Lung ultrasound helps predict COVID-19 patient outcomes
Brazilian researchers applied an examination protocol based on an analysis of 12 lung regions to 180 severe patients and found that the higher the lung...
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Russian scientists significantly improved coal-burning efficiency
Credit: Sergey Gnuskov/NUST MISIS A team of Russian scientists from NUST MISIS, Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) and Boreskov Institute of Catalysis has suggested a new...
RUDN University veterinarians tested a new drug against pneumonia in calves
Credit: RUDN University Respiratory tract diseases in young animals of the cattle are a big issue for world agriculture and food safety because a bacterium...
Preventing COVID-19 and aging: geroprotector to enhance resilience and vaccine response
Clinical trial to explore the potential of rapalogs to enhance resilience against SARS-CoV-2 infection and reduce the severity of COVID-19 in biologically aged individuals.Credit: Deep...
Study reveals platinum’s role in clean fuel conversion
Identifying specific platinum atoms activated in a water gas shift reaction catalyst could guide the design of less costly efficient catalystsCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON,...
On the origin of our species
Credit: Chris Stringer Experts from the Natural History Museum, The Francis Crick Institute and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Jena...
COVID-19 telemonitoring program helps reduce hospital admissions and ER visits
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, February 9, 2021--The rapid upscaling of a telemonitoring program in which health care providers performed daily...
Oncotarget: Evaluation of cancer-derived myocardial impairments using a mouse model
'The established mouse cachexia model can therefore be considered useful for analyzing cancer-derived myocardial damage'Credit: Correspondence to - Yi Luo - [email protected] and Hiroki Kuniyasu...
Adult neurogenesis may hold clues for more effective treatment of alcoholism
New research and analysis examine how alcohol exposure impacts many aspects of neuroplasticity in a special issue of Brain PlasticityCredit: Steven P. Guerin Amsterdam, NL,...
Anti-cancer drug’s mode of operation deciphered
Credit: Illustration: Julia Jullesova Rituximab, an anti-cancer drug targeting the membrane protein CD20, was the first approved therapeutic antibody against B tumor cells. Immunologists at...
A recipe for regenerating bioengineered hair
Next stop: clinical hair regenerationCredit: RIKEN Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Japan have discovered a recipe for continuous cyclical regeneration...
Oncotarget: Melatonin increases overall survival of prostate cancer patients
'The results of the use of melatonin drugs in palliative treatment of patients with end-stage prostate cancer are shown'Credit: Correspondence to - Vladimir N. Anisimov...
Really random networks
New mathematical method for generating random connected networksCredit: Szabolcs Horvat et al. 2020 / MPI-CBG / CSBD Many natural and human-made networks, such as computer,...
Astronomers uncover mysterious origins of ‘super-Earths’
Study shows super-Earths are not leftovers of mini-Neptunes, challenging our understanding of planetary formationCredit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Mini-Neptunes and super-Earths up to four times the size...
Gulls, sentinels of bacteria in the environment
Seagulls birds can spread antibiotic-resistant bacteria that circulate in the wildCredit: Marta Cerdà (CReSA-IRTA) Gulls are one of the main wild birds that act as...
