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Researchers say nanoparticle film would 'catch' and kill virus, better protect healthcare providersCredit: UCF College of Medicine Masks that protect doctors and nurses from COVID-19...

Credit: © Markus Scholz, Uni Halle To this end, the team identified several thousand proteins, determined their respective amounts in mutant and reference lines and...

Credit: (Picture: Ulrich Terpitz / University of Würzburg) Fungi play an important role for mankind. In the soil, they decompose dead organic material, making it...

Credit: Dr. Kline New research published in Academic Emergency Medicine indicates that for physicians and nurses working evening shifts in the emergency department, interacting with...

Credit: Tim Porch Leafhoppers are tiny insects. They are only about 3 millimeters long, smaller than a grain of rice. But they can cause big...

Credit: Marcelo H. Cassini, PhD In most animals, females are larger than males, but in most mammals, males are larger than females. A new analysis...

Four decades of research provide some answersCredit: Phil Stouffer The Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP), located near Manaus, Brazil, began in 1979 and...

Credit: Christopher J. Malyniuk Chemotherapeutic drugs, also known as antineoplastic agents, that are prescribed to treat a range of cancer types, enter the aquatic environment...

Credit: Alberto Lopez Torres GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The bright chirp of the coquí frog, the national symbol of Puerto Rico, has likely resounded through Caribbean...

The same processes that threaten wildlife increase our risk of spilloverCredit: Christine K. Johnson, UC Davis As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, a common question...

NIH mouse study reveals key details about visual processingCredit: Image credit: Lupeng Wang, Ph.D. and Charles Gerfen, Ph.D. Researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI)...

Computer modelling deciphers complex interfaceCredit: Wallis et al Naturally occurring (geogenic) groundwater arsenic contamination is a problem of global significance, with noteworthy occurrences in large...

Pitt Bioengineer Takashi Kozai will use a $437K NSF CAREER award to advance neural interface design and study how different types of stimulation impact neuronal...

Credit: Laura Bloomfield Viruses that jump from animals to people, like the one responsible for COVID-19, will likely become more common as people continue to...

In contrast with China and other countries where the disease spread slowly, in Brazil more than 300 people started the epidemic; most were passengers flying...