When coronavirus is not alone
Team of complexity scientists present 'meme' model for multiple diseasesCredit: Joshua Brown/UVM Interacting contagious diseases like influenza and pneumonia follow the same complex spreading patterns...
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Researchers analyze influenza epidemiologic supervision and children cases in Catalonia
Credit: UB The viral infections of the upper respiratory tract are an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and, among them, influenza is one...
An ‘exceptionally stable’ single-atom catalyst
Single platinum atoms stabilized in C12A7 crystalsCredit: Nature Communications Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have shown that single platinum atoms trapped in...
New method gives glaucoma researchers control over eye pressure
Credit: University of South Florida TAMPA, Fla. (February 24, 2020)- Neuroscientists at the University of South Florida have become the first to definitively prove pressure...
Scientists develop a composite membrane for long-life zinc-based flow batteries
Credit: HU Jing Researchers led by Profs. LI Xianfeng from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently developed...
Extra chromosomes in cancers can be good or bad
Credit: Sheltzer lab/CSHL, 2020 Cancer cells are notorious for their genetic disarray. A tumor cell can contain an abundance of DNA mutations and most have...
Columbia team discovers new way to control the phase of light using 2D materials
Researchers use atomically thin materials -- 1/100,000 the size of a human hair -- to manipulate the phase of light without changing its amplitude, at...
Transport protein efficiently uses three independent lifts to shuttle the goods
Scheme of the transport cycle of glutamate transporters. Four states enclosed in dashed blocks represent structures observed in this work. GltTk in both apo and...
Rice scientists simplify access to drug building block
László Kürti and team develop one-step process to make crucial precursorCredit: Kürti Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Feb. 24, 2020) - In one pot, at...
Short film of a magnetic nano-vortex
Credit: Paul Scherrer Institute/Claire Donnelly For the first time, researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have recorded a "3D film" of magnetic processes on...
Mirrored chip could enable handheld dark-field microscopes
Simple chip powered by quantum dots allows standard microscopes to visualize difficult-to-image biological organismsCredit: Image: Cecile Chazot Do a Google search for dark-field images, and...
The ‘purrfect’ music for calming cats
Credit: Image courtesy of Abi Tansley Taking a cat to the vets can be a stressful experience, both for cat and owner. However, a study...
CNIO and Cabimer researchers show that DNA topological problems may cause lymphoma
Credit: Álvarez-Quilón et al. 2020, Nature Communications Researchers from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, and the Andalusian Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine...
Electron microscopy allows scientists to understand the molecular trigger of allergic reactions
A research team has been able to describe the overall structure of the antibody type IgE, which is the key molecule in allergic diseases; this...
Study finds inflammation caused by radiation can drive triple-negative breast cancer
Credit: ChristianaCare Wilmington, DE, February 24, 2020 -- While radiation is successfully used to treat breast cancer by killing cancer cells, inflammation caused as a...
