Day March 6, 2020

IMAGE: Gut bacteria can penetrate tumor cells and boost the effectiveness of an experimental immunotherapy that targets the CD47 protein. view more  Credit: UTSW DALLAS – March 6, 2020 – Could the response to cancer immunotherapy depend on bacteria that originate…

IMAGE: From left, College of Medicine graduate student Jamie Johnston, College of Medicine Associate Professor Jose Pinto, College of Medicine graduate student Maicon Landim-Vieira and Department of Biological Science Professor P…. view more  Credit: Photo courtesy of P. Bryant Chase. Florida…

IMAGE: Personal protective equipment (PPE) reminder notices placed on radiology angiography room doors to remind staff to don correct PPE before entering rooms. (Obscuring of facial features has been applied for… view more  Credit: American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) Leesburg, VA,…

In order to understand what another person thinks and how he or she will behave we must take someone else’s perspective. This ability is referred to as Theory of Mind. Until recently, researchers were at odds concerning the age at…

For decades, scientists have wondered why specific cells in the brain that control movement fire when people simply plan or imagine making a movement, or observe someone else making a movement – but do not actually move themselves. Now, University…

IMAGE: These almost-100-year-old robin specimens were critical to a new study led by Anna Kearns, a former UMBC postdoc now at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. The study found that robins… view more  Credit: Anna Kearns In the 1930s, famed biologist…

IMAGE: CO2 measurements from OCO-2 in parts per million over Las Vegas on Feb. 8, 2018. view more  Credit: Dien Wu/University of Utah A new NASA/university study of carbon dioxide emissions for 20 major cities around the world provides the first…

Before the Taqba Dam impounded the Euphrates River in northern Syria in the 1970s, an archaeological site named Abu Hureyra bore witness to the moment ancient nomadic people first settled down and started cultivating crops. A large mound marks the…

Extreme temperature can do strange things to metals. In severe heat, iron ceases to be magnetic. In devastating cold, lead becomes a superconductor. For the last 30 years, physicists have been stumped by what exactly happens to uranium ruthenium silicide…

IMAGE: Hawaiian bobtail squid. Two genetic factors that control the expression of a key gene required by the luminescent bacteria that inhabit the squid’s light organs to kill competing bacterial cells… view more  Credit: Nate Follmer, Penn State Two factors that…