Study highlights the vulnerability of England’s only resident bottlenose dolphins
England’s only resident population of bottlenose dolphins is under serious threat from a combination of human activity, environmental pollution and ...
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New CPU vulnerability makes virtual machine environments vulnerable
In the area of cloud computing, i.e. on-demand access to IT resources via the internet, so-called trusted execution environments (TEEs) ...
Health plays a role in older adults’ vulnerability to scams, poll suggests
Three out of every four older adults say they have experienced a fraud attempt by phone, text, email, mail or ...
County-level social vulnerability, metropolitan status, and availability of home health services
About The Study: This study found differences in Medicare-funded home-based clinical care provision across the U.S. by county-level Social Vulnerability Index ...
Vulnerability to different COVID-19 mutations depends on previous infections and vaccination, study suggests
A person’s immune response to variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, depends on their previous exposure – and ...
Vulnerability found in immunotherapy-resistant triple-negative breast cancer
Researchers at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center have discovered a druggable target on natural killer cells that could potentially trigger a therapeutic ...
Vulnerability of older adults to government impersonation scams
About The Study: In this study using a behavioral experiment designed to mimic a real-world imposter scam among 644 older adults, ...
Novel socio-environmental vulnerability index pinpoints sustainability issues in Brazilian river basins
Brazilian researchers combined environmental physical, social and economic indicators to create an index that measures a region’s vulnerability and used ...
Natural hazard vulnerability shows disproportionate risk
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – A fifth of neighborhood blocks in the continental United States most vulnerable to natural disaster account for ...
Childhood cancer: Vulnerability in the immune response against metastases discovered
Scientists led by Sabine Taschner-Mandl, PhD, St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute, and Nikolaus Fortelny, PhD, Paris Lodron University of ...
Study reveals epigenetic vulnerability of acute myeloid leukemia
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive blood cancer that causes uncontrolled accumulation of white blood cells. Because of the ...
Mixing between species reduces vulnerability to climate change
Genetic diversity is the raw material that enables populations to evolve in response to changes in the environment – essentially, ...
Vulnerability of red sea urchins to climate change depends on location
A new study of red sea urchins, a commercially valuable species, investigated how different populations respond to changes in their ...
Genetic vulnerability to ADHD signals risk of Alzheimer’s disease in old age
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 7, 2022 – Genetic predisposition to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can predict cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease later in ...
Cyber vulnerability in networks used by spacecraft, aircraft and energy generation systems
A major vulnerability in a networking technology widely used in critical infrastructures such as spacecraft, aircraft, energy generation systems and ...
UTHealth Houston study: Lower cancer screening rates differ by region, tied to social vulnerability
Populations in U.S. counties defined as more vulnerable based on social factors including socioeconomic status and racial/ethnic minority status were ...
Examining association between county-level social vulnerability, cancer screening rates
About The Study: Counties with higher social vulnerability had lower rates of U.S. Preventive Services Task Force-recommended screening for breast, ...
Research identifies, exploits vulnerability in certain high-risk cancers
In a study recently published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, a team of researchers led by C. ...
Leukemia vulnerability discovered causing drug sensitivity
All human tumors originating from various tissues share a series of properties that define them, including the ability to prevent ...
AI reveals scale of eelgrass vulnerability to warming, disease
ITHACA, N.Y – A combination of ecological field methods and cutting-edge artificial intelligence has helped an interdisciplinary research group detect ...
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Meteorites likely source of nitrogen for early Earth
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New implants linked to less infection and better recovery from orthopedic surgery
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‘Shocking’ discovery: Electricity from electric eels may transfer genetic material to nearby animals
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Scientists build tiny biological robots from human cells
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New study identifies the greatest threat to wildlife across North America and Canada: people
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Why have so many new diseases developed in the bagged salads sector?