Spread of flu virus in hospital environment common
Credit: Photo by Alana da Silva One in four inpatients with influenza in a given season showed signs of having become infected during care. This...
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How breast cancer cells sneak past local immune defenses
Credit: Xue-Yan He, Egeblad lab, CSHL. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Associate Professor Mikala Egeblad and her colleagues describe a newly understood way by which...
Transparent inorganic multicolour displays enabled by zinc-based electrochromic devices
Credit: by Wu Zhang, Haizeng Li, William W. Yu, Abdulhakem Y. Elezzabi Multicolour electrochromic displays are one of the most versatile applications because they can...
Mystery about cause of genetic disease in horses
Research team led by Göttingen University questions link to warmblood fragile foal syndromeCredit: From the publication of the natural science collections of the Martin Luther...
Subaru Telescope and New Horizons explore the outer solar system
Credit: NAOJ Collaborative observations with NASA's New Horizons mission have been ongoing at the Subaru Telescope since May 2020. Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), the wide field...
New study shows how plants regulate their growth-inhibiting hormones to survive
Dimerization of OsGA2ox and OsDAO enhances its enzymatic activity. In a world with a consistently growing population and a climate crisis, food shortage is a...
Higher-order topology found in 2D crystal
Credit: Gil-Ho Lee (POSTECH) Over the last decade, the field of condensed matter physics has experienced a golden age with the discovery of new materials...
High-fat diet with antibiotic use linked to gut inflammation
UC Davis study found that combining Western diet and antibiotic use is a pre- IBD risk factorCredit: UC Davis Health Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) affects...
Ideal way to screen for disease
Bioprobe tests favour AIEgen technologyCredit: Flinders University In the pandemic age of telehealth and new technologies, remote site lab or point-of-care (POC) testing of biofluids...
A team at the INRS participates in the evaluation of new 5G technologies
Professor Sofiène Affes' laboratory develops a unique simulator to test the fifth-generation networkCredit: Sendil Kumar (Ericsson India) 5G, the fifth-generation technology standard for cellular networks,...
St18 is a negative regulator of VEGF
Credit: Kenta Maruyama Various pro-inflammatory cytokines and pathogen-associated molecular patterns such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS) are known to activate NF-kB. NF-kB is a master regulator of...
Global sentiments towards COVID-19 shifts from fear to anger
Credit: NTU Singapore The fear that people developed at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak has given way to anger over the course of the...
New organic material unlocks faster and more flexible electronic devices
Credit: Jack Fox, ANU Mobile phones and other electronic devices made from an organic material that is thin, bendable and more powerful are now a...
Learning the wiring diagram for autism spectrum disorders
New study uncovers brain circuit involved in dysfunctional social, repetitive, and inflexible behaviors characteristic of ASDCredit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - July 14, 2020...
A nanomaterial path forward for COVID-19 vaccine development
Credit: UC San Diego From mRNA vaccines entering clinical trials, to peptide-based vaccines and using molecular farming to scale vaccine production, the COVID-19 pandemic is...