Antidepressant use in pregnancy tied to affective disorders in offspring; no causal link
Credit: Mount Sinai Health System New York, NY - Major depressive disorder is highly prevalent, with one in five people experiencing an episode at some...
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Breakthrough in plant protection: RNAi pesticides affect only one pest species
Credit: Estonian University of Life Sciences The detrimental impact of pesticides on non-target organisms is one of the most urgent concerns in current agriculture. Double-stranded...
Scientists uncover the last meal of a cretaceous pollinator
Credit: NIGPAS While pollinators such as bees and butterflies provide crucial ecosystem services today, little is known about the origin of the intimate association between...
For tomato genes, one plus one doesn’t always make two
Credit: Xingang Wang/Lippman lab, CSHL/2021 Both people and tomatoes come in different shapes and sizes. That is because every individual has a unique set of...
SARS-CoV-2 vaccination rates among US emergency department health care personnel
Credit: KIRSTY CHALLEN, B.SC., MBCHB, MRES, PH.D., LANCASHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS, UNITED KINGDOM DES PLAINES, IL - At the beginning of prioritized health care personnel (HPC)...
Bioactive implant coatings resistant to most bacterial strains are obtained in Russia
Credit: Sergey Gnuskov/ NUST MISIS Young scientists from NUST MISIS have presented multilayer antibacterial coatings with a prolonged effect and a universal spectrum of action....
City, University of London consortium wins highly competitive ESA funding
Credit: City, University of London Funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), City, University of London will be spearheading the development of next-generation AI-based guidance,...
“Look before you leap:” Cardiologists warn about the risks of vaping
Investigators conclude that electronic cigarettes are far from harmless, and additional regulations are needed to restrict availability to young people, reports the Canadian Journal of...
Researchers awarded $500,000 to test novel strategies using mitochondria therapy
Credit: UTHSC Memphis, Tenn. (April 12, 2021) - Researchers from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center have received a $500,000 grant over three years...
World’s first study to evaluate greenhouse gas emissions from Chinese inland waters
HKU geographer leads world's first study to evaluate greenhouse gas emissions from Chinese inland waters over the past 30 yearsCredit: Dr Lishan Ran Inland waters...
More than the sum of mutations
165 new cancer genes identified with the help of machine learningCredit: MPI f. Molecular Genetics/ Ella Maru Studio A new algorithm can predict which genes...
Jan Rajchmann Award for OLED professor Karl Leo
Credit: Bundesregierung/Steffen Kugler Prof. Karl Leo, director of the Institute of Applied Physics at TU Dresden is a semiconductor physicist at heart. His main interests...
USC Stem Cell study reveals neural stem cells age rapidly
Researchers at Keck School of Medicine of USC conduct first-ever study of Abl1 gene's role in neural stem cell biology and the implications for cognitive...
Technique allows mapping of epigenetic information in single cells at scale
Credit: Mandy Meijer Histones are tiny proteins that bind to DNA and hold information that can help turn on or off individual genes. Researchers at...
Bigger brains gave squirrels the capacity to move up in the world
Credit: Ornella Bertrand Squirrels and other tree-dwelling rodents evolved to have bigger brains than their burrowing cousins, a study suggests. This greater brain power has...
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