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Domesticated rice has fatter seed grains with higher starch content than its wild rice relatives — the result of many generations of preferential seed sorting and sowing. But even though rice was the first crop to be fully sequenced, scientists have only documented a few of the genetic changes that made rice into a staple food for more than half the world’s population.
With a recent publication in the journal Annals of Biomedical Engineering (ABME), a team of LLNL researchers are one step closer to recapitulating the brain’s response to both biochemical and mechanical cues in a chip-based platform.
Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast have questioned the World Health Organisation’s blanket classification of processed meat as carcinogenic after finding significant evidence gaps between processed meat treated with nitrites and nitrite-free processed meat.
The top tier of Democratic presidential candidates remains relatively unchanged in the latest Iowa State University/Civiqs poll, and the second tier candidates show no signs of a breakthrough.
While the donation and transfusion of blood are very common, and relatively simple as far as medical procedures go, the path from donor to recipient is more complex than most people may realize.
Thanks to the implementation of advanced random access schemes using efficient, low complexity algorithms
Painful inflammatory lesions of the skin and mucous membranes may occur in children who develop bacterial pneumonia. A research group at the University Children’s Hospital Zurich has recently developed a new diagnostic blood test, which reliably diagnoses bacteria as the…
University of Virginia (UVA) Center for Diabetes Technology and Novo Nordisk today announced that they have entered into a five-year research collaboration where UVA and Novo Nordisk will work together on the development of virtual environments focused on modelling of…
Lithium-ion batteries have revolutionised technology and mobile devices, and their use today is standard in mobile phones and laptop computers
LAWRENCE — Earlier this year, a remarkable new fossil specimen was unearthed in the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China by area fossil hunters – possibly a huge ancient spider species, as yet unknown to science. The locals sold the…
Is anything going to hit Earth? A neat approach to make quicker and more exact analyses of fireball observations
Researchers at the University of Helsinki, the University of Zurich and the University of Exeter have carried out modelling on how environmental factors affect the occurrence of human-pathogenic bacteria found in the sheep tick ( Ixodes ricinus ), a tick…
Research from the University of Gothenburg shows that we tend to overestimate our personal environmental engagement. In a study with participants from Sweden, the United States, England, and India, most participants were convinced that they acted more environmentally friendly than…
Precision medicine is becoming increasingly important, achieving to create more efficient personalised therapies for each patient and innovative pharmacological developments. In the oncology field, for example, researchers are developing different approaches aimed at directed and controlled drug release systems, thereby…
Synchronization of Chaos: Understanding the mechanisms of period-3 synchronization in plant populations located 20 kilometers apart
Quantum materials are worldwide in the focus of research activities within diverse sci-entific disciplines. This material class appears to be increasingly complex and rich in physical phenomena such as magnetism, superconductivity or topology, and is there-fore extremely promising for technological…
Silicon-based device may enable variety of photonic applications
Research reveals lessons from the Pacific about balancing community and environmental needs
How domesticated animals hold key to spread of viruses
Researchers and companies jointly developed a wearable technology solution for firefighters. It allows real-time monitoring of heat stress, thus improving the occupational health and safety in challenging temperatures. In many professions, temperature causes major challenges to thermal comfort and occupational…
Scientists track tigress in Russian Far East and learn there is lots of running around, wolfing down big meals, and then back home to watch the kids
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — There’s an interesting fluid dynamics phenomenon that happens every morning in millions of cereal bowls. When there are just a few bits of cereal left floating on top of the milk, they tend to cluster…
Deep learning algorithms can help the shellfish industry avoid disruptions caused by harmful algal blooms
This strategy would facilitate the diagnosis of chronically infected individuals in endemic regions with poorly equipped laboratories
A group led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine has identified significant differences at the epigenetic level – the chemical tags in DNA that help regulate gene expression – between two clinically distinct forms of acute childhood malnutrition known…
Danish researchers are world leaders in brain measurement via a special device fitted in the ear like a hearing aid. The technology is called ear-EEG, and now Aarhus University has received a grant to ensure further development of the method
Highlights This study identified the types of dialysis facilities in the United States that care for “safety-net reliant” dialysis patients–those who are uninsured or have only Medicaid coverage and do not qualify for Medicare. Although 73% of safety net-reliant patients…
Highlight In an analysis of patients treated with dialysis in the 5 U.S. territories and the 50 U.S. states between 1995 and 2012, the mortality rates were similar for Whites or Blacks, and higher for Hispanics and Asians in the…
Some native plants can behave as invasive species
Researchers propose a spiral array of X-ray detectors to quickly identify contraband without the need for additional screening.
Vital to healing wounds, fibroblasts have a ‘misguided’ response to cancer cells, according to Tel Aviv University researchers
Almost all humans feel the emotion of love, but does that mean the Turkish word sevgi or the Hungarian word szrelem, which both translate to love in English, convey the same feeling? Not necessarily, according to a new study. By…
Through molecular espionage, a particular receptor (known as AhR) allows its host’s immune response to stay one step ahead of infection; it achieves this by listening in on the inter-cellular transmissions that bacterial pathogens use to collectively coordinate an invasion.…
Recent and rapid developments in the biosciences continually blur the lines between human beings and other living organisms, while straining the legal definitions of what is or is not human. In a Policy Forum, Bartha Maria Knoppers and Henry Greely…
Honoring a feat that was once considered impossible, Science has named the Event Horizon Telescope’s image of a supermassive black hole as its 2019 Breakthrough of the Year. The image reveals one of the darkest and most elusive phenomena in…
A comparison of protected and impacted reefs in Cuba and Florida Keys
Prolonged exposure to high carbon dioxide (acidified) seawater may corrode tooth-like scales (denticles) covering the skin of puffadder shysharks, a study in Scientific Reports suggests. As ocean CO 2 concentrations increase due to human activity, oceans are becoming more acidic,…
An international team of scientists, including physicists from St. Petersburg University, has discovered a new class of materials that are both antiferromagnets and topological insulators
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among all Kentuckians. Male Kentuckians have higher rates than females, with a disproportionate number residing in rural and medically underserved parts of the state. According to a University of Kentucky study,…
Material, synthesised by Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania scientists, which self-assemble to form a molecular-thick electrode layer, presents a facile way of realising highly efficient perovskite single-junction and tandem solar cells
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new study in rats suggests that caffeine may offset some of the negative effects of an obesogenic diet by reducing the storage of lipids in fat cells and limiting weight gain and the production of triglycerides.…
Adriana Briscoe receives the 2020 University Faculty Award
Glutamine could help people with obesity reduce inflammation of fat tissue and reduce fat mass, according to a new study at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the University of Oxford in the U.K. The researchers also show how glutamine levels…
From monogamy to promiscuity, a new model explains the evolution of diverse mating systems based on the conflict between cooperative and competitive behaviors
New study from the University of Alberta suggests that diseases such as many cancers, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s have a genetic contribution of 5 to 10 per cent at most
What The Study Did: This study (called a systematic review and meta-analysis) combined results from 14 randomized clinical trials to evaluate evidence of an association between acupuncture and acupressure for reducing pain in patients with cancer. Previous studies have had…
Following a new literature review* of the harm reduction potential of snus, Imperial Brands – owners of leading snus brand Skruf – has urged the European Union (EU) to re-examine its position on the product. Published in the prestigious Harm…
The first strain of influenza virus we encounter during childhood sets the course of how our immune system responds to exposures later in life
New research by University of Alberta biologists uses a new approach to modelling the populations of six species of songbirds in Canada’s boreal forest–and the results show that standard modeling methods may not be accurately capturing species distribution patterns. The…
Study appears in JAMA Network Open
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