Day January 20, 2021

IMAGE: Yury Poliknov and Alexander Mankin view more  Credit: Jenny Fontaine/UIC New high-resolution structures of the bacterial ribosome determined by researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago show that a single water molecule may be the cause — and possible solution…

Disasters in high-risk industries can have catastrophic environmental, financial and human safety consequences. One way these industries help prevent and mitigate disasters is formal procedures designed to standardize how work is done. These procedures typically come in the form of…

IMAGE: Examples of 3D point clouds synthesized by the progressive conditional generative adversarial network (PCGAN) for an assortment of object classes. PCGAN generates both geometry and color for point clouds, without… view more  Credit: [William Beksi, UT Arlington] Before he joined…

IMAGE: The interior of a termite nest shows complex, interconnecting floors and ramps. view more  Credit: (Image courtesy of Guy Theraulaz/Harvard SEAS) Following a series of studies on termite mound physiology and morphogenesis over the past decade, researchers at the Harvard…

IMAGE: Pictorial representation of joint experimental and computational study of materials. The study utilized the Advanced Photon Source (upper panel) and Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (lower panel). The team addressed the… view more  Credit: Emmanuel Gygi, University of California, San Diego…

IMAGE: Provides all-inclusive access to the critical pillars of human gene therapy: research, methods, and clinical applications. view more  Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, January 19, 2021–Gene editing therapies, including CRISPR-Cas systems, offer the potential to correct…

ITHACA, N.Y. – When the semester shifted online amid the COVID-19 pandemic last spring, Cornell University instructor Mark Sarvary, and his teaching staff decided to encourage – but not require – students to switch on their cameras. It didn’t turn…

IMAGE: The image of a female Asian elephant in a tea plantation on the fringes of Kaziranga National Park in India, bordering the Eastern Himalaya biodiversity hotspot, exemplifies potential impacts to endangered species… view more  Credit: Image courtesy of Sashanka Barbaruah-Wildlife…

The Tiger Rattlesnake possesses the simplest, yet most toxic venom of any rattlesnake species, and now new research from a team lead by a University of South Florida biologist can explain the genetics behind the predator’s fearsome bite. Published in…

A new therapy developed by researchers at Rush University Medical Center is showing success as a way to prevent COVID-19 symptoms in mice. In a study published in the Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology, mouse models with COVID-19 showed positive results…