Half of all women with HIV are diagnosed late in Europe
Women account for one-third of the 141,000 new HIV diagnoses in the RegionCredit: ECDC Many women in the WHO European Region, particularly those in their...
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Animals could help humans monitor oceans
Credit: Miquel Gomila/SOCIB Sharks, penguins, turtles and other seagoing species could help humans monitor the oceans by transmitting oceanographic information from electronic tags. Thousands of...
Activation of opioid receptor uncovered
Study by the universities of Bonn and ShanghaiTech opens up perspectives for the development of painkillersCredit: © Photo: Volker Lannert/Uni Bonn Together with colleagues from...
Oyster deaths: American slipper limpet is innocent
Zoological Museum in Kiel plays a leading role in reconstructing the death of the European oysterCredit: © Jutta Drabek-Hasselmann, Zoological Museum, Kiel University Natural history...
Stem cell therapy helps broken hearts heal in unexpected way
Study in Nature sheds new light on heart treatment controversyCredit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI -- Stem cell therapy helps hearts recover from a heart attack, although...
Research affirms imaging technique’s ability to characterize healthy and non-healthy tissue
The research, published in the SPIE Journal of Biomedical Optics, cites 92 studies that assert intra-surgery feasibility of diffuse reflectance spectroscopyCredit: Lisanne L. de Boer;...
Thermo-chemical power generation integrated with forced convection cooling
Credit: Tokyo Tech Active cooling is crucial in most modern technologies, ranging from microprocessors in data centers to turbines and engines. Forced convection cooling, which...
How do scars form? Fascia function as a repository of mobile scar tissue
Credit: © Helmholtz Zentrum München / Donovan Correa -Gallegos Abnormal scarring is a serious threat resulting in non-healing chronic wounds or fibrosis. Scars form when...
Chinese Academy of Sciences leads discovery of unpredicted stellar black hole
Credit: YU Jingchuan, Beijing Planetarium, 2019. Our Milky Way Galaxy is estimated to contain 100 million stellar black holes - cosmic bodies formed by the...
New high-resolution images show how malaria parasites evade frontline drugs
Credit: Columbia University Irving Medical Center SUMMARY: Images show how changes in a specific protein of the malaria parasite are causing a frontline treatment to...
Scientists now know what DNA’s chaperone looks like
Credit: Liu et al. 2019 It's long been known that the proteins that package DNA, like students at a high school dance, require a chaperone....
Three University of Missouri faculty members named 2019 AAAS fellows
Credit: Eric Stann COLUMBIA, Mo. - Reproductive biology. Neuroscience. Microscopic organism processes and toxicology. The contributions to these three scientific fields have earned three faculty...
Concordia researcher hopes to use big data to make pipelines safer
Historical records of oil and gas leaks can lead to big improvements for future projects, Fuzhan Nasiri saysCredit: Concordia University Oil and gas pipelines have...
A new theory for how black holes and neutron stars shine bright
Columbia researchers suggest radiation that lights the densest objects in our universe is powered by the interplay of turbulence and reconnection of super-strong magnetic fieldsCredit:...
Carbon intensity of power sector down in 2019
Credit: Power Sector Carbon Index, Scott Institute for Energy Innovation Engineers from Carnegie Mellon University's Scott Institute for Energy Innovation have compiled carbon emissions for...
