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UrduThe study, led by Ecoss director Bruce Hungate and co-authored by many other NAU researchers, found that these predatory bacteria, which eat other bacteria, play an outsized role in how elements are stored in or released from soil.
Month: April 2021
New optical hydrogen sensors eliminate risk of sparking
A new study published in Nature Communications documents an inexpensive, spark-free, optical-based hydrogen sensor that is more sensitive — and faster — than previous models.
Molecular biologists travel back in time 3 billion years
A research group working at Uppsala University has succeeded in studying ‘translation factors’ – important components of a cell’s protein synthesis machinery – that are several billion years old.
Menthol Cigarettes Banned: FDA Takes Bold Action to Save Lives
(April 29, 2021) NY, NY – In a historic move, the Biden Administration announced today its decision to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars. The decision comes after a protracted battle in the courts in which the tobacco industry’s aggressive marketing of menthol cigarettes was challenged by medical and public health organizations, including the American Thoracic Society.
The new study of emerging materials helping in detection of COVID-19
The SARS-CoV-2 virus is still causing a dramatic loss of human lives worldwide, constituting an unprecedented challenge for society, public health, and economy, to overcome.
Partially sighted may be at higher risk of dementia
Older people with vision loss are significantly more likely to suffer mild cognitive impairment, which can be a precursor to dementia, according to a new study published in the journal Ageing Clinical and Experimental Research.
Hubble Watches How a Giant Planet Grows
Researchers using Hubble directly measured the mass growth rate of PDS 70b for the first time by using the observatory’s unique ultraviolet sensitivities to capture radiation from extremely hot gas falling onto the planet.
33 UAH inventors receive award plaques for 21 patents at virtual ceremony
Thirty-three inventors from two colleges, six departments and three research centers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, received award plaques for 21 patents at a virtual ceremony on Friday, April 16.
Quality Improvement Project Boosts Depression Screening Among Cancer Patients
DALLAS – April 28, 2021 – Depression screening among cancer patients improved by 40 percent to cover more than 90 percent of patients under a quality improvement program launched by a multidisciplinary team at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Southwestern Health Resources.
UTIMCO makes Multi-Million Dollar Investment to Texas Business Schools
The University of Texas/Texas A&M Investment Management Company (UTIMCO) has agreed to invest $15 million to the Texas McCombs Longhorn Fund, now called “Texas McCombs Investment Advisers, LLC,” and The Reveille Fund at Texas A&M Mays Business School.
Blueprint for a robust quantum future
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Chicago and scientific organizations in Japan, Korea and Hungary have established an invaluable resource for those looking to discover new quantum systems.
Wills Eye Physicians and Alumnae Named to Inaugural Power List of World’s Top 100 Women in Ophthalmology
Ten remarkable women who are Wills Eye Hospital faculty physicians and Wills Eye alumnae have been named to the Inaugural all-women Power List, published by The Ophthalmologist.
Science Snapshots From Berkeley Lab
Science Snapshots From Berkeley Lab – Water purification, infant-warming device, cuff-based heart disease monitor, ancient magnetic fields
TELL “SKIN CANCER, TAKE A HIKE!™” DURING STEPS CHALLENGE FOR SKIN CANCER AWARNESS MONTH
Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States, affecting one in five Americans during their lifetime. To help raise awareness of skin cancer prevention and detection, the American Academy of Dermatology will host Skin Cancer, Take a Hike!™, a month-long steps challenge, beginning Sat., May 1 in recognition of Skin Cancer Awareness Month. The participant-driven fundraising event — part of the AAD’s SPOT Skin Cancer™ campaign to create a world without skin cancer — aims to log 9,500 miles across the country in honor of the approximately 9,500 people who are diagnosed with skin cancer every day.
WVU student selected to present research to U.S. Congress
A biology student’s neuroscience research on zebrafish took her to Capitol Hill this week – virtually. Abreanne Andlinger is among 60 students selected nationally by the Council on Undergraduate Research to participate in Posters on the Hill April 27-28.
Many Hispanics died of COVID-19 because of work exposure
Hispanic Americans have died of COVID-19 at a disproportionately high rate compared to whites because of workplace exposure to the virus, a new study suggests.
Wolters Kluwer and American Physical Therapy Association now offer The Journal of Aquatic Physical Therapy online
Wolters Kluwer, Heath, in collaboration with the Academy of Aquatic Physical Therapy of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), will publish The Journal of Aquatic Physical Therapy beginning with the online publication of the January/April 2021 issue. JAPT is the ninth APTA journal added to the Lippincott portfolio.
Wolters Kluwer and American Physical Therapy Association now offer The Journal of Aquatic Physical Therapy online
Wolters Kluwer, Heath, in collaboration with the Academy of Aquatic Physical Therapy of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), will publish The Journal of Aquatic Physical Therapy beginning with the online publication of the January/April 2021 issue. JAPT is the ninth APTA journal added to the Lippincott portfolio.
MD Anderson advances data collaboration through technology agreement with Syntropy
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center today announced efforts to advance its capabilities to seamlessly connect basic science, translational and clinical research data for the benefit of patients through a technology collaboration with Syntropy and the Foundry platform.
Adulting 101 Course Helps Teens Transition to a Successful Future
The University of Kentucky is offering a web-based course this summer to help students hone important life skills to make the transition to adulthood easier.
Adulting 101 is an eight-week summer course beginning on June 15 and meeting every Tuesday through Zoom. Organized by the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment and the UK Cooperative Extension Service, the course is open to teenagers nationwide, no matter their goals. Adulting 101 originated as a county-based family and consumer sciences extension program piloted in Central Kentucky.
Six facts women need to know about giving birth during the COVID-19 pandemic
Giving birth is stressful enough. Adding a pandemic to the mix has only increased anxiety among today’s moms-to-be.
Dendrobium Signatum and Egg Magnolia – Ultimate Extracts for Skincare. Chula Researchers Champion Thai Herbs to Revive the Thai Economy
Chula Faculty of Science has found new antioxidant and anti-inflammatory substances from Dendrobium signatum and Egg Magnolia extracts and aims to expand on its economic potential as a natural beauty product.
Publication reveals essential ingredients of the NIH RADx groundbreaking national diagnostics effort
One-year into implementation of the NIH RADx initiative, the IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology has dedicated a special issue to exploring the innovative structure and operation of the RADx Tech program.
Globus Helps Preserve Precious Astronomy Data from the Arecibo Observatory
Within weeks of Arecibo’s collapse, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) entered into an agreement with the University of Central Florida (UCF), the Engagement and Performance Operations Center (EPOC), the Arecibo Observatory, the Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence Pilot (CICoE Pilot), and Globus at the University of Chicago. Together, they’re moving the Arecibo radio telescope data to TACC’s Ranch, a long-term data mass storage system.
Ultra-high field MRI detects subtle differences in structure and function of brain’s ‘hippocampus’ in people with Down syndrome
Using ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to map the brains of people with Down syndrome (DS), researchers from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals and other institutions detected subtle differences in the structure and function of the hippocampus—a region of the brain tied to memory and learning.
Public health experts hit the road to address barriers to vaccination for children in Texas
Every year the World Health Organization recognizes the last week of April as World Immunization Week – a time to celebrate the millions of lives saved and the eradication of multiple diseases because of vaccines. However, access to vaccines is still a barrier for many children in our community, so public health experts with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) are hitting the ground to bring lifesaving immunizations directly to them.
Heavy charge against water germs
Removing pathogens from drinking water is especially difficult when the germs are too tiny to be caught by conventional filters. Researchers at Empa and Eawag are developing new materials and processes to free water from pathogenic microorganisms such as viruses.
WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE GREEN BRONX MACHINE AND STEPHEN RITZ? APRIL AND MAY 2021 SIGHTINGS
From creating and starring in segments for public television’s Let’s Learn children’s series to celebrating National Nutrition Month and Earth Day to preparing for outdoor growing season at its various urban farms, one thing is for sure: Green Bronx Machine (GBM) and its founder Stephen Ritz have been and will be extra busy tending to their communities, people and gardens.
Chicago Medicine receives 19th A grade for hospital safety
UChicago Medicine earned its 19th consecutive ‘A’ grade in patient safety from industry watchdog The Leapfrog Group, garnering top marks despite the challenges faced by healthcare institutions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Widespread Amazonian depopulation and reforestation before Europeans’ arrival
Fossil pollen records from across the Amazon basin suggest that depopulation and resulting forest regrowth in Amazonia began centuries before European arrival and did not contribute to the observed decline in atmospheric carbon dioxide during the 17th century, according to…
Risks of restoring the ancestral microbiota in industrialized populations
“Rewilding” the modern, industrialized human gut microbiota to improve health without careful consideration of microbial evolution could be risky, argue Rachel Carmody and colleagues in a Perspective. The human gut microbiota has co-evolved with humans over millions of years. However,…
Lightning flashes increase Earth’s atmosphere’s cleansing capacity, airborne study shows
Hydroxyl radicals – chemical species crucial to the atmosphere’s self-cleaning ability – are directly produced by lightning, and in quantities far greater than expected, according to a new study. The analysis also reveals a previously unknown mechanism that may be…
Geisinger awarded $3.6 million to study genetics of cancer
Contract with National Cancer Institute will leverage data from Geisinger’s MyCode Community Health Initiative
Global glacier retreat has accelerated
New study analyses roughly 220,000 glaciers
Risk factors for a severe course of COVID-19 in people with diabetes
People with diabetes are at increased risk of developing a severe course of COVID-19 compared to people without diabetes. The question to be answered is whether all people with diabetes have an increased risk of severe COVID-19, or whether specific…
Blueprint for a robust quantum future
Claiming that something has a defect normally suggests an undesirable feature. That’s not the case in solid-state systems, such as the semiconductors at the heart of modern classical electronic devices. They work because of defects introduced into the rigidly ordered…
Ultra-high field MRI detects differences in brain’s ‘hippocampus’
CLEVELAND–Using ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to map the brains of people with Down syndrome (DS), researchers from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals and other institutions detected subtle differences in the structure and function of the…
New cell atlas of COVID lungs reveals why SARS-CoV-2 is deadly and different
NEW YORK, NY (April 29, 2021)–A new study is drawing the most detailed picture yet of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the lung, revealing mechanisms that result in lethal COVID-19, and may explain long-term complications and show how COVID-19 differs from other…
Inflammation and inflammatory markers of head and neck tumor
‘Head and Neck Cancer: Hallmarks of The Inflammation Ecosystem’ aims to highlight the significant roles of inflammation in head and neck malignancy. This entails the screening, diagnosis, treatment as well as follow-up schemes of head and neck cancer patients. Now,…
Fish have been swallowing microplastics since the 1950s
Museum collections reveal the history of mic
City of Hope opens Phase 2 trial to test if mushroom tablets could slow prostate cancer
Scientists investigate if City of Hope’s natural supplement derived from white button mushroom could lower prostate-specific antigen levels, an indicator of prostate cancer
If slightly high blood pressure doesn’t respond to lifestyle change, medication can help
American Heart Association Scientific Statement
Shorter headed dogs, visually cooperative breeds, younger and playful dogs form eye contact faster
According to new research by Hungarian ethologists, at least four independent traits affect dogs’ ability to establish eye contact with humans
Denmark’s largest battery – one step closer to storing green power in stones
The concept of storing renewable energy in stones has come one step closer to realisation with the construction of the GridScale demonstration plant. The plant will be the largest electricity storage facility in Denmark, with a capacity of 10 MWh.
Brigham earns another ‘A’ for patient safety in Spring 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade
Brigham and Women’s Hospital celebrates its seventh ‘A’ grade since the fall of 2017
Prenatal exposure to pesticides increases the risk of obesity in adolescence
First study to analyse the long-term effects of persistent organic pollutants on cardiometabolic risk in adolescents
Unlocking herbaria biodiversity using a QR code sampling-to-sequencing workflow
Within the past decade, next-generation sequencing technologies have revolutionized the way in which genetic data are generated and analyzed. In the field of phylogenetics, this has meant that researchers are rapidly reconstructing the tree of life, a goal that biologists…
Well-digging horses and donkeys engineer water availability for desert species
Horses and donkeys dig wells in dryland ecosystems, increasing water availability – and sometimes providing the only water available locally – for a wide variety of plant and animal species and ecosystem processes, researchers report. This overlooked form of ecosystem…
Premier human-computer interaction conference returns in virtual format
ACM CHI showcases tomorrow’s technologies
Reporters invited: 2021 APS Virtual Convention
Many of the world’s leading psychological scientists and educators will explore the latest discoveries and discuss emerging societal concerns at the Association for Psychological Science (APS) 2021 Virtual Convention, 26-27 May. Research presented at this online meeting will touch on…