (OHN), the Gulf South’s largest clinically integrated network (CIN) and nationally recognized leader in value-based care, has released its 2021-2022 Impact Report.Credit: Ochsner...
Illinois researcher receives $5.8 million grant to develop modular quantum computing platform
An initiative led by Wolfgang Pfaff, an assistant professor of physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has received a $5.8 million award from the...
Wastewater sector emits nearly twice as much methane as previously thought
Municipal wastewater treatment plants emit nearly double the amount of methane into the atmosphere than scientists previously believed, according to new research from Princeton University....
School-based wellness initiative shown to reduce average student BMI
Health impacts students’ ability to learn. Leaders at MUSC’s Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness (MUSC BCCW) believe that lessons on healthy living can be part...
Aging | Telomere shortening linked to depression and cognitive impairment in older adults
“ we believe that our findings will help prevent and treat depression and cognitive impairment in the healthy elderly.”Credit: 2023 Han et al. “ we...
SFI Press reissues Complexity, Entropy, and the Physics of Information
FEBRUARY 28, 2023Credit: Santa Fe Institute FEBRUARY 28, 2023 For a few days early in the summer of 1989, roughly 80 physicists, computer scientists, mathematicians,...
Mysterious new behavior seen in whales may be recorded in ancient manuscripts
In 2011, scientists recorded a previously unknown feeding strategy in whales around the world. Now, researchers in Australia think they may have found evidence of...
Novel method of analyzing microplastic particle pollution can facilitate environmental impact assessment
In the last decade, growing numbers of researchers have studied plastic pollution, one of the world’s most pressing environmental hazards. They have made progress but...
