Damage control: plant cells use mechanical cues to regenerate damaged tissues
Osaka, Japan – Plants have an impressive ability to regenerate damaged tissues, but how they do it is not fully understood. Now, researchers from Japan...
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Brazilian researchers test technique that can make analysis of male fertility potential more accurate
Flow cytometry, a laser-based technique employed to detect and analyze the chemical and physical characteristics of cells or particles, is already widely used for the...
New DFG-funded Research Unit CORE investigates students’ critical use of online information
Students are using more and more information from the Internet rather than from established university sources like textbooks for their studies. As recent surveys indicate,...
ChatGPT as ‘Educative Artificial Intelligence’: Highlights from ECNU Review of Education
With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), several aspects of our lives have become more efficient and easier to navigate. One of the latest AI-based...
What did the earliest animals look like?
For more than a century, biologists have wondered what the earliest animals were like when they first arose in the ancient oceans over half a...
Researchers document increasing mortality of patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease
Philadelphia, May 17, 2023 – After an initial decline in diabetes mellitus (DM) plus cardiovascular disease (CVD)-related mortality, researchers have noted a reversal of this...
Radio signal reveals supernova origin
In the latest issue of the journal Nature, astronomers from Stockholm University reveal the origin of a thermonuclear supernova explosion. Strong emission lines of helium...
World’s largest computing association honors four outstanding individuals for their service to the community
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today recognized four individuals with awards for their exemplary service to the computing field. Working in diverse areas, the...
Genetic research offers new perspective on the early evolution of animals
A study published by MBARI researchers and their collaborators today in Nature provides new insights about one of the earliest points in animal evolution that...
Researchers show that a machine learning model can improve mortality risk prediction for cardiac surgery patients
A machine learning-based model that enables medical institutions to predict the mortality risk for individual cardiac surgery patients has been developed by a Mount Sinai...
New study: Surprising diversity of ethnic groups in the US Virgin Islands before Columbus
When Christopher Columbus arrived at the present-day US Virgin Islands on his second voyage across the Atlantic in 1493, the islands were already inhabited –...
New transparent augmented reality display opens possibilities to see digital content in real-time
The world's first flexible, transparent augmented reality (AR) display screen using 3D printing and low-cost materials has been created by researchers at the University of...
Extremely hot days are warming twice as fast as average summer days in North-West Europe
New research led by the University of Oxford has found that climate change is causing the hottest days in North-West Europe to warm at double...
Coronary bioresorbable scaffolds nearly as safe and effective as conventional metal stents for heart disease patients
First-generation bioresorbable vascular scaffolds (BVS) may be just as effective as drug-eluting metallic stents, which are currently the standard treatment for heart disease patients undergoing...
Call for papers: JMIR Dermatology special theme issue on teledermatology
JMIR Dermatology—the official journal of the International Society of Teledermatology (ISTD)—and the journal’s guest editors welcome submissions to a special theme issue to coincide with...
