Study fills knowledge gaps about surgery outcomes for Inuit in Canada
A team of Canadian researchers, including Inuit and other Indigenous researchers, have published the first study of Inuit surgical outcomes today in CMAJ Open. The...
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Bacteria make a beeline to escape tight spaces
A newly published study by researchers at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa revealed that bacteria alter their swimming patterns when they get into tight...
Creator of breakthrough coronavirus technology to receive inaugural McGuire Prize
Dartmouth has announced that the inaugural McGuire Family Prize for Societal Impact will be presented to Jason McLellan, a structural biologist whose groundbreaking coronavirus research...
Affirmative action bans had ‘devastating impact’ on diversity in medical schools, UCLA-led study finds
Link to abstract when embargo lifts at 5 p.m. ET on May 2, 2022: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M21-4312 Credit: UCLA Health Link to abstract when embargo lifts at...
Family planning: Research singles out the omission that might kill 27,000 people per year
Restricting US foreign aid for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that provide information on or access to abortion-related services in developing countries may have harmful effects on...
Rice process aims to strip ammonia from wastewater
HOUSTON – (May 2, 2022) – A dash of ruthenium atoms on a mesh of copper nanowires could be one step toward a revolution in the global ammonia...
Dopamine involved in recognizing emotions
The neurotransmitter dopamine, famous for its role in reward, is also involved in recognizing emotions, according to new research published in JNeurosci.Credit: Stimuli created by...
Making untreatable vision problems treatable: WVU receives $11M for visual sciences research center
With a new $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, West Virginia University has become just the second university in the country to receive funding for...
Gene therapy reverses effects of autism-linked mutation in brain organoids
In a study published May 02, 2022 in Nature Communications, scientists at University of California San Diego School of Medicine used human brain organoids to...
As climate shifts, species will need to relocate, and people may have to help them
Climate change is already affecting plants and animals worldwide and is a growing threat to biodiversity, adding a new layer to the existing challenges of...
Sweet spots in the sea: Mountains of sugar under seagrass meadows
Seagrasses form lush green meadows in many coastal areas around the world. These marine plants are one of the most efficient global sinks of carbon...
Nanotechnology enables visualization of RNA structures at near-atomic resolution
(BOSTON) — We live in a world made and run by RNA, the equally important sibling of the genetic molecule DNA. In fact, evolutionary biologists...
US-Japan research team unravels the trick of evolving the GTP sensor
An international team of researchers have discovered how a tumor-promoting kinase evolves into a GTP sensor kinase. Credit: Photo/Colleen Kelley/University of Cincinnati An international team of...
Story tips: Fueling up on savings, COVID’s behavior effect, cosmic collisions, seismic and sound, and space-to-ground comms
Transportation — Fueling up on savingsCredit: Nathan Armistead/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Transportation — Fueling up on savings Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers determined that...
A new model predicts forest tree growth in new environments
Trees are an essential cornerstone in the functioning and survival of forest ecosystems. But as global change accelerates, certain tree populations, too slow to adapt,...
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