Month November 2018

TUCSON, Ariz. – Repairing heart muscle damaged by a heart attack or other cardiovascular diseases is one of the “holy grails” for cardiovascular scientists. The ability to repair heart muscle – especially by using a person’s own cells – would…

IMAGE: The image depicts sickle cell disease, the focus of some presentations at the ASH meeting. view more  Credit: Image by Julie Justice; Randall Wakefield; Jennifer Peters, PhD; Christophe Lechauve, PhD; Victoria Frohlich, PhD. The 60th Annual Meeting of the American…

IMAGE: Force Push is a novel VR technique that allows users to move objects with unprecedented nuance. view more  Credit: Virginia Tech Fans of the Star Wars franchise will have to wait more than a year from now to get their…

Today’s political climate in the U.S. is often peppered with animosity from the U.S. president towards other countries but how has the U.S. image fared? A Dartmouth study finds that the U.S. image abroad appears to be influenced more by…

IMAGE: George DuPaul is a professor of school psychology at Lehigh University. view more  Credit: Courtesy of Lehigh University African-American children often are reported by parents and teachers to display behaviors of ADHD at a higher rate than children from other…

November 30, 2018 – Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) is a rare disease with overlapping features of two categories of bone marrow and blood cell disorders that poses challenges in clinical management. Joint recommendations on diagnosis and treatment of CMML from…

The English idiom “highbrow,” derived from a physical description of a skull barely able to contain the brain inside of it, comes from a long-held belief in the existence of a link between brain size and intelligence. For more than…

IMAGE: Model output of OH primary production over a 24-hour period in July tracks with sunlight across the globe. Higher levels of OH over populated land are likely from OH recycling… view more  Credit: Credits: NASA / Julie Nicely A simple…

IMAGE: This illustration shows terrestrial water storage changes in global endorheic basins from GRACE satellite observations, April 2002 to March 2016. In the top image, terrestrial water storage trends — in… view more  Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, KANSAS — Along…

IMAGE: This is Sanjib Banerjee. view more  Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Preclinical experiments by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers suggest the cancer drugs vorinostat, belinostat and panobinostat might be repurposed to treat infections caused by human papillomaviruses, or HPVs.…

Many factors affect cancer treatment outcome, such as the size and location of the tumor, availability of effective treatments, and timing of intervention. But some cancers are so aggressive that outcome is poor, even after early diagnosis and chemotherapy. Researchers…

IMAGE: Human HSCs in intestine. view more  Credit: Megan Sykes/Columbia University The human intestine may provide up to 10 percent of blood cells in circulation from its own reservoir of blood-forming stem cells, a surprising new study from researchers at Columbia…

WASHINGTON–Weight cycling is associated with a higher risk of death, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology Metabolism. Weight cycling, or the constant losing and gaining of weight (usually from diet), leads to…

IMAGE: New tool allows scientists to accurately probe intracellular phase separation — the process by which the chaotic liquid matter inside cells transforms into functioning cellular compartments called membraneless organelles. view more  Credit: The researchers Creating new tools that harness light…

In August 2012, in the frigid wilderness of West Greenland, the Jakobshavn Glacier was flowing and breaking off into the sea at record speeds, three times faster than in previous years. An underwater calving event had caused the massive glacier…

The constant movement of fish that seems random is actually precisely deployed to provide them at any moment with the best sensory feedback they need to navigate the world, Johns Hopkins University researchers found. The finding, published today in the…

Scientists using data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have measured all the starlight produced over 90 percent of the universe’s history. The analysis, which examines the gamma-ray output of distant galaxies, estimates the formation rate of stars and provides…

IMAGE: DIVVY bike with Chicago’s Willis Tower in background. view more  Credit: Paul Wasneski With the L, Divvy bikes, buses, Uber and Lyft, Chicago has no shortage of transportation options. But whether or not people actually explore all these options might…

USC scientists have demonstrated a theoretical method to enhance the performance of quantum computers, an important step to scale a technology with potential to solve some of society’s biggest challenges. The method addresses a weakness that bedevils performance of the…

IMAGE: Dr. Mehrotra is the co-scientific director of the oncology and immunotherapy programs in the Department of Surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina and a member of the Hollings… view more  Credit: Sarah Pack. Medical University of South Carolina…

IMAGE: David Mascarenas, a research and development engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, used Barkhausen noise to find unique-looking ‘fingerprints’ in steel that could help to verify weapons treaties and reduce… view more  Credit: Furhana Afrid at Los Alamos Laboratory LOS…

IMAGE: Daniel A. Pollyea, MD, MS, and colleagues report dramatic results for venetoclax against AML in older adults. view more  Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Clinical trial results published in the journal Nature Medicine show 91 percent response rate to…

IMAGE: This is Dr. Zhijian ‘James’ Chen. view more  Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS – Nov. 28, 2018 – UT Southwestern biochemist and Breakthrough Prize winner Dr. Zhijian “James” Chen’s newest study answers a long-standing question in the field of innate immunity.…

November 28, 2018 – Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is a common condition with a high economic impact in both children and adults, concludes an updated review in the Journal of Addiction Medicine, the official journal of the American Society…

Researchers from North Carolina State University have created the largest publicly available virtual library of macrolide scaffolds. The library – called V1M – contains chemical structures and computed properties for 1 million macrolide scaffolds with potential for use as antibiotics…

IMAGE: Researchers led by a team at Princeton University are exploring ways to make the mouse immune system more similar to that of humans, enabling mice to help in the search… view more  Credit: Alexander Ploss and Florian Douam, Princeton University…

Nemo, the adorable clownfish in the movie Finding Nemo, rubs himself all over the anemone he lives in to keep it from stinging and eating him like it does most fish. That rubbing leads the makeup of microbes covering the…

IMAGE: Janet Hauck is an assistant professor of kinesiology at Michigan State University who specializes in infant motor intervention research. Her new study is one of the first to focus on… view more  Credit: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. —…

IMAGE: Novel, practical method that enables the capture of spatially-varying BRDFs from unstructured flash photographs. Image (a) shows the acquisition setup, while (b) – (d) show results of the reconstructions. view more  Credit: Courtesy, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 Capturing and reproducing…

WASHINGTON– Blue whales around the world are singing a little flat, and scientists may now have more clues as to the reason why. A new study finds there’s a seasonal variation in the whales’ pitch correlated with breaking sea ice…

Nov. 27, 2018 Threatened tropical coral reefs form complex, ancient associations with bacteria, researchers say When it comes to the well-being of coral reefs, for many years scientists focused on bleaching, an event that can endanger corals and the diverse…

IMAGE: This is Dr. Sasirekha Ramani. view more  Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Using a multidisciplinary approach, an international team of researchers from several institutions, including Baylor College of Medicine, reveals that complex interactions between sugars and the microbiome in human…

IMAGE: Meng Cao, who is pursuing a doctoral degree in statistics, and Professor Jay Breidt teamed up with researchers from the Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources to drill down… view more  Credit: Joe Mendoza/CSU Photography Conservation scientists and statisticians…

IMAGE: UNLV psychology professor Daniel Allen, who recently published a study about negative symptoms in schizophrenia, works with former UNLV undergraduate researcher Bernadine Palisoc in 2015. view more  Credit: Aaron Mayes/UNLV Photo Services The onset of schizophrenia in young adults can…

AUGUSTA, Ga. (Nov. 28, 2018) – A lipid that helps keep skin cell turnover on track may help restore healthy turnover in psoriasis, investigators say. Topical application of the lipid phosphatidylglycerol, or PG, on a mouse model of psoriasis reduced…

IMAGE: Dr. Yi Pan, Regents’ Professor of Computer Science and chair of the Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University. view more  Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA–Early detection of the most common form of epilepsy in children is possible through…

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have published landmark test results that suggest a promising class of sensors can be used in high-radiation environments and to advance important medical, industrial and research applications. Photonic sensors convey…

IMAGE: When damaged by oxidative stress or UV light, an eye lens protein called gamma-crystallin, can begin to aggregate, forming the cloudy clumps that we call cataracts. Researchers have recently uncovered… view more  Credit: ???????: ??????? ????????? Researchers working to understand…

A computer model developed at the University of Wyoming by UW researchers and others has demonstrated remarkable accuracy and efficiency in identifying images of wild animals from camera-trap photographs in North America. The artificial-intelligence breakthrough, detailed in a paper published…

IMAGE: This is Jennifer Harman, associate professor of psychology at Colorado State University. view more  Credit: John Eisele/Colorado State University The scene: a bitter divorce, and a custody battle over the couple’s 7-year-old son. Awarded full custody, the mother – perhaps…