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UrduUNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — People who eat wildebeests, wart hogs and other wild African animals may be at risk for contracting potentially life-threatening diseases, according to an international team of researchers. The team analyzed samples of bushmeat — meat derived…
Month: December 2019
Pot while pregnant: UNLV medicine doctors urge caution
New study links daily marijuana use to adverse fetal health outcomes
Strategic collaboration agreement signed between ScienceOpen and Pensoft
The research discovery platform ScienceOpen and Pensoft Publishers have entered into a strategic collaboration partnership with the aim of strengthening the companies’ identities as the leaders of innovative content dissemination. The new cooperation will focus on the unified indexation, the…
This ‘fix’ for economic theory changes everything from gambles to Ponzi schemes
Whether we decide to take out that insurance policy, buy Bitcoin, or switch jobs, many economic decisions boil down to a fundamental gamble about how to maximize our wealth over time. How we understand these decisions is the subject of…
Svalbard reindeer populations rebounding from centuries of hunting
Most reindeer and caribou populations are on the decline; that’s not the case for reindeer living close to the North Pole
Sweet potato uses a single odor to warn its neighbors of insect attack
Odor induces a defense response in sweet potatoes to herbivores and protects other plants against potential invaders.
Cultural differences account for global gap in online regulation — study
Differences in cultural values have led some countries to tackle the spectre of cyber-attacks with increased internet regulation, whilst others have taken a ‘hands-off’ approach to online security – a new study shows. Internet users gravitate towards one of two…
Monkeys inform group members about threats — following principles of cooperation
Monkeys cooperatively share information about the presence of snakes with their group members: Alarm calling is not only driven by fear
A new therapeutic target against diseases caused by lipid accumulation in cells
Study with the CRISPR/Cas9 editing technology
Discovery of an unusual protein
Scientists from Bremen discover an unusual protein playing a significant role in the Earth’s nitrogen cycle
Researchers may have discovered where HIV takes refuge during antiretroviral treatment
An international team led by Professor Jerome Estaquier from Universite Laval’s Faculty of Medicine and the CHU de Quebec-Universite Laval Research Center may have discovered where in the body HIV takes refuge during antiretroviral treatment. Research conducted using an animal…
New treatment could ease the passage of kidney stones
Muscle relaxants delivered to the ureter can reduce contractions that cause pain when passing a stone.
1940s blood samples reveal historical spread of malaria
DNA from 75-year old eradicated European malaria parasites uncovers the historical spread of one of the two most common forms of the disease, Plasmodium vivax, from Europe to the Americas during the colonial period, finds a new study co-led by…
Helping machines perceive some laws of physics
Model registers ‘surprise’ when objects in a scene do something unexpected, which could be used to build smarter AI
Decades old debate settled: Golgi key to maintenance of molecule-sorting station in cells
New mechanism to explain how the cell organelle that sorts and distributes substances entering a cell is formed and maintained
A new way to control microbial metabolism
Chemical engineers program bacteria to switch between different metabolic pathways, boosting their yield of desirable products.
Scientists reveal the structure of viral rhodopsins
The structure of an Organic Lake Phycodnavirus rhodopsin II (OLPVRII), which is a unique protein found in the genome of giant viruses, has been determined thanks to the work of MIPT graduates and PhD students. The paper was published in…
Study finds common cold virus can infect the placenta
Researchers have shown that a common cold virus can infect cells derived from human placentas, suggesting that it may be possible for the infection to pass from expectant mothers to their unborn children. The study , published in the journal…
New index maps relationships between poverty and accessibility in Brazil
Researchers from the School of Engineering in Trinity College Dublin have developed a new spatial index that measures the connections between poverty and poor accessibility. The research, recently published in the Journal of Transport Geography , builds on previous work…
Käthe Beutler: ‘Do something!’
When Bruce Beutler won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2011, he reminisced about his grandmother, telling how she had once explained this distinguished award to him. Her grandson’s Nobel Prize directed medical historians’ attention to the Beutler family. The…
Deep learning identifies molecular patterns of cancer
A new deep-learning algorithm can quickly and accurately analyze several types of genomic data from colorectal tumors for more accurate classification, which could help improve diagnosis and related treatment options, according to new research published in the journal Life Science…
Study shows link between precipitation, climate zone and invasive cancer rates in the US
New Rochelle, NY, December 2, 2019–In a new study, researchers provide conclusive evidence of a statistical relationship between the incidence rates of invasive cancer in a given area in the U.S. and the amount of precipitation and climate type (which…
Earthquake risk perception: A picture is worth a thousand stats
Realistic images can be more effective than statistical data for persuading people to take action in support of seismic upgrades to schools, new University of British Columbia research suggests. Seismic engineers and psychologists from UBC teamed up with a visual…
Making higher-energy light to fight cancer
Researchers use nontoxic silicon nanocrystals to convert low-energy photons into high-energy ones, bringing scientists closer to developing photodynamic treatments for cancer
McGill-led research unravels mystery of how early animals survived ice age
New findings further our understanding of extreme climate change and evolution
Percentage of African ancestry affects gene expression
First study to compare gene production between African Americans
Kelp farming on the west coast — Environmentally friendly aquaculture
There is a growing interest of the cultivation of macro algae. A new dissertation studies the best conditions for sustainable cultivation of the brown algae sugar kelp. The negative environmental effects of kelp cultivation is very limited, especially compared to…
Cats’ faces hard to read, except for ‘cat whisperers,’ research finds
Cats have a reputation for being hard to read, but new research from the University of Guelph has found that some people are veritable ‘cat whisperers’ who excel at deciphering subtle differences in cats’ faces that reveal mood
New framework brings accuracy, efficiency to identifying stop words
Algorithmic approach automatically recognizes uninformative words in large collections of text
Evidence: Antarctica’s thinning ice shelves causing more ice to move from land into sea
Researchers have produced the first physics-based quantifiable evidence that thinning ice shelves in Antarctica are causing more ice to flow from the land into the ocean
Endometriosis could be treated with cancer drug, study suggests
The painful symptoms of endometriosis – a chronic condition which affects millions of women – could potentially be reduced with a drug that had previously been investigated as a cancer treatment. Researchers found that using dichloroacetate to treat the cells…
Researchers compare nutritional value of infant and toddler foods
AURORA, Colo. (Dec. 2, 2019) – Infant and toddler foods sold in pouches have lower nutritional value than foods sold in jars and other packaging, according to a new study led by researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical…
Cell-free synthetic biology comes of age
Cell-free systems stand to dramatically impact society, from the environment to medicine to education
Colorado study suggests new strategies against bone metastases from prostate cancer
When prostate cancer spreads, it most often spreads to bone. And while the 5-year survival rate for prostate cancer that has not spread is nearly 100 percent, once the disease reaches bone, the 5-year survival rate is only 29 percent.…
Justinianic plague not a landmark pandemic?
Researchers now have a clearer picture of the impact of the first plague pandemic, the Justinianic Plague, which lasted from about 541-750 CE. Led by researchers at the University of Maryland’s National-Socio Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), the international team of…
Satellite imagery shows Typhoon Kammuri’s center obscured
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP or S-NPP satellite passed over the Philippine Sea in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and found Typhoon Kammuri’s eye obscured. Since Kammuri has now entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility, defined by the World Meteorological Organization, the Philippine…
Study highlights potential for ‘liquid health check’ to predict disease risk
Proteins in our blood could in future help provide a comprehensive ‘liquid health check’, assessing our health and predicting the likelihood that we will we will develop a range of diseases, according to research published today in Nature Medicine .…
New treatment for brain tumors uses electrospun fiber
Researchers with the University of Cincinnati used coaxial electrospinning to create a treatment for glioblastoma multiforme
The impact of molecular rotation on a peculiar isotope effect on water hydrogen bonds
Unveiling two deuteration effects on hydrogen-bond breaking process of water isotopomers
Drone images show Greenland ice sheet becoming more unstable as it fractures
The world’s second-largest ice sheet, and the single largest contributor to global sea-level rise, is potentially becoming unstable because of fractures developing in response to faster ice flow and more meltwater forming on its surface. Using custom-built drones strong enough…
Researchers identify a process responsible for therapeutic resistance in breast cancer
Researchers at the Lady Davis Institute have identified a key protein that is required for resistance to chemotherapy in the most aggressive form of breast cancer.
Smarter strategies
New research highlights an integrated approach for managing aquatic invasive species in California
Tiny woodlands are more important than previously thought
Small woodlands in farmland have more benefits for humans per area, compared to large forests according to a new study. The small woodlands, sometimes even smaller than a football field, can easily go unnoticed in agricultural landscapes. Yet, these small…
Tiny woodlands are more important than previously thought
Small woodlands in farmland have more benefits for humans per area, compared to large forests according to a new study. The small woodlands, sometimes even smaller than a football field, can easily go unnoticed in agricultural landscapes. Yet, these small…
E4 Ecography Award for Ludmilla Figueiredo
Calcareous grasslands are dry, nutrient-poor habitats that occur frequently in the north of Bavaria. They are home to orchids, snakes and rare insects. Like all other ecosystems on earth, these grasslands are constantly threatened by disturbances – for example from…
Major epilepsy study offers much-needed answers on 3 lifesaving seizure drugs
Researchers urge doctors to increase dose of commonly used drug
Study: lack of tolerance, institutional confidence threaten democracies
The stability of democracies worldwide could be vulnerable if certain cultural values continue to decline, according to a new study published in Nature Human Behaviour . The findings by researchers from the United States and New Zealand are based on…
Researchers discover new way to split and sum photons with silicon
A team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Riverside have found a way to produce a long-hypothesized phenomenon–the transfer of energy between silicon and organic, carbon-based molecules–in a breakthrough that has implications…
Unexpected viral behavior linked to type 1 diabetes in high-risk children
A TEDDY study led by the University of South Florida has discovered unexpected connections between viruses and T1D
Molecular vibrations lead to high performance laser
Breakthrough method has implications for enhanced performance of lasers for communications, diagnostics and defense