UTA research professor identifies brain cells linked to pediatric seizures
A University of Texas at Arlington bioengineer and his doctoral student have discovered how to identify which brain cells lead to epileptic episodes in children.Credit:...
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Kessler Foundation awarded Social Security Administration funding to expand research for improving employment outcomes following neurotrauma
16East Hanover, NJ, February 16, 2023. Kessler Foundation has received $3,000,000 from the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Interventional Cooperative Agreement Program (ICAP) to fund a...
Discovery in zebrafish may lead to a better understanding of a wide range of mental health disorders related to stress, anxiety
Virginia Tech researchers studying brain development have identified a molecule that is critical in developing the stress response, a finding that sheds new light on...
Potential for profits gives Rice lab’s plastic waste project promise
HOUSTON – (Feb. 16, 2023) – Putting that soda bottle or takeout container into the recycling bin is far from a guarantee it will be...
Receptor location matters for psychedelic drug effects
Location, location, location is the key for psychedelic drugs that could treat mental illness by rapidly rebuilding connections between nerve cells. In a paper published...
Texas Biomed HIV vaccine candidate aims to block virus before it takes root
The National Institutes of Health has awarded $3.8 million to Texas Biomedical Research Institute to further develop a promising HIV vaccine candidate that stops the...
Travellers as sentinels: what are the most common vector-borne diseases among European travellers arriving from Africa?
So-called arthropod-borne diseases are human illnesses, commonly transmitted by the bite of infected arthropod vectors like ticks, mosquitoes, sandflies, or fleas. Efforts to strengthen disease...
Aging | Epigenetic age and lung cancer risk in the Clue II prospective cohort study
BUFFALO, NY- February 16, 2023 – A new research paper was published in Aging (listed as "Aging (Albany NY)" by MEDLINE/PubMed and "Aging-US" by Web...
AI-driven app for veterans’ mental health earns USC Institute for Creative Technologies $1 million prize
Mental health services during the COVID-19 pandemic quickly pivoted to remote and virtual services as restrictions limited in-person visits. The stopgap solution emerged as a...
Perovskites, a ‘dirt cheap’ alternative to silicon, just got a lot more efficient
Silicon, the standard semiconducting material used in a host of applications—computer central processing units (CPUs), semiconductor chips, detectors, and solar cells—is an abundant, naturally occurring...
Breast cancer disparity equally impacted by social determinants of health, tumor biology
Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago examined national data about women with early-stage, estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer and found that social determinants of health...
How to pull carbon dioxide out of seawater
As carbon dioxide continues to build up in the Earth’s atmosphere, research teams around the world have spent years seeking ways to remove the gas...
How a record-breaking copper catalyst converts CO2 into liquid fuels
Since the 1970s, scientists have known that copper has a special ability to transform carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals and fuels. But for many years,...
Climate: Lessons from the latest global warming
56 million years ago, the Earth experienced one of the largest and most rapid climate warming events in its history: the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM),...
Dog puppies spontaneously match human actions, while kittens and wolf pups …not so much…
According to a new study published in Scientific Reports puppies - but not kittens and wolf pups - tend to spontaneously imitate human actions, even when...
