Many genes associated with the risk of coronary artery disease act through the liver
Credit: UEF/Raija Törrönen. According to a new study published in The American Journal of Human Genetics, more than one third of genetic variants that increase...
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CUHK study brings new direction for treating neurological diseases
Credit: CUHK The finding, recently published in the prestigious scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS),...
Using genes to improve greenhouse gases conversion
Credit: UQ AIBN Greenhouse gas waste from factories could be turned into environmentally-friendly chemicals and fuels under an international project seeking to better understand the...
Older people often incorrectly assume medicines don’t have potential side effects
Credit: UCLA Health UCLA RESEARCH BRIEF Enrique Rivero FINDINGS Older people correctly ascertained basic information such as dosage and duration of use for more than...
Green revolution in electronic displays expected to ease energy and health crises
Credit: by Yuyang Wang, Hui Nie, Jinsong Han, Yaxun An, Yu-Mo Zhang and Sean Xiao-An Zhang The development of low-energy-consumption and user-friendly electronic displays has...
Fabricating the future with a new environment friendly method of polymerization
Insights into a novel environment friendly method of polymerization involving non-metallic organocatalysts opens doors to efficient polymeric productsCredit: Photo courtesy: Dr. Koji Takagi of Nagoya...
Researchers use new tool to study stress in root-colonizing bacteria
Tapping into a plant's microbiome may protect it from harsh growing conditionsCredit: Matt Jensen LOGAN, UTAH -- One solution to agriculture's many challenges -- climate...
Researchers detect cold gas pipelines feeding early, massive galaxies
Credit: Hai Fu, University of Iowa To come into being, galaxies need a steady diet of cold gases to undergo gravitational collapse. The larger the...
Evidence that Earth’s first cells could have made specialized compartments
Credit: Image courtesy of Karolina Spustova. New research by the University of Oslo provides evidence that the "protocells" that formed around 3.8 billion years ago,...
Treating rheumatoid arthritis with micromotors
Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04438 Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disorder marked by joint pain, swelling and damage. Although medications, such...
Jumping frost crystals: Boreyko lab works toward electrostatic de-icing
Credit: Virginia Tech If you have ever gotten up on a winter morning and thrown yourself into the arduous task of scraping frost from a...
Sound-frequency map for inner ear created with advanced X-ray technology
Credit: Hao Li Peer review/Experimental study/Cells Researchers at Uppsala University have created the first 3D map of the hearing nerve showing where the various sound...
Measuring carbon nanotubes taken up by plants
Credit: Kamol Das Carbon nanotubes are tiny. They can be a hundred thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair. But they have...
Mushrooms add important nutrients when included in the typical diet
First dietary modeling analysis of all three USDA Food Patterns investigates the effects of adding a serving of mushroomsCredit: Mushroom Council February 24, 2021 -...
Mangrove forests store more carbon when they’re more diverse
Credit: Guanghui Lin. Mangrove forests with greater species diversity can store more carbon, according to new research published in the British Ecological Society journal Functional...