AIBS announces 2023 emerging public policy leaders
The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is pleased to announce that Elena Suglia and Mohammad Inam Jameel have been selected to receive the 2023...
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UMass Amherst researchers invent “electronic nose” built with sustainably sourced microbial nanowires that could revolutionize health monitoring
AMHERST, Mass. – Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced the invention of a nanowire, 10,000 times thinner than a human hair, which...
Research team creates statistical model to predict Covid-19 resistance
Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and The Johns Hopkins University have created and preliminarily tested what they believe may be one of the first models...
Dial for tuning dopamine, environmental signals found in Parkinson’s
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Researchers at The University of Alabama identified a critical mechanism for how signals from the environment are integrated with genetic information to...
UCI-led study reveals how lung cells protect themselves against RNA viral infection
Irvine, CA – February 22, 2023 - A new University of California, Irvine-led study uncovers how a protein, APOBEC3B, could protects cells against many different...
Keeping babies alive will lower population growth – new research
Keeping babies alive will lower population growth – new research Credit: (c) Corey Bradshaw, Flinders University Keeping babies alive will lower population growth – new research New research showing...
Two high status brothers had access to “brain surgery” in Bronze Age Israel
Two high status brothers buried in a Bronze Age tomb in Israel were severely ill but apparently had access to rare treatments including trephination, according...
Custom, 3D-printed heart replicas look and pump just like the real thing
No two hearts beat alike. The size and shape of the the heart can vary from one person to the next. These differences can be...
Twin-bioengine self-adaptive micro/nanorobots developed for gastrointestinal inflammation therapy
Micro/nanorobots with self-propelling and -navigating capabilities have attracted extensive attention in drug delivery and therapy owing to their controllable locomotion in hard-to-reach body tissues.Credit: SIAT...
New predatory fish species which lived about 360 million years ago may have grown to over 2.5m long, according to analysis of South African fossils
New predatory fish species which lived about 360 million years ago may have grown to over 2.5m long, according to analysis of South African fossilsCredit:...
A new technique creates greater fidelity in bioprinting functional human tissues
A team of researchers at the University of California San Diego has made significant advances in solving some of the most vexing challenges in bioprinting...
The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Anne L’Huillier, Paul Corkum and Ferenc Krausz for enabling subatomic particles to be observed in motion over the shortest time scale captured by science
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences goes in this fifteenth edition to Anne L’Huillier (Lund University, Sweden), Paul Corkum (University of...
Professor Guido Kroemer will inaugurate Redox Medicine 2023 by Highlighting the Hallmarks of Aging & Redox Medicine
The 25th International Conference on Redox Medicine, on June 21-23 in Paris, will revolutionize tomorrow’s medicine through redox. The translation of basic knowledge of redox...
Aging | Metformin’s impact on aging and longevity through DNA methylation
“In this study, we compared genome-wide DNA methylation rates among metformin users and nonusers ”Credit: 2023 Marra et al. “In this study, we compared genome-wide...
WVU physicists give the first law of thermodynamics a makeover
West Virginia University physicists have made a breakthrough on an age-old limitation of the first law of thermodynamics.Credit: WVU Photo/Brian Persinger West Virginia University physicists have made...
