MIT sets out to model Alzheimer’s disease complexity on a chip
Credit: The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory The complexity of Alzheimer's disease, which affects many types of cells in the brain including its blood...
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NUS SDE4 receives international recognition for building designed to improve health and wellness
The state-of-the-art net-zero energy building is the first university building in the world to be WELL Certified™ Gold, and the first building in Singapore to...
Confronting colony collapse
Scientists sequence the genomes of the parasitic mites harming the world's beesCredit: OIST Honey bee colony collapse has devastating consequences for the environment, the global...
Supercomputing, neutrons unite to unravel structures of intrinsically disordered protein
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy Using the Titan supercomputer and the Spallation Neutron Source at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge...
First maps of areas suitable for spotted lanternfly’s establishment in US and world
Credit: ARS-USDA WAPATO, WASHINGTON, October 3, 2019--Maps identifying the areas suitable for establishment of the spotted lanternfly (SLF) in the United States and other countries...
Targeting regulator of mitochondrial cell death delivers anticancer activity
Credit: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA -- (Oct. 3, 2019) -- A novel anticancer molecule created by researchers at The Wistar Institute showed therapeutic activity in...
Addictive de-vices: How we can unplug from this 21st century epidemic
Credit: Helena Lopes We spend our days looking at them, talking to them, and touching them. They increasingly consume our time, attention and money. We...
Will new CDC measures work to control nursing home infections?
Researchers receive federal grant to determine whether new government recommendations can prevent antibiotic-resistant infections in nursing homesCredit: UMSOM The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
‘Dietary’ vulnerability found in cancer cells with mutated spliceosomes
Researchers envision a patient-specific 'oncology diet' to exploit the weaknessCredit: W. Brian Dalton, M.D., Ph.D. A research team from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center...
Sentinels in the mouth
Special sensory cells in the gums protect against periodontitisCredit: Monell Chemical Senses Center; Nature Communications PHILADELPHIA (October 3, 2019) - Newly discovered chemical-sensing cells in...
U of G researchers discover potential drug to treat heart attacks
A potential drug to treat heart attacks and to prevent heart failure -- for which no cure currently exists -- may result from pioneering research...
Eco-friendly electrochemical catalysts using solar cells to harvest energy from the sun
Credit: Chemical Communications A research team from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and Kanazawa University develops an eco-friendly device that uses solar energy to...
The phenological index
A tool to understand how ecosystems are responding to a changing climateCredit: Love et al., 2019 As climate change accelerates, recording shifts in plant flowering...
In women with HIV, TB preventive therapy poses greater risk in pregnancy than postpartum
Deferring drug until after delivery is safer, NIH-funded trial findsCredit: NIAID Study results published today help clarify how to safely prevent tuberculosis (TB) in women...
Most kidney transplants between people with HIV have long-term success
Recipients living with HIV show no indication of secondary infection with donor HIV strainCredit: NIAID People living with HIV who received kidney transplants from deceased...
