Tepary beans — a versatile and sustainable native crop
Credit: Tomilee Turner Agriculture accounts for more than a third of water use in the United States. In drier parts of the country, like the...
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Gene therapy for placental insufficiency moves toward the clinic
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 15, 2020--A new study identified an adenovirus gene therapy vector carrying a VEGF isoform. It...
An avocado a day keeps your gut microbes happy
Credit: College of ACES, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. - Eating avocado as part of your daily diet can help improve gut health, a new...
NASA-UT Hypersonics Project aims to transform sensing for high-speed vehicles
Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin. NASA and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research are backing a team of...
RedHill’s P2/3 COVID-19 candidate Opaganib reduces ARDS-related blood clotting
Opaganib demonstrated reduced thrombosis in a preclinical model of ARDSCredit: RedHill Biopharma Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)-induced thrombosis (blood clotting) may occur in up to...
Bermudagrass versus the armyworm
Striving for a better understanding of pest resistance in experimental linesCredit: Gurjit Singh Tifton, Georgia: A study out of the University of Georgia sought to...
Scientists discover a new complex europium hydride
Credit: Dmitrii V. Semenok et al/The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters A team of researchers from Russia, the United States, and China led by Skoltech...
Immune cell that drives breast cancer could be effective target in novel immunotherapies
Credit: VCU Massey Cancer Center Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, but many immunotherapies have had limited success in treating aggressive...
Study suggests reporting of sexually transmitted infections may be impacted by COVID-19
Credit: Graphic created by M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine, using bacterial illustrations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention With the health care...
Johns Hopkins Medicine expert weighs devastating impact of COVID-19 on health care workers
Credit: Graphic created by M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine, from data in Razzak et al, PLOS ONE 15(12): e0242589 During the COVID-19 pandemic, health care...
Telemedicine needed to diagnose and treat dysphagia in COVID-19 patients, doctors say
Credit: Graphic created by M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine, with public domain images. COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the disease, have caused health care...
ModMol the new app to observe molecules in 3D
Launched by the University of BarcelonaCredit: Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry of the University of Barcelona (IQTCUB) The Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry...
Primitive fish fossils reveal developmental origins of teeth
High-resolution X-ray imaging of primitive bony fish fossils reveal the developmental and evolutionary relationship between teeth and dermal odontodesCredit: Chen et al. (CC BY 4.0)...
Accurate neural network computer vision without the ‘black box’
Duke team disentangles neural networks to understand how they see the worldCredit: Courtesy of Zhi Chen, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- The artificial intelligence behind...
Physicians say non-contact infrared thermometers fall short as COVID-19 screeners
Credit: Public domain image While a fever is one of the most common symptoms for people who get sick with COVID-19, taking one's temperature is...
