Could our immune system be why COVID-19 is so deadly?
Credit: Earlham Institute Respiratory viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 (causing COVID-19) can often catalyse an overactive immune response that leads to a life-threatening cycle, known as...
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New skills of Graphene: Tunable lattice vibrations
Credit: K. Höflich/HZB Without electronics and photonics, there would be no computers, smartphones, sensors, or information and communication technologies. In the coming years, the new...
The jaws of life – how hypoxia exposure affects jaw cartilage growth
Credit: Department of Orthodontic Science,TMDU Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) observe underdeveloped jaw cartilage in newborn rats exposed to periods of low...
A new hub for developing medicines of the future at the University of Gothenburg
Credit: Johan Wingborg In recent years, techniques have been developed to treat diseases with what are known as oligonucleotide drugs, based on short DNA or...
Virtually unlimited solar cell experiments
Researchers at Osaka University use machine learning to design and virtually test molecules for organic solar cells, which can lead to higher efficiency functional materials...
Root cause: Plant root tips are constrained to a dome shape common to arch bridges
Researchers from Osaka University, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, and Kobe University find that plant root tips are constrained to a dome shape, similar...
Bottling the world’s coldest plasma
Laser-cooled plasma-in-a-bottle could answer questions about the sun, fusion powerCredit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (March 1, 2021) - Rice University physicists have...
Wrasses dazzle: how fairy wrasses got their flamboyant colours
Coral reef fish diverged in 'evolutionary arms race' during last ice ageCredit: Yi-Kai Tea. With their exuberant colours, fiery personalities and captivating courtship displays, the...
Low-level thinning can help restore redwood forests without affecting stream temperatures
Credit: David Roon, OSU CORVALLIS, Ore. - Selectively cutting trees in riparian zones to aid forest restoration can be done without adversely affecting streams' water...
Covid-19: How to do lockdown? Russian scientists may have an answer
Researchers modified the existing SIR class pandemic prediction model.Credit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University A painful tradeoff between a number of infected and negative...
Microplastic sizes in Hudson-Raritan Estuary and coastal ocean revealed
Rutgers research shows stormwater could be important source of plastic pollutionCredit: NOAA Rutgers scientists for the first time have pinpointed the sizes of microplastics from...
Single cell sequencing opens new avenues for eradicating leukemia at its source
Technology may boost international research efforts to find drugs that eradicate cancer at its sourceCredit: Jude Al-Sabah/DKFZ A new method, described in a study published...
Boston College physicist Brian Zhou receives NSF CAREER Award
Funding will support spatially imaging the flow of photocurrents inside quantum materialsCredit: Lee Pellegrini/Boston College Chestnut Hill, Mass. (3/1/2021) -- Boston College Assistant Professor of...
Sensing suns
Astronomers accurately measure the temperature of red supergiant starsCredit: © 2021 Andrew Klinger Red supergiants are a class of star that end their lives in...
Predicts the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) using deep learning-based Splice-AI
Credit: KBRI Korea Brain Research Institute (KBRI, President Suh Pann-ghill) announced that the research team led by Dr. Jae-Yeol Joo discovered new cryptic splice variants...
