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UrduThe Arctic region is heating up faster than any other place on Earth, and as more and more sea ice is lost every year, we are already feeling the impacts. IIASA researchers explored strategies for cooling down the oceans in a world without this important cooling mechanism.
Author: sarah Jonas
Researchers say 30% of patients taking opioids experience adverse drug interactions
Complications often go undetected but can contribute to misuse and overdose, according to The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association
ASTRO issues new guideline on radiation therapy for basal, squamous cell skin cancers
Recommendations define how and when radiation therapy should be used to treat the most common types of skin cancer
Oxygen shaped the evolution of the eye
Convergent origins of new mechanisms to supply oxygen to the retina were directly linked to concurrent enhancements in the functional anatomy of the eye.
TV watching is the lifestyle habit most strongly associated with obesity in children
ISGlobal team studies the role of five different lifestyle habits in the development of childhood overweight and obesity
Improvements needed for hepatitis C testing in youth
BOSTON – A new study led by Boston Medical Center uncovered a need to improve testing rates for Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) in young people, specifically those with documented substance use history. In the national data sample, under 30 percent…
New grant will fund clinical trial of a novel approach to treating Alzheimer’s
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — With a new grant from the Alzheimer’s Association, a team of researchers from Brown University, Butler Hospital and the Miriam Hospital will conduct a phase-one clinical trial of a drug that could potentially provide a new avenue…
Deep learning helps tease out gene interactions
New method could help identify disease-related genes, pathways
Key to helping southern sea otter is in repopulating estuaries such as San Francisco Bay
California could more than triple its population of southern sea otters — and see the marine mammals removed from the endangered species list – by repopulating the largest estuary on the coast, the San Francisco Bay
No ‘clouded’ judgments: Geostationary satellite an alternative to monitor land surfaces
Researchers explain how a new meteorological satellite can be an option to monitor land surfaces and climate change
Smits wins Batchelor Prize
Alexander J Smits of Princeton University has been awarded the 2020 Batchelor Prize for seminal contributions to the understanding of the structure of wall turbulence
Self-driving microrobots
Most synthetic materials, including those in battery electrodes, polymer membranes, and catalysts, degrade over time because they don’t have internal repair mechanisms. If you could distribute autonomous microrobots within these materials, then you could use the microrobots to continuously make…
She uses mushroom enzyme and light to create green chemicals
By combining nature’s own reactions, Associate Professor Selin Kara from the Department of Engineering at Aarhus University aims to develop a fully green and sustainable production process for chemicals.
Insects’ drag-based flight mechanism could improve tiny flying robots
An experiment involving gluing a tiny thrip’s wing to a self-sensing microcantilever was confirmed using 3D computational fluid dynamics simulations
Communications device offers huge bandwidth potential
Researchers have painstakingly combined plasma, metal and dielectric materials into multifunctional, artificial crystals, which could pave the way to higher bandwidth wireless communications
Images of discovery
AIBS selects 2019 Faces of Biology Photo Contest winners
Lyme disease claim lines increased 117% from 2007 to 2018
FAIR Health study uncovers geographic, age and gender variation
Making robots more perceptive
Lehigh University’s Nader Motee is investigating ways to improve robots’ awareness and decision-making capabilities, with over $1M in grants from ONR and AFOSR
Clemson geneticists identify small molecules that are potential indicators for disease
CLEMSON, South Carolina – A critical question in medicine asks how individual variation in DNA can predict variation in health and disease. New research from the Clemson Center for Human Genetics identified hundreds of metabolites that might serve as intermediates to…
Stretchy and squeezy soft sensors one step closer thanks to new bonding method
Imperial College London bioengineers have found a way to create stretchy and squeezy soft sensing devices by bonding rubber to electrical components. Stretchy and squeezy soft sensors that can fit around body parts or squeezed in hands could be used…
Scientist awarded €2 million to investigate how the brain ‘learns on its feet’
You don’t usually notice it, but you are, in fact, continuously learning how to walk. It happens when you first step onto a slippery sidewalk in a pair of new shoes, or when you try to carry a tray full…
Brain patterns can predict speech of words and syllables
Neurons in the ‘hand knob’ area of the motor cortex become active during speech and could hold the key to restoring speech to people who have lost the ability
Muscle weakness after sepsis linked to mitochondrial dysfunction
New findings may explain why humans experience muscle weakness after sepsis recovery, and suggest the need for novel treatments to improve muscle health
ERC awards EUR 600 million to Europe’s top researchers
How will climate change shape the Earth’s surface? What are the long-term health effects of food additives? How can online tools change political advocacy and what does this mean for democracy? These are just some of the questions that researchers…
Immunotherapy drug improves outcomes for some children with relapsed leukemia
New findings from a clinical trial show that treatment with the immunotherapy drug blinatumomab is superior to standard chemotherapy for children and young adults with high- or intermediate-risk B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) that has relapsed. Those treated with blinatumomab…
High above the storm clouds, lightning powers gamma-ray flashes and ultraviolet ‘elves’
Using instruments onboard the International Space Station, researchers have observed millisecond pulses of gamma-rays produced by thunderstorms, clarifying the process by which these flashes are made, and discovering that they can produce an ultraviolet emission known as an “Elve.” The…
Was Earth’s oxygenation a gradual, not step-wise, process — driven by internal feedbacks?
The oxygenation of Earth’s surface – which transformed the planet into a habitable haven for all life as we know it – may have been the consequence of global biogeochemical feedbacks, rather than the product of discrete planetary-scale biological and…
Einstein receives $178 million in NIH funding in fiscal year 2019, largest annual total in institution’s history
December 10, 2019–BRONX, NY — Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine secured $178 million from the National Institutes of Health in federal fiscal year 2019, marking the largest annual total in the institution’s history (excluding supplemental stimulus funding distributed…
AGA releases guideline on management of gastric intestinal metaplasia
Bethesda, MD (Dec. 6, 2019) — Gastric intestinal metaplasia (GIM), which is linked to non-cardia gastric cancer, is often detected during routine endoscopy, leading to questions about how patient care should be managed. A new clinical guideline1 from the American…
Mineral building traditions in the Himalayas
The mineralogical impact on the use of clay as building material
Gut feeling: A network approach towards understanding IBD
Scientists establish a pipeline that can be used to explore causes of IBD
Silver improves the efficiency of monograin layer solar cells
As a result of their two-year joint project, the materials researchers of Tallinn University of Technology have improved the efficiency of next generation solar cells by partial substitution of copper with silver in absorber material. Economic development and the general…
What blocks bird flu in human cells?
Normally, bird flu viruses do not spread easily from person to person. But if this does happen, it could trigger a pandemic. Researchers from the MDC and RKI have now explained in the journal Nature Communications what makes the leap…
Drug combination shows promise in preclinical models of triple negative breast cancer
Hollings Cancer Center researchers explore how to help the 60 percent of patients with TNBC who do not respond well to more traditional treatments
Smoking cessation treatment targets adolescents
Researchers at MUSC seek smoking cessation treatments designed for adolescents rather than merely adapted from adults
First Nobel Prize Summit to be held in Washington, D.C., April 29-May 1, 2020
The first-ever Nobel Prize Summit, Our Planet, Our Future, will bring together Nobel Laureates and other world-renowned experts and leaders to advance new insights into global sustainable development
Scientists discover a novel method to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria
A team of scientists from the Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), and the Unilever R&D department in Bangalore, have found a way to stimulate skin cells to secrete naturally occurring antibiotics called Antimicrobial Peptid
Fresh red blood cell transfusions do not help critically ill children more than older cells
NIH-funded finding may alter policies at hospitals where fresh red cells are preferentially used
Labelling foods with physical activity needed to burn calories linked to healthier choices
May be worth trying as little evidence that current system is curbing obesity, say researchers
Planning for future care may be linked to longer survival in terminally ill patients
Effects strongest among those with diseases other than cancer, exploratory findings show
Invest in pollinator monitoring for long-term gain
New research shows that for every £1 invested in pollinator monitoring schemes, at least £1.50 can be saved, from otherwise costly independent research projects
Multi-species grassland mixtures increase yield stability, even under drought conditions
The benefits of multispecies mixtures were so strong that yields from a mixture of four species under drought conditions matched or exceeded yields for monocultures under normal rainfall conditions. The four species tested were agriculturally important and used for grazing…
School citizen science project dramatically improves children’s knowledge of UK mammals
Participation in citizen science camera trap project dramatically increased school children’s knowledge of UK mammals
Report discusses potential role of coffee in reducing risk of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
Research suggests that a lifelong regular intake of coffee may have protective effect related to cognitive decline and neurodegenerative conditions1-3
Multiplication and division of the orbital angular momentum of light
Optical beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have attracted a growing attention during the last decades, exhibiting disruptive applications in a wide range of fields: particle trapping and tweezing, high-resolution microscopy, astronomical coronagraphy, high-capacity telecommunication and security. Light beams carrying…
Research sheds important light on the metastasis of neuroblastoma
The findings, published in British Journal of Cancer, were discovered by Professor Maria Kavallaris and her team could potentially lead to new treatment
How are Utah’s dry lakes impacting air quality and human health?
New study reveals that 90 percent of urban dust comes from dry lakebeds
Castration of men was based on knowledge of the female body
Many men know that benign prostate enlargement can affect their quality of life. The prostate, normally the size of a walnut, can swell up, causing pain and a need to urinate frequently. Today there is a range of treatment methods,…
LSU Health discovers role of 2 proteins in sight and preventing blinding eye diseases
New Orleans, LA – Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, Ph.D., Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has discovered unique patterns of genetic activity that may lead to…
New Orleans to host cutting-edge linguistic research in January
(Washington, DC) – Research presentations on topics as diverse as whether climate affects the sounds in your language, what TM means in texting language and why, and whether black American court transcribers are better at transcribing Black English, are among…