Synthetic genetic circuits could help plants adapt to climate change
Increasingly, global food production is being threatened by the effects of climate change. As floods, droughts, and extreme heat waves...
Hubble sees red supergiant star Betelgeuse slowly recovering after blowing its top
Analyzing data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories, astronomers have concluded that the bright red supergiant star...
Simplified voice box enriches human speech
An ongoing debate among scientists, on why chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates cannot speak or sing like humans, has focused...
Study achieves longest continuous tracking of migrating insects
Insects are the world’s smallest flying migrants, but they can maintain perfectly straight flight paths even in unfavorable wind conditions,...
Busting anti-queer bias in text prediction
Modern text prediction is far from perfect — take, for instance, when a search query suggests something completely different from...
Tweaking turbine angles squeezes more power out of wind farms
A new control algorithm for wind farms that alters how individual turbines are oriented into the wind promises to boost...
Alcohol use can alter gut microbes, but not in the way you might think
Chronic alcohol use is a major cause of liver damage and death: Approximately 30,000 persons in the United States die...
Prompt recognition and treatment found effective for lung disease in patients who received new drug for advanced cancer
Lung disease caused by a new drug for cancers—including metastatic or advanced breast cancer—can be effectively treated using approaches that...
Reprogramming the brain’s cleaning crew to mop up Alzheimer’s disease
New CRISPR Technology Puts Diseased Microglia Back on Track The discovery of how to shift damaged brain cells from a...
Just over half of six-year-olds in Britain meet recommended guidelines for physical activity
Fifty-three percent of six-year-olds met the recommended daily guidelines for moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in a study carried out pre-pandemic by...
Building the best zeolite
If science and nature were to have a baby, it would surely be the zeolite. This special rock, with its...
Pseudobulbar affect: An often-overlooked condition
“Understanding Pseudobulbar Affect,” the inaugural publication of the new Insights & Implications in Gerontology series from The Gerontological Society of...
BU doc appointed Secretary of Neurocritical Care Society
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, August 11, 2022 Contact: Gina DiGravio, 617-358-7838, [email protected] (Boston)—David M. Greer, MD, MA, FCCM, FAHA, FNCS,...
CDI laboratory identifies critical regulators controlling T-cell homeostasis which could improve cancer therapies, vaccines of the future
Nutley, NJ, August 11, 2022 – A new publication in a major journal by scientists from the Hackensack Meridian Center...
Nanoparticle therapy may help patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19 infections
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say that an experimental dendrimer nanoparticle treatment called OP-101 substantially reduced the risk...
Where do clots begin? McMaster researchers create device to replicate conditions in blood vessels after grafts
HAMILTON, ON, August 11, 2022 – Tohid Didar and Jeff Weitz had a solution, but they also had a problem. Credit: McMaster University HAMILTON,...
New insights on how some individuals with obesity can lose weight – and keep it off
For decades, there’s been a persistent one-size-fits-all approach to treating obesity: Embrace a diet that’s low in calories. Yet evidence...
CHEST releases a clinical practice guideline on perioperative management of antithrombotic therapy
Glenview, Illinois – The American College of Chest Physicians® (CHEST) recently released a new clinical guideline on the perioperative management of antithrombotic therapy....
Vanilla cultivation on fallow land promotes biodiversity
How can biodiversity be preserved whilst securing the economic livelihood of smallholder farmers growing vanilla in Madagascar? There is a...
Oncotarget | Glypican-3 (GPC3) is associated with MCPyV-negative status and impaired outcome in Merkel cell carcinoma
“High prevalence of surface GPC3 makes it a putative drug target.” Credit: Muralidharan et al. “High prevalence of surface GPC3...
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Reinvigorating ‘lost cause’ exhausted T cells could improve cancer immunotherapy
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Experts optimistic about converting coal plants to production of clean geothermal energy
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U-M study: Local renewable energy employment can fully replace U.S. coal jobs nationwide
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Surprise, surprise: Subsurface water on Mars defy expectations
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Study uncovers what happens inside artery plaque to trigger strokes
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The presence of certain bacteria in the saliva might indicate post-trauma in veteran soldiers