UM scientists achieve breakthrough in culturing corals and sea anemones cells
Credit: Mike Connelly MIAMI--Researchers have perfected the recipe for keeping sea anemone and coral cells alive in a petri dish for up to 12 days....
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CAR T-cell therapy generates lasting remissions in patients with multiple myeloma
In the KarMMa trial, ide-cel produces remissions in almost 75% of patients who had relapsed after several previous treatments; Trial results spur application for FDA...
Bearded seals are loud — but not loud enough
Vocal threshold may hamper survival of this Arctic speciesCredit: Michael Cameron, NOAA Ithaca, NY-- During mating season, male bearded seals make loud calls to attract...
Study finds human-caused North Atlantic right whale deaths are being undercounted
As recent sightings of entangled whales raise alarm, scientists say annual counts of right whale carcasses do a poor job of indicating true death tollCredit:...
New shape-changing 4D materials hold promise for morphodynamic tissue engineering
Shape-changing scaffold for tissue engineeringCredit: Yu Bin Lee New hydrogel-based materials that can change shape in response to psychological stimuli, such as water, could be...
Parker Solar Probe offers stunning view of Venus
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured stunning views of Venus during its close flyby of the...
Researchers use machine learning to identify autism blood biomarkers
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - Feb. 24, 2021 - Using machine learning tools to analyze hundreds of proteins, UT Southwestern researchers have identified...
Paleontologists discover new insect group after solving 150-year-old mystery
SFU-led research team uncovers how fossil dragonfly relatives have been misclassified due to their striking similarityCredit: Copyright Zootaxa, used by permission. For more than 150...
Tool that more efficiently analyzes ocean color data will become part of NASA program
Stevens uses machine learning-driven techniques to develop a long-awaited tool that better reveals the health of Earth's oceans and the impacts of climate changeCredit: Stevens...
Embracing our excremental selves
In her latest book, Mary Foltz examines the ways several postmodern authors produce scatological works to critique how humans treat each other and the natural...
Over 80% of Atlantic Rainforest remnants have been impacted by human activity
Researchers estimated biodiversity and biomass losses in the biome using data from 1,819 forest inventories. In terms of carbon storage, the losses correspond to the...
‘Miracle poison’ for novel therapeutics
Researchers prove they can engineer botulinum toxin proteins to find new targets with high selectivity, a critical advance toward potential new treatments for everything from...
Rediscovered journal brings unique perspective on Atlantic slave trade
Credit: Book cover courtesy the University of Virginia Press CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The trade that brought enslaved Africans to the New World was not just...
Strengthened by chaos, new super-hard materials will stir steel together
Department of Defense project will create AI-materials tools to design recipes for a new class of materials tailored to super-hard, high-temperature applicationsCredit: Duke University A...
Record-high Arctic freshwater will flow to Labrador Sea, affecting local and global oceans
Credit: Francesca Samsel and Greg Abram Freshwater is accumulating in the Arctic Ocean. The Beaufort Sea, which is the largest Arctic Ocean freshwater reservoir, has...
