Ventilating the rectum to support respiration
Credit: Institute of Research,TMDU Tokyo, Japan - Oxygen is crucial to many forms of life. Its delivery to the organs and tissues of the body...
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Researchers pinpoint possible way to prevent permanent hearing loss caused by cancer drug
Deeper understanding of how the chemotherapy drug cisplatin works in the body may potentially eliminate the toxic side-effect in childhood cancer survivors.Credit: William Au University...
Male hormones regulate stomach inflammation in mice
NIH research could lead to new treatment strategies for stomach cancerCredit: Jonathan Busada, Ph.D./NIEHS Scientists at the National Institutes of Health determined that stomach inflammation...
Maternal stress during pregnancy may shorten lifespans of male lizard offspring
Credit: Tracy Langkilde, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Mother fence lizards that experience stress during pregnancy give birth to male offspring with shortened telomeres,...
First test of tropical seaweed farming for biofuels production begins off Puerto Rico
Credit: Loretta Roberson, MBL WOODS HOLE, Mass. and La Parguera, P.R. - A team of researchers led by Loretta Roberson of the Marine Biological Laboratory,...
Climate change threatens one-third of global food production
New estimates show that if greenhouse gases continue growing at current rates, large regions at risk of being pushed into climate conditions in which no...
Lockdown led to positive lifestyle changes in older people
Credit: University of Stirling The COVID-19 lockdown was a catalyst for many older people to embrace technology, reconnect with friends and build new relationships with...
Using micro-sized cut metal wires, Japanese team forges path to new uses for terahertz waves
Credit: Takehito Suzuki, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Japanese researchers successfully tested reflectionless, highly refractive index metasurface that may eventually be used in practical...
Researchers develop first-in-class inhibitors against key leukemia protein
Approach opens a new avenue to study the biology of acute leukemia and for the development new drugs.Credit: Grembecka / Cierpicki Labs The protein made...
Nanophotonics enhanced coverslip for phase imaging in biology
Credit: by Lukas Wesemann, Jon Rickett, Jingchao Song, Jieqiong Lou, Elizabeth Hinde, Timothy J. Davis, and Ann Roberts The ability to visualize transparent objects such...
New research will improve safety and quality of Heparin
Credit: University of Nottingham A new method to analyse the blood thinning drug Heparin has been developed that can pinpoint contaminants more accurately and quickly,...
Charting the expansion history of the universe with supernovae
Credit: NAOJ An international research team analyzed a database of more than 1000 supernova explosions and found that models for the expansion of the Universe...
Yoga and breathing exercises aid children with ADHD to focus
Psychologists discovered long-term benefits from exerciseCredit: UrFU / Karina Golovanova. Yoga and breathing exercises have a positive effect on children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder...
Where on Earth is all the water?
There may be up to 70 times more hydrogen in Earth's core than in the oceansCredit: © 2021 Tagawa et al. High-temperature and high-pressure experiments...
Hanging by a thread: Imaging and probing chains of single atoms
Scientists develop a method to visualize monoatomic chains and measure the strength and conductance of single-atom bondsCredit: Yoshifumi Oshima Ishikawa, Japan - Today, many well-studied...
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