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,...
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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...
Reading your biological age in your blood or saliva? It’s not as simple as that
How old are you, really? Your chronological age is the number of years you have been alive. Your biological age is how old your cells...
Hydrogels can play Pong by “remembering” previous patterns of electrical simulation
Non-living hydrogels can play the video game Pong and improve their gameplay with more experience, researchers report August 23 in the Cell Press journal Cell...
New detectable gravitational wave source from collapsing stars predicted from simulations
The death of a massive, rapidly spinning star can shake the universe. And the resulting ripples — known as gravitational waves — could be felt...
Eight years after the Fundão dam collapse: unresolved devastation continues to plague Brazil
Eight years since the collapse of the Fundão tailings dam in Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, researchers have highlighted ongoing environmental and social devastation caused by...
Role of bitter polyphenols in the regulation of blood sugar
Bioactive compounds like polyphenols and their health benefits have long captured public attention and interest. Commonly present in plant-based food like fruits, vegetables, seeds, coffee,...
