UGA to establish national NIH-funded center to fight flu
Credit: Peter Frey/UGA The National Institutes of Health has awarded the University of Georgia a contract to establish the Center for Influenza Disease and Emergence...
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Microorganisms on the Rio Grande Rise are a basis for life and a possible origin of metals
Researchers conducted the first large-scale survey of the microbiota present in the seamount's ferromanganese crusts, describing bacteria and archaea involved in the nutrient cycle and...
New NASA visualization probes the light-bending dance of binary black holes
Credit: Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman and Brian P. Powell A pair of orbiting black holes millions of times the Sun's mass perform...
Process simultaneously removes toxic metals and salt to produce clean water
Adding absorbent nanoparticles to polymer membranes simplifies desalinationCredit: UC Berkeley photos courtesy of Adam Uliana University of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered a way to...
Study: New approach may boost prostate cancer immunotherapies
Strategy focuses on reprogramming tissues surrounding the tumor to help the body's immune system attack the cancerCredit: Cedars-Sinai LOS ANGELES (April 15, 2021) -- Researchers...
Worm infestation in intestine has a remote effect on viral defenses
Helminths impair immune response in the female genital tract, study by Universities of Cape Town and Bonn showsCredit: © Pia Vornewald (CEMIR, IKOM, NTNU; Trondheim,...
Environmental protection could benefit from ‘micro’ as well as ‘macro’ thinking
Credit: Luke Holman Scientists at the University of Southampton have conducted a study that highlights the importance of studying a full range of organisms when...
Oxygen migration enables ferroelectricity on nanoscale
Credit: University of Groningen Hafnium-based thin films, with a thickness of only a few nanometres, show an unconventional form of ferroelectricity. This allows the construction...
Japanese-European research team discovers novel genetic mitochondrial disorder
Team of Japanese and European scientists identify a novel genetic mitochondrial disorder by analyzing DNA samples from three distinct familiesCredit: Fujita Health University DNA ligase...
Plastics could see a second life as biodegradable surfactants
Credit: U.S. Department of Energy, Ames Laboratory Scientists at the Institute for Cooperative Upcycling of Plastics (iCOUP), an Energy Frontier Research Center led by Ames...
Long-term survival rates for immunotherapies could be misinterpreted
Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center Immune checkpoint inhibitors have transformed cancer care to the point where the popular Cox proportional-hazards model provides misleading estimates of...
Peering through the clouds of Earth’s ‘Evil Twin’ surprises NRL sky watchers
Credit: Photo by NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher WASHINGTON - U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists were recently left scratching their heads...
Forest elephants are now critically endangered – here’s how to count them
Study compared different methodologies using dung, DNA analysis, and camera trapsCredit: WCS Gabon LIBREVILLE, Gabon (April 15 2021) - A team of scientists led by...
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UD's David C. Martin is developing materials to link humans, machinesCredit: Photo by Evan Krape Around the world, scientists and entrepreneurs like Elon Musk are...
Researchers demonstrate very high specificity of prime editors in plants
Credit: IGDB Prime editing (PE), a "search-and-replace" CRISPR-based genome editing technique, has great potential for gene therapy and agriculture. It can introduce desired base conversions,...
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