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Test measures immune response to improve ovarian cancer diagnosis
Simple blood test could be an important new diagnostic tool for assessing suspicious ovarian growths
Parents from lower-income families less likely to say child’s water supply is safe
Nearly a quarter of parents in national poll aren’t confident in the safety of their home tap water; income disparities linked to perceptions of safe drinking water
How learning about fish can help us save the Amazon rainforest
High fish diversity is a good indicator of forest health
Study identifies states with highest rates of melanoma due to ultraviolet radiation
Several landlocked states among those with highest rates
A real global player: Previously unrecognised bacteria as a key group in marine sediments
Woeseiales-bacteria, which may be feeding on the protein remnants of dead cells. are particularly widespread in our planet’s seabed.
How many gender subtypes exist in the brain?
New machine learning study suggest the presence of at least nine gender “expressions”
Bacteria get free lunch with butterflies and dragonflies
Disrupting butterfly caterpillar microbiomes does not impact their survival and development
Vaccine misinformation and social media
People exposed to vaccine content on social media more likely misinformed than those exposed to it on traditional media
Cutting off kidney cancer at its roots
Scientists at the MDC have discovered stem cells responsible for the most common form of kidney cancer. The team of Walter Birchmeier has found a way to block the growth of these tumors in three models of the disease. Not…
Seeding oceans with iron may not impact climate change
Study finds Earth’s oceans contain just the right amount of iron; adding more may not improve their ability to absorb carbon dioxide
Charity care provided by nonprofit hospitals
What The Study Did: Researchers looked at the net income of nonprofit hospitals in the U.S. and examined how their financial status was associated with the level of charity care they provided in 2017 for uninsured and insured patients. To…
Recommended diuretic causes more side effects than similar hypertension drug
Chlorthalidone, the guideline-recommended diuretic for lowering blood pressure, causes more serious side effects than hydrochlorothiazide, a similarly effective diuretic, according to a new study led by researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. The findings, published in JAMA Internal Medicine…
Zooming in on breast cancer reveals how mutations shape the tumour landscape
Scientists have created one of the most detailed maps of breast cancer ever achieved, revealing how genetic changes shape the physical tumour landscape, according to research funded by Cancer Research UK and published in Nature Cancer today (Monday). An international…
Gene therapy can protect against ALS and SMA-related cell death
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the University of Milan in Italy have identified a gene in human neurons that protects against the degeneration of motor neurons in the deadly diseases ALS and SMA. Gene therapy in animal models…
Study investigates rates of adverse events for common rheumatoid arthritis drug
Use of low-dose methotrexate was tied to increased risk for skin cancer and gastrointestinal, lung and blood side effects
Low-dose methotrexate associated with small increase in some adverse events
Embargoed news from Annals of Internal Medicine
Trust your gut on plant-based diets for heart health
Adhering to a gut-healthy plant-based diet over animal products may counteract unfavorable microbes known to increase heart disease risk
Tumor of the touch cells: A first-of-its-kind study in India
Merkel cell polyomavirus is implicated in a subset of Merkel cell carcinomas, in the Indian subcontinent
New artificial neural network model bests MaxEnt in inverse problem example
New artificial neural network model may serve as a basis for solving inverse problems
The functional diversity in a noxious heat and chemical sensor among mosquito species
Researchers in the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Japan discovered functional differences in TRPA1 which serves as a receptor for noxious heat and chemicals among mosquito species
Organic-cation intercalation: An effective strategy for manipulating band topology and superconductivity
In the recent article published in Science Bulletin , the researchers develop an effective organic-cation intercalation strategy to manipulate the interlayer coupling of layered materials, and obtain a class of organic-inorganic hybrid crystals with tailored topological properties and enhanced superconductivities.…
Genes from scratch — far more common and important than we thought
Scientists from Trinity College Dublin and the University of Pittsburgh have discovered that de novo genes – genes that have evolved from scratch – are both more common and more important than previously believed. Their findings appear in two studies,…
New catalyst recycles greenhouse gases into fuel and hydrogen gas
Scientists have taken a major step toward a circular carbon economy by developing a long-lasting, economical catalyst that recycles greenhouse gases into ingredients that can be used in fuel, hydrogen gas, and other chemicals. The results could be revolutionary in…
Visualizing diffusive dynamics beyond tracking limit with standard optical microscope
Evaluating the spatio-temporal distribution of diffusion coefficients for high-concentration Brownian particles without fluorescent labeling nor tracking them from microscopy movie data analysis based on the statistical physics
Antioxidant in mushrooms may relieve features of ‘pregnancy hypertension’
Pregnancy hypertension, or Pre-eclampsia, is a complex disorder of pregnancy. Treatment of elevated blood pressure can manage the condition in the mother, but in severe cases delivery is needed, which can present a major problem to the baby if it…
Towards a sustainable future — Novel technology to measure energy conversion efficiency
Scientists formulate a new innovation that can measure thermal energy to understand more about the processes of energy-converting systems like leaves during photosynthesis
In acoustic waves, engineers break reciprocity with ‘spacetime-varying metamaterials’
The NSF-sponsored research could have implications in communications, medicine and other fields
Light moves spins around
Combining experiment and theory, researchers from the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) and the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics have disentangled how laser pulses can manipulate magnetization via ultrafast transfer of electrons between…
Heavy backpack? Good for you
Rice study suggests public school students have healthier core strength than home-schoolers
Heated tobacco devices making inroads among young adults, study finds
Products are the latest to get a push from the tobacco industry
Hippocampal avoidance during WBRT reduces risks on NRG Oncology trial
NRG Oncology trial shows hippocampal avoidance during whole-brain radiotherapy for brain metastases reduces risks of cognitive toxicity and neurologic symptoms
Do the climate effects of air pollution impact the global economy?
Aerosol emissions are dangerous to human health, but by cooling the Earth, they also diminish global economic inequality
How countries respond to weather change
A two degree Centigrade increase in global average temperature will lead to catastrophic consequences for the planet. Humanity has a maximum of 20 to 30 years to prevent this. Having studied the impact of warming on countries in Central and…
Neuroscience opens the black box of artificial intelligence
Computer scientists use brain research methods for a better understanding of AI
‘Birth Settings’ report explores medical disparities of childbirth in the US
CORVALLIS, Ore. – A report released earlier this month dives deep into the ongoing inequities surrounding childbirth in the U.S., with Oregon emerging as a leading example of how to do better. Oregon State University associate professor Missy Cheyney, a…
Fifteen years & 20 million insects: Sweden documents its insect fauna in a changing world
The Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) was launched in 2003 with the aim of making a complete list of the insect diversity of Sweden. Over the past fifteen years, an estimated total of 20 million insects, collected during the project,…
Pancreatic cancer ‘time machine’ exposes plot twist in cell growth and invasion
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Pancreatic cancer has one of the worst survival rates among cancers. Patients can expect as low as a 9% chance to live for at least five years after being diagnosed. Going back in time to observe…
LTE vulnerability: Attackers can impersonate other mobile phone users
They can thus start a subscription at the expense of others or publish secret company documents under someone else’s identity
New technique allows scientists to ‘listen in’ on cancer cells
Scientists have a developed a new technique to decipher how millions of individual cells are communicating with each other in miniature tumours grown in the lab, known as organoids, according to new research published in Nature Methods today (Monday). This…
Saliva can be used to predict excess body fat in teenagers
Brazilian researchers found the level of uric acid in saliva to be a good indicator of body fat percentage in a study designed to identify reliable biomarkers that can be used to develop quick noninvasive tests for early detection of chronic diseases
Testing during studying improves memory and inference
Learning by testing yourself improves your ability to make inferences about the subject matter as compared to rote restudy.
Potato plants at highest risk of potato virus Y infection during first three weeks
Potato virus Y is the most economically important and devastating aphid-transmitted virus, affecting both tuber yield and quality. The virus is also a major cause of seed potato degeneration, which leads to regular flushing out of seed potatoes after limited…
Warming, acidic oceans may nearly eliminate coral reef habitats by 2100
SAN DIEGO–Rising sea surface temperatures and acidic waters could eliminate nearly all existing coral reef habitats by 2100, suggesting restoration projects in these areas will likely meet serious challenges, according to new research presented here today at the Ocean Sciences…
NUS researchers identify novel protein to prevent neuropathy from chemotherapy
Discovery holds potential for treatment of other forms of neuropathy, such as those caused by nerve injury, autoimmune disease, or diabetes
Verifying forecasts for major stratospheric sudden warmings
A stratospheric sudden warming is perhaps one of the most radical changes of weather that is observed on our planet. As numerical weather prediction models have improved, including better representation of the stratosphere, an extensive amount of studies have been…
Earth’s glacial cycles enhanced by Antarctic sea-ice
During past glacial periods the earth was about 6ºC colder and the Northern hemisphere continents were covered by ice sheets up to 4 kilometers thick. However, the earth would not have been so cold, nor the ice sheets so immense,…
BPA substitute and endocrine disruption
A substitute for the commonly used plasticizing chemical bisphenol A (BPA) shows similar endocrine disruption effects upon developmental exposure in mice, according to a study. As the interface between mother and fetus, the placenta is sensitive to endocrine-disrupting substances such…
Controlling the messenger with blue light
A new optogenetic tool to manipulate target messenger RNA in living cells
The (un)usual suspect — novel coronavirus identified
A recent study identifies the novel coronavirus responsible for the pneumonia epidemic in the Hubei province of China — the bat-origin virus is related to other known pathogenic coronaviruses