ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers may increase the risk of severe COVID-19
Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention New Orleans, LA - James Diaz, MD, MHA, MPH & TM, Dr PH, Professor and Head of Environmental...
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Immunotherapy using ‘young cells’ offers promising option against cancer
Study in mouse, human cells suggests unique anti-cancer properties of such a therapyCredit: Sturgeon Lab Immunotherapy that involves treating cancer with the body's own immune...
Advanced ‘super-planckian’ material exhibits LED-like light when heated
Unconventional material emits light that exceeds limits of natural lawCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. -- Could there be a new kind of light in...
New device quickly detects harmful bacteria in blood
Tiny device could help professionals diagnose and fight deadly infectionsCredit: Wenrong He/Rochester Institute of Technology. Engineers have created a tiny device that can rapidly detect...
Vibes before it bites: 10 types of defensive behaviour for the false coral snake
Credit: Mr. Clodoaldo Lopes de Assis In a recent paper in the open-access journal Neotropical Biology and Conservation, a group of Brazilian scientists from the...
Electric jolt to carbon makes better water purifier
Credit: Nagahiro Saito Nagoya University scientists have developed a one-step fabrication process that improves the ability of nanocarbons to remove toxic heavy metal ions from...
How and where to allocate stockpiled ventilators during a pandemic
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 20, 2020--Key factors must be taken into account in determining the need for and allocation...
Study finds molecule in lymphatic system implicated in autoimmune diseases
Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery (New York City. March 20, 2020.) A study by investigators at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) has discovered a molecule...
Photons and electrons one on one
The dynamics of electrons changes ever so slightly on each interaction with a photon; physicists at ETH Zurich have now measured such interplay in its...
Study reveals how long COVID-19 remains infectious on cardboard, metal and plastic
Research suggests that people may acquire the coronavirus through the air and by touching contaminated surfacesCredit: Reed Hutchinson/UCLA The virus that causes COVID-19 remains for...
Device brings silicon computing power to brain research and prosthetics
Credit: Andrew Brodhead/Stanford News Service Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new device for connecting the brain directly to silicon-based technologies. While brain-machine interface...
UC San Diego partners with 5 leading diagnostics manufacturers to boost COVID-19 testing
Spurred by need and urgency, unprecedented collaboration will increase testing capacity to 1,000 to 1,500 tests per day within 2 to 3 weeksCredit: UC San...
On-demand glass is right around the corner
A project to create colloidal glasses characterized by a unidirectional stressCredit: @GiulioMonaco UniTrento Glasses used for camera lenses or reading glasses are not like those...
Epigenetic inheritance: A silver bullet against climate change?
Researchers from QMUL and GEOMAR are studying the adaptive potential of fishCredit: M. Heckwolf, GEOMAR The current pace of climate change exceeds historical events by...
Oncotarget Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL): a review of the literature
Oncotarget Volume 11, Issue 11 reported that relapsed APL, particularly in the high-risk subset of patients, remains an important clinical problem.Credit: Correspondence to - Joaquin...
