New pandemic medicine course helped MCG adapt during COVID-19
Credit: Kim Ratliff, Augusta University When the COVID-19 pandemic forced medical students out of classrooms and clinical rotations this time last year, the state of...
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The 2nd International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems and Control
The 2nd International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems and Control (CPS&C'2021) will be held on June 29 - July 2, 2021.Credit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic...
Christmas Island reptile-killer identified
Bacterium responsible for deaths of critically endangered speciesCredit: Parks Australia. Native reptile populations on Christmas Island have been in severe decline with two species, Lister's...
Animal model opens way to test Alzheimer’s disease therapies
Credit: Danielle Beckman, UC Davis/CNPRC Our knowledge of Alzheimer's disease has grown rapidly in the past few decades but it has proven difficult to translate...
Safety concerns determine level of public support for driverless vehicles, finds NTU study
Findings have implications for improving adoption rate of driverless vehiclesCredit: NTU Singapore When it comes to the use of driverless vehicles, an individual's support for...
A modified protein appears to trigger lung fibrosis after environmental exposure
Researchers find a role for citrullinated vimentin as a damage-associated molecular pattern molecule, or DAMP, that is generated by lung macrophages in response to environmental...
Artificial intelligence system can help prevent anemia in patients undergoing hemodialysis
Scientists developed a decision support system that relies on expert opinion to prevent anemia in patients with kidney diseaseCredit: 2021 Okayama University Anemia, a condition...
The side stream of malting could be better used in human nutrition
Credit: MostPhotos/Jochen Malting, the processing of cereal grains into malt, generates rootlets as a side-stream product, which is currently mostly utilised as animal feed. However,...
Muscle cramp? Drink electrolytes, not water
New research from Edith Cowan University has revealed drinking electrolytes instead of pure water can help prevent muscle cramps.Credit: Photo by Nigel Msipa on Unsplash...
Cellular Chinese whispers
How translation errors impact phenotypic variabilityCredit: Nivedita Mukherjee The immense diversity in the living world and how it came into being has always been a...
Targeting a new antibody supersite key to COVID immunity
Antibodies from recovered patients recognize a lesser-known site on the pandemic coronavirus and block infection in lab studiesCredit: Vir Biotechnology and David Veesler Lab at...
Escape from mongoose: frog’s novel strategy
Invasive mongooses altered leg length and endurance of endangered island frogsCredit: Hirotaka Komine/ TUAT Biodiversity is increasingly ruined by humanity's many impacts, a major aspect...
A new study by Novateur Ventures provides global analysis of COVID-19 vaccines
Credit: Novateur Ventures A new study by Novateur Ventures provides a comparative analysis of twelve COVID-19 Vaccines that had initiated or announced the Phase III...
Powerful stratospheric winds measured on Jupiter for the first time
Credit: ESO/L. Calçada & NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, a team of...
Size matters when it comes to atomic properties
Credit: Neuroncollective, Daniel Spacek, Pavel Travnicek A study from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has yielded new answers to fundamental questions about the relationship between...
