Animals keep viruses in the sea in balance
Credit: NIOZ A variety of sea animals can take up virus particles while filtering seawater for oxygen and food. Sponges are particularly efficient. That was...
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Bubbles go with the flow
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, used a...
New in vivo priming strategy to train stem cells can enhance cardiac repair effectiveness
Credit: © City University of Hong Kong / Science Advances Human stem cells have been regarded as one of the promising cell sources for cardiac...
Zero-energy bound states in the high-temperature superconductors at 2-dimensional limit
Credit: Wang Jian A quantum computer works based on qubits. By manipulating quantum states to realize specific logical operation, quantum computing can solve some important...
Astronaut urine to build moon bases
Credit: ESA, Foster and Partners The modules that the major space agencies plan to erect on the Moon could incorporate an element contributed by the...
Triple-threat genetic toolkit aids with eco-friendly chemical production
CABBI researchers have developed three innovative tools to facilitate production of high-value compounds from yeast strain Issatchenkia orientalisCredit: Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Biofuels Innovation...
UK local authorities not ready for the number of deaths from Covid-19
The situation could lead to a bottleneck in burials and cremations, mortuaries filled beyond capacity and the possibility of mass gravesCredit: University of Huddersfield UNIVERSITY...
Copper boosts pig growth, and now we know why
Credit: University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences URBANA, Ill. - Pigs have better feed conversion rates with copper in their diets,...
Ventilator costing less than $300 developed by Rice University and Metric Technologies
Metric Technologies -- physicians, engineers work to deliver automated bag valve mask solution for COVID-19 crisisCredit: Brandon Martin/Rice University HOUSTON - (March 27, 2020) -...
Benefiting from the national gene vector biorepository
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 26, 2020--Gene therapy investigators can greatly benefit from the resources and services provided by the...
Medical University of South Carolina team releases plans for 3D-printed masks
The team has been in contact with the US Food and Drug Administration to obtain emergency approval of the device and is talking to manufacturers...
New drug could reverse treatment resistance in advanced multiple myeloma
Multiple myeloma is an incurable type of bone marrow cancer in urgent need of new treatment optionsCredit: Worldwide Cancer Research Researchers at the VU University...
Scientists identify gene that first slows, then accelerates, progression of ALS in mice
Columbia study underscores complexities of deadly neurodegenerative disease; offers promising strategies to target disease's underlying genetic mechanismsCredit: Valeria Gerbino/Maniatis lab/Columbia's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK --...
Forgotten tale of phage therapy history revealed
Phage therapy was successfully used against dysentery and staphylococcal infectionsCredit: Picture: The University of Jyväskylä/Gabriel Almeida In the current situation when the fear of virus...
I won’t have what he’s having: The brain and socially motivated behavior
Researchers at the National Institutes of Natural Sciences in Okazaki, Japan find brain cells that are responsible for socially based changes in what monkeys wantCredit:...
