Returning to football after COVID-19 infection
BATON ROUGE - A first-of-its-kind study conducted in collaboration with LSU’s School of Kinesiology, LSU Athletics, Pennington Biomedical Research Center and Our Lady of the...
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Treating, preventing heart attacks with human tissue models
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2022 – A heart attack, or myocardial infarction, is one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide, resulting in 18 million deaths...
Medieval mass burial shows centuries-earlier origin of Ashkenazi genetic bottleneck
In 2004, construction workers in Norwich, UK, unearthed human skeletal remains that led to a historical mystery—at least 17 bodies at the bottom of a...
Low-cost disease diagnosis by mapping heart sounds
WASHINGTON, August 30, 2022 – Aortic valve stenosis occurs when the aortic valve narrows, constricting blood flow from the heart through the artery and to...
Studying the OCD cycle
Ikoma, Japan – Scientists from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute international, and Tamagawa University have demonstrated that obsessive-compulsive...
Study will sharpen understanding of precipitation’s influence on aerosols in the atmosphere
LAWRENCE — A new $620,000, three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy will enable a University of Kansas atmospheric scientist to research how aerosols,...
Gender-diverse teams produce more novel, higher-impact scientific discoveries, study shows
The number of medical science publications by mixed-gender teams has grown rapidly over the past two decades, but remains underrepresented compared to what would be...
Sensor-based early detection of age-related diseases from home
Specific changes in our movement patterns can be indicators of several health problems: For instance, decrease in strength often correlates with risk of falls, mild...
Hydrogel glass: a novel glass design for energy saving in buildings
Energy use in buildings contributes to over 40% of the world’s total energy consumption, of which lighting and space cooling make up a significant proportion....
Bone transplant could resolve aging jaw defects
Tohoku University scientists in Japan have made a scaffold that supports the growth of new bone in large jaw defects in mice. Their findings, published...
Dual temperature control system to regulate isoprene biosynthesis in the Baker’s yeast
The Baker’s yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has been extensively engineered to produce a vast variety of chemicals that are not naturally produced by yeast, including the...
Study reveals molecular brain changes linked to APOE4, the main susceptibility gene for Alzheimer’s disease
Recent breakthroughs have revealed a great deal about Alzheimer’s disease, but researchers have yet to paint a complete picture of how genetic risk for the...
Risk of non-typhoidal salmonella vascular infection increases with atherosclerosis, find NCKU researchers
Although foodborne bacteria are a common occurrence, some of them can cause serious and life-threatening infections. Non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) is one such bacterium, known to...
Danish Minister for Health visits the International Vaccine Institute during official visit to Republic of Korea
Credit: IVI Danish Government to contribute 4 million Danish kroner to IVI in 2022 IVI and the Embassy of Denmark in Korea co-organized a seminar...
ALMA witnesses deadly star-slinging tug-of-war between merging galaxies
While observing a newly-dormant galaxy using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), scientists discovered that it had stopped forming...
