New study reveals promising drug target for treating osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is a skeletal condition that leads to the weakening of bones, making them porous, fragile, and prone to breakage. A whopping 8.9 million fractures...
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Large wildfires create weather that favors more fire
A new UC Riverside study shows soot from large wildfires in California traps sunlight, making days warmer and drier than they ought to be. Credit:...
Unveiling Telo-seq: A breakthrough in telomere research on aging and cancer
Credit: Salk Institute Journal Nature Communications DOI 10.1038/s41467-024-48917-7 Method of Research Experimental study Article Title High resolution long-read telomere sequencing reveals dynamic mechanisms in aging...
Restored rat-free islands could support hundreds of thousands more breeding seabirds
Hundreds of thousands more breeding pairs of seabirds could return to remote island archipelagos if invasive rats were removed and native vegetation restored – a...
Fishy parenting? Punishing offspring encourages cooperation
Osaka, Japan — While there is an increasing consensus among humans that corporal discipline of children does more harm than good, fish may disagree.Credit: Osaka Metropolitan...
The declining diet of Japan’s youth
Researchers from the University of Tokyo performed the first study to quantify highly processed food consumption and to investigate its association with diet quality among...
New “smart bandages” hold potential for revolutionizing the treatment of chronic wounds
Chronic wounds, which include diabetic ulcers, surgical wounds, pressure injuries, and other problems, are deadlier than many people realize. Patients with chronic wounds have a...
American diets have a long way to go to achieve health equity
Poor diet continues to take a toll on American adults. It’s a major risk factor for obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and certain cancers,...
To get images of this fast-acting brain protein, scientists had to slow it down
NEW YORK, NY--New groundbreaking images of one of the brain’s fastest-acting proteins are providing critical clues that may lead to the development of targeted therapies...
Scientists develop 3D printed vacuum system that aims to trap dark matter
Using a specially designed 3D printed vacuum system, scientists have developed a way to ‘trap’ dark matter with the aim of detecting domain walls, this...
Golden ball mills as green catalysts
Aldehydes are essential compounds in the chemical industry and are used in the manufacture of medications, vitamins, and fragrances. The selective oxidation of alcohols into...
Previously uncharacterized parasite uncovered in fish worldwide
Using genome reconstruction, scientists unveiled a once “invisible” fish parasite present in many marine fish world-wide that belongs to the apicomplexans, one of the most...
Research identifies possible new pathway to treatment of colorectal cancer
Research led by Irving Coy Allen in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine has unlocked a pathway to possible future treatments for colorectal cancer in...
A new way to measure ageing and disease risk with the protein aggregation clock
-- JOINT PRESS RELEASE OF THE INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (IMB) AND JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY MAINZ --Credit: ill./©: Nike Heinss / JGU -- JOINT PRESS RELEASE OF...
Molecular sponge for the electronics of the future
Porous covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are a class of highly ordered, porous materials consisting of organic molecules that are linked by covalent bonds to form...
