Microbiome discovery could help save kids’ hearing
Bacteria found in children’s upper respiratory systems could help fight chronic middle ear infections, the leading cause of preventable hearing loss and deafness in Indigenous...
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$6.5M grant awarded to develop treatment for alcoholic liver disease-associated kidney dysfunction
The Institute of Human Virology (IHV) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) and MitoPower LLC (“MitoPower”) were awarded an SBIR (Small Business...
BioIVT to showcase use of a sandwich-cultured human hepatocyte model to study drug-drug interactions
BioIVT, a leading provider of research models and services for drug and diagnostic development, is hosting a webinar in which researchers will discuss how they...
Intracellular temperature sensors: Protein complex exhibits temperature-sensitive activity
Osaka, Japan – One degree (Celsius) can make a difference: a team of investigators led by Osaka University has demonstrated regulation of a critical protein...
Wash-and-wear sensors
Nov. 9, 2021 — They say you are what you wear. New biosensor technology created at the University of Utah’s College of Engineering makes that...
Who’s the boss?
The sun rises over the Senegalese savannah. The Guinea baboons have spent the night on their sleeping trees and set off together to forage. In...
Blood plasma protein fibrinogen interacts directly with nerve cells to cause brain inflammation
TAMPA, Fla (Nov. 8, 2021) -- Neuroinflammatory diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injury, have been linked to deposits of a tough protein known...
Genetic analysis uncovers shared evolutionary history of fish fins and vertebrate limbs
All vertebrates have the same basic body plan: head, spine, four appendages. Those appendages vary greatly in size, shape, and function, of course — from...
Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities
Soils are home to diverse microbial communities that cycle nutrients, support agriculture, and trap carbon – an important service for climate mitigation. Globally, around 80%...
International Alzheimer’s clinical trial to test two drugs in combination
Researchers leading a worldwide clinical trial aimed at finding treatments for Alzheimer’s disease are modifying an arm of the trial to evaluate a combination of...
Expert comment: How studying fossilized parasites can contribute to knowledge of infectious diseases
Over the last decade, John Huntley, a paleontologist and an associate professor of geological sciences at the University of Missouri, has studied the history of...
Susan Hockfield receives prestigious Charles L. Branch BrainHealth Award
DALLAS (November 4, 2021) – Tuesday evening, the Center for BrainHealth® brought together a who’s who of academic leaders, scientists and philanthropists to honor Dr....
Change in vaccination strategy averted outbreak of urban yellow fever in São Paulo State, scientists say
Yellow fever is a non-contagious viral disease with two transmission cycles, sylvatic (in wild animals) and urban. Sylvatic yellow fever circulates among monkeys, and in...
What can scientists learn from worms that glow in the dark? The secrets of regeneration for starters
Cut off the head of a three-banded panther worm and another will take its place — mouth, brain, and all. Cut off its tail and...
Harvard scientists take the study of regeneration to the next level by making three-banded panther worms transgenic
Three-banded panther worms are an incredibly impressive marine animal. Known scientifically as the acoel worm named Hofstenia miamia, these tiny animals that grow to only...