Type 2 diabetes medication shown to benefit asthma patients
Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center Type 2 diabetes patients who also have asthma are benefitting from a diabetes medication, typically given to help the pancreas...
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Telling up from down: How marine flatworms learn to sense gravity
Zoologists explore the mechanism and development of gravity-sensing ability in marine acoel flatwormsCredit: 2021 Okayama University All living organisms are equipped with sensory organs to...
A novel defense mechanism for SARS-CoV-2 discovered
Credit: Taisho Yamada, et al. Nature Immunology. May 11, 2021 Scientists from Hokkaido University have discovered a novel defensive response to SARS-CoV-2 that involves the...
Biodiversity devastation: Human-driven decline requires millions of years of recovery
Credit: C. Albrecht (JLU) A new study shows that the current rate of biodiversity decline in freshwater ecosystems outcompetes that at the end-Cretaceous extinction that...
Scientists discover gene signature for plaque-eating microglia in Alzheimer’s Disease
Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School SINGAPORE, 21 May 2021 - Alzheimer's Disease is the most common form of dementia and is characterised by the build-up of...
Green light on gold atoms
Credit: Nicolas Antille, www.nicolasantille.com Because individual atoms or molecules are 100 to 1000 times smaller than the wavelength of visible light, it is notoriously difficult...
New nondestructive broadband imager is the next step towards advanced technology
Credit: Tokyo Tech One of the key aspects of academic and industrial research today is non-destructive imaging, a technique in which an object or sample...
First-of-its-kind flower smells like dead insects to imprison ‘coffin flies’
First plant found to deceive pollinators by mimicking decomposing insectsCredit: Credit: T. Rupp, B. Oelschlägel, K. Rabitsch et al. The plant Aristolochia microstoma uses a...
Novel immune checkpoints have applications for cancer, autoimmune disease treatment
UConn researcher Laijun Lai has developed recombinant proteins and antibodies to combat autoimmune diseases and immunosuppression in cancer patientsCredit: UConn Photo The immune system is...
Thin is now in to turn terahertz polarization
Rice lab's discovery of 'magic angle' builds on its ultrathin, highly aligned nanotube filmsCredit: Kono Laboratory/Rice University HOUSTON - (May 20, 2021) - It's always...
Engineering smarter stents
Pitt Engineer Youngjae Chun is part of international group that received $2M to create smarter coronary artery stentsCredit: University of Pittsburgh An estimated two million...
UC leads infant health study
Researchers and community members work together to promote healthy eating habits for babiesCredit: Provided by Stough Many parents of young children can relate to the...
What makes some oysters more resilient than others?
New research by Louisiana State University biologists offers insight into this commercially important speciesCredit: Photo Credit: Morgan Kelly, LSU Oysters live and grow in saltwater....
The doctor will see you (on the computer) now: telehealth’s time has come
Telehealth gained popularity during the pandemic. New research from Syracuse University shows it won't be going away anytime soonCredit: Syracuse University During the pandemic, the...
Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change
Credit: Artwork by Milan Teunissen van Manen (@MilanTvM). Wherever ecologists look, from tropical forests to tundra, ecosystems are being transformed by human land use and...
