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What could healthcare look like in 10, 20, or 30 years? What will be the future of healthcare? Will medical professionals make diagnoses with the...

New technologies reveal the impact of circular economy on threatened species such as the Egyptian vulture

If urban landfills disappear under the new European regulation, some endangered birds such as the Egyptian vulture will need alternatives to their feeding patterns in...

Study finds combustion from gas stoves can raise indoor levels of chemical linked to a higher risk of blood cell cancers

A chemical linked to a higher risk of leukemia and other blood cell cancers creeps into millions of homes whenever residents light their gas stoves....

Rice University chemist leverages heterogeneity for insight into catalysis, cancer initiation

HOUSTON – (June 16, 2023) – Rice University chemist Anatoly Kolomeisky has won an award from the National Science Foundation to investigate how heterogeneity affects chemical and...

When is migration successful adaptation to climate change?

A new study by an international team from Africa, Asia and Europe has put forward three criteria for evaluating the success of migration as adaptation...

The newly discovered Acicnemis ryukyuana (A) and other Acicnemis species found in Okinawa. A) Acicnemis ryukyuana, B) Acicnemis postica, C) Acicnemis azumai, D) Acicnemis exilis, E) Acicnemis maculaalba, and F) Acicnemis kiotoensis.

Japan’s subtropical forests home to a newly discovered beetle species

A new weevil species was discovered in Japan’s pristine subtropical forests on Ishigaki Island and Yanbaru National Park in Okinawa.Credit: OIST A new weevil species...

The transfer of pathogenic genes between not only same bacterial species but also different species

New insights on bacteria that causes food poisoning

Recently, Providencia spp. which have been detected in patients with gastroenteritis, and similar to enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli. O157 and Salmonella spp., have been attracting attention...

STRATEGY FOR ACHIEVING COMPREHENSIVE PROTEOME ANALYSIS OF URINE (CPU)

A facile strategy for comprehensive proteome analysis of urine

Urine is one of the attractive sources for early and sensitive biomarker discovery since it can accumulate and reflect changes in the human body while...

Two Vectipelta barretti - copyright Stuart Pond

New dinosaur named for Natural History Museum Professor

A new armoured dinosaur, known as an ankylosaur, has been described and named for Prof Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum. Vectipelta barretti was...

Sickle cell disease—global mortality burden is nearly 11 times higher than recorded

THE LANCET HAEMATOLOGY: Global, regional, and national prevalence and mortality burden of sickle cell disease, 2000–2021

Credit: The Lancet Journal The Lancet Haematology Article Title Global, regional, and national prevalence and mortality burden of sickle cell disease, 2000–2021: a systematic analysis...

Healthy sex life during pandemic tied to an array of sexual coping strategies

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — New research suggests that people who maintained healthy sexual and intimate lives early in the pandemic used sex as a coping mechanism...

Carbon mitigation payments can make bioenergy crops more appealing for farmers

URBANA, Ill. — Bioenergy crops such as miscanthus and switchgrass provide several environmental benefits, but low returns and profit risks are barriers for investment by...

HaoSheng Sun named a Freeman Hrabowski scholar by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – HaoSheng Sun, Ph.D., assistant professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, has been named...

Tempest in a teacup: UChicago physicists make breakthrough in creating turbulence

Turbulence is all around us. It’s in the swirl of coffee and milk in a latte, unfurling along the wings of airplanes and the sides...

This salty gel could harvest water from desert air