Spike mutations help SARS-CoV-2 infect the brain
CHICAGO --- Scientists have discovered a mutation in SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, that plays a key role in its ability to infect the central nervous system....
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Mosquitoes sense infrared from body heat to help track humans down
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — While a mosquito bite is often no more than a temporary bother, in many parts of the world it can be...
Building a COMPASS to navigate future pandemics
Viruses like SARS-CoV-2 don’t respect boundaries, moving between species and continents and leaving destruction as they go. Beating the next pathogen with pandemic potential means...
U.S. National Science Foundation awards UT $18 million to study factors that lead to pandemics
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Nina Fefferman became a mathematician because she loves puzzles. She’s just been awarded $18 million from the U.S. National...
Trying to understand the water bear body plan
Tardigrades, often called “water bears”, are fascinating microscopic organisms known for their incredible resilience—they can survive anything from deadly radiation to arctic temperatures to the...
UVA engineers design lookalike drug carrier to evade lung’s lines of defense
A drug-carrying molecule designed to cure disease by slipping past the lung’s natural defenses offers new hope for people with chronic or deadly respiratory diseases,...
Life after (feigned) death
A new study led by scientists from the University of Bristol has revealed what animals do after they have feigned death in order to avoid...
Spontaneous transfer of mitochondrial DNA into the nuclear genomes in the human brain over the individual’s lifespan
Somatic nuclear mitochondrial DNA (Numt) insertions are mito-nuclear gene transfer events that can arise in the germline and in cancer. This study shows that Numt...
The secret to sleepy cells’ control of inflammatory secretions
Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys and the La Jolla Institute for Immunology have revealed a new secret regarding senescence, a cellular state similar to sleep...
Air pollution harms mental health worse in New York’s historically redlined neighborhoods
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Air pollution is bad for mental health. That much is clear. Now, new research shows the impact may be even worse in...
New NSF Center for Pandemic Insights
Preventing the next pandemic begins before diseases emerge. This “pre-emergence” phase is the focus of a new center funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation...
ARDD 2024 | What can we do before the “cliff” of aging arrives?
When exactly does the aging process start? With the aging mechanisms unclear, no consensus has been reached about aging “cliffs”, where our body functions and...
A world first: Qubit coherence decay traced to thermal dissipation
Physicists from Aalto University in Finland, alongside an international team of collaborators, have theoretically and experimentally shown that superconducting qubit coherence loss can be directly...
Innovative perovskite waveguides with edge lasing effect
Integrated photonic circuits operating at room temperature combined with optical nonlinear effects could revolutionize both classical and quantum signal processing. Scientists from the Faculty of...
‘Kate the Chemist’ joins the University of Notre Dame as new professor for the public understanding of science
The University of Notre Dame's College of Science has announced the creation of a new, strategic faculty position: professor for the public understanding of science. This role...
