A team of researchers from institutions around the globe has finally filled in the gaps in the Human Reference Genome--and repeated sections are more ...
March 31, 2022, 10:50 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Alongside the newly updated human genome, which fills in long-standing gaps to fully spell out the more than 3 billion letters that compose our geneti...
March 31, 2022, 10:50 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Professional organizations in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields could more effectively collect data on underrepresented g...
March 31, 2022, 10:49 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
As part of recent completion of first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome by Telomere- to-Telomere consortium, researchers at UW Medicine off...
March 31, 2022, 10:49 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Twenty years ago scientists declared the Human Genome Project complete, but eight percent of our genome remained unsequenced and unstudied. Now, the f...
March 31, 2022, 10:49 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Tetrahymena, a tiny single celled-organism, turns out to be hiding a surprising secret: it's doing respiration -- using oxygen to generate cellular en...
March 31, 2022, 10:49 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
New cell-laden bioink, comprised of tightly-packed, flake-shaped microgels and living cells, the production of cell-rich 4D bioconstructs that can cha...
March 31, 2022, 10:49 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Achieving classical herd immunity against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, may not be attainable, according to a new perspective article. H...
March 31, 2022, 10:49 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Using a commercially available test and simplified process, any laboratory that can run a real-time PCR assay can detect known SARS-CoV-2 variants in ...
March 31, 2022, 10:49 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Nighttime light pollution levels are increasing the most in the southeastern United States, Mexico, and Central America--findings based on year-round ...
March 31, 2022, 10:47 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
An international team of scientists has proved that Mercury, our solar system's smallest planet, has geomagnetic storms similar to those on Earth. The...
March 31, 2022, 9:39 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
A network of West African Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) covers key sites used by green turtles, new research shows.
March 31, 2022, 9:38 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
E-scooters have become a familiar sight in cities worldwide in recent years, with many new companies renting them for use. But their arrival has also ...
March 31, 2022, 9:38 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
A new study addresses the question of whether psychedelics might change the attribution of consciousness to a range of living and nonliving things.
March 31, 2022, 9:17 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based model for clinical diagnosis that can use electrocardiogram (ECG) images, regardless ...
March 31, 2022, 9:17 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Fruit flies with a new variant of a 'clock gene' are spreading northwards. Neurobiologists have now found an explanation for this phenomenon.
March 31, 2022, 9:17 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
A wireless neurostimulator a little bigger than a grain of rice can be put in place alongside blood vessels to treat neurological diseases and chronic...
March 31, 2022, 9:17 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
For a long time, ecologists assumed tree rings to be absent in tropical trees because of a lack of temperature and rain fluctuations in the trees' env...
March 31, 2022, 9:17 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Dark patches of open sea that appear in the ice-choked water around Helheim Glacier may reveal new clues about how a rapidly changing Greenland glacie...
March 31, 2022, 7:47 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
By revealing the structure of a protein used by bacteria to pump out antibiotics, a research team designed an early-stage therapeutic that sabotages t...
March 31, 2022, 7:47 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Scientists identify a pathway of immune cell inhibition that may provide the basis for novel approaches to immunotherapy of colon cancer. Their result...
March 31, 2022, 7:47 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Men with high blood pressure have a biased recognition of other people's anger, as shown in a new study.
March 31, 2022, 7:47 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Haze is formed when a cocktail of various gaseous pollutants is oxidized and forms particulate matter diffusing sunlight. This process is mainly media...
March 31, 2022, 7:47 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Fungicides used to prolong shelf life of fruits may select for pathogenic yeasts and boost transmission. Those pathogens include Candida auris, a drug...
March 31, 2022, 7:46 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
In The Physics Teacher, researchers explore the goal of culturally relevant pedagogy, which is to center students' cultural resources as a bridge to l...
March 31, 2022, 5:51 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Research shows that high-titer (antibody-rich) COVID convalescent plasma -- when administered to COVID-19 outpatients within nine days after testing p...
March 31, 2022, 5:51 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Global opioid sales increased by an estimated 4% annually from 2015 to 2019, but massive disparities in access to essential pain relief medications pe...
March 31, 2022, 5:51 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
New research examining 'eye gaze behavior' has found that looking at people's bodies, rather than their faces, is linked with harmful attitudes toward...
March 31, 2022, 5:50 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Engineers have developed a material that could give fuel cell systems a competitive edge over the battery systems that currently power most electric v...
March 31, 2022, 5:50 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
A research group found that the human sleep patterns could be classified into 16 types by combining ACCEL, their original machine learning algorithm f...
March 31, 2022, 5:50 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
While new mothers frequently take on a greater share of housework than their spouses, this effect is even more pronounced in mothers who earn more tha...
March 31, 2022, 5:50 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
A large, observational study found that heart complications within one month after an ischemic stroke (blocked blood flow to the brain) are very commo...
March 31, 2022, 5:50 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Researchers have revealed how poxviruses build their scaffold - a temporary protein coat that forms and disappears as the virus matures.
March 31, 2022, 5:50 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
A new study shows why liquid droplets have the ability to erode hard surfaces, a discovery that could help engineers design more erosion-resistant mat...
March 31, 2022, 5:50 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Law enforcement seizures of pills containing illicit fentanyl increased dramatically between January 2018 and December 2021, according to a new U.S. s...
March 31, 2022, 5:50 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
A team of researchers unpacks a series of biases in epidemic research, ranging from clinical trials to data collection, and offers a game-theory appro...
March 31, 2022, 5:50 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Rising parental expectations and criticism are linked to an increase in perfectionism among college students, which can have damaging mental health co...
March 31, 2022, 5:50 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Cannabis use among pregnant women is on the rise and may be associated with negative health outcomes in children, according to a new study.
March 31, 2022, 5:49 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Out of about 100 million sperm, only a few hundred make it to the fallopian tubes. A directional movement called rheotaxis, guides sperm cells to swim...
March 31, 2022, 5:49 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Finding the specific sound a rock makes when it cracks and breaks seems impossible when surrounded by other subsurface noises. But researchers have no...
March 31, 2022, 4:08 a.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Clinician-scientists have developed a clinical algorithm that, for the first time, distinguishes between treatable sudden cardiac arrest and untreatab...
March 31, 2022, 1:37 a.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Scientists show how cells packed with SARS-CoV-2 detach from the upper airway and spread deep into lungs where severe COVID can take root. They also d...
March 31, 2022, 12:20 a.m.
Mayur Tembhare
A study is the first in North America to demonstrate that living-donor liver transplant is a viable option for patients who have systemically controll...
March 30, 2022, 11:37 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Researchers have found that treatment with miR-634 reduces the resistance of oral squamous cell carcinoma cells to cisplatin, resulting in increased t...
March 30, 2022, 10:37 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Power functional theory is a new approach that makes it possible to describe precisely the dynamics of many-particle systems over time.
March 30, 2022, 10:36 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
Health inequities among Black Indigenous People of Color, immigrant and low-income communities is driven largely by inadequate healthcare access. Tele...
March 30, 2022, 10:36 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
You can't see it, but different substances in the petals of flowers create a 'bulls-eye' for pollinating insects, according to a scientist whose resea...
March 30, 2022, 9:56 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
A new study has found that women's health research remains disproportionately focused on the reproductive years -- particularly on pregnancy -- with f...
March 30, 2022, 9:56 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
VIGICOVID is a system that uses natural language questions to get answers in the avalanche of information on COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2.
March 30, 2022, 9:55 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
A research team has, for the first time in Europe, identified a specimen of Asian needle ant (Brachyponera chinensis), a highly invasive species.
March 30, 2022, 9:55 p.m.
Mayur Tembhare
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