HIV ‘hotspots’ not necessarily major drivers of new infections
Credit: Kate Grabowski Areas of high HIV prevalence, known as 'hotspots', do not necessarily fuel the epidemic in the wider population, say researchers. Hotspots are...
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UC Davis scientists provide novel strategies for parasitic weed control
Credit: Yaxin Wang, Daniel Steele, Maylin Murdock, Seigmund Lai, and John Yoder Parasitic weeds are among the world's most economically damaging agricultural pests. They use...
Cat parasite reduces general anxiety in infected mice, not just fear of feline predators
Credit: Pierre-Mehdi Hammoudi and Damien Jacot The cat parasite Toxoplasma gondii is known to cause infected rodents to lose their fear of feline predators, which...
In mice, alcohol dependence results in brain-wide remodeling of functional architecture
Novel imaging technologies produce first whole-brain atlas at single-cell resolution, revealing how alcohol addiction -- and abstinence -- change neural physiology and affect previously unsuspected...
Who’s liable? The AV or the human driver?
Columbia researchers use game theory to help policy makers create liability rules for accidents involving self-driving cars and those driven by peopleCredit: Sharon Di and...
Including irregular time intervals improves animal movement studies
Credit: bighorn sheep, Lori Iverson - USFWS/flickr; cheetah - Bernard DuPont/flicker; black carpenter ants - Hughes Lab, Penn State; blue winged warbler - Gunnar Kramer,...
UTEP receives $1M to increase number of students who pursue graduate engineering studies
Credit: JR Hernandez / UTEP Communications, The University of Texas at El Paso's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department was awarded $1 million from the National...
InDepth Pharmaceuticals moves ahead with diagnostic to predict kidney transplant success
Credit: Sarah Pack, Medical University of South Carolina InDepth Pharmaceuticals, founded by Deepak Nihalani, Ph.D., the SmartState Endowed Chair in Renal Disease Biomarkers at the...
More federal funding needed to increase Americans’ active transportation habits
Credit: Photo by Ryan Young for Virginia Tech. The federal government has allocated only about 2 percent of its transportation funds to encourage walking and...
Racial disparities in heart failure explained
Experts hopeful that findings could help identify individuals who might benefit from earlier interventionCredit: UTSW DALLAS - Jan. 14, 2020 - Researchers at UT Southwestern...
From smoke going round the world to aerosol levels, NASA observes Australia’s bushfires
Credit: Credits: NASA/Colin Seftor NASA scientists using data from its NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite, has traced the movement of the smoke coming off the Australian...
Hyperactive immune system gene causes schizophrenia-like changes in mice
Credit: Rhushikesh A. Phadke Excessive activity of an immune system gene previously linked to schizophrenia reproduces neural and behavioral aspects of the disease in mice,...
Study weighs deep-sea mining’s impact on microbes
Credit: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The essential roles that microbes play in deep-sea ecosystems are at risk from the potential environmental impacts of mining, a...
Exosomes promote remarkable recovery in stroke
Credit: Andrew Davis Tucker It's been almost a quarter century since the first drug was approved for stroke. But what's even more striking is that...
Colloidal quantum dot laser diodes are just around the corner
Researchers reach a critical milestone on the path to versatile colloidal quantum dot laser diodes by successfully demonstrating a quantum dot LED that also operates...
