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UrduResearchers trained material the same way as Pavlov trained dogs
Month: December 2019
Deployable human-scale immersive virtual environments?
Immersive virtual environments let us vividly experience and interact with virtual spaces and information, so researchers are working on a deployable version and the ability to get it set up and calibrated easily
Atom music lets listeners experience atomic world through sound
By correlating bright lines within the atomic spectra to audible tones, individual atom notes can be identified to create atom songs, allowing us to ‘see’ their music
How to boost sales of fair trade and sustainable goods
News from the Journal of Marketing
Bone and muscle health can ‘make or break’ care as we age
Experts at a prestigious medical conference hosted by the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and funded by the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) National Institute on Aging (NIA) hope their work–reported this week in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society…
Your zip software can calculate the complex physical quantity called entropy
A standard compression algorithm could revolutionize physical and biological computations, Tel Aviv University researchers say
Tel Aviv University’s Prof. Carmit Levy receives Young Investigator Award from SMR
Researcher honored for major contributions to the field of melanoma research
Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation’s Diagnostics Accelerator announces second round of awards
$50 million global research initiative, funded by Leonard A. Lauder, Bill Gates, Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos, among other leading philanthropists, targets resources to speed up development of blood, digital and other biomarkers for early detection
Brewing beer that tastes fresh longer
Unlike wine, which generally improves with time, beer does not age well. Usually within a year of bottling, the beverage starts to develop an unpleasant papery or cardboard-like flavor that drinkers describe as “stale.” Now, researchers reporting in ACS’ Journal…
Atmospheric chemists move indoors
Most people spend the majority of their time at home, yet little is known about the air they breathe inside their houses. That’s why some atmospheric chemists are turning their attention toward indoor air, using tools developed for monitoring pollutants…
Internists concerned proposed Ohio legislation would harm patients
Washington, DC (December 4, 2019) –The American College of Physicians (ACP) fears that recent legislation introduced in the Ohio state legislature that orders physicians to re-implant ectopic pregnancies, which is clinically not possible, will threaten patient health and subject physicians…
Call for cooperation as ‘blue boats’ rob Pacific reefs
A flotilla of Vietnamese fishing boats with crews suffering in harsh conditions is stripping Pacific coral reefs of seafood as the poaching escalates to become an international human rights and security issue. Dr Andrew Song, joint ARC Centre of Excellence…
Police killings of unarmed black Americans may have health impacts for nearby unborn black infants
Police violence and the health of black infants
Once-a-month oral contraceptive could improve patient adherence
Researchers have created a new ingestible drug delivery platform that expands in the stomach and could safely deliver a contraceptive over one month when tested in pigs. The technology could one day help women adhere more easily to birth control…
Technology that unblocks airways developed by researchers at Ben-Gurion U and Cincinnati Children’s
Will aid children with respiratory tract diseases including asthma, bronchiolitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cystic fibrosis
Scientists create ‘epigenetic couch potato’ mouse
Why is it that some people love to exercise, and others hate it? Most people would assume it’s all due to genetics, but a new Baylor College of Medicine led study in mice shows for the first time that a…
Stricter alcohol policies related to lower risk of cancer
New study finds stronger alcohol regulations may be promising means of reducing cancer deaths
Hundreds of environmental health professionals in US report challenges, research needs
With more than a quarter of the professionals expected to retire in five years, a national effort is needed for preparedness, according to study by Baylor University and national health partners
Environmental intelligence to better understand the changing Arctic
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As the Arctic ice sheet melts and the permafrost thaws, researchers from Sandia National Laboratories continue to carefully monitor conditions there. They have been working on the North Slope of Alaska for more than 20 years, managing…
Common heart drugs linked with less heart damage from cancer therapy
Vienna, Austria – 4 December 2019: Cancer patients receiving common heart drugs have less heart damage from cancer therapy, according to research presented today at EuroEcho 2019, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).1 For every ten…
Freeze frame: Scientists capture atomic-scale snapshots of artificial proteins
Berkeley Lab scientists adapt microscopy technique to build and image peptoid nanosheets with unprecedented atomic precision
Sales of recreational marijuana in Denver found to increase some nonviolent crime
In 2014, Colorado began selling recreational cannabis to people older than 21, becoming the first state to legalize recreational marijuana. A new study evaluated the effect of recreational and medical marijuana dispensaries on crime in Denver. The study found that…
Brain diseases with molecular diversity
New insights into abnormal proteins in Parkinson’s disease and MSA
Water management grows farm profits
A healthy lifestyle consists of a mixture of habits. Diet, exercise, sleep and other factors all must be in balance. Similarly, a sustainable farm operates on a balanced plan of soil, crop, and water management techniques. The western United States…
Bullying others increases the risk of developing mental health problems and vice versa
December 4, 2019 — A new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health suggests there is a two-way relationship between bullying perpetration and mental health problems among youth in the U.S. Researchers report that bullying perpetration increased the…
Signs of life: New field guide aids astronomers’ search
ITHACA, N.Y. – A Cornell University senior has come up with a way to discern life on exoplanets loitering in other cosmic neighborhoods: a spectral field guide. Zifan Lin has developed high-resolution spectral models and scenarios for two exoplanets that…
American Cancer Society and Flatiron Health launch real-world data impact award
Grant seeks to support patient-centric research through funding and access to real-world oncology dataset
Studying water quality with satellites and public data
Access to abundant, clean, water for drinking, recreation and the environment is one of the 21st century’s most pressing issues. Directly monitoring threats to the quality of fresh water is critically important, but because current methods are costly and not…
New technology CF LINK for protein bioconjugation and structural proteomics
The cooperation of two Prague research institutes – Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry and Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Brno based start-up CF Plus Chemicals, a spin-off of ETH Zurich, has brought a…
Like Pavlov’s dog, this thermoplastic is learning a new trick: Walking
Researchers in Finland are “training” pieces of plastic to walk under the command of light. The method developed, published December 4 in the journal Matter , is the first time a synthetic actuator “learns” to do new “tricks” based on…
All-optical diffractive neural networks process broadband light
Diffractive deep neural network is an optical machine learning framework that blends deep learning with optical diffraction and light-matter interaction to engineer diffractive surfaces that collectively perform optical computation at the speed of light. A diffractive neural network is first…
Cleveland Clinic awarded $2.8 million to study ecological, evolutionary contributors to cancer
Understanding interaction of these influences may lead to new treatment options
New tool to predict the global spread of dengue
Researchers at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, QUT and Queensland Health have developed a new tool to predict the global spread of human infectious diseases, like dengue, and track them to their source.The tool draws on travel data from the…
New study provides insight into chronic kidney disease
Findings may provide new target for combatting complications in the disease
Researchers decipher small Dead Sea mammal’s vocal communication
The diverse vocal repertoire of rock hyraxes reveals new information about sex differences and the evolution of language
New diagnostic techniques and drug may slow and even reverse cognitive decline from aging
BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL and BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA…DECEMBER 4, 2019 – A groundbreaking clinical approach has been developed combining new diagnostic techniques to detect a leaking blood-brain barrier (BBB) with a new anti-inflammatory drug that for the first time slows or reverses age-related…
Reprogramming inner ear to regrow hair cells promising target for hearing loss treatments
Scientists identify new pathway that may enable the inner ear to be reprogrammed to grow lost hair cells, which could help develop treatments to restore hearing
How race is associated with differences among patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
What The Study Did: Researchers in this observational study looked at how race was associated with difference in symptoms, access to care, genetic testing and clinical outcomes among 2,467 patients (8.3% black and 91.7% white) with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition…
Getting to the ‘art’ of dementia: UC researchers highlight benefits of art intervention
University of Canberra researchers have shown that art gallery programs can improve the wellbeing of people living with dementia – and they’ve backed it up by testing study participants’ saliva. Published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease , the UC…
Deep biomarkers of aging and longevity: From research to applications
The deep age predictors can help advance aging research by establishing causal relationships in nonlinear systems.
A mouse model of prostate cancer bone metastasis in a syngeneic immunocompetent host
The cover for issue 64 of Oncotarget features Figure 5, ‘In vivo and ex-vivo growth kinetics of B6CaP,’ by Simons, et al.
Closest-ever approach to the sun gives new insights into the solar wind
The Parker Solar Probe spacecraft, which has flown closer to the Sun than any mission before, has found new evidence of the origins of the solar wind. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe was launched in August 2018. Its first results are…
A new way to measure long-term firm performance and shareholder value
INSEAD and Wharton introduce LIVA: A metric that gauges the true impact of investment or strategic action on shareholder value
Moffitt’s top blood cancer research highlighted at ASH Meeting
The cancer center has 37 presentations during the conference
The wellbeing connection
Germany uses ecosystems in distant, often poorer regions
GW-led consortium receives $2.2 million grant to fund BioCompute Object Specification Project
The BioCompute Object Specification Project works to standardize genomic data analysis
Georgia State chemistry professor honored as National Academy of Inventors Fellow
ATLANTA–Jenny Yang, a Regents’ Professor of chemistry at Georgia State University and the associate director of the Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, has been selected as a National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow, the academy board announced on Tuesday. Yang,…
Contamination by metals can increase metabolic stress in mussels
The researchers propose that this evidence should be used as input to public policy with the aim of mitigating the impacts of human activities on coastal and marine ecosystems.
Silverswords may be gone with the wind
A rare, iconic Hawai’ian plant faces hardships as climate change affects trade winds
Cellular repair response to treadmill test can predict cardiac outcomes
Circulating progenitor cell traffic reflects need for blood vessel repair