Malaria risk is highest in early evening, study finds
Credit: Eunho Suh, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Wide-scale use of insecticide-treated bed nets has led to substantial declines in global incidences of malaria...
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User research at BESSY II: How new materials increase the efficiency of direct ethanol fuel cells
Credit: B.Matos/IPEN Ethanol has five times higher volumetric energy density (6.7 kWh/L) than hydrogen (1.3 kWh/L) and can be used safely in fuel cells for...
Russia creates its own humanized mice to test COVID-19 vaccines and drugs
Credit: Vladislav Maslov Following the recent Coronavirus outbreak, almost three million people have been infected worldwide, whereas the death toll has already passed the 200,000...
COVID-19 study: Impact of social distancing on older adults
Credit: University of Stirling The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social contact, loneliness, wellbeing and physical activity in older adults will be the focus...
To make an atom-sized machine, you need a quantum mechanic
Researchers in Singapore turn a single atom into a quantum engine and a quantum fridgeCredit: Aki Honda / Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of...
Study to determine incidence of novel coronavirus infection in US children begins
NIH-funded study also will ascertain percentage of infected children who develop COVID-19Credit: NIAID A study to help determine the rate of novel coronavirus infection in...
Eleven human genomes in nine days
The dawn of good, fast and cheap human genome assembly has arrived, thanks in part to collaboration and innovation by an international team led by...
Could a polio vaccine stop the coronavirus pandemic? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, May 4, 2020 -- The COVID-19 pandemic has scientists considering a few less-conventional options while vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 are...
Foraging Drosophila flies are open for new microbial partners
Their openness to associate with previously unknown yeasts could be a crucial factor for the emergence of new Drosophila speciesCredit: Sarah Koerte and Benjamin Fabian,...
How to put neurons into cages
Using microscopically fine 3D printing technologies from TU Wien (Vienna) and sound waves used as tweezers at Stanford University (California), tiny networks of neurons have...
Discovery of bacterial enzyme activity could lead to new sugar-based drugs
Researchers from DTU have revealed the structure of an enzyme that can convert low-cost sugars into hard-to-produce alpha-GalNAc sugars with therapeutic properties for e.g. cancer...
NAU scientists develop interactive disease models to predict regional spread of COVID-19
Credit: Photo courtesy of Northern Arizona University Joe Mihaljevic, mathematical epidemiologist and assistant professor in Northern Arizona University's School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems...
Scientists invented an aging vaccine
Professor Viktor Seledtsov, a senior researcher at the IKBFU Center of Medical Biotechnologies and Alexei von Delwig, a researcher at Innovita Res (Vilnius, Lithuania) have...
A $10 million grant enables BCG vaccine trial to expand internationally, enroll 10,000 healthcare workers
An $10 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will allow the Murdoch Children's Research Institute's (MCRI) clinical trial of the BCG vaccine...
Magnetic pulses alter salmon’s orientation, suggesting navigation via magnetite in tissue
Credit: Lynn Ketchum, Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers in Oregon State University's College of Agricultural Sciences have taken a step closer to solving...
