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UrduPeople enjoy witnessing extraordinary individuals – from athletes to CEOs – extend long runs of dominance in their fields, a new study suggests. But they aren’t as interested in seeing similar streaks of success by teams or groups.
Month: August 2020
Hots Dogs, Chicken Wings and City Living Helped Wetland Wood Storks Thrive
Using the Wood Stork, researchers compared city storks with natural wetland storks to gauge their success in urban environments based on their diet and food opportunities. Results provide evidence of how a wetland species persists and even thrives in an urban environment by switching to human foods like chicken wings and hots dogs when natural marshes are in bad shape. These findings indicate that urban areas can buffer a species from the unpredictability of natural food sources.
Microgel Immuno-acceptance Method Could Improve Pancreatic Islet Transplant Success
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Missouri developed a new microgel drug delivery method that could extend the effectiveness of pancreatic islet transplantations — from several years to possibly the entire lifespan of a recipient.
MIPT scientists reveal secret of material for promising infrared cameras
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the RAS Institute for Theoretical and Applied Electromagnetics have discovered what makes vanadium dioxide films conduct electricity. Their findings will enable thermal imaging devices with a sensitivity and reaction rate superior to those of the currently existing analogues.
Searching for stress-resistant potatoes
Plant Biologist Markus Teige at the Faculty of Life Sciences of the University of Vienna has received a €5 million grant from the Horizon 2020 EU Program to study mechanisms how potato’s adapt to multiple environmental stresses. He coordinates a consortium of 17 European leading academic research institutions, potato breeders, a non-profit EU association, a government agency and a screening technology developer.
Meeting the Challenge: COVID-19 and Back to School
As back-to-school is right around the corner, parents may have questions about how COVID-19 impacts children, especially if your child or a loved one in your home is immunosuppressed due to treatment for cancer or other health conditions. An expert from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey addresses some of these concerns.
Asthma May Not Be a Significant Risk Factor for Severe COVID-19 or COVID-Related Intubation
A new research letter published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society examines whether asthma is a significant risk factor for developing COVID-19 that is severe enough to warrant hospitalization and intubation. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, individuals with asthma are at higher risk for hospitalization and other severe effects from COVID-19, similar to the elevated risk from such health conditions as obesity, hypertension and diabetes.
Lawrence Livermore, Texas A&M University and company share Federal Laboratory Consortium national tech transfer award
A shape memory foam material developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers is the foundation of a lifesaving medical device that has won a national technology transfer award.
NASA finds Typhoon Maysak moving near Okinawa, Japan
Typhoon Maysak continued to move through the Northwestern Pacific and was closing in on Japan’s Okinawa Island when NASA’s Terra satellite obtained a visible image of the storm. Maysak’s eye is not expected to go over the island, but pass…
Trial supports first specific treatment for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
EXPLORER-HCM trial presented in a Hot Line Session today at ESC Congress 2020
Serengeti leopard population densities healthy but vary seasonally, study finds
Camera-trap study yields insights into what drives leopard population density
Individual dolphin calls used to estimate population size and movement in the wild
Call of the wild: individual dolphin calls used to estimate population size and movement in the wild
UC study: Cancer, COVID-19 and blood clots
A UC researcher receives a grant to investigate how cancer treatments could impact patients who also have COVID-19
SGLT2 inhibitors can slow progression of chronic kidney disease
Two randomized controlled studies [1, 2] show: SGLT2 inhibitors can slow CKD progression in all patients, not only in patients with diabetes
Gout drug repurposed to fight heart disease
LoDoCo2 trial presented in a Hot Line Session today at ESC Congress 2020
Biocompatible TeSex nano-alloys for PT/PA/CT/PET imaging-guided NIR-II-photothermal therapy
Nanotheranostics, integrating diagnostic and therapeutic functions by nanoplatform, exhibits a great potential in precision and personalized medicine, and also raises the requirement on multifunctional nanomaterials in pursuit of both good biocompatibility and high theranostic performances. The emergence of diverse multifunctional…
EMPEROR-Reduced meets primary endpoint in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
EMPEROR-Reduced trial presented in a Hot Line Session today at ESC Congress 2020
Trial clarifies which patients with acute pulmonary embolism can be managed at home
HOME-PE trial presented in a Hot Line Session today at ESC Congress 2020
No link found between maternal flu vaccination during pregnancy and autism
Embargoed news from Annals of Internal Medicine
Early rhythm control therapy improves outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation
EAST-AFNET 4 trial presented in a Hot Line Session today at ESC Congress 2020
FEFU scientists are developing genetic methods to understand malignant tumors
Scientists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU University) get started studying the formation and survival mechanisms of the brain malignant tumors cells, i.e. glioma, to reveal new ways for diagnosis and therapy for this fatal disease. This research was supported…
DAPA-CKD trial meets primary endpoint in patients with chronic kidney disease
DAPA-CKD trial presented in a Hot Line Session today at ESC Congress 2020
Researchers begin safety study of dapivirine ring and oral PrEP in breastfeeding women
Similar study testing same HIV prevention methods in pregnant women already underway
Genomic analysis predicts survival benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy following radiotherapy over radiotherapy alone in low-grade gliomas in NRG Oncology clinical trial
A practice-changing study, NRG Oncology clinical trial NRG-RTOG 9802, has demonstrated, for the first time, a survival benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy following radiotherapy over radiotherapy alone in certain subgroups of patients with high-risk, low-grade glioma (WHO classification: LGG, grade II),…
New theory hints at more efficient way to develop quantum algorithms
Method to further understanding of the quantum state space
Nerve cells with energy saving program
Thanks to a metabolic adjustment, the cells can remain functional despite damage to the mitochondria
New EU-funded research project ‘HCA|Organoid’
Toward a single-cell atlas of human organoids for biomedical research
Nanomaterials based strategies for treatment of hypoxic tumor
Hypoxia is a typical characteristic of most tumors, owing to the fast consumption of oxygen by tumor tissue over the supply through malformed and abnormal tumor vasculature. Hypoxia in tumor tissue promotes the probability of tumor metastasis and endows hypoxia-tolerant…
Study finds insect shows promise as a good, sustainable food source
INDIANAPOLIS — With global food demands rising at an alarming rate, a study led by IUPUI scientists has found new evidence that a previously overlooked insect shows promise as alternative protein source: the yellow mealworm. The research is based upon…
Living in disadvantaged neighborhoods doubles post-op delirium risk for older adults
Where you live can increase your risk for experiencing delirium after surgery. So said a study that showed older adults who live in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods are two times more likely to experience delirium after surgery than their counterparts…
New hydrogels for T-cell growth to be used in cancer immunotherapy
This technology co-developed by CSIC scientists can mimic lymph nodes, where T-cells proliferate
People with less body response to stress task had more PTSD signs after COVID-19 began
Study findings surprised researchers, who had expected the reverse, Baylor University researcher says
Antibody blockade effective in treatment of severe COVID-19
A team of researchers led by Osaka University find an overlap in the pathogenesis of cytokine release syndrome and COVID-19, and show that the symptoms of both can be alleviated by IL-6 signaling blockade
USTC researchers design continuous-scanning sky brightness monitor in 2.5- to 5-μm band
A research group led by Prof. WANG Jian from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) proposed a continuous-scanning near-infrared sky brightness monitor (CNISBM). It can measure 2.5 to 5 μm…
Guam study advances research of cycads as an ecotoxin
Models for estimating seed age to add clarity to future research
Hots dogs, chicken wings and city living helped wetland wood storks thrive
Study of wetland birds finds city storks fared better than their non-urban counterparts in suboptimal natural conditions
Using AI to better assess structural health of bridges
UTA researcher combining machine learning, structural health monitoring for bridges
Can black hole fire up cold heart of the phoenix?
Radio astronomers have detected jets of hot gas blasted out by a black hole in the galaxy at the heart of the Phoenix Galaxy Cluster, located 5.9 billion light-years away in the constellation Phoenix. This is an important result for…
Common medicine used to treat gout found to prevent progression of coronary disease
International study published in New England Journal of Medicine by Perth researchers
Novel Dual CAR T cell immunotherapy holds promise for targeting the HIV reservoir
BOSTON- A recent study published in the journal Nature Medicine, led by researchers Todd Allen, PhD, a professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and group leader at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, and Jim Riley,…
True holographic movie is within grasp
Researchers produce dynamic holographic projection using ‘metasurface’ material
EFSJclimategrant and European Science Journalist of the Year winners to be announced at ECSJ2020
EFSJclimategrant and European Science Journalist of the Year winners to be announced at ECSJ2020 Trieste on the 1st of September
CU scientists create batteries that could make it easier to explore Mars
NASA-funded research recently reported in an American Chemical Society journal
People love winning streaks by individuals — teams, not so much
Personal achievements inspire awe, study finds
Study: Anonymized cell phone location data can help monitor COVID-19 growth rates
Findings support use of county-level cell phone location data as tool to estimate future trends of the COVID-19 pandemic
Study reveals best anti-clotting strategy after heart valve intervention
POPular TAVI trial presented in a Hot Line Session today at ESC Congress 2020
PARALLAX meets one primary endpoint in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
PARALLAX trial presented in a Hot Line Session today at ESC Congress 2020
Eating your vegetables is easier said than done
The landmark EAT-Lancet report on food in the Anthropocene sets ambitious targets; putting it into action, however, will require policymakers to make sustainable food systems a top-level priority; a new article charts a path forward
How weather affects crawfish harvests
The life cycle of a crawfish can be fairly straight forward. In the summer months, crawfish reproduce in underground mud burrows with a plug of mud on top of the burrow to protect them from predators. In late summer and…
Team’s flexible micro LEDs may reshape future of wearable technology
Novel devices can be folded, cut, attached to surfaces