USC Stem Cell-led studies point the way to broadly effective treatments for ALS
Each year in the U.S., 5,000 patients receive a diagnosis of ALS, an incurable neurodegenerative disease that will likely kill them within two to five...
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Optimal layout for a hospital isolation room to contain COVID-19 includes ceiling vent
WASHINGTON, February 7, 2023 – A group of researchers recently modeled the transmission of COVID-19 within an isolation room at the Royal Brompton Hospital in...
How to reverse unknown quantum processes
In the world around us processes appear to follow a certain time-direction: dandelions eventually turn into blowballs. However, the quantum realm does not play by...
Pusan National University researchers link suicide prevalence to geographical latitude
Over the years, deaths due to suicide have become prevalent across the globe, with estimates suggesting that almost 800,000 people take their own lives each...
Copy-cat? Youth with few friends conform to stay in a friend’s ‘good graces’
Peer influence is pervasive during childhood and adolescence. Conformity can foster similarity, which makes it easier to get along and reduces the risk that disagreements...
Forest management will have a stronger effect than climate change on the supply of ecosystem services
Forests contribute to human well-being by providing a wide variety of ecosystem services to the society. The boreal biome is experiencing rapid changes both with...
UTSA STEM faculty honored by internationally renowned scientific council
Two faculty members from UTSA were elected as 2022 Fellows for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). They are both in the UTSA College...
Shellac-based coating makes pulp materials suitable for food without use of petroleum based polymers or metals
Researchers at the School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand and the School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, UK...
New insecticidal compounds remain effective against target species while reducing bee toxicity
Researchers at South China Agricultural University have developed new insecticidal compounds that show significantly reduced bee toxicity without reducing effectiveness against target pests – in...
HKUMed establishes international consensus recommendations on using plasma EBV DNA in clinical management of nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Led by the Department of Clinical Oncology, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), an international group of...
Antibiotic innovation helps fight against superbugs
RMIT scientists have created a new type of antibiotic that can be rapidly re-engineered to avoid resistance by dangerous superbugs.Credit: RMIT University RMIT scientists have...
It takes two: cooperating catalysts provide new route for utilizing formate salts
Two catalysts working in tandem enable inexpensive formate salts to perform difficult dearomative reactions, giving products potentially useful for drug development.Credit: Tsuyoshi Mita Two catalysts...
High-gain antenna for NASA’s Roman mission clears environmental tests
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International group of scientists warns nuclear radiation has devastating impacts on ecosystems
Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened the use of “tactical” nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine, but nuclear weapons of any kind would cause widespread devastation,...
UTIA professor receives Outstanding Early Career Animal Scientist Award in Research
Phillip Myer, an associate professor in the Department of Animal Science at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, has been awarded the Outstanding Early...