Uptake of methylmercury by phytoplankton is controlled by thiols
Methylmercury is one of the chemicals that poses the greatest threat to global public health. People ingest methylmercury by eating fish, but how does the...
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UC Irvine-led science team shows how to eat our way out of the climate crisis
Irvine, Calif., Nov. 6, 2023 — Agriculture is one of the hardest human activities to decarbonize; people must eat, but the land-use practices associated with...
Green spaces can save lives, according to urban big data
Against the backdrop of global climate change, extreme heat events are becoming hotter, longer, and more frequent. Such sustained extreme heat has severely impacted people's...
Studies of geologic faulting on icy moons aid exploration of extraterrestrial watery worlds
On the surface of many of the icy moons in our solar system, scientists have documented strike-slip faults, those that occur when fault walls move...
Exploring the ethics of transplanting human brain organoids into animals
To address these concerns, this study aimed to examine potential ethical issues in the short, medium, and long term from two perspectives, namely, those related to...
Potential of 3D human breast organoid models in advancing lactation research
The 3D human breast organoid model represents state-of-the-art technology that “floats” patient-derived or stem cell-derived human breast tissue in a gel-like substance known as the...
Major study validates Owkin’s best in class AI diagnostic for colorectal cancer biomarker aimed at optimizing patient access to immunotherapy
Paris and New York., 6 Nov 2023 – In a peer-reviewed study published today in Nature Communications, a team of scientists from French-American techbio Owkin...
Enhancing thermo-electrochemical cell efficiency
The beloved character Lightening Man, a children’s hero, and the protagonist of the popular action series, Moving, possess the extraordinary ability to harness electricity at...
Food waste prevention in Europe can generate major footprint savings
New research shows that European food consumption draws unnecessarily excessively on global resources, which is why researchers are calling for political action. Many of the...
Newly discovered bacterial transcription mechanism may inform synthetic biology engineering
Bacterial transcription is a production line of copying over genetic instructions from double stranded DNA to produce RNA, which is then used for the subsequent...
Incheon National University scientists develop new hydrogels for wound management
Open wounds, whether caused by accidents or from medical procedures like surgery, require proper management to speed up healing and prevent infections. While sutures and...
Nasal microorganism to the rescue? Study confirms protective role of bacterium in chronic rhinosinusitis
Like other countries in the world, Japan has witnessed a worrisome increase in the prevalence of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) over the last decade. An inflammatory...
Plants’ ingenious defence against mutational damage
Humans wouldn’t last long without plant mitochondria and chloroplasts. These essential compartments of plant cells famously capture sunlight and power plant life – and so,...
Video technology could transform how scientists monitor changes in species evolution and development
Scientists have made a major breakthrough in the study of species evolution, and provided further evidence that state-of-the-art visual technology can be used to track...
Physicists ask: Can we make a particle collider more energy efficient?
Ever since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, physicists have wanted to build new particle colliders to better understand the properties of that...
