Why don’t we have synthetic blood yet? (video)
WASHINGTON, July 5, 2022 — Millions of liters of blood are donated around the world every year, but there’s still not enough for everyone who...
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Wellcome Leap announces breakthrough in funded project at Caltech – points to new all-in-one vaccine for SARS-like betacoronaviruses – Phase I clinical trials initiated by CEPI
Los Angeles – July 5, 2022: Wellcome Leap, a U.S. based non-profit organization founded by the Wellcome Trust to accelerate and increase the number of...
New psychogeography book assesses human interaction with the world
Dr Bridger, a Senior Lecturer in Critical Social Psychology, has just released 'Psychogeography and Psychology: In and Beyond the Discipline', a summation of 20 years...
Fossils confirm early diversification of spiny plants in central Tibet
Spinescence (a general term for the phenomena of spines, prickles, and thorns on plants) is an important functional trait shared by numerous plant families worldwide...
Link between recognizing our voice and feeling in control
Being able to recognize our own voice is a critical factor for our sense of control over our speech, according to a study by researchers...
Eavesdropping on whales in the high Arctic
Whales are huge, but they live in an even larger environment — the world’s oceans. Researchers use a range of tools to study their whereabouts,...
USC researcher leads effort to improve research on diet and dementia
Anyone searching the internet for brain healthy foods will find no shortage of stories making dietary recommendations. Some of those stories point to observational studies...
Study explores coevolution of mammals and their lice
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — According to a new study, the first louse to take up residence on a mammalian host likely started out as a parasite...
Researchers propose a new live-attenuated influenza A vaccine approach
A promising strategy to reduce the impact of viral infectious diseases, such as influenza, is the use of attenuated, live viruses as vaccines.Credit: SI Longlong...
Fast and facile synthesis of antibacterial amino acid Schiff base copper complexes
Ever since their development in the late 19th century, Schiff bases have been a popular group of organic compounds, owing to their wide variety of...
Male dogs four times more likely to develop contagious cancer on nose or mouth than females
Sniffing or licking other dogs’ genitalia – the common site of Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumour – can spread this unusual cancer to the nose and...
UTSW researchers develop rapid COVID-19 test to identify variants in hours
*Click here to watch "The hunt for COVID-19 variants" videoCredit: UT Southwestern Medical Center *Click here to watch "The hunt for COVID-19 variants" video ...
Ovarian cancer in the fatty omentum: Metabolic enzyme’s key role in tumor metastasis
(LOS ANGELES) – July 1, 2022 - In their recent publication in Cell Reports, a team of scientists, led by Xiling Shen, Ph.D., Chief Scientific...
Dinosaurs took over amid ice, not warmth, says a new study of ancient mass extinction
Many of us know the conventional theory of how the dinosaurs died 66 million years ago: in Earth’s fiery collision with a meteorite, and a...
Mining’s effect on fish warrants better science-based policies
A new paper published in Science Advances synthesizes the impact of metal and coal mines on salmon and trout in northwestern North America, and highlights...
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