A new method of evaluating and prioritising treatment for patients with suspected acute stroke, which has been used by the Stockholm health authority since 2017, has led to faster health interventions and better patient care, shows a new study from…
New method to monitor Alzheimer’s proteins
Terahertz waves detect the fibrillization state of amyloid beta proteins in solution
One of the mechanisms of Staphylococcus antibiotic resistance deciphered
A joint Russian-French-German paper was published in Nature Communications
Better plant edits by enhancing DNA repair
A new genome editing system enhances the efficiency of an error-free DNA repair pathway, which could help improve agronomic traits in multiple crops. Genome editing involves cutting DNA at very specific locations and utilizing cells’ natural repair pathways to modify…
What other countries can learn from Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic
What The Viewpoint Says: Exploring the challenges in the Italian health care system during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic and how other countries can plan for optimal actions. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at…
USPSTF recommendation on screening for bacterial vaginosis in pregnancy
Bottom Line: The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends against screening for bacterial vaginosis in someone without symptoms and who is pregnant but not at increased risk for preterm delivery. Bacterial vaginosis is a common condition caused by an…
River-groundwater hot spot for arsenic
Computer modelling deciphers complex interface
Coquí fossil from Puerto Rico takes title of oldest Caribbean frog
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The bright chirp of the coquí frog, the national symbol of Puerto Rico, has likely resounded through Caribbean forests for at least 29 million years. A new study published in Biology Letters describes a fragmented arm bone…
Helsinki Graduate School of Economics establishes an ‘economic situation room’
The aim is to support fast decision-making amid the coronavirus crisis
Adelphi researcher discovers early, complex brain surgery in ancient Greece
One of the earliest documented, from ProtoByzantine period
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., makes $500,000 donation to ATS
Donation supports COVID-19 related activities
Wild tomato resistance to bacterial canker has implications for commercial tomato industry
Bacterial canker of tomato is a disease that leads to wilt, cankers, and eventually death. The disease was first discovered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1909, but annual outbreaks now affect tomato production areas worldwide. For some farmers, bacterial canker…
After affirmative action bans, underrepresented student enrollment lags demographic trends
Washington, D.C., April 7, 2020 — In states that have banned affirmative action, the share of underrepresented minorities among students admitted to and enrolling in public universities has steadily lost ground relative to changing demographic trends among those states’ high…
Locally informed simulation model predicts hospital capacity needs during COVID-19
New COVID-19 content from Annals of Internal Medicine
Climate change triggers Great Barrier Reef bleaching
Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef is experiencing its third coral bleaching event in just five years. The 2020 bleaching is severe, and more widespread than earlier events. “We surveyed 1,036 reefs from the air during the last two weeks in…
Pancreatic cancer blocked by disrupting cellular pH balance
Study findings highlight the potential of targeting pH balance as therapeutic approach to pancreatic cancer
What cells does the novel coronavirus attack?
Scientists from the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Thorax Clinic at Heidelberg University Hospital, whose collaboration is taking place under the auspices of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), have examined samples from…
New genetic tools expand capacity to investigate microbes
A team of international scientists has developed a suite of more than 200 new genetic techniques for using marine microbes to investigate a host of questions in biology. Published in Nature Methods , the new tools are an essential step…
54.8% of COVID-19 cases imported to Brazil by March 5 came from Italy
In contrast with China and other countries where the disease spread slowly, in Brazil more than 300 people started the epidemic; most were passengers flying in from Italy
Study suggests suicide attempt survivors have lower sensitivity to bodily signals
New findings identify physical differences between people who have attempted suicide and those who have not, paving the way for future studies on biological factors that may predict suicide risk
How wallflowers evolved a complementary pair of plant defenses
New findings show that a pair of complementary chemical defenses evolved independently in wallflowers, shaped by co-evolution with local insects
First-ever photo proof of powerful jet emerging from colliding galaxies
CLEMSON, South Carolina — A team of Clemson University College of Science researchers, in collaboration with international colleagues, has reported the first definitive detection of a relativistic jet emerging from two colliding galaxies — in essence, the first photographic proof…
Cranfield University student creates COVID-19 map for Nigeria
A student from Cranfield University in the UK has created a dashboard giving information on the spread of COVID-19 in Nigeria. Nnenna Nkata, 27, is from Abia State in Nigeria and is studying for an MSc in Geographical Information Management.…
Young children find a parent’s hug more calming than a stranger’s
For infants as young as four months, a hug from a parent makes all the difference. A study appearing April 7 in the journal iScience examined heart rate responses in infants less than one year old during a hug and…
CUNY New York City COVID-19 survey week 4
New Yorkers seem resigned to a long siege as COVID-19 infection, job loss, food access challenges, depression, anxiety, and hopelessness prevail
Students who listened to Beethoven during lecture — and in dreamland — did better on test
But scores on the material nine months later dropped to ‘floor level,’ Baylor University study finds
Successful online management of COVID-19 infection
New Rochelle, NY, April 6, 2020–A team of researchers in Wuhan, China have developed a multidisciplinary self-managed home quarantine method that was effective in controlling the source of COVID-19 infection and was useful in alleviating the shortage of medical resources.…
Celiac disease linked to increased risk of premature death
People with celiac disease have increased risk of dying prematurely, despite increased awareness of the disease in recent years and better access to gluten-free food. This is according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Columbia University…
The link between virus spillover, wildlife extinction and the environment
The same processes that threaten wildlife increase our risk of spillover
Protecting the high seas
Researchers use big data to identify biodiversity hotspots that could become the first generation of high seas marine protected areas
Artificial intelligence enables COVID-19 lung imaging analysis at UC San Diego Health
With support from Amazon Web Services, health care providers are using AI in a clinical research study aimed at speeding the detection of pneumonia, a condition associated with severe COVID-19
Researchers suggest a special diet against asthma
Study by the University of Bonn proves success of a so-called ketogenic diet
Calculating early warning scores before they reach hospital can help the sickest patients
The research team, based at the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West in collaboration with the West of England Academic Health Science Network (AHSN), studied the impact of NEWS scores collected for more than 13,000 urgent GP referrals to hospital.…
Disagreements help team perception, study finds
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (April 7, 2020) – Team disagreements might be the key to helping Soldiers identify objects in battle, researchers say. While studies on combat identification typically focus on how technology can help identify enemy forces, researchers sought…
News announcement from the MIT Press
MIT Press publishes fiftieth title in Essential Knowledge series
Protecting the elderly in long-term care facilities from the risks of COVID-19
A new report calls for measures to protect elderly people in long-term care facilities and their caregivers who are particularly vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic. Elderly people in long-term care facilities are at high risk of dying from COVID-19 and…
Dispersion of the quantum many-body states ‘Bethe Strings’ experimentally resolved
Complex magnon bound states were predicted in 1931 by the theoretical physicist Hans Bethe in a one-dimensional quantum magnetic model. In 2018, physicist Dr Zhe Wang and his colleagues at the University of Cologne’s Institute of Physics II confirmed this…
Litter problem at England’s protected coasts
Beaches in or near England’s Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have the same levels of litter as those in unprotected areas, new research shows. The study, by the University of Exeter, Natural England and the Marine Conservation Society, found “no difference”…
Depressive disorders are ‘under recognized and under treated’ in people with HIV/AIDS
Harvard Review of Psychiatry presents evidence-based recommendations to improve management of HIV/AIDS-related depression
Children have very precise expectations about adults’ communicative actions
A by Núria Sebastián Gallés, coordinator of the Speech Acquisition and Perception research group at the Center for Brain and Cognition, and Gaye Soley, a researcher at the Department of Psychology at Bo?aziçi University in Ista
Innovative technologies for satellites
Some satellites are only slightly larger than a milk carton. This type of construction is now to be given a further simplified architecture and thus become even lighter and more cost-effective: This is the goal of the teams of Professors…
Uncovering stimulation’s impact on neurons
Pitt Bioengineer Takashi Kozai will use a $437K NSF CAREER award to advance neural interface design and study how different types of stimulation impact neuronal activity
Some flowers have learned to bounce back after injury
Some flowers have a remarkable and previously unknown ability to bounce back after injury, according to a new study. Some injured flowers bent and twisted themselves back into the best possible position to ensure successful reproduction within 10-48 hours of…
Let’s do the twist
Pitt and Harvard engineers and chemists ‘program’ liquid crystalline elastomers to replicate complex twisting action simply with the use of light
Air quality and health impact from the 2018 Saddleworth Moor Fire in Northern England
In June 2018, large wildfires broke out on Saddleworth Moor and Winter Hill Saddleworth Moor in the northwest of England. The fires burned for roughly three weeks, 100 firefighters and the army attended and smoke from the fires spread widely…
Successful MERS vaccine in mice may hold promise for COVID-19 vaccine
Researchers at the University of Iowa and the University of Georgia have developed a vaccine that fully protects mice against a lethal dose of MERS, a close cousin of the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The vaccine uses a harmless…
NHS could save £89 million and further fight against antimicrobial resistance
Readily available tests now cost-effective than mass distribution of antibiotics
Stanford researchers show how forest loss leads to spread of disease
Viruses that jump from animals to people, like the one responsible for COVID-19, will likely become more common as people continue to transform natural habitats into agricultural land, according to a new Stanford study . The analysis, published in Landscape…
Making a connection: Two ways that fault segments may overcome their separation
In complex fault zones, multiple seemingly disconnected faults can potentially rupture at once, increasing the chance of a large damaging earthquake. Recent earthquakes including the 1992 Landers, 1999 Hector Mine and 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes in California, among others, ruptured in…
It’s now or never: Visual events have 100 milliseconds to hit brain target or go unnoticed
NIH mouse study reveals key details about visual processing