Soap bark discovery offers a sustainability booster for the global vaccine market
A valuable molecule sourced from the soapbark tree and used as a key ingredient in vaccines, has been replicated in an alternative plant host for...
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Estuarine Management and Technologies: A brand new journal streamlines innovation in the conservation of estuarine ecosystems
Where freshwater rivers meet seas and oceans lies a scientifically intriguing and ecologically important type of ecosystem. As estuarine ecosystems provide various and diverse services...
The missing link: Recent study explores the connection between NOx control and SNA, O3 reduction
Sulfate-nitrate-ammonium (SNA) and other atmospheric aerosols play a significant role in influencing both atmospheric and environmental conditions. These aerosols impact climate directly through scattering and...
Single dose typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) provides lasting efficacy in children
A single dose of the typhoid conjugate vaccine, Typbar TCV®, provides lasting efficacy in preventing typhoid fever in children ages 9 months to 12 years...
In search of muons: Why they switch sites in antiferromagnetic oxides
Muon spectroscopy is an important experimental technique that scientists use to study the magnetic properties of materials. It is based on “implanting” a spin-polarized muon...
PNNL Software Technology wins FLC Award
RICHLAND, Wash.—Visual Sample Plan (VSP), a free software tool developed at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) that boosts statistics-based planning, has been...
Sweat-analyzing temporary tattoo research funded in NSF grant to UMass Amherst researcher
AMHERST – University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have received an award to develop a new type of sweat monitor that can be applied to the...
Autonomous synthesis robot uses AI to speed up chemical discovery
Chemists of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have developed an autonomous chemical synthesis robot with an integrated AI-driven machine learning unit. Dubbed ‘RoboChem’, the benchtop...
Teaching nature to break man-made chemical bonds
For the first time, scientists have engineered an enzyme that can break stubborn man-made bonds between silicon and carbon that exist in widely used chemicals...
The anti-acne medicine isotretinoin, which can cause defects in a developing fetus, is now used by almost 2 in 1,000 girls and women of childbearing age, according to analysis of German database of 25 million
The anti-acne medicine isotretinoin, which can cause defects in a developing fetus, is now used by almost 2 in 1,000 girls and women of childbearing...
Astrophysical jet caught in a “speed trap”
The science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke selected his own seven wonders of the world in a BBC television series in 1997. The only astronomical...
Purdue Innovates licenses novel short-stature corn technology to Ag Alumni Seed
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue Innovates Office of Technology Commercialization has issued a worldwide, exclusive license for a short-stature corn inbred called D16 to...
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz receives the Dickson Prize in Science
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, a senior group leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus and head of Janelia’s 4D Cellular Physiology research area, has been awarded the 2023 Dickson Prize...
Scientists at EMBL Heidelberg discover how ancient ‘relaxant-inflammatory’ molecules get sponges (and blood vessels) moving
Did you know that sponges can move? While not exactly the champions of underwater acrobatics, sponges exhibit coordinated movements — despite not having muscles or...
From ‘rust belt’ to tourist draw: A deeper look at Dongbei
A new book published today analyses the space, identity and everyday life of Dongbei, China’s storied northeast region. “Identity, Space, and Everyday Life in Contemporary Northeast China”,...
