How SARS-CoV-2 hijacks human cells to evade immune system
Credit: UC San Diego Health Sciences Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered one way in which SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus...
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CIMMYT and John Innes Centre announce strategic collaboration on wheat research
Credit: Photo: Kevin Pixley/CIMMYT, CIMMYT Centro Experimental Norman E. Borlaug, Ciudad Obregon, Mexico. April 29, 2021. The John Innes Centre (JIC, UK) and the International...
First Australian populations followed footpath ‘superhighways’ across the continent
Credit: Megan Hotchkiss Davidson/Sandia National Laboratories The best path across the desert is rarely the straightest. For the first human inhabitants of Sahul -- the...
Low risk of infection in babies born to mothers with COVID-19
Credit: Stefan Zimmerman Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and the Public Health Agency of Sweden have studied newborn babies whose mothers tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 during...
Quality improvement project boosts depression screening among cancer patients
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - April 28, 2021 - Depression screening among cancer patients improved by 40 percent to cover more than 90...
Decrease in prostate cancer diagnoses due to pandemic
Credit: Mikael Wallerstedt During the first wave of the corona pandemic, 36 per cent fewer men were diagnosed with prostate cancer in Sweden than in...
New law of physics helps humans and robots grasp the friction of touch
Credit: Lilian Hsiao Although robotic devices are used in everything from assembly lines to medicine, engineers have a hard time accounting for the friction that...
Blueprint for a robust quantum future
Credit: (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.) Claiming that something has a defect normally suggests an undesirable feature. That's not the case in solid-state systems, such...
Machine learning algorithm helps unravel the physics underlying quantum systems
Protocol to reverse engineer Hamiltonian models advances automation of quantum devicesCredit: Gentile et al. Scientists from the University of Bristol's Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QETLabs)...
Denmark’s largest battery – one step closer to storing green power in stones
The concept of storing renewable energy in stones has come one step closer to realisation with the construction of the GridScale demonstration plant. The plant...
A third of kids develop a mental health problem after concussion
Credit: Ben Hershey A third of children and adolescents develop a mental health problem after a concussion, which could persist for several years post-injury, according...
Research advances emerging DNA sequencing technology
UT Dallas researcher's nanopore sequencing platform detects presence of nucleobasesCredit: The University of Texas at Dallas Nanopore technology shows promise for making it possible to...
Methane release rapidly increases in the wake of the melting ice sheets
Credit: Giuliana Panieri Ice ages are not that easy to define. It may sound intuitive that an ice age represents a frozen planet, but the...
Medical textbooks must be rewritten about low blood sugar, urge experts and patients
Professor Henrik Christesen and a mom to two children living with unexplained low blood sugar has united around research in the rare condition, leading to...
Molecular biologists travel back in time 3 billion years
Credit: David Naylor A research group working at Uppsala University has succeeded in studying 'translation factors' - important components of a cell's protein synthesis machinery...
