Protecting beta cells against stress may guard against type 1 diabetes
An existing drug boosts survival for insulin-producing cells under autoimmune attackCredit: Joslin Diabetes Center BOSTON - (July 27, 2020) - Type 1 diabetes occurs when...
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Researchers offer unprecedented look into ‘central engine’ powering a solar flare
An international research team has presented a new look inside the "central engine" of a solar flare accompanied by an eruption, revealing an enormous electric...
Army project turns to nature for help with self-healing material
Credit: Penn State University RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- An Army-funded project developed a self-healing material patterned after squid ring teeth protein. The biodegradable biosynthetic...
Viral hepatitis: Europe needs to close the testing gap
World Hepatitis Day: is Europe on track for the on the way towards the Sustainable Development Goal for healthCredit: ECDC Approximately four in five people...
NSF CAREER award to study microstructures of starfish skeletons
Credit: Virginia Tech Ling Li, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career...
Make your own greenhouse gas logger
Facilitating the use of low-cost methane (CH4) sensors in flux chambers - calibration, data processing, and an open-source make-it-yourself loggerCredit: LiU Researchers at Linköping University's...
Molecular cause underlying rare genetic disorder revealed
Credit: Virginia Tech Virginia Tech scientists have revealed how a nonfunctioning version of an ordinary gene impairs brain structure and function. The findings help explain...
European maize highlights the hidden differences within a species
Credit: Picture : A. Ruban and A. Houben, IPK, Gatersleben Maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) was initially domesticated by Native Americans over 10.000 years ago....
New interdisciplinary atmospheric physics and computer science project at Mainz University
Carl Zeiss Foundation supports the project with EUR 1.5 million in funding / Researchers expect that machine learning and methods of statistical data analysis will...
Researchers develop new cytosine base editors with high specificity and precision
Credit: IGDB Base editors, which enable production of highly efficient targeted point mutations in genomic DNA without causing double-stranded DNA breaks, hold great promise for...
New depth map of the Arctic Ocean
The IBCAO 4.0 bathymetric chartCredit: Stockholm University (Sweden) An international team of researchers has published the most detailed submarine map of the Artic Ocean. The...
Overweight and obesity are associated with a low sperm quality
Is a systematic review and meta-analysis of all the studies published to date. These results suggest that overweight/obesity prevention should be considered at an early...
Unparalleled inventory of the human gut ecosystem
Scientists compile into a public database over 200 000 genomes from more than 4 600 species of gut bacteriaCredit: Credit: Spencer Phillips/EMBL An international team...
Artificial Intelligence to identify individual birds of a same species
Credit: André Ferreira Humans have a hard time identifying individual birds just by looking at the patterns on their plumage. An international study involving scientists...
New genome mapper is like “upgrading from dial-up to fibre-optic”
Credit: Marc Marti-Renom Researchers from Harvard University, the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG) and the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), describe the first technology...
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