Researchers suggest a special diet against asthma
Study by the University of Bonn proves success of a so-called ketogenic dietCredit: © Dr. Fotios Karagiannis/Uni Bonn Can a special diet help in certain...
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Disagreements help team perception, study finds
Credit: US Army photo ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (April 7, 2020) - Team disagreements might be the key to helping Soldiers identify objects in battle,...
Babies retain even detailed events during a nap
During sleep, toddlers' brains consolidate details without generalizing themCredit: MPI CBS The brain is permanently exposed to new impressions. Even when sleeping, it does not...
Successful online management of COVID-19 infection
Credit: May Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 6, 2020--A team of researchers in Wuhan, China have developed a multidisciplinary self-managed home quarantine...
Ancient Australian plant may help in production of COVID-19 vaccine
Credit: QUT An international team of scientists, led by QUT researchers, may help in producing large amounts of vaccine in the fight against COVID-19. Professor...
Personalized microrobots swim through biological barriers, deliver drugs to cells
Using a substrain of E. coli MG 1655 and nanoscale red blood cell membranes, researchers created tiny biohybrid swimmers that could personalize drug delivery to...
Adelphi researcher discovers early, complex brain surgery in ancient Greece
One of the earliest documented, from ProtoByzantine periodCredit: Anagnostis P. Agelarakis/Adelphi University New research from Adelphi University has revealed the first forensically-assessed archeological discovery of...
One of the mechanisms of Staphylococcus antibiotic resistance deciphered
A joint Russian-French-German paper was published in Nature CommunicationsCredit: Kazan Federal University The Russian side is represented by Structural Biology Lab (Kazan Federal University) and...
Simulations show extreme opinions can lead to polarized groups
By incorporating the social science concept of 'rigidity of the extreme' into a popular opinion dynamics model, work in chaos theory points to the effects...
Plazi and Pensoft join forces to let biodiversity knowledge of coronaviruses hosts out
Pensoft's flagship journal ZooKeys invites free-to-publish research on key biological traits of SARS-like viruses potential hosts and vectors; Plazi harvests and brings together all relevant...
How wallflowers evolved a complementary pair of plant defenses
New findings show that a pair of complementary chemical defenses evolved independently in wallflowers, shaped by co-evolution with local insectsCredit: Tobias Zuest (CC BY 4.0)...
First-ever photo proof of powerful jet emerging from colliding galaxies
Credit: Courtesy Vaidehi Paliya CLEMSON, South Carolina -- A team of Clemson University College of Science researchers, in collaboration with international colleagues, has reported the...
Atomic force microscopy reveals high heterogeneity in bacterial membrane vesicles
Credit: Kanazawa University One aspect of bacterial activity is the production of so-called extracellular membrane vesicles (MVs): biological 'packages' wrapped in a lipid-bilayer membrane, carrying...
Proposed SwRI/UNH mission LEAPs forward
NASA selected LargE Area burst Polarimeter mission for further developmentCredit: Southwest Research Institute/University of New Hampshire SAN ANTONIO -- April 7, 2020 -- NASA has...
Cancer scientists at Purdue aim to use protein power to stop tumor growth
Credit: Marxa Figueiredo/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - In 2018, approximately 324,000 men died from cancer in the United States. The combination of lung cancer,...
