New study allows scientists to test therapeutics for rare disease affecting young children
MADISON — For the first time, scientists will be able to test therapeutics for a group of rare neurodegenerative diseases that affect infants and young...
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nTIDE August 2022 COVID Update: Unemployment stable at pre-pandemic levels for people with disabilities
East Hanover, NJ. September 26, 2022. August marked the fourth consecutive month of stable unemployment numbers for people with disabilities, according to today’s National Trends...
University of Washington joins industry-academia alliance to accelerate research in neuroscience
The University of Washington has joined the Alliance for Therapies in Neuroscience (ATN), a long-term research partnership between academia and industry geared to transform the...
FIU Stempel College researchers awarded NIH supplement grant to explore the role of a neuroinflammation protein in Alzheimer’s disease
For years, researchers have been working to identify risk factors and treatments to help slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Credit: FIU Robert Stempel College of...
A different kind of chaos
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Physicists at UC Santa Barbara and the University of Maryland, and also at the University of Washington have found an answer...
Asteroid that formed Vredefort crater bigger than previously believed
About two billion years ago, an impactor hurtled toward Earth, crashing into the planet in an area near present-day Johannesburg, South Africa. The impactor—most likely...
Family ties change with age and sex and determine how much animals help each other as they become older
The motivation to help conspecifics differs from species to species – and also between males and females. An international team of scientists with the participation...
The neural cartography of smell
NEW YORK – Rendering the invisible visible is among scientists’ favorite challenges. Credit: Hani Shayya/Stavros Lomvardas/Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK – Rendering the invisible visible is...
UH astronomers map distances to 56,000 galaxies, largest-ever catalog
How old is our universe, and what is its size? A team of researchers led by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa astronomers Brent Tully and...
The mysterious mechanics of morphogenesis
Tissue engineering—creating a “seed” of tissue that could grow into a functional, life-saving organ—sounds like magic. But it could become technology, thanks in part to...
Key phases of human evolution coincide with flickers in eastern Africa’s climate
Three distinct phases of climate variability in eastern Africa coincided with shifts in hominin evolution and dispersal over the last 620,000 years, an analysis of...
Solving stability problems of relevant graphene derivatives
In the last decades, a new synthetic approach has been developed, generally termed as “on-surface synthesis” that substantially departs from standard wet-chemistry. Instead of the...
Role of α-ketoglutarate acid （AKG）and its receptor OXGR1 in male sperm maturation
Infertility is a global public health problem caused by genetic defects, lifestyle, nutrition, and factors affecting the local metabolism and microenvironment of the reproductive system....
Plastics of the future will live many past lives, thanks to chemical recycling
One day in the not-too-distant future, the plastics in our satellites, cars and electronics may all be living their second, 25th or 250th lives.Credit: Patrick...
SwRI wins R&D 100 Award for Integrally Geared Supercritical CO2 Compander
SAN ANTONIO — Sept. 26, 2022 — A Southwest Research Institute-developed technology has won a prestigious R&D 100 Award. R&D World Magazine recognized SwRI and...
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