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UrduUnderstanding and predicting how molecules recognize each other are the key issues in the field of supramolecular chemistry and biology, etc., where the non-covalent bindings play an essential role. Among many types of non-covalent interactions, ion-π interactions, including both cation-π…
A spreadable interlayer could make solid state batteries more stable
Solid state batteries are of great interest to the electric vehicle industry. Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and Xi’an Jiaotong University, China now present a new way of taking this promising concept closer to large-scale application. An interlayer,…
Stanford researcher envisions energy and environment landscape after COVID-19
Study pinpoints where energy demand has dropped the most and estimates impact on annual emissions
Landmark recommendations on development of artificial intelligence and the future of global health
May 19, 2020 – A landmark review of the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the future of global health published in The Lancet calls on the global health community to establish guidelines for development and deployment of new technologies…
UMD researchers tap CRISPR technology to connect biology, electronics
In an effort to create first-of-kind microelectronic devices that connect with biological systems, University of Maryland (UMD) researchers are utilizing CRISPR technology in a novel way to electronically turn “on” and “off” several genes simultaneously. Their technique, published in Nature…
Navigating nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
Special issue of Gastroenterology serves as clinician’s roadmap to the rapidly changing developments in NAFLD treatment
Uncovering Alzheimer’s disease
MU researchers examine impact of menopause on cognitive function
Children not immune to coronavirus; new study from pandemic epicenter describes severe COVID-19 response in children
Largest single-center study to date compares kids who need intensive care with those who do not
SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests are useful for population-level assessments
But risky for predicting individual immunity
COVID-19 prevention trial opens for high-risk healthcare workers
The first gold standard Australian clinical trial to determine whether the drug hydroxychloroquine can prevent COVID-19 is now open.
But it’s a dry heat: Climate change and the aridification of North America
Discussions of drought often center on the lack of precipitation. But among climate scientists, the focus is shifting to include the growing role that warming temperatures are playing as potent drivers of greater aridity and drought intensification. Increasing aridity is…
COVID-19 antibody testing needn’t be perfect to guide public health and policy decisions
While it’s too soon to use COVID-19 antibody testing to issue “immunity passports”, antibody tests that are available today are good enough to inform decisions about public health and relaxing social distancing interventions, says an international group of infectious disease…
Rapid screening method targets fatty acids in yeast; Key to sustainable bioproducts
CABBI researchers at Illinois have developed a high-throughput screening tool, a chemical characterization approach based on MALDI-ToF MS
Partial measures compromise effectiveness of efforts to combat COVID-19
Tsukuba University study shows comprehensiveness is key to efficacy in COVID-19 prevention tactics
Faster breeding sea urchins: A comeback animal model for developmental biology
Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have created albino sea urchins using CRISPR and hope this species can bring the sea urchin back to the forefront of studies in developmental biology
Continuously tracking fear response could improve mental health treatment
UH researcher develops method to track arousal from sweat, heart rate together
Madagascar copal: New dating for an Antropocene ancient resin
This material is not a semi-fossilized resin
Sustainable palm oil? How environmental protection and poverty reduction can be reconciled
Scientists at the University of Göttingen analyse data on ecological, social and economic effects
Mount Sinai first in US using artificial intelligence to analyze COVID-19 patients
Mount Sinai researchers are the first in the country to use artificial intelligence (AI) combined with imaging, and clinical data to analyze patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19). They have developed a unique algorithm that can rapidly detect COVID-19 based on…
Nationwide survey about the corona pandemic
Researchers from the University of Freiburg, Stuttgart and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München conducted an online survey of more than 7,800 people in Germany from May 7-17, 2020 about their experiences and attitudes in the corona pandemic. The results are now being…
COVID-19 crisis causes 17% drop in global carbon emissions
The COVID-19 global lockdown has had an “extreme” effect on daily carbon emissions, but it is unlikely to last – according to a new analysis by an international team of scientists. The study published in the journal Nature Climate Change…
Immunotherapy, steroids had positive outcomes in children with COVID-related multi-system inflammatory syndrome
DALLAS, May 18, 2020 — Treatment with antibodies purified from donated blood – immune globulin therapy – and steroids restored heart function in the majority of children with COVID-related multi-system inflammatory syndrome, according to new research published yesterday in Circulation…
Animal study shows human brain cells repair damage in multiple sclerosis
A new study shows that when specific human brain cells are transplanted into animal models of multiple sclerosis and other white matter diseases, the cells repair damage and restore function. The study provides one of the final pieces of scientific…
Why pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is so lethal
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is a deadly cancer, killing patients within a year. CSHL Professor Christopher Vakoc and his former postdoc Timothy Somerville discovered how pancreatic cells lose their identity, acquire a deadly new identity, and recruit nearby cells to…
COVID-19 tests compared
COLD SPRING HARBOR, NEW YORK — In an important, comprehensive, and timely review, an expert team from the University of California Berkeley details the methodologies used in nucleic acid-based tests for detecting the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes…
Study suggests aggressive carbon taxation could help US meet targets in Paris agreement
Nearly all the countries of the world ratified the Paris Agreement in 2016. The accord aims to limit the increase of the world’s temperature to less than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures. To do this, global greenhouse gas emissions…
Women in criminal justice system less likely to receive treatment for opioid use
Pregnant women involved in the criminal justice system are disproportionately not receiving medications for opioid use disorder, as compared to their peers, according to a Vanderbilt-led study published today in PLOS Medicine . Researchers from Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital…
A circular economy of plastics will reduce plastic pollution and slow down climate change
Plastics have extremely useful properties: they help us keep our food fresh, make it possible to safely operate electrical devices and create various solutions in the medical field, such as disposable syringes and artificial joints. However, because of inadequate or…
COVID-19 puts brakes on global emissions
Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel sources reached a maximum daily decline of 17 per cent in April as a result of drastic decline in energy demand that have occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. The preliminary analysis, published today in…
New biomarker could flag tumors that are sensitive to common diabetes drug
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (May 19, 2020) — A newly identified biomarker could help scientists pinpoint which cancers are vulnerable to treatment with biguanides, a common class of medications used to control blood sugar in Type 2 diabetes. Biguanides, particularly a…
African-American and white women share genes that increase breast cancer risk
Study validates using current breast cancer testing panels for African-American population
Fishing rod ‘selfie stick’ and scientific sleuthing turn up clues to extinct sea reptile
Skeleton high on a London museum wall — mostly ignored for a century — spurs a study finding that the creatures swam in seas from England to Russia to the Arctic, Baylor University researcher says
Advanced X-ray technology tells us more about Ménière’s disease
The organ of balance in the inner ear is surrounded by the hardest bone in the body. Using synchrotron X-rays, researchers at Uppsala University have discovered a drainage system that may be assumed to play a major role in the…
Radio: The medium that is best dealing with the COVID-19 crisis
During lockdown, the Media Psychology Lab, directed by Emma Rodero, a lecturer with the Department of Communication, has conducted a study on the listening habits, consumption, credibility and psychological impact of radio in the COVID-19 crisis
Determining the quantity and location of lipids in the brain
Researchers at the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a new technique that can determine the specific molecular form, location, and the amount of lipids in samples of rat brain tissue. The technique provides more…
DIY solution to reagent bottleneck in COVID-19 testing could also enhance future tests
Researchers in Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick have developed a way to create more crucial reagents for use in COVID-19 tests that could also provide enhancements to the use of, and production of, future tests
Daily Internet use is linked to social isolation
New Anglia Ruskin study investigates the online behavior of older adults
NIFA funds research and extension experiences for undergraduates in Tennessee
Students beginning new internship program this summer
Cooperation can be contagious particularly when people see the benefit for others
AUSTIN, Texas — Seeing someone do something good for someone else motivates witnesses to perform their own helpful acts, an insight that could help drive cooperative behavior in communities navigating through the health crisis. In a new study, psychology researchers…
Six feet not far enough to stop virus transmission in light winds
Current social distancing guidelines of 6 feet may be insufficient, because a mild cough occurring in low wind speeds of 4-15 kph can propel saliva droplets 18 feet
SUTD scientists led development of novel acoustofluidic technology that isolates submicron particles
Acoustofluidics is the fusion of acoustics and fluid mechanics which provides a contact-free, rapid and effective manipulation of fluids and suspended particles. The applied acoustic wave can produce a non-zero time-averaged pressure field to exert an acoustic radiation force on…
A spreadable interlayer could make solid state batteries more stable
Solid state batteries are of great interest to the electric vehicle industry. Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and Xi’an Jiaotong University, China now present a new way of taking this promising concept closer to large-scale application. An interlayer,…
Professor Christoph Keplinger brings new generation of robots to Germany
Soft Robotics — artificial muscles that can heal themselves — opens new perspectives for medicine
CPRIT Awards research grant to TTUHSC’s Reynolds
Funds to aid childhood, adolescent cancer study
Scientists find a high hydrofluorocarbon emissions intensity in the Yangtze River Delta region
Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) have been widely used as substitutes for ozone-depleting substances–for example, hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Though HFCs have no impact on the ozone layer, they are also long-lived potent greenhouse gases with global warming potentials as high as…
HKBU scientists eliminate drug side effects by manipulating molecular chirality
Scientists from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) have developed a novel technique that can produce pure therapeutic drugs without the associated side effects. The approach, which uses a nanostructure fabrication device, can manipulate the chirality of drug molecules by controlling…
Statistical approach to COVID-19 clinical trials aims to accelerate drug approval process
Cambridge, Mass., May 18, 2020 – In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have published a pair of studies in a COVID-19 special issue of the Harvard Data Science Review , freely available via…
Dutch research institutions and Elsevier initiate world’s first national Open Science partnership
VSNU, NFU, NWO and Elsevier have agreed publishing, reading and open science services to support Dutch research and innovation ambitions
Additional genetic cause for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease discovered
In Germany about 18 million people suffer from non-alcoholic fatty liver. The causes of this disease are manifold and include environmental as well as genetic factors. DZD researchers have now discovered new genes that play a role in the development…
The Lancet: First prospective study of critically ill COVID-19 patients from New York City sheds light on how virus affects adult patients in USA
The largest prospective study of adult COVID-19 patients in USA to date confirms that critical illness is common among hospitalized patients (22%, 257/1150).