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Credit: @European Society of Cardiology 2020 Sophia Antipolis - 23 June 2020: Microorganisms on the tongue could help diagnose heart failure, according to research presented...

Reducing the damage of a heart attack

Cardiology researchers have discovered how a key protein can help the heart regulate oxygen and blood flow and repair damageCredit: Blackwood EA, Bilal AS, Stauffer...

Lehigh University awarded state grant to develop coronavirus-killing functional material

With support from Manufacturing PA Innovation Program, industry-academic partnership through Lehigh's Institute for Functional Materials and Devices (I-FMD) will work on novel polymer coating for...

Females use anti-inflammatory T cells to keep their blood pressure down

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University In the face of a multipronged front to drive blood pressure up, including a high-salt diet, females are...

Researchers study myxobacteria’s ability to distinguish self from non-self

Credit: Dan Wall A fundamental question in biology is how individual cells within a multicellular organism interact to coordinate diverse processes. A University of Wyoming...

UTEP professor collaborates on LGBTQ+ COVID-19 Texas study

Credit: Ivan Pierre Aguirre / UTEP Communications Oralia Loza, Ph.D., public health sciences associate professor at The University of Texas at El Paso, and the...

Study finds HCV-positive livers safe for transplantation; Patients cured afterward

Opioid crisis increases the number of livers available for transplant patientsCredit: University of Cincinnati Patients who received a transplanted liver infected with hepatitis C and...

Research in land plants shows nanoplastics accumulating in tissues

UMass Amherst, Shandong University offer one of the first nanoplastics studies in land plantsCredit: UMass Amherst/Xing lab Shandong University/Yuan and Wang labs AMHERST, Mass. -...

Fluorocarbon bonds are no match for light-powered nanocatalyst

Rice U. lab unveils catalyst that can break problematic C-F bondsCredit: H. Robatjazi/Rice University HOUSTON -- (June 22, 2020) -- Rice University engineers have created...

Immune cells infiltrating tumors may play bigger cancer role than previously thought

UC San Diego researchers unravel how immune cells operate in the tissues surrounding mouse tumors, suggesting new approach for cancer therapiesCredit: Ralph Weissleder, MD, PhD,...

‘Game changer’ for reporters: 2016 US presidential election coverage

University of Missouri study looked at ethical issues in US presidential election press coverage between 2000-2016Credit: University of Missouri The 2016 U.S. presidential election is...

Mouse model identified to study common form of heart failure linked to age-related obesity

New study suggests mice deficient in a receptor needed to clear unresolved inflammation may help in discovering therapies for heart failure with preserved ejection fractionCredit:...

New design for ‘optical ruler’ could revolutionize clocks, telescopes, telecommunications

Credit: NIST Just as a meter stick with hundreds of tick marks can be used to measure distances with great precision, a device known as...

SLAC and Stanford scientists home in on pairs of atoms that boost a catalyst’s activity

They discovered that the messy environment of a chemical reaction can actually change the shape of a catalytic nanoparticle in a way that makes it...

Virginia Tech scientists confirm usually harmless virus attacks the heart’s electrical system