Uterine transplantation is efficacious and safe
Transplanting a uterus is an effective, safe method to remedy infertility when a functioning uterus is lacking. This is the conclusion from the world’s first...
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Gene hunting leads researchers to solve mystery of inhibition of awn elongation in sorghum
Over the years, the domestication of grasses like wheat, rice, barley, and sorghum for consumption has resulted in certain modifications to their morphology. One such...
New, highly tunable composite materials—with a twist
Watch this.Credit: Jacopo Bertolotti Watch this. Watch for the patterns created as the circles move across each other. Those patterns, created by two sets of...
How the Namaste Care program could improve the lives of people with advanced dementia
Credit: Lancaster University DOI 10.3310/hta24060
Installation of deep-water pipeline gives immediate boost to sea-floor animals
An underwater survey west of Africa, off the Angolan coast, found that both the abundance and types of animals on the deep-sea floor increased significantly...
Fluorescence microscopy shows how living cells form vesicles to transport cargo like growth factors
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Cells have a clever way to transport cargos like growth factors across the cell membrane and into the cell. It is called...
Cellular cleanup
Researchers in UC Santa Barbara neuroscientist Kenneth S. Kosik’s lab have discovered a novel organelle — a previously unknown cell structure whose function it is to help...
Pre-school play with friends lowers risk of mental health problems later
Children who learn to play well with others at pre-school age tend to enjoy better mental health as they get older, new research shows. The...
Wandering star disrupts stellar nursery
From a zoomed out, distant view, star-forming cloud L483 appears normal. But when a Northwestern University-led team of astrophysicists zoomed in closer and closer, things...
SNMMI names Helen Nadel, MD, FRCPC, as President-Elect at 2022 Annual Meeting
Reston, VA — Helen Nadel, MD, FRCPC, director of pediatric nuclear medicine at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford and clinical professor of radiology at the Stanford School...
The potential of p-computers
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) has created a crisis in computing and a significant need for more hardware that is...
Tracing the remnants of Andromeda’s violent history
Pasadena, CA— A detailed analysis of the composition and motion of more than 500 stars revealed conclusive evidence of ancient a collision between Andromeda and...
Sustainable irrigation can feed billions, make agriculture resilient to climate change
Washington, DC— As climate change shifts precipitation patterns, irrigation can be a powerful tool for increasing the world’s food supply—feeding more than a billion additional...
Shorter, wider flowers may transmit more parasites to bees
North Carolina State University researchers show that the shape of flowers has the biggest effect on how parasites are transmitted to bees, an important consideration...
Oregon State research sheds light on how bacteria communicate their way to causing infection
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University scientists have identified proteins that prevent a bacterial cell from becoming misguided by its own messaging, allowing it to...
