Scoring system to redefine how U.S. patients prioritized for liver transplant
Credit: Getty Images Liver transplant priority in the U.S. goes to the sickest patients, which fails to consider other important factors, including how long patients...
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Astronomers find signature of magnetar outbursts in nearby galaxies
Spacecraft detect giant flare in nearby galaxy, allowing localization in star forming regionCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona...
Northern lakes at risk of losing ice cover permanently, impacting drinking water
Credit: York University Postdoctoral Fellow Alessandro Filazzola TORONTO, Jan. 13, 2021 - Close to 5,700 lakes in the Northern Hemisphere may permanently lose ice cover...
Compound from medicinal herb kills brain-eating amoebae in lab studies
Credit: Adapted from ACS Chemical Neuroscience 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.0c00685 Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a deadly disease caused by the "brain-eating amoeba" Naegleria fowleri, is becoming...
Raman spectroscopy shows promise for diagnosing oral cancer
Technology could enable non-invasive cancer screening in the dentist's chairCredit: Levi Matthies, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf WASHINGTON -- In a new study, researchers show that...
The cancer microbiome reveals which bacteria live in tumors
Researchers clean up data to identify the bugs betterCredit: Anders Dohlman, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers at Duke University have devised an algorithm...
Superheroes, foods and apps bring a modern twist to the periodic table
Credit: Adapted from Journal of Chemical Education 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c01143 Many students, especially non-science majors, dread chemistry. The first lesson in an introductory chemistry course...
Pollinators not getting the ‘buzz’ they need in news coverage
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A dramatic decline in bees and other pollinating insects presents a threat to the global food...
DOD funding helps expand study of investigational drug to prevent ARDS in COVID
Credit: Cody Duty/UTHealth Researchers evaluating whether an investigational oral drug, vadadustat, can help prevent acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in COVID-19 patients were awarded $5.1...
Error protected quantum bits entangled
A milestone in the development of fault-tolerant quantum computerCredit: Uni Innsbruck/Harald Ritsch Even computers can miscalculate. Already small disturbances change stored information and corrupt results....
Flashing plastic ash completes recycling
Rice lab's turns pyrolyzed ash into graphene for improving concrete, other compoundsCredit: Tour Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Jan. 13, 2021) - Pyrolyzed plastic ash is...
A fly’s eye view of evolution
Research team led by Göttingen University investigates molecular basis of eye size variation in insectsCredit: Georg Bullinger The fascinating compound eyes of insects consist of...
Researchers at Brazil’s space institute discover why lightning branches and flickers
Analysis of the first super slow motion recordings of upward flashes suggests a possible explanation for the formation of luminous structures after electrical discharges split...
NIH scientists study salmonella swimming behavior as clues to infection
Credit: NIAID WHAT: Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium bacteria (S. Typhimurium) commonly cause human gastroenteritis, inflammation of the lining of the intestines. The bacteria live inside...
High-sensitivity nanophotonic sensors with passive trapping of analyte molecules in hot-spots
Credit: by Xianglong Miao, Lingyue Yan, Yun Wu and Peter Q. Liu Optical sensors can quantitatively analyze chemical and biological samples by measuring and processing...
