NYU professor creates COVID-19 dashboard to compare country and state data
Publicly available tool allows users to view data on vaccinations, cases, deaths, testing, and COVID-related policiesCredit: Credit: Alexej Jerschow/NYU A ...
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How will seafarers fare once automated ships take over? Scientists predict the future
Scientists simulate trends in maritime employment over the next 15 years following ship automationCredit: Korea Maritime and Ocean University Artificial ...
Transformations within reach: Pathways to a sustainable and resilient world
Credit: © Adam Islaam | IIASA It is clear that COVID-19 has drastically changed our world, but how can we ...
Aging-US: Nicotinamide mononucleotide in degenerative model of retinal detachment
'This Aging-US article concludes that NMN administration exerts neuroprotective effects on photoreceptors'Credit: Correspondence to: Demetrios G. Vavvas email: [email protected] Aging-US ...
Aging-US: PAM (PIK3/AKT/mTOR) signaling in glia: potential contributions to brain tumors
'The consideration of aberrant PIK3/AKT/mTOR signaling in glia during aging elucidates several therapeutic opportunities for brain tumors'Credit: Correspondence to: Kamel ...
Aging-US: Growth factor beta type 1 and hypoxia-inducible factor 1 transcription complex
'The Aging-US authors report for the first time that in human breast cancer, AML and embryonic cells, HIF-1 and AP-1 ...
Oncotarget: Drug-resistant cells grow exponentially in metastatic prostate cancer
The Oncotarget authors show that the drug-resistant, metastasis-causing cells are capable of producing drug-resistant, exponentially growing tumors, responsible for tumor ...
Oncotarget: Prognostic biomarker for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma
Reduced expression of TBX15 in tumor tissue represents a potential biomarker for predicting poor survival of patients with HCCCredit: Correspondence ...
Oncotarget: Improved therapeutic efficacy of unmodified anti-tumor antibodies
The Oncotarget findings suggest that MEKi induced an increased expression of tumor-associated antigens, which in combination with anti-tumor antibodies, generated ...
Addressing the impact of structural racism on disparities in children with Type 1 diabetes
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA, PA (January 22, 2021) - Advancements in diabetes technology have improved quality of life and glycemic ...
Navigating uncertainty: Why we need decision theory during a pandemic
Modern decision theory can assist policymakers in critical times such as the COVID-19 crisis, argue Bocconi University's Massimo Marinacci and ...
Internet and freedom of speech, when metaphors give too much power
Since 1997, when the US supreme court metaphorically called the Internet the free market of ideas, attempts at regulation have ...
Adger, Burton and O’Brien win the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change
The award has gone in this thirteenth edition to Neil Adger, Ian Burton and Karen O'Brien for changing the paradigm ...
New study suggests that college campuses are COVID-19 superspreaders
Credit: Are college campuses superspreaders? A data-driven modeling study - Lu et al, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering ...
Oncotarget: HIV +/- patients with lymphoma as a predictor of outcome & tumor proliferation
The Oncotarget author's hypothesis is that ADC values will inversely correlate with Ki-67 expression and that tumors with higher ADC ...
Small towns are bigger than we think
Innovative FAO study maps urban-rural catchment areas and points to ways to optimize policy and planning coordination for agriculture, services ...
Oncotarget: Targeted lymphodepletion with a CD45-directed antibody radioconjugate
"Here the Oncotarget authors describe the results of preclinical studies with an anti-mouse CD45 antibody 30F11"Credit: Correspondence to - Dale ...
Oncotarget: PD-1/PD-L1 expression in anal squamous intraepithelial lesions
Dr. Margot Bucau from The Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard said, 'Anal intraepithelial neoplasia (AIN) is the precursor lesion for anal squamous ...
Child marriage is legal and persists across Canada
Over 3,600 marriage certificates were issued to children under the age of 18 between 2000 and 2018Credit: Alissa Koski and ...
10 UTA students land coveted transportation fellowships
UTA students have earned 40-plus Eisenhower Transportation Fellowships in recent yearsCredit: UT Arlington Ten students from The University of Texas ...