Eye pupil an indicator of effective decision making, study finds
Credit: US Army image ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (April 27, 2020) - A team of Army and academic researchers are investigating how eye-pupil size changes...
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The North Atlantic right whale population is in poor condition
New research by an international team of scientists reveals that endangered North Atlantic right whales are in much poorer body condition than their counterparts in...
Grant funds research on community-level intervention to address opioid overdoses
Credit: Clayton Metz for Virginia Tech Keep people alive. Refer them to those who save lives. Finally, connect them to effective, peer-based treatment. These are...
Early-career researchers from preLights launch covidpreprints.com
The new website tracks landmark coronavirus studies throughout the pandemic on an interactive timeline.Credit: covidpreprints.com Cambridge, UK, 27 April 2020 - The Company of Biologists...
Development of a new ventilator prototype for the ICU against COVID-19
Collaboration between UC3M and Hospital Gregorio MarañónCredit: UC3M Researchers and technicians from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the University Hospital Gregorio Marañón...
COVID-19 could spell the end of an egalitarian National Health Service
A return to the principles of equality and universality of care that informed the NHS 70 years ago could be impossibleCredit: Dr Sabrina Germain Dr...
University of the Witwatersrand publishes first clinical data on COVID-19 in South Africa
This special issue of the Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine covers a range of aspects of the pandemic, from the clinical, through ethical, to the...
Researchers identify key mechanisms involved in pulmonary fibrosis development
New therapeutic opportunities in targeted treatmentsCredit: Photo: Leitz/Charité Working alongside research groups from Heidelberg, researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have elucidated the novel disease...
Abundant element to power small devices
A thin, iron-based generator uses waste heat to provide small amounts of powerCredit: © 2020 Sakai et al Researchers have found a way to convert...
New species of moths discovered in the Alps named after three famous alpinists
Credit: P. Buchner / Tiroler Landesmuseen The discovery of new, still unnamed animal species in a well-researched European region like the Alps is always a...
Scientists develop stable luminescent composite material based on perovskite nanocrystals
Scientists develop light-emitting composite material based on perovskite nanocrystals with air- and water resilient optical characteristicsCredit: ChemNanoMat An international team of scientists that includes researchers...
New understanding of asthma medicines could improve future treatment
Credit: Image reproduced with permission from RDD Online / Virginia Commonwealth University. New research has revealed new insights into common asthma aerosol treatments to aid...
Biochemists unveil molecular mechanism for motor protein regulation
Lis1 activates dynein by preventing dynein's ability to turn itself offCredit: Markus Lab/Colorado State University Movement signals life, and nowhere is this truer than inside...
Unique Namibian trial finds smart interventions reduce malaria transmission by 75%
University of the Witwatersrand scientists along with Namibian, UK and US partners have shown how the smart application of existing interventions can reduce the transmission...
SU2C-funded research to be presented during the AACR Virtual Meeting — April 27-28, 2020
Research involves immunotherapy, cancer interception, lung and pediatric cancersCredit: Stand Up To Cancer (New York) April 27, 2020 - Stand Up To Cancer® (SU2C)-supported research...
