How to tame a restless genome
Credit: Ipsaro/Joshua-Tor lab, CSHL/2021 Short pieces of DNA--jumping genes--can bounce from one place to another in our genomes. When too many DNA fragments move around,...
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Mountain growth influences greenhouse effect
Weathering of rocks can bind or release carbon dioxide -- in active mountain ranges, carbon-dioxide release strongly dominatesCredit: Kristen Cook (GFZ) Taiwan is an island...
‘Pain is always a perception’: Physical therapy can help prevent, treat opioid use disorder
Credit: Aira Burkhart/West Virginia University When you think of ways to treat opioid use disorder, you might think methadone clinics and Narcotics Anonymous meetings. You...
Lifetime monitoring after infant cardiac surgery may reduce adult hypertension risk
Credit: Public Domain via Wikipedia Commons as released by Mariana Ruiz Villarreal, LadyofHats In a medical records study covering thousands of children, a U.S.-Canadian team...
Argonne National Laboratory a partner in first accelerator program dedicated to quantum
Credit: University of Chicago The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is a founding partner of Duality, the first program in the nation...
Regional habitat differences identified for threatened piping plovers on Atlantic coast
Findings can help enhance shorebird species' protection, recoveryCredit: Credit: Susan Haig, USGS Piping plovers, charismatic shorebirds that nest and feed on many Atlantic Coast beaches,...
UBCO researchers find a new use for waste
Pulp mill waste hits the road instead of the landfillCredit: UBCO Waste materials from the pulp and paper industry have long been seen as possible...
NIH experts call for accelerated research to address concurrent HIV and COVID-19 pandemics
Credit: NIAID WHAT: The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting people with or at risk for HIV both indirectly, by interfering with HIV treatment and prevention services,...
Team cracks eggs for science
How birds defend against brood parasitesCredit: Photo by Jeffrey P. Hoover CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Avian brood parasites lay their eggs in the nests of other...
Solar and wind power could mitigate conflict in northeast Africa
Research from KU Leuven and VUB on sensitive geopolitical conflict around Ethiopian mega-damCredit: Google A new study shows that several disagreements between Ethiopia, Sudan and...
Autism gene study finds widespread impact to brain’s growth signaling network
Mutations to Dyrk1a gene lead to brain undergrowth; an existing drug rescues the condition in newborn miceCredit: Damon Page Lab, Scripps Research JUPITER, FL --...
Filling the gaps
New image inpainting technique accurately predicts missing image regionsCredit: Hiya Roy et al. Image inpainting is a computer vision technique in which pixels missing from...
Heart failure and stroke rising in men under 40
Credit: Photo: Cecilia Hedstrom Heart failure and stroke are unusual diagnoses among younger people. But they are now clearly on the rise in men below...
More than 5,000 tons of extraterrestrial dust fall to Earth each year
Credit: © Cécile Engrand/Jean Duprat Every year, our planet encounters dust from comets and asteroids. These interplanetary dust particles pass through our atmosphere and give...
Novel PF74-like small molecules targeting the HIV-1 capsid protein
Balance of potency and metabolic stabilityCredit: Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B Novel PF74-like small molecules targeting the HIV-1 capsid protein: Balance of potency and metabolic stability...
