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Newswise: Researchers Studying Ocean Transform Faults, Describe a Previously Unknown Part of the Geological Carbon Cycle
Released: 12-Feb-2024 3:05 PM EST
Researchers Studying Ocean Transform Faults, Describe a Previously Unknown Part of the Geological Carbon Cycle
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

This study reports widespread mineral carbonation of mantle rocks in an oceanic transform fueled by magmatic degassing of CO2.

Released: 8-Feb-2024 5:05 PM EST
Surprising new evidence on happiness and wealth
McGill University

Global polls typically show that people in industrialized countries where incomes are relatively high report greater levels of satisfaction with life than those in low-income countries.

Newswise: Vitamin B12 adaptability in Antarctic algae has implications for climate change
Released: 5-Feb-2024 9:30 AM EST
Vitamin B12 adaptability in Antarctic algae has implications for climate change
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Vitamin B12 deficiency in people can cause a slew of health problems and even become fatal. Until now, the same deficiencies were thought to impact certain types of algae, as well.

Released: 30-Jan-2024 1:05 PM EST
Functional Bladder Tissue Regenerated Using Bone Marrow Cells
Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Scientists from Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University succeeded in regenerating fully functional urinary bladder tissue in a long-term study utilizing a non-human primate model.

   
Newswise:  New technology makes cancer easier for immune system to find and destroy
26-Jan-2024 7:00 AM EST
New technology makes cancer easier for immune system to find and destroy
Hokkaido University

A new technology to increase visibility of cancer cells to the immune system using CRISPR has been developed, and could lead to a new way to treat cancer.

Newswise: NUS scientists develop novel method to estimate biodiversity loss in Singapore over the past two centuries
Released: 29-Jan-2024 2:05 AM EST
NUS scientists develop novel method to estimate biodiversity loss in Singapore over the past two centuries
National University of Singapore (NUS)

Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) employed novel statistical methods to reveal the extent of biodiversity loss in Singapore over the past two centuries.

Released: 25-Jan-2024 1:05 PM EST
UW researchers uncover new clues about the cause of common birth defects
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Cleft lip and palate are the most common craniofacial birth defects in humans, affecting more than 175,000 newborns around the world each year.

Newswise: Retinal Photoreceptors Use Dual Pathways to Tell Brain ‘I’ve Seen the Light!’
Released: 25-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
Retinal Photoreceptors Use Dual Pathways to Tell Brain ‘I’ve Seen the Light!’
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Working with mammalian retinal cells, neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine have shown that, unlike most light-sensing cells (photoreceptors) in the retina, one special type uses two different pathways at the same time to transmit electrical “vision” signals to the brain.

Newswise: Predicting and Controlling Bad Actor AI Activity in a Year of Global Elections
Released: 23-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
Predicting and Controlling Bad Actor AI Activity in a Year of Global Elections
George Washington University

A new study led by researchers at the George Washington University predicts that daily, bad-actor AI activity is going to escalate by mid-2024.

 
Released: 22-Jan-2024 5:05 PM EST
UW researchers uncover new clues about the cause of common birth defects
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Cleft lip and palate are the most common craniofacial birth defects in humans, affecting more than 175,000 newborns around the world each year.

Newswise: Fungal ‘bouncers’ patrol plant-microbe relationship
Released: 17-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
Fungal ‘bouncers’ patrol plant-microbe relationship
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A new computational framework created by Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers is accelerating their understanding of who’s in, who’s out, who’s hot and who’s not in the soil microbiome, where fungi often act as bodyguards for plants, keeping friends close and foes at bay.

Newswise: Largest diversity study of ‘magic mushrooms’ investigates the evolution of psychoactive psilocybin production
Released: 9-Jan-2024 6:05 PM EST
Largest diversity study of ‘magic mushrooms’ investigates the evolution of psychoactive psilocybin production
University of Utah

The genomic analysis of 52 Psilocybe specimens includes 39 species that have never been sequenced.

Newswise: Nematode proteins shed light on infertility
Released: 3-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
Nematode proteins shed light on infertility
University of Utah

University of Utah biologists developed a method for illuminating the intricate interactions of the SC in the nematode C. elegans.

   
Newswise: Study: From NYC to D.C. and beyond, cities on the East Coast are sinking
Released: 2-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
Study: From NYC to D.C. and beyond, cities on the East Coast are sinking
Virginia Tech

Major cities on the U.S. Atlantic coast are sinking, in some cases as much as 5 millimeters per year – a decline at the ocean’s edge that well outpaces global sea level rise, confirms new research from Virginia Tech and the U.S. Geological Survey. Particularly hard hit population centers such as New York City and Long Island, Baltimore, and Virginia Beach and Norfolk are seeing areas of rapid “subsidence,” or sinking land, alongside more slowly sinking or relatively stable ground, increasing the risk to roadways, runways, building foundations, rail lines, and pipelines, according to a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences.

Newswise: An implantable device could pave the way for continuous, injection-free diabetes treatment
Released: 19-Dec-2023 12:05 PM EST
An implantable device could pave the way for continuous, injection-free diabetes treatment
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Frequent insulin injections are an unpleasant, albeit necessary reality for many patients with type 1 diabetes. However, new technology could create a different reality for these patients by treating the disease in one fell swoop.

Released: 15-Dec-2023 9:30 AM EST
How the Immune System Fights to Keep Herpes at Bay
Harvard Medical School

Using lab-made cells, Harvard Med researchers identify how the immune system neutralizes herpesvirus. Study maps, for the first time, the maneuvers used by virus and host in the cell nucleus. Findings could inform design of new treatments for herpes and other viruses that replicate in the same way.

Released: 12-Dec-2023 1:05 PM EST
How a drought led to the rise of skateboarding in 1970s California
University of Cambridge

It’s fairly well-known that a drought in southern California in the mid-1970s led to a ban on filling backyard swimming pools, and these empty pools became playgrounds for freestyle skateboarders in the greater Los Angeles area.

Released: 11-Dec-2023 4:05 PM EST
Genetic “protection” against depression was no match for pandemic stress
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

Living through a historic pandemic while handling the stress of the first year of college sent one-third of students in a new study into clinical depression. That’s double the percentage seen in previous years of the same study.

Released: 7-Dec-2023 11:05 AM EST
New Target Found for Treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

The lab of Yongchao C. Ma, PhD, at Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago uncovered a novel mechanism that leads to motor neuron degeneration in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).

Newswise: The silver bullet that wasn't: Glyphosate's declining weed control over 25 years
Released: 5-Dec-2023 9:30 AM EST
The silver bullet that wasn't: Glyphosate's declining weed control over 25 years
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

A new PNAS Nexus study led by scientists from the USDA Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign takes a retrospective look at glyphosate efficacy after tolerant crops were commercialized.

Newswise: New Study: Deep Sea Sensor Reveals That Corals Produce Reactive Oxygen Species
Released: 4-Dec-2023 1:05 PM EST
New Study: Deep Sea Sensor Reveals That Corals Produce Reactive Oxygen Species
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

A new study reveals deep-sea corals and sponges produce the ROS superoxide, meaning these chemicals have a string of previously unknown effects on ocean life.

Released: 27-Nov-2023 6:05 PM EST
Maternal vaccination against COVID-19 lowered risk of preterm births, Stanford study finds
Stanford University

During the first two years of the pandemic, a COVID-19 infection during pregnancy increased the risk of preterm birth and NICU hospitalizations.

Newswise: Turning Drug Resistance Against Itself
Released: 26-Nov-2023 11:00 AM EST
Turning Drug Resistance Against Itself
Stony Brook University

A team of Stony Brook University researchers led by Gábor Balázsi, PhD, have been testing drug resistance with mammalian cell lines. Their latest investigation reveals that by taking a part of a DNA amplification from a cell, which causes resistance, and placing it back in, actually stops the drug resistance. Their findings will be published this week in PNAS.

Newswise: What Human Diseases Can Teach Us About the Immune System
Released: 9-Nov-2023 1:05 PM EST
What Human Diseases Can Teach Us About the Immune System
Harvard Medical School

Jennifer Oyler-Yaniv is studying human diseases to learn about the immune system. She hopes that diseases such as cancer will reveal fundamental principles of how immune cells communicate

Newswise: Single model predicts trends in employment, microbiomes, forests
Released: 25-Oct-2023 11:05 AM EDT
Single model predicts trends in employment, microbiomes, forests
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Researchers report that a single, simplified model can predict population fluctuations in three realms: urban employment, human gut microbiomes, and tropical forests.

Newswise: Broad-spectrum antiviral candidate targets dengue and SARS-CoV-2
Released: 20-Oct-2023 1:00 AM EDT
Broad-spectrum antiviral candidate targets dengue and SARS-CoV-2
Hokkaido University

A broad-spectrum antiviral drug candidate, 2-thiouridine, that targets positive-strand RNA viruses has been identified and characterized.

Newswise: Research Finds Water Quality in Gulf of Mexico Improves When Adding Social Costs to Carbon Emissions
Released: 17-Oct-2023 9:25 AM EDT
Research Finds Water Quality in Gulf of Mexico Improves When Adding Social Costs to Carbon Emissions
University of New Hampshire

Research led by the University of New Hampshire took a closer look at what would happen to agriculture if there was an extra cost, or so-called social cost, added to fossil fuels, which are essential for making fertilizer used in farming.

Released: 11-Oct-2023 3:05 PM EDT
NYU Researchers Reconstruct Speech From Brain Activity, Illuminates Complex Neural Processes
NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Associate Professor Adeen Flinker and Professor Yao Wang co-led a team of NYU researchers that created and used complex neural networks to recreate speech from brain recordings, and then used that recreation to analyze the processes that drive human speech.

Newswise: Long-term lizard study challenges the rules of evolutionary biology
9-Oct-2023 10:00 AM EDT
Long-term lizard study challenges the rules of evolutionary biology
Georgia Institute of Technology

James Stroud, assistant professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, measured natural selection in four Anolis lizard species in the wild for five consecutive time periods over three years.

Newswise: Evidence from the remains of 1918 flu pandemic victims contradicts long-held belief that healthy young adults were particularly vulnerable
5-Oct-2023 12:20 PM EDT
Evidence from the remains of 1918 flu pandemic victims contradicts long-held belief that healthy young adults were particularly vulnerable
McMaster University

New analysis of the remains of victims of the 1918 influenza pandemic, which killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide, contradicts the widespread belief the flu disproportionately impacted healthy young adults.

   
Released: 4-Oct-2023 2:05 PM EDT
A conserved RWP-RK transcription factor VSR1 controls gametic differentiation in volvocine algae
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

This most recent work from the Umen lab gets at the critical control mechanism for sex determination in single-celled and multicellular algae. The capacity to produce distinct mating types (e.g. male and female) is the foundation for reshuffling of genetic material within a species, which maintains genetic diversity and capacity to adapt in different environments.

Released: 3-Oct-2023 9:05 AM EDT
Targeting unsuspected protein reverses lymphedema
Cornell University

A Cornell-led collaboration demonstrated that by inhibiting a certain protein they can reverse the effects of lymphedema, creating a potential treatment for a condition that is estimated to affect up to 150 million people worldwide.

Newswise: Novel bacterial proteins from seafloor shine light on climate and astrobiology
Released: 27-Sep-2023 10:05 AM EDT
Novel bacterial proteins from seafloor shine light on climate and astrobiology
Georgia Institute of Technology

In a groundbreaking study, a team of Georgia Tech researchers has unveiled a remarkable discovery: the identification of novel bacterial proteins that play a vital role in the formation and stability of methane clathrates, which trap gigatons of greenhouse gas beneath the seafloor. These newfound proteins not only suppress methane clathrate growth as effectively as toxic chemicals used in drilling but also prove to be eco-friendly and scalable. This innovative breakthrough not only promises to enhance environmental safety in natural gas transportation but also sheds light on the potential for similar biomolecules to support life beyond Earth.

Released: 27-Sep-2023 8:05 AM EDT
Research reveals why our skin feels ‘tight’
Stanford University

When we wash our face with a cleanser, our skin can start to feel tight. With the application of a favorite moisturizer, that feeling often goes away.

Released: 25-Sep-2023 10:05 AM EDT
Study in mice shows how chronic caffeine consumption alters sleep pattern and blood flow
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

Mice that consumed caffeine when awake slept more solidly and their overall amount of non-REM and REM sleep was not changed because they “slept in” later.

Newswise: Q&A: How new software is changing our understanding of human brain development
Released: 22-Sep-2023 1:05 PM EDT
Q&A: How new software is changing our understanding of human brain development
University of Washington

A team including researchers at the University of Washington recently used new software to compare MRIs from 300 babies and discovered that myelin, a part of the brain’s so-called white matter, develops much slower after birth.

Newswise: Innovative Techniques Provide New Means to Monitor Coral Reef Health
Released: 21-Sep-2023 1:05 PM EDT
Innovative Techniques Provide New Means to Monitor Coral Reef Health
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

With coral reefs worldwide undergoing unprecedented stressors due to climate change and other human pressures, a large-scale application of innovative techniques shows promise for detecting the health condition of reefs.

Released: 19-Sep-2023 8:05 AM EDT
Gene links exercise endurance, cold tolerance and cellular maintenance in flies
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

As the days get shorter and chillier in the northern hemisphere, those who choose to work out in the mornings might find it harder to get up and running. A study in PNAS identifies a protein that, when missing, makes exercising in the cold that much harder—that is, at least in fruit flies.

Released: 15-Aug-2023 2:05 PM EDT
Benefits of Electric Stoves on Health and Environment in Ecuador
University of California San Diego

An international team of researchers led by UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science investigated the health and environmental impacts of a program in Ecuador that put induction stoves in 750,000 households.

   
Released: 15-Aug-2023 2:00 PM EDT
Government regulation can effectively curb social media dangers
University of Technology, Sydney

Government legislation to flag and moderate dangerous content on social media can be effective in reducing harm, even on fast-paced platforms such as X (formerly Twitter) new research shows.

 
Released: 15-Aug-2023 1:25 PM EDT
Images of enzyme in action reveal secrets of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Emory University

Bacteria draw from an arsenal of weapons to combat the drugs intended to kill them. Among the most prevalent of these weapons are ribosome-modifying enzymes. These enzymes are growing increasingly common, appearing worldwide in clinical samples in a range of drug-resistant bacteria.

   
Newswise: Making sense of life’s random rhythms
Released: 15-Aug-2023 9:00 AM EDT
Making sense of life’s random rhythms
Case Western Reserve University

Life’s random rhythms surround us–from the hypnotic, synchronized blinking of fireflies…to the back-and-forth motion of a child’s swing… to slight variations in the otherwise steady lub-dub of the human heart. Now, an international team says it has developed a novel, universal framework for comparing and contrasting those oscillations--regardless of their different underlying mechanisms—which could become a critical step toward someday fully understanding them.

Newswise: Rutgers Researchers Identify Lipid Vascular ‘ZIP code’
14-Aug-2023 12:30 PM EDT
Rutgers Researchers Identify Lipid Vascular ‘ZIP code’
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

Researchers at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS), together with other collaborating groups, have discovered the first lipid vascular ‘ZIP code’ in the lungs, with implications for improved diagnostics and treatments, including patients with severe human respiratory diseases such as emphysema, COVID-19, COPD and lung cancer.

Newswise: Two thirds of the world's biodiversity lives in the soil
Released: 8-Aug-2023 2:05 PM EDT
Two thirds of the world's biodiversity lives in the soil
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL

Soil is the most species-rich habitat on earth. This is the conclusion of an overview study by a Swiss research team. According to the study, two thirds of all known species live in the soil.

2-Aug-2023 2:00 PM EDT
Carbon dioxide – not water – triggers explosive basaltic volcanoes
Cornell University

Geoscientists have long thought that water – along with shallow magma stored in Earth’s crust – drives volcanoes to erupt. Now, thanks to newly developed research tools at Cornell, scientists have learned that gaseous carbon dioxide can trigger explosive eruptions.

Newswise: Sensing and controlling microscopic spin density in materials
Released: 3-Aug-2023 5:30 PM EDT
Sensing and controlling microscopic spin density in materials
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Electronic devices typically use the charge of electrons, but spin — their other degree of freedom — is starting to be exploited.

Newswise: The very hungry Caterpillar: 60 Million-year-old Feeding Traces. Sharing of food plants as a driving force for insect diversity
Released: 1-Aug-2023 2:00 PM EDT
The very hungry Caterpillar: 60 Million-year-old Feeding Traces. Sharing of food plants as a driving force for insect diversity
Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum

Researchers from the Hessian State Museum Darmstadt and the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center Frankfurt have uncovered the factors that determine the enormous diversity of herbivorous insects.

Released: 30-Jul-2023 11:05 AM EDT
New genetic clues uncovered in largest study of families with multiple children with autism
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

UCLA Health researchers have published the largest-ever study of families with at least two children with autism, uncovering new risk genes and providing new insights into how genetics influence whether someone develops autism spectrum disorder.

Released: 28-Jul-2023 3:05 PM EDT
How Breast Milk Boosts the Brain
Tufts University

A new study by scientists at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University suggests that a micronutrient in human breast milk provides significant benefit to the developing brains of newborns, a finding that further illuminates the link between nutrition and brain health and could help improve infant formulas used in circumstances when breastfeeding isn’t possible.



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