Study offers insight into immune mechanisms of inflammatory disease
Innate lymphoid cells are a recently discovered family of white blood cells that reside in the skin, gastrointestinal tract, airways and other barrier tissues of...
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Neuroscientific evidence induces study participants to recommend longer sentences for convicted criminals if they think prison is for rehabilitation or public protection, but shorter sentences if prison is considered punishment
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276237Credit: Emiliano Bar, Unsplash, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276237 Article Title: The effect of neuroscientific evidence on sentencing depends on how one conceives...
Volunteers in COVID-19 human challenge trials are genuinely altruistic, not desperate for money or lacking understanding of the risks
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0275823Credit: Marsh et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0275823 Article Title: Characterizing altruistic motivation in potential volunteers for SARS-CoV-2...
Researchers analyze why certain snail species survived the end-Triassic mass extinction as over half of other gastropod species were wiped out
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276329Credit: Mariel Ferrari, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276329 Article Title: Gastropods underwent a major taxonomic turnover during the end-Triassic marine mass extinction...
Chronic pain associated with poor health – and COVID-19 infection – decades later
People who suffer from chronic pain at age 44 are more like to report pain, poor general health, poor mental health outcomes and joblessness in...
Plant hormones to help prevent Striga invasion
As part of a multipronged approach to prevent infestations by the parasitic plant Striga hermonthica, researchers are unravelling the role of plant hormones, known as strigolactones...
“Global Jukebox” performing arts database now publicly available
Extensive data behind the Global Jukebox (http://theglobaljukebox.org) —an online tool for exploring recordings of music and other performing arts from around the world—has now been made available...
Do you speak extra-terrestrial?
What does humanity do when we discover we are not alone in the cosmos? A new international research hub at the University of St Andrews...
Research team discovers central functions of innate immune cells
Inflammation and increased mucus production are typical symptoms of worm infections and allergies. This immune response involves our innate immune cells, but their exact functions...
Sensitivity to musical rhythm supports social development in infants
Engaging infants with a song provides a readymade means for supporting social development and interaction, according to a study published by the Proceedings of the National...
A new look at brain function and psychiatric disorders
New images from scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) reveal for the first time the three-dimensional structures of a set of molecules critical for healthy...
Cracking the enigma of how plant sperm is compacted
Sperm cells have compact bundles of DNA, yet exactly how and why sperm cell nuclei are condensed in flowering plants has been a mystery, until...
Climate change could trigger the Congo peatlands to release billions of tons of carbon
Climate change could trigger the Congo peatlands to release billions of tonnes of carbon Credit: Greenpeace/Kevin McElvaney Climate change could trigger the Congo peatlands to release...
Virginia Tech researcher receives $1.9 million NIH grant to develop novel approaches to diagnose and treat sepsis
Sepsis is a severe and life-threatening condition caused by bacterial infection and is one of the most common causes of death in hospitalized patients.Credit: Juhong...
DECT assesses postoperative lung volume, perfusion changes
Leesburg, VA, November 2, 2022—According to an accepted manuscript published in ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), metrics derived from dual-energy CT (DECT) can provide...
