Patients prefer their consent to share their data and to manage it digitally
Credit: Dovetail/WMG, University of Warwick A group of patients with diabetes were surveyed on their understanding of the consent process to have their medical data...
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The exposome: When our environment drives health and disease
Take two: Science publishes two papers on effects of unknown chemicalsCredit: University of Luxembourg Science, has published in its January issue two papers by Associate...
New functions of a protein may improve biocontrol methods in sustainable agriculture
The study has been conducted at 'BacBio', a laboratory of the University of Malaga (UMA) that specializes in the research on bacteria-plant interactionsCredit: University of...
The revolt of the plants: The arctic melts when plants stop breathing
Credit: Jong-Seong Kug (POSTECH) The vapor that plants emit when they breathe serves to lower the land surface temperature, much like watering the yard on...
TRAPPIST-1 planetary orbits not misaligned
First scientific result by the new spectrograph on the Subaru telescopeCredit: NAOJ Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have determined that the Earth-like planets of the...
Cahokia’s rise parallels onset of corn agriculture
Credit: Graphic by Diana Yates CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Corn cultivation spread from Mesoamerica to what is now the American Southwest by about 4000 B.C., but...
General descriptor sparks advancements in dye chemistry
SUTD collaborates with international researchers to move away from inefficient trial-and-error developments in dye chemistry and quantitatively design luminescent materialsCredit: SUTD There is an ongoing...
Reptile poaching in Balochistan (Pakistan) is on a decreasing trend but still troublesome
Credit: Rafaqat Masroor Since 2013, following strict enforcement of provincial wildlife legislation in the less studied regions of Asia, the overall trend of illegal reptile...
Skilled partners in the conduct of HIV prevention trials join COVID-19 response
Investigator-driven networks enter COVID-19 research spaceCredit: HVTN design: Lisa Donohue SEATTLE, MAY 14, 2020 - The NIH-funded HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) and HIV Prevention...
Global spread of the multi-resistant pathogen Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
Credit: E. Abda & I. Alio/ Mikrobiologie, Universität Hamburg S. maltophilia strains occur in several natural and human associated ecosystems. The bacterium was long regarded...
How plants forget
New work uncovers how a specific epigenetic mark is reset in spermCredit: Michael Borg Although they do it differently than humans, plants also have memories....
Fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and major diseases at the same time
A balancing act for biomedical scientistsCredit: Helmholtz Zentrum München / Charlie Padgett The world is currently facing a global pandemic without precedence. Looking at how...
Vitamin B3 revitalizes energy metabolism in muscle disease
Credit: Eija Pirinen; A. Wartiovaara's research group An international team of scientists, led by University of Helsinki reported that vitamin B3, niacin, has therapeutic effect...
Researchers find one-two punch may help fight against Salmonella
Natural product dephostatin is an effective partner for the antibiotic colistin in treating infections caused by the bacteria SalmonellaCredit: McMaster University Hamilton, ON (May 14,...
Proper synaptic joint will get you good night’s sleep
Synaptic adhesion molecule PTPδ regulates synaptic development and sleep behavior in miceCredit: IBS Plenty of theories, but nobody knows exactly why we sleep. One thing...
