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Newswise: All creatures great and small: Sequencing the blue whale and Etruscan shrew genomes
Released: 18-Mar-2024 5:05 PM EDT
All creatures great and small: Sequencing the blue whale and Etruscan shrew genomes
University of Wisconsin–Madison

The blue whale genome was published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, and the Etruscan shrew genome was published in the journal Scientific Data.

Released: 18-Mar-2024 5:05 PM EDT
UC Irvine-led research team discovers role of key enzymes that drive cancer mutations
University of California, Irvine

A research team led by the University of California, Irvine has discovered the key role that the APOBEC3A and APOBEC3B enzymes play in driving cancer mutations by modifying the DNA in tumor genomes, offering potential new targets for intervention strategies.

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Newswise: A New Study Shows How Neurochemicals Affect fMRI Readings
Released: 18-Mar-2024 4:05 PM EDT
A New Study Shows How Neurochemicals Affect fMRI Readings
University of North Carolina School of Medicine

A landmark study, led by Yen-Yu Ian Shih, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, shows how neurochemicals can influence blood vessels. The new findings may alter how researchers interpret results from functional magnetic resonance imaging.

Newswise: Teasing Strange Matter from Ordinary
Released: 18-Mar-2024 4:05 PM EDT
Teasing Strange Matter from Ordinary
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Like protons and neutrons, Lambda particles consist of three quarks bound together by gluons. But unlike protons and neutrons, which contain a mixture of up and down quarks, Lambdas also contain a strange quark.

Newswise: Backyard insect inspires invisibility devices, next gen tech
Released: 18-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Backyard insect inspires invisibility devices, next gen tech
Penn State Materials Research Institute

Leafhoppers, a common backyard insect, secrete and coat themselves in tiny mysterious particles that could provide both the inspiration and the instructions for next-generation technology, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers.

Released: 18-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Text nudges can increase uptake of COVID-19 boosters– if they play up a sense of ownership of the vaccine
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

Text nudges encouraging people to get the COVID-19 vaccine, which had proven effective in prior real-world field tests, are also effective at prompting people to get a booster. The key in both cases is to include in the text a sense of ownership in the dose awaiting them.

Newswise: Role in mitochondrial metabolism paints more complete picture of MCL-1 function
Released: 18-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Role in mitochondrial metabolism paints more complete picture of MCL-1 function
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have uncovered a metabolic role for cell-survival protein MCL-1, potentially explaining previous clinical trial setbacks.

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Newswise: Researchers Call for Regulation of Direct-to-Consumer Microbiome Tests
Released: 18-Mar-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Researchers Call for Regulation of Direct-to-Consumer Microbiome Tests
University of Maryland, Baltimore

Scientific research has linked a person’s microbiome to everything from gut and mental health to immunity and predisposition to cancer.

Newswise: Cleveland Clinic-Led Research Concludes Video Laryngoscopy is Most Effective Method for Intubating Patients Undergoing Surgical Procedures
Released: 18-Mar-2024 1:25 PM EDT
Cleveland Clinic-Led Research Concludes Video Laryngoscopy is Most Effective Method for Intubating Patients Undergoing Surgical Procedures
Cleveland Clinic

New Cleveland Clinic-led research provides evidence that video laryngoscopy significantly decreased the number of attempts needed to achieve intubation in adult surgical patients who required single-lumen endotracheal intubation for general anesthesia, compared with direct laryngoscopy. The research was published today in JAMA.

Released: 18-Mar-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Five factors to ensure an infant thrives
Washington University in St. Louis

In new research published in JAMA Pediatrics, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis make the case that “thrive factors” are a key element of healthy human brain, behavioral and cognitive development.

Newswise: Johns Hopkins Medicine-Led Team Develops Fluid Biomarker for Early Detection of ALS and FTD
Released: 18-Mar-2024 1:00 PM EDT
Johns Hopkins Medicine-Led Team Develops Fluid Biomarker for Early Detection of ALS and FTD
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Two progressively degenerative diseases, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD, recently in the news with the diagnoses of actor Bruce Willis and talk show host Wendy Williams), are linked by more than the fact that they both damage nerve cells critical to normal functioning — the former affecting nerves in the brain and spinal cord leading to loss of movement, the latter eroding the brain regions controlling personality, behavior and language.

Newswise: Hackensack Meridian Health Foundation Awarded “High Performer” Designations by the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy
Released: 18-Mar-2024 12:15 PM EDT
Hackensack Meridian Health Foundation Awarded “High Performer” Designations by the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy
Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack Meridian Health Foundation Awarded “High Performer” Designations by the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy

Released: 18-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
WashU engineers manage a first: measuring pH in cell condensates
Washington University in St. Louis

In a first for the condensate field, researchers from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, figured out how nucleolar sub-structures are assembled.

Released: 18-Mar-2024 11:30 AM EDT
Study Estimates Nearly 70 Percent of Children Under Six in Chicago May Be Exposed to Lead-Contaminated Tap Water
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

A new analysis led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health estimates that 68 percent of Chicago children under age six live in households with tap water containing detectable levels of lead.

Released: 18-Mar-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Attacking metastatic prostate cancer early with combination treatment approach improves outcomes in preliminary study
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

A team of UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center investigators has shown the combination of a short course of powerful and intense hormonal therapy with targeted radiation is safe and effective in treating people with prostate cancer that has come back and has spread to other parts of the body.

Released: 18-Mar-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Study shows middle-aged Americans are lonelier than European peers, suggests loneliness in middle age is endemic
Arizona State University (ASU)

New research has shown that not only are middle-aged Americans lonelier than their same-age peers in Europe, but levels of loneliness are also increasing across generations in the U.S. and Europe.

Newswise: Newly identified yeast could prevent fungal infections by outcompeting rivals, study suggests
11-Mar-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Newly identified yeast could prevent fungal infections by outcompeting rivals, study suggests
The Rockefeller University Press

Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have identified a yeast that could be used to prevent invasive candidiasis, a major cause of death in hospitalized and immunocompromised patients. The study, to be published March 18 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM), shows that the novel yeast lives harmlessly in the intestines of mice and humans and can displace the yeast responsible for candidiasis, Candida albicans.

Newswise: Case Western Reserve University researchers report rise in global fungal drug-resistant infections
Released: 18-Mar-2024 9:00 AM EDT
Case Western Reserve University researchers report rise in global fungal drug-resistant infections
Case Western Reserve University

A global wave of infections caused by fungi growing drug-resistant has the medical community issuing precautions on how to protect yourself.

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13-Mar-2024 11:30 AM EDT
Middle-aged Americans lonelier than European counterparts
American Psychological Association (APA)

Middle-aged adults in the U.S. tend to report significantly higher levels of loneliness than their European counterparts, possibly due in part to weaker family ties and greater income inequality, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

   
Newswise: Breakthrough Discovery: Stem Cell
Released: 18-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Breakthrough Discovery: Stem Cell "Messages" Fast-Track Healing of Diabetic Wounds
Chinese Academy of Sciences

A study has unveiled that exosomes, extracted from adipose mesenchymal stem cells (ADSC-Exos), markedly speed up the healing process of skin wounds in diabetic mice. This discovery tackles the pressing global health issue of diabetic wounds, notorious for precipitating grave complications and impairments.

Newswise: Unlocking Clearer Views of Our Water Worlds: A Landsat Legacy
Released: 18-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Unlocking Clearer Views of Our Water Worlds: A Landsat Legacy
Chinese Academy of Sciences

A study highlights the significant advancements in water environment analysis facilitated by the Landsat missions. This research, for the first time, offers a comprehensive global assessment of cloud-free observations (NCOs) from Landsat, underscoring its pivotal role in environmental and hydrological studies.

Newswise: Revolutionizing Carbon Neutrality: Machine Learning Paves the Way for Advanced CO2 Reduction Catalysts
Released: 18-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Revolutionizing Carbon Neutrality: Machine Learning Paves the Way for Advanced CO2 Reduction Catalysts
Chinese Academy of Sciences

A perspective highlights the transformative impact of machine learning (ML) on enhancing carbon dioxide reduction reactions (CO2RR), steering us closer to carbon neutrality.

Newswise: Yale Cancer Center experts present new research on obesity, tobacco, evolution, and early onset cancers at leading oncology conference
Released: 18-Mar-2024 7:00 AM EDT
Yale Cancer Center experts present new research on obesity, tobacco, evolution, and early onset cancers at leading oncology conference
Yale Cancer Center/Smilow Cancer Hospital

Yale Cancer Center (YCC) and Smilow Cancer Hospital physicians and scientists will share new data for breakthrough and emerging cancer treatments as well as new discoveries in obesity, tobacco, evolution, and early onset cancers in early April at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting.

Newswise:Video Embedded artificial-mucus-identifies-link-to-tumor-formation
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11-Mar-2024 11:45 PM EDT
Artificial mucus identifies link to tumor formation
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Mucus is critical to human health. To explore how, researchers synthesized its major component, sugar-coated proteins called mucins, and discovered that changing the mucins of healthy cells to be more cancer-like made cells act more cancer-like. They will present their results at ACS Spring 2024.

   
Newswise: Developing bifunctional catalyst performance enhancement technology that will dramatically lower the cost of hydrogen production
Released: 18-Mar-2024 12:00 AM EDT
Developing bifunctional catalyst performance enhancement technology that will dramatically lower the cost of hydrogen production
National Research Council of Science and Technology

Dr. Hyung-Suk Oh and Dr. Woong-Hee Lee of the Clean Energy Research Center at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), in collaboration with POSTECH and Yonsei University, have developed a methodology to improve the reversibility and durability of electrodes using bifunctional platinum-nickel alloy catalysts with an octahedral structure that exhibits both oxygen reduction and generation reactions.

Released: 15-Mar-2024 4:05 PM EDT
Tropical Plants Beat Drought by Interacting with Specific Microbes
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory - EMSL

Researchers from the University of Arizona and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a Department of Energy user facility, discovered that that plants can maintain specific microbe partnerships during times of drought, revealing a new level of resilience.

Newswise: Some lymphomas become resistant to treatment. Gene discovery may offer path to overcome it.
Released: 15-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Some lymphomas become resistant to treatment. Gene discovery may offer path to overcome it.
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Patients with some types of lymphoma that become resistant to standard treatments may benefit from a therapy that University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers are evaluating after they discovered a key process that fuels the blood cancers’ resistance to current drugs.

Newswise: Searching for the Decay of Nature’s Rarest Isotope: Tantalum-180m
Released: 15-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Searching for the Decay of Nature’s Rarest Isotope: Tantalum-180m
Department of Energy, Office of Science

The tantalum isotope, Ta-180m, is found naturally in a long-lived excited state. However, the radioactive decay of this excited state in Ta-180m has never been observed.

Newswise: Sylvester Researchers, Collaborators Call for Greater Investment in Bereavement Care
Released: 15-Mar-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Sylvester Researchers, Collaborators Call for Greater Investment in Bereavement Care
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

Bereaved persons are at greater risk for many adverse outcomes, including mental health challenges, health care neglect, cancer, heart disease, suicide, and death.

13-Mar-2024 2:05 PM EDT
CHOP Researchers Discover Key Metabolic Process Responsible for Rapid Immune Responses
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Researchers identified a key metabolite in cells that helps direct immune responses and explains at a single cell level why immune cells that most efficiently recognize pathogens, vaccines, or diseased cells grow and divide faster than other cells.

Released: 15-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Fatty food before surgery may impair memory in old, young adults
Ohio State University

Eating fatty food in the days leading up to surgery may prompt a heightened inflammatory response in the brain that interferes for weeks with memory-related cognitive function in older adults – and, new research in animals suggests, even in young adults.

Released: 15-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Women Smoke More, Are Less Likely to Quit
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

People who identify as lesbian, gay and bisexual – particularly women – respond more positively to tobacco marketing, are more inclined to smoke cigarettes daily and may have a more difficult time quitting, according to two studies by a Rutgers Health researcher.

Newswise: We Now Know Why Killer T Cells Lose Energy Inside of Solid Tumors
Released: 15-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
We Now Know Why Killer T Cells Lose Energy Inside of Solid Tumors
University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have found that a metabolic enzyme called Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase causes T cells to store fat when they are in solid tumors, rather than burning fat for energy.

Released: 15-Mar-2024 11:00 AM EDT
New Research in March: Colorectal Cancer, Kidney Health, OR Supply Costs, and More
American College of Surgeons (ACS)

The March issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS) features new research on topics ranging from colorectal cancer and social vulnerability to operating room supply costs, the rise in school shootings since 1970, and the impact of permitless open carry laws on suicide rates, among others.

   
Newswise: Unlocking the Climate Secrets of North China with Ancient Tree Rings
Released: 15-Mar-2024 9:15 AM EDT
Unlocking the Climate Secrets of North China with Ancient Tree Rings
Chinese Academy of Sciences

A recent study published in the Journal of Geographical Sciences in December 2023 reveals a novel method for reconstructing historical warm season temperatures in North China. Utilizing the blue intensity (BI) of tree rings of Picea meyeri, researchers have developed a 281-year chronology, offering unprecedented insights into the region’s climatic past.

Released: 15-Mar-2024 9:15 AM EDT
Study of Fatal and Nonfatal Shootings by Police Reveals Racial Disparities, Dispatch Risks
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

A new study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions and Vanderbilt University found that an average of 1,769 people were injured annually in police shootings from 2015 to 2020, 55 percent of them or 979 people, fatally.

 
Newswise: Revealing Nature's Secrets from Space: Satellite Data Unlocks Drought's Impact on Southwest China's Carbon Cycle
Released: 15-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Revealing Nature's Secrets from Space: Satellite Data Unlocks Drought's Impact on Southwest China's Carbon Cycle
Chinese Academy of Sciences

A new study reveals a significant increase in aboveground carbon (AGC) in Southwest China from 2013 to 2021, defying the adverse effects of extreme droughts. This achievement underscores the region's pivotal role as a carbon sink, attributed to extensive ecological projects and innovative remote sensing techniques.

Newswise: China's Urban Jungles: How City Parks are Winning the Battle Against Concrete
Released: 15-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EDT
China's Urban Jungles: How City Parks are Winning the Battle Against Concrete
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Recent studies highlight a significant transformation in China’s urban landscape, where the greening of city cores is compensating for vegetation loss in expanding urban areas.

Newswise: Sun's Secrets Unveiled: AI Unlocks New Solar Energy Horizons in China
Released: 15-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Sun's Secrets Unveiled: AI Unlocks New Solar Energy Horizons in China
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Researchers have developed an innovative machine learning method to estimate solar radiation components in China without the need for local ground truth data. This breakthrough addresses the scarcity of radiation component data and opens new avenues for the solar energy industry.

Newswise: A Breakthrough in Tiny Tool Tuning: Making Microscopic Measurements More Accurate
Released: 15-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EDT
A Breakthrough in Tiny Tool Tuning: Making Microscopic Measurements More Accurate
Chinese Academy of Sciences

A study introduces a novel method for calibrating the spring constant of FluidFM micropipette cantilevers, crucial for the accurate measurement of forces in microfluidic environments.

1-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EST
New Study Reveals Covid-19 May Have Originated in a Lab
Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)

Research from the journal Risk Analysis, examined the likelihood of COVID-19 coming from an unnatural origin (i.e. from a laboratory.)

Newswise: Mapping Water Wonders: A Groundbreaking Leap in Hydrology with NDWFI
Released: 15-Mar-2024 7:50 AM EDT
Mapping Water Wonders: A Groundbreaking Leap in Hydrology with NDWFI
Chinese Academy of Sciences

In a significant advancement for hydrological monitoring and water resource management, researchers have developed the Normalized Difference Water Fraction Index (NDWFI), leveraging Landsat imagery and Spectral Mixture Analysis (SMA) within the Google Earth Engine platform. This innovation is pivotal for accurately tracking dynamic and subtle water bodies, crucial for enhancing water security and resilience against extreme hydrological events.

Newswise: A Green Revolution: How Our Forests are Changing and What It Means for the Planet
Released: 15-Mar-2024 7:10 AM EDT
A Green Revolution: How Our Forests are Changing and What It Means for the Planet
Chinese Academy of Sciences

A recent study reveals significant shifts in the composition of global forests and their carbon stocks from 2001 to 2020.

Newswise: New study reveals breakthrough in understanding brain stimulation therapies
Released: 15-Mar-2024 7:00 AM EDT
New study reveals breakthrough in understanding brain stimulation therapies
University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering

For the first time, researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities showed that non-invasive brain stimulation can change a specific brain mechanism that is directly related to human behavior.

Newswise:Video Embedded arctic-nightlife-seabird-colony-bursts-with-sound-at-night
VIDEO
13-Mar-2024 1:05 AM EDT
Arctic nightlife: seabird colony bursts with sound at night
Hokkaido University

Acoustic recordings of a colony of little auks reveal their nocturnal activities and offer valuable monitoring means for avian biology in the Arctic.

Newswise: Mouse study shows exercising during pregnancy improves heart health of future generations
Released: 15-Mar-2024 12:05 AM EDT
Mouse study shows exercising during pregnancy improves heart health of future generations
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Exercising during pregnancy doesn’t just benefit moms – it may also give their babies a head start on their heart health after birth, according to a study by researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.



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