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Month: October 2022
Different people interpret facial impressions very differently, study reveals
Researchers used an algorithm to allow people to refine what they thought the facial expression of a particular emotion should look like.
Use of DNA biomarkers for detecting early-stage HPV-positive oropharynx cancers has limitations
Oropharynx cancers caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) have risen dramatically over the years, superseding tobacco use and heavy drinking as the primary driver of new cases.
Meteorite impacts on the surface of Mars provide new details of the planet’s crust
Data from two meteorite impacts on Mars recorded by NASA’s InSight spacecraft provide new insights into the structure of the Martian crust.
Efficient nanovaccine delivery system boosts cellular immunity
Cancer immunotherapies, such as immune checkpoint inhibition therapy, have been attracting attention in recent years as new methods for treating cancer.
A new protocol for light-sheet live imaging of C. elegans adults emerges from woods hole embryology course
The beauty of live-imaging studies is the specimen is alive, allowing dynamics such as cell division and embryonic development to be recorded over time.
Transistors help identify cancer cell markers
Having biopsies taken and endless tests run is nobody’s idea of a good time, even if it’s necessary for monitoring your health.
New catalyst can turn smelly hydrogen sulfide into a cash cow
Rice University engineers and scientists have created a sweet way for petrochemical refineries to turn a smelly byproduct into cash.
Efflux pump inhibitors: Bulking up to beat bacteria
The medical profession is in the midst of losing an arms race.
Just like humans, more intelligent jays have greater self-control
A study has found that Eurasian jays can pass a version of the ‘marshmallow test’ – and those with the greatest self-control also score the highest on intelligence tests.
Female Politicians Disadvantaged by Online Prejudices and Stereotypes
Studies of Reddit content demonstrate that female politicians are more likely to be referred to by their first names and language describing appearance and family relationships.
Breast Cancer Research Foundation Renews Support for Mount Sinai Research on Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) has renewed its funding to Elisa Port, MD, and Hanna Irie, MD, PhD, to study new therapeutic approaches that target aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. The latest installment of $225,000 brings the total to almost $2 million over the past nine years. It will fund research into the immune microenvironment of triple-negative breast cancer in order to identify new strategies to enhance cancer-fighting immune responses for this aggressive breast cancer, which traditionally has few options for treatment.
Stretchable Battery Packaging with Moisture and Gas Barrier Could Power the Future of Wearable Devices
Wearable devices have garnered attention for their potential as sensors that could monitor various biomarkers, a means of drug delivery, medical devices and more.
Cedars-Sinai Surgeon to Lead Breast Program at Huntington Hospital
Jeannie Shen, MD, a fellowship-trained breast surgeon who is board-certified in general surgery, has been appointed medical director of the Breast Program at Huntington Hospital, an affiliate of Cedars-Sinai, and medical director of the International Health Program at Cedars-Sinai Cancer at Huntington Hospital.
The American Association of Immunologists Announces 2022 Recipients of the Careers in Immunology Fellowships
The American Association of Immunologists, a FASEB member society, supports the career development of young scientists by providing eligible principal investigators with one year of salary support for a trainee in their labs.
Safety Net Program Shown Effective in Helping Low-Income Households Recover Their Livelihood Following Natural Disasters
An interventional social protection program called Program Keluarga Harapan (PKH) shows positive results in helping poor households develop proactive coping strategies before and during natural disasters, leading to social and economic resilience.
Safety Net Program Shown Effective in Helping Low-Income Households Recover Their Livelihood Following Natural Disasters
An interventional social protection program called Program Keluarga Harapan (PKH) shows positive results in helping poor households develop proactive coping strategies before and during natural disasters, leading to social and economic resilience.
NICU Babies Celebrate Their First Halloween as Disney Villains
In time for Halloween, Loyola University Medical Center neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nurses helped their tiny patients celebrate their first Halloween with handmade costumes. This sweet Halloween tradition started at Loyola more than 35 years ago.
Breast cancer drug benefits broader group of patients, trial shows
A drug approved to treat breast cancer patients with mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes may also benefit people who have other genetic mutations.
Luisella Lari Joins Brookhaven Lab as Electron-Ion Collider Project Manager
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory has named Luisella Lari as Project Manager for the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC)—a one-of-a-kind nuclear physics research facility that will offer a closer look at the building blocks of matter—effective Oct. 3, 2022.
Stealth-care system: Scientists test ‘smart’ red blood cells to deliver antibiotics that target specific bacteria
Physicists at McMaster University have identified a natural delivery system which can safely carry potent antibiotics throughout the body to selectively attack and kill bacteria by using red blood cells as a vehicle.
Low sense of personal control increases people’s affinity for tighter, rules-based culture
People who feel a lack of personal control in their lives are more likely to prefer a culture that imposes order, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. These “tighter” cultures, in turn, perpetuate their existence by reducing individuals’ sense of personal control and increasing their sense of collective control.
FAU Nurse-led Mobile Health Unit Will Bring ‘CARE’ Where It’s Needed Most
FAU researchers from the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing have received a four year, $3.9 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for a nurse-led mobile health unit to create healthier populations in rural and medically underserved regions.
Reprogramming of immune cells shown to fight off melanoma
A new way of reprogramming our immune cells to shrink or kill off cancer cells has been shown to work in the otherwise hard to treat and devastating skin cancer, melanoma.
How Do You Measure Success in Autism Clinical Trials?
Shafali Spurling Jeste, MD, shares early findings—and a critical challenge—from the Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials. How do you know if a treatment for autism is effective? That’s a question that has no easy answer—due in large part to the heterogeneous nature of autism spectrum disorder.
Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH, Named Director of Mount Sinai Heart
Will also serve as the first-ever Dr. Valentin Fuster Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
New onset chronic kidney disease in people with diabetes highest among ethnic, racial minorities
New onset chronic kidney disease (CKD) in people with diabetes is highest among racial and ethnic minority groups compared with white persons, a UCLA-Providence study finds. The study, published as a letter to the editor in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that new onset CKD rates were higher by approximately 60%, 40%, 33%, and 25% in the Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Hispanic/Latino populations, respectively, compared to white persons with diabetes.
SC’s New Associate Director for High Energy Physics
We are pleased to announce that Regina (Gina) Rameika will be joining the DOE’s Office of Science as the Associate Director for the Office of High Energy Physics on November 7, 2022.
Preventing drowning by improving beach safety signage
A new study by a University of Adelaide researcher has recommended improvements to beach safety signage, which could prevent drownings in the future.
NUS researchers devise revolutionary technique to generate hydrogen more efficiently from water
A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore have made a serendipitous scientific discovery that could potentially revolutionise the way water is broken down to release hydrogen gas – an element crucial to many industrial processes.
Oil Spill Effects on Mahi-mahi Go Far Beyond Initial Survival
New research into oil spills’ effects finds surviving the initial event does not guarantee success for the popular sport fish mahi-mahi (Coryphaena hippurus). Exposed fish faced temporary increased predation and did not spawn for the entire observation time.
Climate Change Negatively Affecting School Sharks
Preliminary research data suggest warmer temperatures and increased salt levels might have negative effects on the behavior and physiology of school sharks.
Food Security Harmed by Warming Ocean, Accelerating Fish Development
Higher temperatures spurred by worsening climate change increased the growth rate of fish and consumption of their yolk sac—a structure that provides an embryo with food and helps develop important structures, such as blood cells.
Climate Change Double Whammy Causes Unexpected Effects in Pacific Mussels
Comparative physiologists studied how two aspects of climate change—warming temperatures and increasingly acidic waters—may affect the ecologically important Pacific blue mussel (Mytilus trossulus), a foundational species in the intertidal environments of the northern Pacific Ocean.
Math Model Shows Climate Change Puts Rainforest Animal’s Survival in Jeopardy
A South American marsupial with ties to an ancient line of animals may go extinct in the next half-century due to warming temperatures. Researchers from the Universidad Austral de Chile will present a mathematical model of the monito del monte’s survival predictions this week at the American Physiological Society (APS) Intersociety Meeting in Comparative Physiology: From Organism to Omics in an Uncertain World conference in San Diego.
It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity: Water Loss Hurts Bees Most in the Desert
Digger bees lose large amounts of water during flight, which compromises their activity period and survival in the desert heat. Researchers from Arizona State University will present their work this week at the American Physiological Society (APS) Intersociety Meeting in Comparative Physiology: From Organism to Omics in an Uncertain World conference in San Diego.
“Boo”-tiful Babies Continue 25-Year Halloween Tradition at Cedars-Sinai
Once again this year, the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s celebrated Halloween with special hand-sewn costumes for the medical center’s smallest babies. The costumes are designed for babies as little as 2 pounds and are based on characters in famous children’s books.
Cedars-Sinai Awarded $8 Million to Launch New Stem Cell Clinic
Cedars-Sinai has been awarded a five-year, $8 million grant from California’s stem cell agency to launch an innovative new clinic that will expand patients’ access to stem cell and gene therapies, increase research and training in regenerative medicine, foster greater collaboration with eight similar clinics across the state and help educate the public about stem cell and related therapies.
Reward for cooperative behavior
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Plön show that reputation plays a key role in determining which rewarding policies people adopt. Using game theory, they explain why individuals learn to use rewards to specifically promote good behaviour.
Inverted dancers have more acute visuomotor perception
Previous studies have determined that astronauts can judge inverted movements better than people on Earth due to the astronauts’ unique visuomotor experience with inverted movements in space.
Discovering the unknown processes of the evolutionary history of green lizards in the Mediterranean
The evolutionary clade and biodiversity of green lizards of the genera Lacerta and Timon —reptiles common in the Mediterranean basin and surrounding areas of the European continent, North Africa and Asia— have never been studied in detail from the perspective of historical biogeography.
Study assesses symptom trajectories and outcomes in patients with kidney disease
● Among individuals with varying levels of chronic kidney disease who were not on dialysis, the prevalence of individual symptoms ranged from 24% (chest pain) to 83% (fatigue), and 98% of participants reported at least one symptom.
● Patients categorized as having a “Worse symptom score and worsening trajectory” of symptoms had higher risks of later needing dialysis and of dying before dialysis initiation.
Empathy for the pain of the conflicting group is altered across generations in the aftermath of a genocide
Feeling empathy for others is deeply engrained into our biology, as seeing another individual in pain triggers an empathic response in the brain of the observer, which allows us to understand and feel what other feels.
Defect in gene caused massive obesity in mice despite normal food intake
A faulty gene, rather than a faulty diet, may explain why some people gain excessive weight even when they don’t eat more than others, UT Southwestern researchers at the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense have discovered.
UA Little Rock Receives $150,000 NSA Grant to Host Cybersecurity Educational Program Across Arkansas
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has received a nearly $150,000 grant from the National Security Agency to hold a year’s worth of free cybersecurity educational events for junior high and high school students in Arkansas. UA Little Rock will partner with Philander Smith College to host the 2nd Arkansas GenCyber Strength Training camp in Arkansas, which will support the state’s long-term investment in secondary school cybersecurity education.
Study examines how well-timed cover crops can suppress weeds in California orchards
California’s commercial orchards are home to nearly 2.5 million acres of almonds, walnuts, stone fruit and similar crops.
Identity theft the secret of the cat parasite’s success
The parasite Toxoplasma is carried by a large portion of the global human population.
NASA laser project benefits animal researchers, UW scientists show
Scientists researching forest carnivores such as martens, foxes and coyotes spend hours clambering through rugged terrain, sometimes in deep snow, placing and baiting camera traps to learn about animals’ behavior in relation to their habitat.
Bobby Brooke Herrera Joins Rutgers Global Health Institute as Principal Faculty Member
Research scientist Bobby Brooke Herrera, renowned for developing tools to accelerate diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases such as COVID-19, has joined Rutgers Global Health Institute.
Short bursts of vigorous activity linked with increased longevity
Two minute bursts of vigorous activity totalling 15 minutes a week are associated with a reduced risk of death, according to research published today in European Heart Journal, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).1