Thinking small: New ideas in the search for dark matter
Physicists propose a new table-top experiment for detecting dark matterCredit: NASA, ESA, M.J. Jee and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University) Since the 1980s, researchers have...
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A $26.9-million project to create better psychiatric medications without side effects
Credit: UNC School of Medicine CHAPEL HILL, NC - June 16, 2020 - Rapidly acting drugs to treat depression, anxiety, or substance abuse without side...
Off-the-shelf tool for making mouse models of COVID-19
University of Iowa team makes gene therapy approach freely available for COVID-19 researchCredit: University of Iowa Health Care Until there are effective treatments or vaccines,...
Fred Hutch and University of Washington experts: Treat COVID-19 earlier to save lives
New review article in Open Forum Infectious Diseases suggests "golden opportunity being missed"Credit: Fred Hutch News Service | Robert Hood SEATTLE -- June 16, 2020...
Honeybee lives shortened after exposure to two widely used pesticides
Credit: Priyadarshini Chakrabarti Basu, Oregon State University. CORVALLIS, Ore. - The lives of honeybees are shortened - with evidence of physiological stress - when they...
Experts analyze options for treating multiple sclerosis-related cognitive impairment
Next decade will see inclusion of cognitive rehabilitation and exercise training in treatment protocols for multiple sclerosisCredit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ. June 16, 2020....
How COVID-19 affects pediatric patients
Credit: Gerd Altmann, Pixabay New insights into the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of pediatric patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) could facilitate early identification and...
Refugee camps vulnerable to COVID-19 outbreaks
Credit: Russell Watkins/UK Department for International Development, Flickr A COVID-19 outbreak in a refugee settlement will likely overwhelm the available healthcare capacity and infrastructure and...
16 new papers describe discoveries at long-term deep-sea research site off California
Credit: Images © MBARI MOSS LANDING, CA--For 30 years, MBARI ecologist Ken Smith and his colleagues have studied deep-sea communities at a research site called...
Cattle vs. hippopotamus: Dung in rivers of the Savannah
Credit: Gabriel Singer In many regions of the world, populations of large mammalian herbivores have been displaced by cattle breeding, for example in Kenya the...
Agroforestry is ‘win win’ for bees and crops, study shows
First observed evidence that agroforestry boosts pollinator numbers and crop pollination in temperate climatesCredit: Alexa Varah Planting woody plant species alongside crops could double the...
$345K NSF grant to fund research to modify paper electronics to make them stretchable
Credit: Binghamton University, State University of New York A three-year, $345,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will fund research at Binghamton University, State University...
Digital strategies to fight COVID-19
Luxembourgish expertise in Digital Health recognised at the international levelCredit: Copyright LIH As the first pandemic in the digital era, COVID-19 has created an urgent...
Premature epigenomic aging acts like a ‘sleeper cell’ that is awaken by Western-style diet
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine The epigenome is sometimes referred to as the "software" or "operating system" of the genome. It comprises small chemical modifications...
BioRescue’s most successful oocyte collection and embryo creation in southern white rhinos
The international consortium performed the procedure in the German Serengeti Park HodenhagenCredit: Serengeti-Park Hodenhagen In order to prevent the extinction of species such as the...
