New research may explain severe virus attacks on the lungs
Credit: The research team. In some cases, immune cells in the lungs can contribute to worsening a virus attack. In a new study, researchers at...
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UC researcher urges caution using remdesivir to treat COVID-19
Pharmaceutical scientist sees potential problems with remdesivir as a COVID-19 treatmentCredit: University of Cincinnati While the world has its eyes on vaccines to stop the...
Largest study of Asia’s rivers unearths 800 years of paleoclimate patterns
The SUTD study will be crucial for assessing future climatic changes and making more informed water management decisions.Credit: SUTD 813 years of annual river discharge...
Novel public-private partnership facilitates development of fusion energy
Credit: Collage and Kramer photo by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications. SPARC image courtesy of Commonwealth Fusion Systems. The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton...
Anti-transpirant products unnecessary in cycad propagation
Credit: University of Guam In a first-of-its-kind study within cycad horticulture literature, University of Guam researchers have found that the use of anti-transpirants neither help...
Insilico partners with APRINOIA on AI-powered neurodegenerative drug discovery
Insilico enters into a collaboration with APRINOIA to apply novel generative AI-powered system to discover novel compounds for neurodegenerative diseasesCredit: Insilico Wednesday, 30th of December,...
Imaging of ballistic wounds, bullet composition and implications for MRI safety
Since patients with ballistic embedded fragments are frequently denied MRI, due to indeterminate bullet composition sans shell casings, radiography and CT can be used to...
Sustained cellular immune dysregulation in individuals recovering from COVID-19
Observational clinical research of COVID-19 patients can help clinicians better understand how the previously unknown SARS-CoV-2 virus acts, and findings from this research can better...
Study examines the most effective COVID-19 control policies
Credit: Rotman School of Management Toronto - With the arrival of effective vaccines for the COVID-19 virus, the end of the pandemic is on the...
Polysaccharides from red algae affect mice immune systems, say FEFU scientists
Credit: FEFU press office Carrageenans, biologically active polysaccharides isolated from red algae and widely used in the food industry as stabilizers, thickeners, or jelly agents...
2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend grains at all life stages
Guidelines maintain existing serving size for whole and enriched grainsCredit: The Grain Chain The Grain Chain, a farm to fork coalition of stakeholders in the...
Army research leads to more effective training model for robots
Credit: (Photo illustration / U.S. Army) ADELPHI, Md. -- Multi-domain operations, the Army's future operating concept, requires autonomous agents with learning components to operate alongside...
Electrons hop to it on twisted molecular wires
Scientists at Osaka University devise a method to improve the conductivity of molecular wires by intentionally adding periodic twists to the conjugated chains, which may...
The puzzle of nonhost resistance: why do pathogens harm some plants but not others?
Credit: Ralph Panstruga & Matthew Moscou People have puzzled for years why pathogen Phytophthora infestens causes the devastating late blight disease, source of the Irish...
A single gene ‘invented’ haemoglobin several times
Credit: © Song et al. / BMC Evolutionary Biology Thanks to the marine worm Platynereis dumerilii, an animal whose genes have evolved very slowly, scientists...
