Air pollution is one of the world’s most dangerous health risks
Researchers calculate that the effects of air pollution shorten the lives of people around the world by an average of almost three yearsCredit: Lelieveld et...
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MacMillan illuminates the micro-environment, creating a new path to cancer drugs
Princeton University's Dave MacMillan led the effort to create a nanoscale map of proteins and their nearest neighbors.Credit: Tamara Reyes-Robles/Merck Exploratory Science Center When corporate...
Scientists develop new method to distinguish freshly made transcripts from old transcripts
Credit: Nicolas Battich, ©Hubrecht Institute Our bodies consist of trillions of cells that all contain the same DNA. Even though the DNA in each cell...
Pesticides increase the risk of schistosomiasis, a tropical disease
UFZ researchers have proven that polluted freshwater bodies favour the intermediate host of the pathogenCredit: @UFZ Schistosomiasis is a severe infectious disease caused by parasitic...
Corn productivity in real time: Satellites, field cameras, and farmers team up
Credit: Image courtesy of Hyungsuk Kimm, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. - University of Illinois scientists, with help from members of the Illinois Corn Growers...
Many lyme disease cases go unreported; A new model could help change that
Researchers have drawn on 17 years of data to develop a model that identifies areas in which the tick-borne illness is likely to emergeCredit: US...
ACM publishes new journal on the Internet of Things
New publication chronicles one of the most transformative developments of the 21st centuryCredit: Association for Computing Machinery ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today published...
Wuhan CT scans reliable for coronavirus (COVID-19) diagnosis, limited for differentiation
Chest CTs have low rate of misdiagnosis and can standardize imaging features and transformation rules for rapid diagnosis, yet modality is limited for identification of...
New laser defense system against autonomous drones developed by Ben-Gurion U. researcher
Light blade system test successfully downs 90% of incendiary balloons infiltrating Israel's border from GazaCredit: Ben-Gurion U. BEER-SHEVA, Israel...March 5, 2020 - A Ben-Gurion University...
Scientists create model to predict multipathogen epidemics
Zooplankton study shows within-host pathogen interactions can predict epidemic severityCredit: University of Michigan HOUSTON -- (March 5, 2020) -- Diseases often pile on, coinfecting people,...
Tissue-digging nanodrills do just enough damage
Scientists advance case for use of molecular machines to treat skin diseasesCredit: Thushara Galbadage/Biola University HOUSTON - (March 5, 2020) - Molecule-sized drills do the...
PET imaging offers new insights into post-transplant care for heart patients
Credit: RJH Miller and O Manabe et al. Departments of Imaging and Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Myocardial blood flow (MBF) and...
Two-faced bacteria
Texas A&M researchers discover previously unknown response within gut microbiotaCredit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Mar. 2020, 201916974; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1916974117 The gut microbiome,...
Connecting interferon, neuroinflammation and synapse loss in Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine When immunologist Dr. Wei Cao joined Baylor College of Medicine three-and-a-half years ago, her first project was to investigate how...
Understanding how the brain predicts could make treating autism easier
Credit: J.F. Podevin WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Our brains make our lives easier by predicting what will happen next based on previous experiences. But what...
