Breaking the warp barrier for faster-than-light travel
Astrophysicist at Göttingen University discovers new theoretical hyper-fast soliton solutionsCredit: E Lentz If travel to distant stars within an individual's lifetime is going to be...
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JNCCN: New evidence on need to address muscle health among patients with cancer
Results of new study underscore the need for the development and testing of nutrition and fitness interventions, as muscle quality significantly correlates with symptom burden,...
NIH scientists use human cerebral organoid to test drug for deadly brain disease
Credit: NIAID WHAT: Approximately two years after establishing a human cerebral organoid system to study Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), National Institutes of Health researchers have further...
Insilico’s Chemistry42 AI system integrated into UCB’s drug discovery programs
Insilico Medicine announces that UCB will integrate its AI-based system for de novo molecular design, Chemistry42™, into its drug discovery programsCredit: Insilico WHAT: Approximately two...
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused changes to people’s wellbeing around the world
A decrease in physical activity during the pandemic was associated with poorer perceived physical and mental healthCredit: University of Jyväskylä According to an international study...
The University of Barcelona leads the construction of a pocket high-resolution microscope
Credit: X. Fuentes/UB An international team led by researchers of the University of Barcelona builds the smallest and cheapest high-resolution microscope to date. To build...
Ecosystem restoration is a pressing issue in fragmented rainforest
Credit: Photo: Aircraft NERC, landscape Benjamin Blonder. Image processing Jani Närhi In light of the United Nations (UN) declaration that 2021-2030 is the UN Decade...
Clemson, Nephron driving pharmaceutical manufacturing with new benchtop industrial robot
Credit: Clemson University Drug shortages have plagued the health care system for decades. Even prior to COVID-19, hospitals incurred more than $400 million in labor...
Two species and a single name: ‘Double identity’ revealed in a venomous banana spider
Credit: N. Hazzi Spiders from the genus Phoneutria - also known as banana spiders - are considered aggressive and among the most venomous spiders in...
New therapeutic approach discovered for reducing the risk of thrombosis
Credit: Laura Alvarez/CeMM Thrombotic occlusion of blood vessels, which leads to myocardial infarctions, strokes and venous thromboembolisms, is the major cause of death in the...
First the treats, then the tough stuff: A bacterial dinner plan for degrading algal blooms
Metaproteomics enables new insights into the marine carbon cycleCredit: Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology / G. Reintjes The annually occurring algal spring blooms play...
Amyloid plaque mutation map opens new avenues for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, IBEC A study published in the journal eLife made all the possible mutations in the amyloid beta peptide...
Pungent-variable of sweet chili pepper Shishito: genes and seeds
Credit: Copyright © 2021, Fumiya Kondo, Kenichi Matsushima et al., Shinshu University, under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature Chili...
Irradiating COVID-19 cough droplets with UV-C lamps
Using supercomputer numerical modeling of saliva droplets' diffusion produced by coughs, researchers in Italy explore deactivating COVID-19 virus particles via UV-C lightCredit: V. D'Alessandro, M....
Determining the structure of a molecule with laser-induced electron diffraction
Credit: ©ICFO Light microscopes have revolutionized our understanding of the microcosmos, but their resolution is limited to about 100 nanometers. To see how molecules bond,...
