Data and safety review board reports how it monitored the COVID-19 vaccine trials
Responsibility for the safety, integrity and scientific validity of the trials fell to 12 experts of the COVID-19 Vaccine Data and Safety Monitoring Board, who...
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The electron merry-go-round
Photoemission is a property of metals and other materials that emit electrons when struck by light. Electron emission after light absorption was already explained by...
Researchers 3D print rotating microfilter for lab-on-a-chip applications
WASHINGTON -- Researchers have fabricated a magnetically driven rotary microfilter that can be used to filter particles inside a microfluidic device. They made the tiny...
Soaking up the sun: Artificial photosynthesis promises clean, sustainable source of energy
Humans can do lots of things that plants can't do. We can walk around, we can talk, we can hear and see and touch. But...
New studies identify how tuberculosis destroy the lungs and how to protect them
Two new studies have cast unprecedented light on disease processes in tuberculosis, identifying key genetic changes that cause damage in the lungs and a drug...
USC Stem Cell scientists make big progress in building mini-kidneys
The organoids, which resemble a kidney's uretic buds, provide a way to study kidney disease that could lead to new treatments and regenerative approaches for...
Henry Ford Hospital launches program to enhance patient safety, reduce workplace injuries
DETROIT (June 14, 2021) – Henry Ford Hospital has partnered with Atlas Lift Tech, Inc. and Arjo Diligent Clinical Consultants to launch a program aimed at...
New AI model helps understand virus spread from animals to humans
A new model that applies artificial intelligence to carbohydrates improves the understanding of the infection process and could help predict which viruses are likely to...
Medication may help heavy-drinking smokers improve their health
UCLA study provides evidence that varenicline can aid them in quitting smoking, reducing drinking A recent UCLA clinical trial has shown encouraging results in helping...
Research suggests ways to tackle water security challenges in world’s drylands
The research - published ahead of World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought on 17 June 2021 - examines recent and projected climate change impacts...
Plants use a blend of external influences to evolve defense mechanisms
Findings reveal how plants use a blend of genes, geography, demography and environmental conditions to evolve defense chemicals over time Plants evolve specialised defence chemicals...
Predicting the evolution of a pandemic
The inclusion of biological uncertainty and the latest case data can significantly improve the prediction accuracy of standard epidemiological models of virus transmission, new research...
Researchers identify why COVID-19 patients develop life-threatening clots
New insights could lead to new therapies for COVID-19 DUBLIN, June 15, 2021 - Scientists have identified how and why some Covid-19 patients can develop...
Receptor location plays a key role in their function
In the heart there are two different subtypes of beta-adrenergic receptors - beta1 and beta2 - which are activated by the stress hormones adrenaline and...
CNIO researchers discover that a protein that facilitates DNA repair may potentiate chemotherapy
The PrimPol protein helps the cell to survive the damage caused by chemotherapy; the researchers want to make tumor cells more sensitive to cancer treatments...