Imaging reveals bowel abnormalities in patients with COVID-19
Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. (May 11, 2020) - Patients with COVID-19 can have bowel abnormalities, including ischemia, according to a...
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Epic Games, maker of Fortnite, awards UCF professor grant to enhance AR and VR technology
Credit: University of Central Florida The company responsible for the online video game hit Fortnite has awarded a UCF assistant professor a grant to develop...
El Niño-linked decreases in soil moisture could trigger massive tropical-plant die offs
New insights could help farmers, water managers in tropical regions prepare for impact on cropsCredit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., May 11, 2020--New...
NIH experts: Coordinated strategy to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine candidates is key
Credit: NIAID WHAT: A harmonized and collaborative approach to the clinical testing, scale-up and distribution of candidate vaccines to prevent COVID-19 is essential, scientific leaders...
UWC and SU isolate South Africa’s first laboratory culture of SARS-CoV-2
South Africa obtained its very first known laboratory isolate of SARS-Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) on 1 April 2020, courtesy of the collaborative efforts of the University...
Telehealth tools developed for Ebola improve COVID-19 care
Credit: Jackson Smith | UVA Health Telemedicine tools developed at UVA Health to battle Ebola have huge potential in the fight against COVID-19, UVA experts...
3D-printed nuclear reactor promises faster, more economical path to nuclear energy
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., May 11, 2020 -- Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National...
Flying foxes in SA exposed to zoonotic viruses
Credit: Photo by Craig Greer University of Adelaide researchers have found that South Australia's population of Grey-headed flying foxes, which took up residence in 2010,...
Who takes the temperature in our cells?
Baker's yeast cells provide information on how organisms could cope with global warming and other altered environmental factorsCredit: (c) TUD/BIOTEC In a world in which...
Mathematics to keep farmers on track
Credit: Kenshi Sakai / TUAT Tokyo, Japan - Scientists at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) used nonlinear mathematical modeling to understand the...
Water loss in northern peatlands threatens to intensify fires, global warming
Boreal climate change study features 59 authorsCredit: Manuel Helbig, McMaster University HAMILTON, ON, May 11, 2020 - A group of 59 international scientists, led by...
Single-cell RNA seq developed to accurately quantify cell-specific drug effects in pancreatic islets
Credit: © Brenda Marquina-Sánchez and Nikolaus Fortelny / CeMM The pancreas is an abdominal organ that produces digestive enzymes as well as hormones that regulate...
Photosynthesis in a droplet
Researchers develop an artificial chloroplastCredit: Max Planck Institute for terrestrial Microbiology/Erb For hundreds of millions of years plants have had the ability to harness carbon...
GCS centres support research to mitigate impact of COVID-19 pandemic
High-performance computing provides essential tools for drug discovery and epidemiological modeling in the fight against the global pandemicCredit: Barbarossa, et al. DOI: 10.1101/2020.04.08.20056630 In December...
Belt and Road’s financiers fall short on biodiversity
Credit: The University of Queensland Most financiers of international infrastructure program, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), are falling short on biodiversity safeguards, according to...
