Violence and its effects on healthcare service, access, and strategies
Credit: Laura Vargas PHILADELPHIA (April 8, 2021) - Many factors, including need, affect healthcare use. Strategies geared to enhancing the provision and access to healthcare...
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Bioengineer wins NIH grant to attack cystic fibrosis
Xue Sherry Gao developing base editors to fix multitude of single mutations that cause diseaseCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (April 8, 2021) - Chemical...
Purdue scientists use malaria expertise to track COVID-19 variants
Credit: Purdue University photo/Rebecca McElhoe WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Scientists have been using genetics to track diseases for decades. Now, a team at Purdue University...
Rochester Institute of Technology engineering leaders honored as 2021 IISE Fellows
Nabil Nasr and Iris Rivero recognized for significant contributions in industrial engineeringCredit: RIT The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) has named two Rochester...
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,...
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 --...
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