Rare fossil clam discovered alive
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Discovering a new species is always exciting, but so is finding one alive that everyone assumed had been lost to the...
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In ironic twist, CRISPR system used to befuddle bacteria
Call it a CRISPR conundrum.Credit: Photo courtesy of Marta Torres, m-CAFEs postdoctoral researcher, Deutschbauer lab, Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology "© The Regents of the...
Study explores sex differences in the effects of SARS-CoV-2 in young adults
Significant immunological differences between young men and women were shown to mediate sex differences in the responses to the virus that causes COVID-19, according to...
ARRS 2023 Annual Meeting in Hawaii open to media
Connect, learn, and advance with leading radiologists in the field.Credit: American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) Connect, learn, and advance with leading radiologists in the field....
Are covid ‘comas’ signs of a protective hibernation state?
Many Covid-19 patients who have been treated for weeks or months with mechanical ventilation have been slow to regain consciousness even after being taken off...
Starved yeast poisons clones
Yeast is not the simple single-celled microorganism we once thought, but a competitive killer. When starved of glucose, yeast releases a toxin that will poison...
New treatment can significantly increase the efficacy of chemotherapy and prevent metastasis
Credit: Photo credit: Tel Aviv University. The researchers identified a mechanism that generated a cancer-promoting inflammatory environment in response to chemotherapy. Based on this...
Earth’s oldest stromatolites and the search for life on Mars
Boulder, Colo., USA: The earliest morphological traces of life on Earth are often highly controversial, both because non-biological processes can produce relatively similar structures and...
New quasiparticle discovered in moiré patterns
If you hold one wire mesh on top of another one and look through it, you'll see a larger pattern called a moiré pattern formed by the...
4th Annual Neuro Open Science in Action Symposium
Three virtual panel discussions will focus on inter-institutional coalitions, institute-wide efforts to promote Open Science, as well as initiatives and projects within Canadian institutions enabling...
UC San Diego Health awarded advanced certification in spine surgery
UC San Diego Health has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for Advanced Certification in Spine Surgery (ACSS) by meeting or exceeding the...
Specific modifier genes determine the effect of mutations that cause non-compaction cardiomyopathy
Non-compaction cardiomyopathy is a heart condition caused by defects that arise during fetal development and can have diverse health impacts in affected individuals, including sudden...
Repeated psychological stress is linked with irritable bowel syndrome-like symptoms
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) often comes with gastrointestinal symptoms in small and large intestines. IBS has been categorized into four subtypes depending on stool inconsistency;...
New insights into the mechanisms causing diabetes
Osaka, Japan – Wake up pancreas, it’s time for work! Researchers led by Osaka University have now identified a mechanism by which a lack of...
Seeing clearly into a new realm – researchers prototype a new generation of quantum microscopy
While quantum computing seems like the big-ticket item among the developing technologies based on the behaviour of matter and energy on the atomic and subatomic...
