Astronomers use slime mould to map the universe’s largest structures
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Burchett and O. Elek (UC Santa Cruz) The single-cell organism known as slime mould (Physarum polycephalum) builds complex web-like filamentary...
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Making sense of cells
Credit: OIST Our body's ability to detect disease, foreign material, and the location of food sources and toxins is all determined by a cocktail of...
Census 2020: Understanding the Issues
Springer book covers the US Census from its Constitutional founding through the upcoming 2020 count, discusses the unique significance of this statistical undertaking, and explores...
Flavor research for consumer protection
Flavorings containing benzaldehyde can develop benzene under the influence of lightCredit: Gisela Olias / Leibniz-LSB In 2013, the German Stiftung Warentest found harmful benzene in...
COVID-19 preventative vaccine trial for healthcare workers
Credit: MCRI Professor Kathryn North AC, Director of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, has announced its infectious disease researchers are preparing to...
Why life can get better as we age — study
Mindfulness helps wellbeing at all agesCredit: Flinders University People say life gets better with age. Now research suggests this may be because older people have...
Holographic cosmological model and thermodynamics on the horizon of the universe
A Kanazawa University researcher proposes a novel cosmological model to study thermodynamics on the horizon of the universeCredit: Kanazawa University Kanazawa, Japan - The expansion...
Enhanced 1.54 μm PL and EL on a perfluorinated Er3+ complex sensitized by an Ir3+ complex
Credit: by Hong-Fei Li, Xiao-Qi Liu, Chen Lyu, Jelena Gorbaciova, Li-Li Wen, Guo-Gang Shan, Peter. B. Wyatt, Huan-Qing Ye and William P. Gillin Photonic Integrated...
Celebrating our genomic diversity: Fine-scale differences in the Japanese population
Researchers led by Osaka University use dimensionality reduction analyses to identify fine-scale differences in the Japanese population, revealing greater population structure than previously thoughtCredit: Saori...
Astronaut conducts heart research on station with former colleague
When NASA astronaut Jessica Meir recently slipped her hands into the Life Sciences Glovebox on the International Space Station to conduct a new investigation on...
Insights into the diagnosis and treatment brain cancer in children
Credit: Kanazawa University Ependymoma is a rare form of brain cancer that implicates children and is often tricky to diagnose. Since effective treatment options can...
Overcoming primary resistance to checkpoint inhibition with selective inhibitor of TGFβ1
Selective inhibition of latent TGFβ1 activation with SRK-181 has demonstrated an improved preclinical safety profile compared to conventional inhibitors of TGFβ signalingCredit: Scholar Rock Retrospective...
Experimental model mimics early-stage myogenic deficit in boys with DMD
Large spike in TGFβ activity in injured muscle triggers a downward spiral leading to muscle degeneration and failed muscle regenerationCredit: Children's National Hospital Boys with...
Experiments in mice and human cells shed light on best way to deliver nanoparticle therapy for cancer
Credit: Robert Ivkov, Ph.D. Researchers in the cancer nanomedicine community debate whether use of tiny structures, called nanoparticles, can best deliver drug therapy to tumors...
Lipid helps heal the eye’s frontline protection
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University A species of a lipid that naturally helps skin injuries heal appears to also aid repair of common...
