Passion fruit yields high antioxidant ingredient for stable edible food coatings
The high antioxidants and polyphenols content in passion fruit peels show significant potential to preserve fresh fruits and fresh cuts in an edible food coating,...
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Advances in spectroscopy
Physicists at The University of Texas at Arlington have developed a new technique that can measure the properties of the topmost atomic layer of materials...
Rats bop to the beat
Accurately moving to a musical beat was thought to be a skill innately unique to humans. However, new research now shows that rats also have...
Eyal Gottlieb, Ph.D., to join MD Anderson as Vice President for Research
HOUSTON ― The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center today announced that Eyal Gottlieb, Ph.D., has been named the institution’s vice president for Research....
First conference for female physicists at Goethe University inspires almost 1000 participants worldwide
FRANKFURT. Women still constitute a minority when it comes to the field of physics; in Germany, only about 13% of physics professors are female, and...
Change at the top of the House of Finance
As of January 1, 2023, Prof. Dr. Drs. h.c. Axel A. Weber will take over the position of Chairman of the Board of Trustees at...
Beauty is only skin deep. As it turns out, so is disease detection
Human skin is the body's largest organ. It also protects internal living tissue and other organs, regulates body temperature, and even metabolizes vitamin D. Studies suggest that...
Magma floods erupt from deeper sources than earlier believed
Large magma eruptions have produced great floods of basalt lava on the continents during Earth’s history. Conventionally, the largest flood basalt eruptions are thought to...
The nose-brain pathway: exploring the role of trigeminal nerves in delivering intranasally administered antidepressant
Intranasal (in.) administration has been garnering increasing popularity as a non-invasive approach to deliver drugs directly to the brain. This approach involves the respiratory or...
What makes mice fat, but not rats? Suppressing neuromedin U, study finds
Our sensory urges ranging from anger to hunger are regulated by hormonal or neuronal signals. Often, these impulses appear as behavioral responses, evoked through complex...
Having good friendships may make for a healthier gut microbiome
Social connections are essential for good health and wellbeing in social animals, such as ourselves and other primates. There is also increasing evidence that the...
Antiviral substances discovered within native plants in South Korea
Codonopsis lanceolata, more commonly referred to as “deodeok”, is used as a medicinal herb in South Korea. It is cultivated in large quantities and has...
Examining female responses to drug use and addiction
A neuroscience researcher at The University of Texas at Arlington is conducting a comparative study of how males and females respond to opiate withdrawal.Credit: The...
Aging | Age-associated changes in microglia activation and Sirtuin-1- chromatin binding patterns
“This work suggests that preservation of microglia and Sirt1 binding activity and patterns, as well as the directionality of pathways regulated by Sirt1, are prognostic...
Long-term physical and mental health outcomes after COVID-19 occur in all ages
Following COVID-19 infection, there is significant new onset morbidity in children, adolescents and adults across 13 distinct diagnosis and symptom complexes, according to a new...
