Stars and skulls: New ESO image reveals eerie nebula
Credit: ESO This ethereal remnant of a long dead star, nestled in the belly of The Whale, bears an uneasy resemblance to a skull floating...
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A malformation illustrates the incredible plasticity of the brain
People born without a corpus callosum do not have a bridge between the two cerebral hemispheres. Neuroscientists from UNIGE have shown how the brain manages...
Wistar creates a new synthetic DNA vaccine against Powassan virus
Vaccine protects animals against tick-borne Powassan virus, an emerging infectious diseaseCredit: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA -- (Oct. 30, 2020) -- Scientists at The Wistar Institute...
RUDN University chemist developed green method for malaria and leprosy drug production
Credit: RUDN University A chemist from RUDN University suggested an eco-friendly method for the synthesis of dapsone, a substance that inhibits the growth of malaria...
Nelson awarded $4.5 million to study prevention and treatment of metastatic breast cancer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Erik Nelson has won a $4.5M Era of Hope Scholar Award from the United States...
Galaxies in the very early universe were surprisingly mature
Credit: Credit: B. Saxton NRAO/AUI/NSF, ESO, NASA/STScI; NAOJ/Subaru Massive galaxies were already much more mature in the early universe than previously expected. This is the...
Future lake food webs in subarctic have more biomass and contain more omega-3 fatty acids
Credit: Kimmo Kahilainen & Brian Hayden Subarctic regions are facing rapid changes in climate and land-use intensity. An international research team recently completed an investigation...
Dynamic photonic barcodes record energy transfer at the biointerface
Cavity-enhanced radiative energy transfer converts biomolecular information from a single droplet into trillions of distinctive photonic barcodesCredit: Zhou et al., doi 10.1117/1.AP.2.6.066002 Optical barcodes enable...
The order of life
A new model that describes the organization of organisms could lead to a better understanding of biological processesCredit: MPIDS / Novak, Saha, Agudo-Canalejo, Golestania At...
Children with asymptomatic brain bleeds as newborns show normal brain development at age 2
Study finds that neurodevelopmental scores and gray matter volumes at age two years did not differ between children who had MRI-confirmed asymptomatic subdural hemorrhages when...
Microbes in the gut could be protective against hazardous radiation exposure
Credit: UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center CHAPEL HILL, N.C.--A new study by scientists at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and colleagues published Oct. 30, 2020,...
SARS-CoV-2 might attack red marrow and block new erythrocytes formation
Credit: FEFU press office Specialists from the Department of Fundamental Medicine of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) with Russian and Japanese colleagues have probed into...
Cancer patients, clinicians find value in electronic real-time symptom
Credit: UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center CHAPEL HILL, N.C.--Both cancer patients and their medical teams found it beneficial when patients shared their symptoms in real...
In a hurry to develop drugs? Here’s your cHAT
Rice chemists pitch 'green' method for making pharmaceutical intermediatesCredit: West Laboratory/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 30, 2020) - Let's call it the Texas two-step, but...
Researchers develop a new way to create a spectrum of natural-looking hair colors
Dye uses synthetic melanin to mimic natural hair pigmentationCredit: Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. --- We've long been warned of the risks of dyeing hair at...