Project Sidewalk helps users map accessibility around Seattle and other cities
Credit: University of Washington About 3.6 million adults in the United States use a wheelchair to get around, according to census data. But unless you're...
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New book on next-generation sequencing in medicine from CSHL Press
Credit: Artwork credited to vector artist whiteMocca and reprinted with permission from Shutterstock (ID: 663251594). Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press...
New immune pathway involved in resistance to parasite worms found in undercooked pork
Credit: John Worthington Scientists from Lancaster University in the UK have discovered that immune responses originally found to prevent fungal infections are also important in...
How the hepatitis B virus establishes persistent infection
Credit: Yang F, Yu X, Zhou C, Mao R, Zhu M, Zhu H, et al. (2019) New research sheds light on how a hepatitis B...
Data mining digs up hidden clues to major California earthquake triggers
Comprehensive new earthquake catalog includes 10 times more quakes than previously identified, with a more detailed picture of stresses and structures in the earthCredit: W.L....
Preliminary study suggests mercury not a risk in dog foods
Study looked at methylmercury levels in 24 dog diets Researchers at the University of California, Davis, recently investigated levels of methylmercury in a small sampling...
Scientists identify almost 2 million previously ‘hidden’ earthquakes
A closer look at seismic data from 2008-17 expands Southern California's earthquake catalog by a factor of 10Credit: Caltech Pouring through 10 years' worth of...
Fish under threat release chemicals to warn others of danger
Credit: Katherine Fedoroff. Fish warn each other about danger by releasing chemicals into the water as a signal, research by the University of Saskatchewan (USask)...
Mount Sinai researchers discover that diabetes drug may reverse heart failure
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have demonstrated that the recently developed antidiabetic drug empagliflozin can treat and reverse the progression...
Giant tortoises migrate unpredictably in the face of climate change
Unlike many migratory species, Galapagos giant tortoises do not use current environmental conditions to time their seasonal migrationCredit: Photo courtesy of Guillame Bastille-Rousseau. Galapagos giant...
General anesthesia hijacks sleep circuitry to knock you out
After 170 years, nobody was quite sure where anesthesia worked on the brainCredit: Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- The discovery of general anesthesia 170 years...
Bioengineers add cooperative molecules to their toolkit for programming signal processing
Credit: Image courtesy of Rice University Elaborate molecular networks inside living cells enable them to sense and process many signals from the environment to perform...
Estimating the efficacy and cost of curative gene therapy for beta-thalassemia
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 18, 2019--Gene therapy offers the promise of a cure for beta-thalassemia and a new study...
The brain’s imperfect execution of mathematically optimal perception
Thirty-person study of human perception suggests a 'middle ground' between opposing literatureCredit: Designed by Elina Stengård Human perception is based on mathematically optimal principles, but...
Disappearing bumblebee species under threat of extinction
York University research shows species is critically endangered The American Bumblebee - a species once more commonly seen buzzing around Southern Ontario - is critically...