Fishers at risk in ‘perfect storm’
Credit: Laurence Hartwell Stormier weather will increasingly force fishers to choose between their safety and income, researchers say. Climate change is causing more extreme weather...
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Jonathan Jaggar receives $2.3 million for blood pressure research
Credit: UTHSC Memphis, Tenn. (March 10, 2021) - The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute recently awarded Jonathan H. Jaggar, PhD, Maury Bronstein Endowed Professor...
MUSC is first in nation to enroll kids in trial of novel MIS-C therapy
Using an investigational cell therapy, Medical University of South Carolina pediatricians successfully treated two patients with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, a rare but life-threatening...
Danish computer scientist has developed a superb algorithm for findin
Credit: University of Copenhagen One of the most classic algorithmic problems deals with calculating the shortest path between two points. A more complicated variant of...
Study shows simple blood test could detect liver injury earlier
Researchers describe how gold nanoparticles may play part in finding damageCredit: University of Texas at Dallas University of Texas at Dallas chemist Dr. Jie Zheng...
Bacterial competition in situations of food scarcity prevents survival of mutants
Study compares the phenomenon observed in the species E. coli to a "tragedy of the commons", in which individual interests take precedence over the collective...
Helpful behavior during pandemic tied to recognizing common humanity
Credit: Barragan et al., 2021, PLOS One During the COVID-19 pandemic, people who recognize the connections they share with others are more likely to wear...
New IceCube detection proves 60-year-old theory
Credit: IceCube Collaboration On December 6, 2016, a high-energy particle called an electron antineutrino was hurtling through space at nearly the speed of light. Normally,...
Scientists aim to root out rapid apple decline culprit
Credit: Allison Usavage, Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - Since 2013, a mysterious phenomenon has been killing apple trees across North America, leaving growers panicked and...
Epidemiological model links spread of respiratory virus to a rare, paralyzing disease
Credit: Harnessing a predictive algorithm, Sang Woo Park and colleagues have mapped out new trends in the incidence of the respiratory virus enterovirus D68 in...
Research underway to better understand eye condition prevalent among Down syndrome adults
Adults with Down syndrome have a higher risk of developing the eye disease, which can result in loss of visionCredit: HSC Drs. Dimitrios Karamichos and...
Deciphering the impacts of small RNA interactions in individual bacterial cells
Credit: Anustup Poddar Bacteria employ many different strategies to regulate gene expression in response to fluctuating, often stressful, conditions in their environments. One type of...
Scientists have synthesized a new high-temperature superconductor
Credit: Ivan A. Troyan, et.al./Advanced Materials An international team led by Artem R. Oganov, a Professor at Skoltech and MISIS, and Dr. Ivan Troyan from...
In Panama, nitrogen-fixing trees unlock phosphorus and other scarce nutrients
By enriching soils, they benefit forest recovery and carbon storageCredit: Credit: Sarah Batterman. A new study, published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy...
Forget the fly swatter: Biologists map genes to fight stable flies
Stable flies cause $2B in agriculture losses each year -- and they're so annoyingCredit: Pia Untalan Olafson Researchers hope to use an agricultural pest's genetic...
