Structural biology provides long-sought solution to innate immunity puzzle
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - July 20, 2021 - UT Southwestern researchers report the first structural confirmation that endogenous - or self-made -...
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Largest-ever type 1 diabetes genetic study IDs potential treatment targets
Credit: UVA Health Scientists have completed the largest and most diverse genetic study of type 1 diabetes ever undertaken, identifying new drug targets to treat...
MRI, clear cell likelihood score correlate with renal mass growth rate
Standardized non-invasive clear cell likelihood score--derived from MRI--correlates with the growth rate of small renal masses and may help guide personalized managementCredit: American Roentgen Ray...
Unravelling the knotty problem of the Sun’s activity
Credit: MacTaggart et al. A new approach to analysing the development of magnetic tangles on the Sun has led to a breakthrough in a longstanding...
Spotted: An exoplanet with the potential to form moons
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Benisty et al. Cambridge, MA ¬- Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have helped detect the clear presence of...
Study shows cancer misinformation common on social media sites
Credit: Huntsman Cancer Institute A new study published online today in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute reports that one third of the most...
Bidirectional impact of cardiovascular disease, cancer in Blacks focus of new AHA center
Credit: Kim Ratliff, Augusta University Cardiovascular disease and cancer, the nation's top two killers, share common ground like obesity and chronic inflammation, as well as...
Targeted removals and enhanced monitoring can help manage lionfish in the Mediterranean
Credit: Periklis Kleitou/University of Plymouth Targeted removals can be effective in suppressing the number of invasive lionfish found within protected coastlines around the Mediterranean Sea....
Long COVID and severe COVID-19 infections associated with Epstein-Barr virus reactivation
Credit: Jeffrey E. Gold, Ramazan A. Okyay, Warren E. Licht, and David J. Hurley Two recently published studies available on the National Institutes of Health...
New quantum research gives insights into how quantum light can be mastered
The breakthrough could have wide-reaching implications in quantum information, cryptography, and energy harvesting, according to a new studyCredit: Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, N.M.,...
New study confirms relationship between toxic pollution, climate risks to human health
Credit: University of Notre Dame For more than 30 years, scientists on the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have focused on human-induced climate change....
Researchers find immune component to rare neurodegenerative disease
Niemann-Pick disease type C, long thought to be tied to cholesterol metabolism, may eventually be treated with immune inhibitorsCredit: Ting-Ting Chu UT Southwestern researchers have...
UMass Amherst professor honored for lifetime achievement in problem gambling research
Volberg leads studies on impacts of Massachusetts casinosCredit: UMass Amherst Not long after earning her Ph.D. in sociology and losing her brief first job with...
How does the structure of cytolysins influence their activity?
Credit: Jillian Nickel Although Enterococcus faecalis is usually an innocuous member of the bacterial community in the human gut, it can also cause several infections,...
Why weren’t New World rabbits domesticated?
Archaeologists find the answer in rabbit social behaviorCredit: Nawa Sugiyama/UCR Domesticated rabbits come in all sizes and colors, including tiny Netherland Dwarfs, floppy-eared French lops,...
