Generic cholesterol drugs save medicare billions of dollars, study finds
Between 2014 and 2018, the number of Medicare beneficiaries on cholesterol drugs went up, but total costs plummetedCredit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - Sept....
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SwRI-led study indicates sand-sized meteoroids are peppering asteroid Bennu
Research uses data from NASA's OSIRIS-REx missionCredit: NASA/GSFC/University of Arizona SAN ANTONIO -- Sept. 9, 2020 -- A new study published this month in JGR...
Allergic immune responses help fight bacterial infections
Credit: Bobby R. Malhotra / CeMM Allergy is one of the most common diseases in Europe, it is estimated that more than 150 million Europeans...
Prediction of protein disorder from amino acid sequence
Researchers from Aarhus University have developed a tool, ODiNPred, for prediction of the degree of structural order and disorder in proteins, by using machine learning...
Mineral undergoes self-healing of irradiation damage
Credit: © Martin Slama In nature there are quite a few minerals that incorporate uranium and thorium in their crystal structure. This causes radioactive self-irradiation...
Bringing fusion energy to commercial reality
UH project will develop superconducting magnets for fusion systemsCredit: University of Houston Despite growing scientific and commercial interest in fusion as an on-demand energy source...
Bat tick found for the first time in New Jersey
"Soft" tick species can pose a risk to public healthCredit: J. Occi/Rutgers Center for Vector Biology A tick species associated with bats has been reported...
Mysterious cellular droplets come into focus
University of Illinois biophysicists use Frontera supercomputer to study the formation and behavior of biological condensatesCredit: Han-Yi Chou, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The world inside...
Advanced NVMe controller technology for next generation memory devices
Credit: Professor Myoungsoo Jung, KAIST KAIST researchers advanced non-volatile memory express (NVMe) controller technology for next generation information storage devices, and made this new technology...
A new study of ocean salinity finds substantial amplification of the global water cycle
Credit: Figure adapted from NASA (https://gpm.nasa.gov/education/water-cycle) Water and its movements within or between atmosphere, land, and ocean defines the global water cycle and is central...
In Ancient Giant Viruses Lies the Truth Behind Evolution of Nucleus in Eukaryotic Cells
Giant viruses, like the recently discovered medusavirus, may hold the key to deciphering the evolutionary mystery of the eukaryotic nucleusCredit: Tokyo University of Science Perhaps...
Magnetic whirls crystallize in two dimensions
Cooperation within the TopDyn research center paves the way for the investigation of two-dimensional phases and phase transitionsCredit: ill./©: Jakub Zázvorka, Florian Dittrich In a...
The birth of a male sex chromosome in Atlantic herring
Credit: Nima Rafati. The evolution of sex chromosomes is of crucial importance in biology as it stabilises the mechanism underlying sex determination and usually results...
The story of a cosmological experiment
The dark energy surveyCredit: World Scientific How does our universe function? Why is it expanding and why is the expansion accelerating? The advances of recent...
Ticked off: Researchers target Lyme disease vaccine with aid of $1.9 million federal grant
Credit: Timothy Driscoll/West Virginia University Pesky, yet dangerous ticks are no longer latching exclusively onto hunters and outdoor enthusiasts. Milder winters and disrupted habitats have...