UC Davis receives $10 million for Pacific Southwest Center of Excellence
Mosquito and tick-borne diseases are increasing in the Pacific Southwest and remain a serious public health threat. For the last five years, the Pacific Southwest...
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Chiral quasi bound states in the continuum for high-purity circularly polarized light source
An ultracompact circularly polarized light source is crucial component for the applications of classical and quantum optics information processing. The development of this field relies...
Modern humans generate more brain neurons than Neandertals
The question of what makes modern humans unique has long been a driving force for researchers. Comparisons with our closest relatives, the Neandertals, therefore provide...
Patients may have and transmit COVID-19 viruses with diverse genetic sequences simultaneously, with possible implications for evolution of new variants
Patients may have and transmit COVID-19 viruses with diverse genetic sequences simultaneously, with possible implications for evolution of new variantsCredit: Monstera, Pexels (CC0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Patients...
To scar or not to scar when resisting tapeworms: That is the (evolutionary) question
Lugging around a tapeworm that’s one third your body weight can be a real drag. So threespine stickleback fish evolved resistance to tapeworms—but resistance has...
Agriculture drives more than 90% of tropical deforestation
Halting deforestation will require a step-change in approach, and to be effective measures must address underlying and indirect roles of agriculture, says study. Credit: Alexander C Lees...
Stricter blood sugar control in gestational diabetes leads to better outcomes for babies
Lowering the target blood sugar level for mothers with gestational diabetes did not reduce the risk of large babies, a new study finds, but it...
Gender inequities in mentoring may disproportionately affect women researchers
A new analysis of mentoring relationships in academic research finds that gender inequities in the resources available to women mentors in the life sciences appear...
New study identifies how memory of personal interactions declines with age
One of the most upsetting aspects of age-related memory decline is not being able to remember the face that accompanies the name of a person...
New study provides insights into each US state’s COVID-19 vaccination rate
Ann Arbor, September 8, 2022 – In the first year of its availability, 84.2% of US adults received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine....
Dynamic decisions pave pathways to tomorrow’s opportunities today
Dynamic Decisions responds to addressing wicked problems that confront real people. Critiqued by two of modern financial economics’ leading thinkers, Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff...
Brazil has two populations of American bullfrogs, an exotic species that transmits a deadly fungus
Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) and the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) have conducted the most comprehensive genetic analysis ever of the...
A new data analysis approach identifies disease-associated splicing variants
Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) find that integrating and selectively analyzing splicing variant data can help identify genetic variations associated with complex...
Chlamydia’s stealthy cloaking device identified
DURHAM, N.C. – Chlamydia, the leading cause of sexually transmitted bacterial infections, evades detection and elimination inside human cells by use of a cloaking device....
Stem cell-derived liver cells give new clues to Ebola
Ebola virus causes serious infections in humans and in fatal cases, damage and dysfunction of the liver is often present, suggesting that the liver plays...
