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To address the overdose crisis in the United States, the National Institutes of Health has established a research network that will test harm reduction strategies...

Joining efforts in research on antibiotic resistance

Research on antibiotic resistance will broaden significantly when the Center for Antibiotic Resistance Research (CARe) in Gothenburg expands. Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of...

The research team analysed the bacterial communities of 370 individual air particulate samples collected from 63 sites around the world, from ground level to mountaintops, as well as from densely populated urban centres to the Arctic Circle.

PolyU researchers compile world’s first “atlas” of airborne microbes that provides an important new perspective for public health research

Bacteria are truly abundant across the Earth’s surface, from the soil to the oceans. The microbial population of the air that surrounds us is comparatively...

COVID-19: a respiratory vaccine effective in mice

Less known to the general public, mucosal vaccination via the mucus membranes could provide robust protection against SARS-CoV-2 infections. Immune cells in the nose and...

Fostering policy dialogue and knowledge exchange of pollinator protection: new Safeguard policy brief

Safeguard’s policy brief was distributed at a side event of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological...

POSTECH-Catholic University researchers develop myocardial infarction treatment patch

Myocardial infarction is an ischemic disease in which a coronary artery supplying blood to the heart muscle is stenotic or obstructed, resulting in cardiac tissue...

Scientists develop low-cost system to measure space weather without leaving the ground

A research team from the Institute of Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE) at Nagoya University in Japan used a sensor manufactured by Aichi Steel Corporation to...

Child labor contributes to the preservation of forest cover

The work with forest preservation in southwestern Ethiopia, where smallholder coffee farmers play an important part, is essential for global sustainability. But there are also...

Flip-flopping cholesterol in the cell membrane

Cholesterol is an essential component of the membrane surrounding every human cell, despite its poor reputation as a health concern when its blood levels are...

Walnuts the new brain food for stressed university students

Stressed university students might want to add walnuts to their daily diet in the weeks leading up to their next exam.Credit: Open Verse Stressed university...

Wood-eating clams use their poop to dominate their habitat

Deep beneath the waves, tiny clams with shells usually about as big as a pea bore into pieces of sunken wood. The wood is food...

Caleb D. Martin, Ph.D,, associate professor of Chemistry at Baylor University, Waco, TX

Baylor Chemistry researchers synthesize new groundbreaking compound

Creating new synthetic compounds is often a complex and multi-step process that can take years of research. Caleb D. Martin, Ph.D., associate professor in the...

How Might an Acute Kidney Injury Follow-up Clinic Improve Patient Care?

Follow-up clinic visits with a nephrologist after hospital discharge may improve survival in patients with acute kidney injury

Outpatient clinic visits with a nephrologist and attention to kidney complications and cardiovascular disease were associated with 29% lower risk of mortality compared to standard...

Spiking on the tibial tubercles in the knee joint

Artificial Intelligence searches an early sign of osteoarthritis from an x-ray image – might save from unnecessary treatments and examination

Researchers from the University of Jyväskylä and the Central Finland Health Care District have developed an AI based neural network to detect an early knee...

Harnessing smartphones to track how people use green spaces