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UrduFemale sea turtles mate multiply to ensure fertilization. A study of nesting loggerhead female sea turtles in southwestern Florida used genotyping to uncover how many fathers were represented in their nests. Surprisingly, scientists found that 75 percent of the female sea turtles had mated singly. No male was represented in more than one female’s clutches. Findings provide insights into the relative numbers of males present in the breeding population, which are hard to get because males never come ashore.
Advanced fertiliser research with new Mosaic contract
Enhanced spreading, improved efficiency and reduced environmental impact will be the focus of continuing fertiliser research under a new five-year partnership agreement between the University of Adelaide and US-based fertiliser producer The Mosaic Company.
University of Utah law professor challenges South Carolina statute that prohibits discussion of LGBTQ relationships in schools
Today, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Professor Clifford Rosky, along with the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Lambda Legal, and private counsel Womble Bond Dickinson and Brazil & Burke, filed a federal lawsuit challenging a South Carolina statute that prohibits public school health education from including any discussion of same-sex relationships except in the context of sexually transmitted diseases. The lawsuit is filed on behalf of the student organization Gender and Sexuality Alliance, as well as the Campaign for Southern Equality and South Carolina Equality Coalition, including their members who are public school students in the state.
Click here to learn more and read the complaint.
The lawsuit, Gender and Sexuality Alliance v. Spearman, alleges that S.C. Code § 59-32-30(A)(5), a provision of the South Carolina’s 1988 Comprehensive Health Education Act, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by discrimi
University of Toledo engineering students as future STEM leaders
On Monday, January 13, engineering students from the University of Toledo’s Roy and Marcia Armes Engineering Leaderships Institute (ELI) visited Argonne National Laboratory to prepare themselves for the leadership challenges facing engineers.
Slumber disruptions caused by obstructive sleep apnea can take a toll on health
A study by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine found that while approximately 30 million American adults have obstructive sleep apnea only about 6 million, or 20%, have been properly diagnosed and treated.
ASA Survey Shows Health Insurers Abruptly Terminating Physician Contracts, Dramatically Cutting Payment Rates Forcing Physicians Out of Network
A new national survey from the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) finds physician anesthesiologists are being forced out of network as insurance companies terminate their contracts, often with little or no notice.
University of Texas at Dallas Computer Scientists’ New Tool Fools Hackers into Sharing Keys for Better Cybersecurity
Instead of blocking hackers, a new cybersecurity defense approach developed by University of Texas at Dallas computer scientists actually welcomes them.
The method, called DEEP-Dig (DEcEPtion DIGging), ushers intruders into a decoy site so the computer can learn from hackers’ tactics. The information is then used to train the computer to recognize and stop future attacks.
The Brain and Climate Change
Changing global temperatures could mean lost productivity for workers around the globe, according to Nancy Sicotte, MD, chair of the Department of Neurology at Cedars-Sinai.
How cardiorespiratory function is related to genetics
How high altitudes affect people’s breathing and its coordination with the heart beat is due to genetic differences say researchers. Clear physiological differences have already been demonstrated between people living in the Himalayas and Andes compared with people living at…
Rare diseases – Key insights from small samples
The study of a rare genetic disease has enabled a team led by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich´s Christoph Klein to uncover the role of a membrane-associated protein in the development and function of human T cells. All biological cells are…
A molecular atlas of skin cells
Our skin protects us from physical injury, radiation and microbes, and at the same time produces hair and facilitates perspiration. Details of how skin cells manage such disparate tasks have so far remained elusive. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in…
What are savings of eliminating running water for hand scrubbing before surgery?
What The Study Did: Researchers in this study estimated the potential water conservation and financial savings generated by eliminating running water for hand scrubbing before surgery in favor of exclusive use of an alcohol-based scrub at a large ophthalmic surgical…
First direct observation of elusive waves reveals energy channels in the solar atmosphere
For the first time a team of researchers observed directly torsional Alfvén waves in the solar corona. The discovery sheds light on the origin of magnetic waves and their role in the heating of Sun’s outer atmosphere.
The beginning defines the end
classical physics helps to predict the fate of interacting quantum systems
New ecological process for producing cheaper biofuel
Canadian researchers make biodiesel from sewage sludge and glycerol
Astronomers detect biggest explosion in the history of the universe
Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe since the Big Bang. The blast came from a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy hundreds of millions of light-years away. It…
First-ever pathology of the early phase of lung infection with the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
Denver–An international team of clinicians and researchers for the first time have described the pathology of the SARS-CoV-2, or coronavirus, and published their findings in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology , the journal of the International Association for the Study…
Joining forces to fighting rice diseases in India
Biology: HHU signs Memorandum of Understanding
Hannah Dailey receives NSF CAREER award for virtual mechanical test for bone healing
Lehigh University MechE professor’s approach holds promise for avoiding nonunions, which carry risks of depression, opioid abuse; award also supports her work in building pipeline for women in orthopedics
Bacterium makes complex loops
Research team analyses flagellar locomotion
Anthropogenic seed dispersal: rethinking the origins of plant domestication
In a new manuscript, Dr. Robert Spengler argues that all of the earliest traits of plant domestication are linked to a mutualistic relationship in which plants recruited humans for seed dispersal
MRI shows blood flow differs in men and women
OAK BROOK, Ill. – Healthy men and women have different blood flow characteristics in their hearts, according to a new study published in the journal Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging . Researchers said the results could be used to help create quantitative…
Telecommuting found to have little impact on corporate careers
Study finds that, for telecommuters, success depends on multiple factors in the work setting
Support grows for technology aimed at turning bad fat to good fat
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A significant investment from a Purdue University alumnus and his wife will help further develop technology aimed at treating obesity and diabetes by turning bad fat into good fat inside the body. David Campbell, a 1978…
Distrust of past experience may underlie obsessive-compulsive symptoms
New findings could help patients and treatment providers understand seemingly irrational behaviors
First-in-human study uses universal donor ‘natural killer cells’ to treat acute myeloid leukemia
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new, phase I clinical trial offered The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James) will treat patients with relapsed or refractory acute…
Data centers use less energy than you think
New, comprehensive analysis presents a more nuanced presents of global energy use
Media Availability: NIH hosts National Dementia Care Summit
Leading researchers, caregivers and patients to discuss challenges and opportunities
Marshall University scientists receive NIH grant for new anti-MRSA antibiotic study
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Timothy Long, Ph.D., an associate professor at the Marshall University School of Pharmacy, along with Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine colleagues Monica Valentovic, Ph.D., professor of biomedical sciences, and Hongwei Yu, Ph.D., professor of…
Getting off of the blood sugar roller coaster
McGill researchers are pioneering a new artificial pancreas system that provides life-changing support to people living with type 1 diabetes
Big data helps farmers adapt to climate variability
EAST LANSING, Mich. – A new Michigan State University study shines a light on how big data and digital technologies can help farmers better adapt to threats — both present and future — from a changing climate. The study, published…
The tentacle ‘bot
Octopus-inspired robot can grip, move, and manipulate a wide range of objects
A common gut microbe secretes a carcinogen
Cancer mutations can be caused by common gut bacteria carried by many people. This was demonstrated by researchers from the Hubrecht Institute (KNAW) and Princess Máxima Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands. By exposing cultured human mini-guts to a particular strain…
Go Texas — Recent geological advances of the Gulf and South-Central Region
The Geological Society of America’s South-Central Section to meet in Fort Worth, Texas
Five million euros for the ‘de.NBI’ bioinformatics network
Further funding for the project based in Bielefeld five years after its start
Quantum researchers able to split one photon into three
Researchers from the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo report the first occurrence of directly splitting one photon into three. The occurrence, the first of its kind, used the spontaneous parametric down-conversion method (SPDC) in quantum…
Cells carrying Parkinson’s mutation could lead to new model for studying disease
MADISON — Parkinson’s disease researchers have used gene-editing tools to introduce the disorder’s most common genetic mutation into marmoset monkey stem cells and to successfully tamp down cellular chemistry that often goes awry in Parkinson’s patients. The edited cells are…
Opioid use disorder medications improve health outcomes after endocarditis hospitalization
Study shows importance of treating underlying cause of hospitalization to decrease future hospital stays
Study reveals how green space can reduce violent crime
Researchers seek to enhance public safety by harnessing nature
SNIPRs take aim at disease-related mutations
A typo appearing in the draft of a novel is no great calamity. Nature, however, is often less forgiving of errors. A change in just one letter of the genetic code can have catastrophic consequences for human health. Such genomic…
Combined therapy may improve clinical responses for endometrial, colorectal and gastric tumors
Enzyme inhibitor with anti-PD1 checkpoint blockade boosted efficacy over either treatment alone
Tyson Raper named Cotton Researcher of the Year
Honored at National Conservation Systems Cotton and Rice Conference
Fine particle air pollution linked with poor kidney health
Washington, DC (February 27, 2020) — People living in areas with higher levels of air pollution faced higher risks of developing kidney disease in a recent study. The findings appear in an upcoming issue of CJASN . It’s known that…
Study sheds light on how a drug being tested in COVID-19 patients works
A team of academic and industry researchers is reporting new findings about how exactly an investigational antiviral drug stops coronaviruses. Their paper was published the same day that the National Institutes of Health announced that the drug in question, remdesivir,…
Naked mole rats migrate above ground with no help from the moon
A full moon conjures an image of a person transforming into a werewolf — a mythical story of moonlight explaining the unexplainable. While werewolves may only exist in the movies, unusual animal and human behaviors noticed under a full moon…
How do zebrafish get their stripes? New data analysis tool could provide an answer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — The iconic stripes of zebrafish are a classic example of natural self-organization. As zebrafish embryos develop, three types of pigment cells move around the skin, eventually jostling into positions that form body-length yellow and blue…
Excellent long-term stability of treatment gains of stepwise treatment for pediatric OCD
Cognitive behavior therapy as a single treatment works well for most children and adolescents with OCD and the improvement continues even after the treatment was discontinued
Revving habits up and down, new insight into how the brain forms habits
Each day, humans and animals rely on habits to complete routine tasks such as eating and sleeping. As new habits are formed, this enables us to do things automatically without thinking. As the brain starts to develop a new habit,…
New technique could streamline drug design
Approach focuses on 3D structures to simplify protein creation
Lessons learned from addressing myths about Zika and yellow fever outbreaks in Brazil
Information intended to debunk myths may have spillover effects