Flip-flopping cholesterol in the cell membrane
Cholesterol is an essential component of the membrane surrounding every human cell, despite its poor reputation as a health concern when its blood levels are...
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Walnuts the new brain food for stressed university students
Stressed university students might want to add walnuts to their daily diet in the weeks leading up to their next exam.Credit: Open Verse Stressed university...
Wood-eating clams use their poop to dominate their habitat
Deep beneath the waves, tiny clams with shells usually about as big as a pea bore into pieces of sunken wood. The wood is food...
Baylor Chemistry researchers synthesize new groundbreaking compound
Creating new synthetic compounds is often a complex and multi-step process that can take years of research. Caleb D. Martin, Ph.D., associate professor in the...
Follow-up clinic visits with a nephrologist after hospital discharge may improve survival in patients with acute kidney injury
Outpatient clinic visits with a nephrologist and attention to kidney complications and cardiovascular disease were associated with 29% lower risk of mortality compared to standard...
Artificial Intelligence searches an early sign of osteoarthritis from an x-ray image – might save from unnecessary treatments and examination
Researchers from the University of Jyväskylä and the Central Finland Health Care District have developed an AI based neural network to detect an early knee...
Harnessing smartphones to track how people use green spaces
A new study demonstrates how anonymized GPS data from people’s smartphones can be used to monitor the public’s use of parks and other green spaces...
Dynamical fractal discovered in clean magnetic crystal
The nature and properties of materials depend strongly on dimension. Imagine how different life in a one-dimensional or two-dimensional world would be from the three...
Florida International University researchers patent synthetic antibiotic
Florida International University researchers have moved a step closer to producing synthetic arsenic-based drugs in their quest to solve an urgent worldwide health problem ―the...
Wearable electronics from starch to prevent e-waste
Soft, wearable sensors can improve our lives, but these soft and stretchable electronic devices are nearly impossible to recycle. As a result, this electronic waste...
How a policy to address a groundwater shortage inadvertently increase air pollution in northern India
New research from Harvard University finds that a government policy that delayed rice planting in northwest India may have had an unintended consequence for air...
“Virgin birth” in aquarium sharks– even when potential mates are nearby
Asexual reproduction is common for animals like starfish, deep-sea worms, and stick insects, but among vertebrates, it’s a rarity. A process called parthenogenesis allows some...
New methodology for the synthesis of benzazepines, a highly interesting bioactive molecule
Benzazepines can be found in a wide variety of natural products and pharmaceuticals. Many of these compounds are chiral, being available in two enantiomeric forms....
UMD scientists create chemical compound that can reverse effects of potentially deadly drugs
Drug overdoses in the United States have risen sharply in the last two decades. Nearly 92,000 people died from overdoses of illegal drugs and prescription opioids in...
Plastic pollution kills sea urchin larvae
Sea urchin larvae raised in high levels of plastic pollution die due to developmental abnormalities, new research shows.Credit: Dr Eva Jimenez-Guri Sea urchin larvae raised...
