Month: July 2022

New study on our connection to our voice contributes to better understanding of auditory hallucinations and could improve VR experiences.

Scientists identify gaps in the protection of Vietnam’s amphibians

As was highlighted in the foreword to the renowned WWF Greater Mekong Report 2021, written by Prof. Dr. Thomas Ziegler, Curator for Herpetology, Ichthyology, and Invertebrates, at Cologne Zoo (Köln, Germany), there is an urgent need for more studies that identify the gaps in species conservation.

Timing is everything for weed management

Farmers can tailor their efforts to control weeds more effectively by pinpointing when a particular weed will emerge, according to a new Cornell University study.

Inhalable COVID-19 Vaccine Shows Promise in Rodent Model

Researchers have created an inhalable COVID-19 vaccine that is shelf stable at room temperature for up to three months, targets the lungs specifically and effectively, and allows for self-administration via an inhaler.

Nanoparticle vaccine protects against a spectrum of COVID-19-causing variants and related viruses

A new type of vaccine provides protection against a variety of SARS-like betacoronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2 variants, in mice and monkeys, according to a study led by researchers in the laboratory of Caltech’s Pamela Bjorkman, the David Baltimore Professor of Biology and Bioengineering.

Babies learn power of voice through experimentation

A new study from Cornell University shows babies learn that their prelinguistic vocalizations – coos, grunts and vowel sounds – change the behaviors of other people, a key building block of communication.

Why natural gas is not a bridge technology

The study was headed by Professor Claudia Kemfert from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) and Leuphana University Lüneburg in collaboration with Franziska Hoffart from Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Fabian Präger from Technische Universität Berlin and Isabell Braunger and Hanna Brauers from the University of Flensburg.

Hereditary factors that increase the likelihood of cancer mutations detailed in new study

Mutations occur in various tissues and organs of an individual. Somatic mutations occur in cells that will not give rise to offspring and are therefore not passed on to subsequent generations.

UCI researcher leads study linking ALS to immune and central nervous systems

Along with the central nervous system, the immune system may play a fundamental role in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), suggesting that bone marrow transplants may be an effective novel treatment for the neurodegenerative disease, according to findings from a research team that included Albert LaSpada, MD, PhD, distinguished professor of pathology, neurology and biological chemistry at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine.

To Reduce Smoking Rates in Prisons, Cessation Programs Must Be Expanded and Extended

Rutgers researchers find that for programs in prison to effectively curb smoking, at least four weeks of direct intervention is required, followed by months of substance dependence group counseling.

A Rhythmic Small Intestinal Microbiome Prevents Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes

UC San Diego researchers found that in mice how much they ate and when altered the nature of their gut microbiome: too much food too frequently resulted in poorer microbial and metabolic health.

State awards $1.8 million to expand UCI’s in-prison B.A. program

Irvine, Calif., July 5, 2022 — The state of California, through an agreement between Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature, has allocated $1.8 million to expand the University of California, Irvine’s Leveraging Inspiring Futures Through Educational Degrees effort, the first in-prison B.A. program in the UC system. LIFTED enables incarcerated individuals at the Richard J.

Anorexia Linked to Significant Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes

Women diagnosed with the eating disorder anorexia nervosa are five (500%) times more likely on average to have underweight babies, according to a comprehensive new study.

JAAD ranks no. 1 among dermatology journals

The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology is the top peer-reviewed journal in its field, according to the 2021 journal impact factor rankings recently published by Clarivate’s Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Web of Science Group.

Some Pre-existing Mutant Strains of the Virus Causing COVID-19 May Resist Paxlovid

Doctors should reserve Paxlovid for the highest risk patients because if Paxlovid is widely used, it mostly will destroy the variants it can treat, says a Rutgers researcher.

Brain’s Response to Understanding Stories Changes as We Grow Up

The findings challenge the theory that perceptions of children are simply a noisier version of adult understanding, and suggest instead that children have their own unique way of understanding and interpreting the world.

Study Reveals Why Highly Infectious Cholera Variant Mysteriously Died Out

A new study reveals why a highly infectious variant of the cholera bug, which caused large disease outbreaks in the early 1990s, did not cause the eighth cholera pandemic as feared – but instead unexpectedly disappeared.

Motherhood After Breast Cancer Doesn’t Lower Survival Chances

Having a baby after breast cancer does not negatively impact a woman’s chance of surviving the disease.

Fourth-generation Vaping Devices Increase Risk to Immune Cells

Users of fourth-generation nicotine-salt-containing devices, such as Juul and disposable devices, display a unique mix of cellular biomarkers indicative of immune suppression.

Twenty-Nine Loyola Doctors Named Top Cancer Doctors by Chicago Magazine

Chicago magazine’s Top Cancer Doctors list for 2022 includes 29 Loyola Medicine physicians.

Neuroscientists to study effects of marijuana use during adolescence with $2M NIH grant

Over $2 million from the NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse will help neuroscientists in the IU Gill Center for Biomolecular Science research the impact of cannabis use during adolescence.

La formation conviviale des enseignants sur l’épilepsie trouve également un public bienvenu chez les parents, les neurologues

En Ontario, au Canada, un groupe de psychologues et de membres d’un organisme communautaire de soutien à l’épilepsie discutait depuis longtemps de la nécessité d’une éducation sur l’épilepsie pour les enseignants.

1930s ‘Redlining’ Connected to Poor Health Outcomes Today

July 5, 2022 sarah Jonasblog

A new study from UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute in Cleveland further proves that people living in areas that were subjected to housing discrimination decades ago now suffer from higher rates of poor health outcomes, including heart disease, kidney failure and diabetes.

ESF History Cast in Stone

College goes back to the original supplier for granite to maintain building’s history

AUI and NRAO Announce 2022 NAC Bridge Scholarship Recipients

Six NAC alums have accepted offers from outstanding graduate programs around the country. Each will receive a $5,000 AUI Board of Trustees NAC Bridge Scholarship Award, with AUI and NRAO’s congratulations and best wishes for a smooth start to an exciting new chapter of their lives.

Bring back the wolves – but not as heroes or villains

In a new finding that goes against current conservation paradigms, re-introducing wolves and other predators to our landscapes does not miraculously reduce deer populations, restore degraded ecosystems or significantly threaten livestock, according to a new study.

Rutgers Selected as Backup Center for New National 9-8-8 Mental Health Crisis Line

The Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care National Call Center has been selected to serve as one of 12 national backup centers that will triage overflow calls made to 9-8-8, a new national hotline for mental health crisis and suicide prevention that launches July 16.

Scientists discover cancer trigger that could spur targeted drug therapies

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have definitively linked the function of a specific domain of proteins important in plant-microbe biology to a cancer trigger in humans, knowledge that had eluded scientists for decades.

Discovery Reveals Large, Year-Round Ozone Hole Over Tropics

In AIP Advances, Qing-Bin Lu, a scientist from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, reveals a large, all-season ozone hole in the lower stratosphere over the tropics comparable in depth to that of the well-known springtime Antarctic hole, but roughly seven times greater in area. His observed data agree well with the cosmic-ray-driven electron reaction (CRE) model and strongly indicate the identical physical mechanism working for both Antarctic and tropical ozone holes.

COVID-19 vaccination activates antibodies targeting parts of virus spike protein shared between coronaviruses

Could the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine reawaken previous antibody responses and point the way to a universal coronavirus vaccine? A new analysis of the antibody response to a COVID-19 vaccine suggests the immune system’s history with other coronaviruses, including those behind the common cold, shapes the patient’s response, according to a recently published study published in Cell Reports.

AUI y NRAO publican lista de adjudicatarios de beca del NAC para 2022

AUI y el Observatorio Radioastronómico Nacional de Estados Unidos (NRAO, en su sigla en inglés) hoy publicó la lista de adjudicatarios de la beca NAC Bridge Scholarship Award de 2022 del Consejo de Administración de AUI.

Study Finds Higher Protein Intake Improves Diet Quality When Trying to Lose Weight

New study concludes that boosting protein intake while dieting improves the quality of what we eat and may slow loss of lean body mass.

The inventors may be long dead, but consumers still crave their essence

Consumers crave authenticity, but what makes something authentic? A new University of Iowa Tippie College of Business study finds it’s a product’s essence, an abstract, unobservable quality that makes a thing what it is in the consumer’s eye. The funny thing is, essence doesn’t exist.

Scientists Link the Changing Azores High and the Drying Iberian Region to Anthropogenic Climate Change

Projected changes in wintertime precipitation make agriculture in the Iberian region some of the most vulnerable in Europe, according to a new study that links the changes to increased anthropogenic greenhouse gases.

Age may rival politics in COVID-19 vaccine debate

New research from the University of Georgia suggests age and risk perception may have as much of an effect on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance as party affiliation.

NSU Research Scientist and Shark Expert Working on International Study of Silky Sharks

Tracking silky sharks has revealed them to be swift swimmers. But they’re also one of the most heavily fished sharks globally. Will expanded marine protection in the Tropical Eastern Pacific go far enough to protect these long-distance swimmers?

The futuristic South Pole Telescope looks far back in time

Designed to detect the oldest light in the universe, the South Pole Telescope is helping researchers at Argonne and around the world to learn about the beginnings of the universe.

South Asian Communities in GTA disproportionately hit by COVID-19

A COVID CommUNITY – South Asian study, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) Open has found that South Asian communities living in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) suffered disproportionately from COVID-19 in the first year of the pandemic.

Columbia University & CDC Partner With Zambian Scientists to Prevent Pandemics

Columbia University’s Global Alliance for Preventing Pandemics announces an agreement with the University of Zambia’s School of Veterinary Medicine and the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention to train Zambian public health professionals to better identify and contain pathogen outbreaks.

AERA Selects John B. Diamond to Deliver 2022 Brown Lecture in Education Research

John B. Diamond, professor of sociology and education policy in Brown University’s department of sociology and Annenberg Institute for School Reform, has been selected by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) to present the 2022 Brown Lecture in Education Research.

Lift Up Atlanta: LaundryCares Foundation Citywide Free Laundry and Literacy Day

July 5, 2022 sarah JonasResearch Tip Sheet

In partnership with Too Small To Fail, the early learning initiative of the Clinton Foundation, the LaundryCares Foundation will host five Free Laundry and Literacy events to coincide with the laundry industry trade show, The Clean Show. To be held Friday, July 29, 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., these coordinated events will celebrate the pairing of early learning in laundromat spaces as a way to widen and deepen community engagement and early learning.

Smartphone App to Assess Stool Form, Rural-Urban Disparities in Cirrhosis Mortality, Lung Infection Risk in Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis in July Issue of AJG

The July issue of The American Journal of Gastroenterology highlights new clinical science including using a smartphone app to assess stool form, rural-urban disparities in cirrhosis mortality, and lung infection risk in severe alcohol-related hepatitis. This issue also includes articles on pediatric IBD, therapy options for Crohn’s disease, a novel endoscopic suturing device, proton pump inhibitors, and more.

Lifestyle Changes are a Major Factor in Preventing Cancers

July 5, 2022 sarah JonasFeature Expert

Evelyn Fuertes, BA, NDTR, community outreach coordinator and member of the Cancer Health Equity Center of Excellence at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the state’s only National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, together with RWJBarnabas Health, works to educate communities and providers on cancer prevention.

Answers from an Expert: Sarcoma, the Forgotten Cancer

July 5, 2022 sarah JonasExpert Pitch

Adam C. Berger, MD, FACS, chief of Melanoma and Soft Tissue Surgical Oncology and associate director for Shared Resources at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey addresses common questions about sarcoma during sarcoma awareness month.

Researchers Suggest Continued Heart and Lung Monitoring after COVID-19 for People with Highly Physical Jobs

July 5, 2022 sarah JonasExpert Pitch

Article title: The effect of medium-term recovery status after COVID-19 illness on cardiopulmonary exercise capacity in a physically active adult population Authors: Peter Ladlow, Oliver O’Sullivan, Alexander N. Bennett, Robert Barker-Davies, Andrew Houston, Rebecca Chamley, Samantha May, Daniel Mills, Dominic…

Rutgers expert, author of “Abortion after Roe” available for comment on abortion decision

“Abortion is – and always has been – a key arena for contesting power relations between women and men. While the decriminalization of abortion made the procedure legal and safe and helped women to gain access to education and careers,…

Omicron Variant of COVID-19 Does Not Cause Long-term Vascular Damage in Vaccinated Young Adults

Article title: Impact of breakthrough COVID-19 cases during the Omicron wave on vascular health and cardiac autonomic function in young adults Authors: Rachel J. Skow, Damsara Nandadeva, Ann-Katrin Grotle, Brandi Y. Stephens, Alexis N. Wright Paul J. Fadel From the…

Metabolomic Profiles Differ in Children Born to People with and without Obesity

Article title: Metabolomic signatures of low- and high-adiposity neonates differ based on maternal BMI Authors: Begum Aydogan Mathyk, Brian D. Piccolo, Fernanda Alvarado, Kartik Shankar, Perrie O’Tierney-Ginn From the authors: “Using untargeted metabolomics in 100 newborns, we found that cord…

Study of Body Weight-associated Genes in Rats May Inform Regulation of Obesity in Humans