Day July 11, 2020

CHICAGO (July 10, 2020): In the male-dominated field of surgery, female faculty of training programs tend to receive lower scores than male faculty on their teaching evaluations, which are important for career advancement, past research has found. Now a new…

CHAPEL HILL, NC – July 10, 2020 – Pregnant women are among those most in need of safe and effective preventives and treatments for HIV and co-infections. Yet because they are commonly excluded from research, they are among the least…

IMAGE: On July 10 at 4:35 a.m. EDT (0835 UTC), the MODIS instrument aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite gathered temperature information about Tropical Storm Cristina’s cloud tops. MODIS found a small area… view more  Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL NASA’s Aqua satellite revealed better…

PHILADELPHIA (July 10, 2020) – As of May 2020, nursing home residents account for a staggering one-third of the more than 80,000 deaths due to COVID-19 in the U.S. This pandemic has resulted in unprecedented threats–like reduced access to resources…

IMAGE: Color-processed microscopic image of a pair of Mauthner cells (green) in a zebrafish. On the left is the head of the fish, on the right the tail. The two green… view more  Credit: Image: Alexander Hecker. Biologists from the University…

IMAGE: The hormone FGF21 is made in the liver and acts in the brain to suppress sugar intake and the preference for sweet taste. The cartoon illustrates the role FGF21 plays… view more  Credit: Matthew Potthoff, University of Iowa Carver College…

IMAGE: A map of the Arctic Ocean shows the location of the Amerasian and Eurasian basins. Arrows show the path of warm, fresh Pacific water and warm, salty Atlantic water into… view more  Credit: Graphic adapted from Polyakov et al. 2020,…

A new single-cell RNA sequencing analysis of more than 59,000 cells from three different patient cohorts provides a detailed look at patients’ immune responses to severe cases of COVID-19. The results suggest that patients with severe COVID-19 experience increased regulation…

The ability to recognize faces is a complex neurocognitive skill with important social implications. The disorder, which, according to some estimates, affects more than 2 percent of the population, can lead to isolation and anxiety and impair personal and work…

IMAGE: (a, b) cf. Amentotaxus from the Middle-Late Jurassic Daoguhou Bed in eastern Inner Mongolia, China. (c) Living A. yunnanensis. (d) Living A. argotaenia. (e) Reconstructive drawing of specimen in (a)…. view more  Credit: ©Science China Press The Taxaceae are a…