Forecasting the health returns of tobacco tax proposals
Scientists with Virginia Tech’s Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC are leading a five-year, $3.5 million study to predict the impact of tobacco taxes on...
NEWS INDEX
Dietary change starves cancer cells, overcoming treatment resistance
Nov. 18, 2022Credit: Sumeet Solanki Nov. 18, 2022 For more information, contact: Nicole Fawcett, [email protected] 734-764-2220 For immediate release ANN ARBOR, Michigan...
Biologist applies quality control for quail
A University of Cincinnati biologist is using tech more commonly found in Amazon distribution warehouses to care for birds in her lab.Credit: Andrew Higley/UC A...
Corporate pledges to recycle or reduce plastics aren’t translating into less plastic use
Plastic pollution is overwhelming landfills, littering Earth’s coastlines, and affecting the health of animals, including humans, while also contributing to environmental degradation and climate change....
With training, people in mind-controlled wheelchairs can navigate normal, cluttered spaces
A mind-controlled wheelchair can help a paralyzed person gain new mobility by translating users’ thoughts into mechanical commands. On November 18 in the journal iScience,...
You are “what you eat”, but you are not “where you live”
Genetic studies of the past 20 years have extensively shown how, across human populations worldwide, the majority of genetic differences are encountered at the individual...
Study reveals the intrinsic immune mechanism that boosts axon regeneration in the adult nervous system
Damages to the central nervous system (CNS), for example in the case of spinal cord injury, can result in permanent loss of sensory and motor...
Dream Chemistry Award 2022 is coming
Nothing is better than dreaming about progress, innovation, and the future. All scientists have a dream, but not everyone dares to dream loudly, crossing schematic...
Cultural heritage may influence choice of tools by capuchin monkeys, study suggests
Capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.) are among only a few primates that use tools in day-to-day activities. In the Cerrado and Caatinga, they use stones as hammers...
Revealing biochemical “rings of power”
Benzobactins are bacterial natural products that have special biological activity due to a compound consisting of two ring structures. The bacterial genes responsible for the...
Perennial rice’s next steps: Large-scale localization to adapt across different climates
The global population is projected to reach 8 billion on 15 November 2022, according to the UN's recently-released World Population Prospects 2022. Countries of sub-Saharan...
OHSU-developed brain surgery simulator proves valuable in nationwide test
Hundreds of residents in neurological surgery across the United States trained on a first-of-its-kind simulator intended to mimic the type of real-life catastrophe they may...
Tackling plastic pollution with a net of law and chemical coding
An innovative proposal to tackle the global plastic pollution crisis with a combination of DNA-like encoding of plastics and international law has been put forward...
Novel device measures nerve activity that may help treatment sepsis and PTSD
A team of engineers and physicians at University of California San Diego has developed a device to non-invasively measure cervical nerve activity in humans, a...
A Tale of Terroir: Porcini mushrooms have evolved with a preference to local adaptation
The Dentinger Lab at the Natural History Museum of Utah has published a provocative new paper in the journal New Phytologist that describes their work with the...
