Month April 2021

April 29, 2021 -An increasing number of digital mental health interventions are designed for adolescents and young people with a range of mental health issues, but the evidence on their effectiveness is mixed, according to research by Columbia University Mailman…

IMAGE: Ancient ostrich eggshells from Ysterfontein 1, a Middle Stone Age midden in South Africa. Shown are selected eggshells from the top layer of the midden dated by Uranium-Thorium (U-Th, or… view more  Credit: Image courtesy of E. Niespolo. Archeologists have…

BOSTON – After patients with cancer undergo surgery to remove a tumor and sometimes additional chemotherapy, tools are used to identify patients at highest risk of recurrence. Non-invasive tools to detect microscopic disease are of especially high value. In a…

IMAGE: Vladimir Stegailov, HSE University professor view more  Credit: Vladimir Stegailov Researchers from the HSE International Laboratory for Supercomputer Atomistic Modelling and Multi-scale Analysis, JIHT RAS and MIPT have compared the performance of popular molecular modelling programs on GPU accelerators produced…

IMAGE: The University of Minnesota study shows that high-energy light from small galaxies, like the Pox 186 galaxy depicted above, may have played a key role in the reionization and evolution… view more  Credit: Credit: Podevin, J.f., 2006 A new study…

IMAGE: The Korean icebreaker Araon, which unexpectedly found itself in an Arctic cyclone in 2016, unlocked the key to how these storms wreak havoc on sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. view more  Credit: Photo by Joo-Hong Kim, Korea Polar Research…

Older adults were significantly affected by isolation and stress during Oregon’s initial COVID-19 lockdown last spring, but they were also able to find connection and meaning in community, new hobbies and time for themselves, a recent Oregon State University study…

DALLAS, April 29, 2021 – Last Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food Drug Administration (FDA) lifted the pause in administration of the Johnson Johnson (Janssen) COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S. The temporary pause…

Tomorrow’s cutting-edge technology will need electronics that can tolerate extreme conditions. That’s why a group of researchers led by Michigan State University’s Jason Nicholas is building stronger circuits today. Nicholas and his team have developed more heat resilient silver circuitry…

IMAGE: The study focused on wooded peatland and forests like the landscape pictured here near the town of Wrigley in Canada’s Northwest Territories. This drone imagery was taken by then-BU PhD… view more  Credit: Courtesy of Jonathan Wang New research indicates…

A protein variant common in malignant bladder tumor cells may serve as a new avenue for treating bladder cancer. A multi-institution study led by UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers found that targeting androgen receptors – a type of protein…

Veterinarians, pet owners and breeders often have preconceived notions about each other, but by investigating these biases, experts at the University of Arizona College of Veterinary Medicine hope to improve both human communication and animal care. “Veterinary medicine may require…

IMAGE: Xanthippi Markenscoff is a distinguished professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. view more  Credit: Xanthippi Markenscoff These mysterious earthquakes originate between 400 and 700 kilometers below…

ITHACA, N.Y. – Though more than 131 million Americans have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine to date, public confusion and uncertainty about the importance of second doses and continued public health precautions threaten to delay a U.S.…

In an effort to fight the millions of tons of marine litter floating in the ocean, Florida State University researchers have developed a new virtual tool to track this debris. Their work, which was published in Frontiers in Marine Science,…

IMAGE: when cAMP (orange) binds. This also changes the distance between the two molecular magnets attached to the channel (black). view more  Credit: (c) Tobias Hett / Universität Bonn und Forschungszentrum caesar Researchers at the University of Bonn and the research…

IMAGE: Aaron Johnson: “Now that we know that there are these differences in how dyslexics read, we have to ask what we can do to improve their reading. ” view more  Credit: Concordia University Researchers have long noted that readers with…

IMAGE: Schematic of the optical microcavity with 2D semiconductor. The nonlinear optical response arises from the larger Bohr radii Rydberg excitons allowing to push the limit to few photon nonlinear limit. view more  Credit: Image credit: Rezlind Bushati The ability to…

NEW YORK, NY– Diagnosing chronic kidney disease, which is often undetected until it causes irreversible damage, may soon become automated with a new algorithm that interprets data from electronic medical records. The algorithm, developed by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos…

IMAGE: – view more  Credit: Yuki Nagashima Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology developed a new strategy for producing a wide range of organotin compounds, which are the building blocks of many organic synthesis methods. Their approach is based on the…

IMAGE: Hyperpolarization of fumarate for use as a biosensor view more  Credit: ill./©: John Blanchard, James Eills / JGU A promising new concept published by an interdisciplinary research team in “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” (PNAS) paves the way…

IMAGE: Miling Li, assistant professor in the University of Delaware’s School of Marine Science and Policy, is the lead author on a study that used Automatic Identification System (AIS) satellite data… view more  Credit: Photo courtesy of University of Delaware African…

IMAGE: People with diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus are more likely to have heart attacks, angina, and strokes. Regular exercise improves vascular function view more  Credit: Diego Rezende The risk of developing atherosclerosis – a narrowing of the arteries…

IMAGE: Scientists at Gladstone Institutes have identified the blood cells that are most susceptible to HIV infection. view more  Credit: Photo: Gladstone Institutes SAN FRANCISCO, CA–April 27, 2021–In the 40-some years since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, scientists have learned…

IMAGE: AIF3 splicing triggers neurodegeneration and neuron loss in a mouse brain, shown in the cortex (orange and pink), hippocampus (green), and thalamus (blue). view more  Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – April 27, 2021 – Researchers with the Peter…

IMAGE: This visualization shows the deep-learning approach in predicting physical fields given different input geometries. The left figure shows a varying geometry of the composite in which the soft material is… view more  Credit: Courtesy of Zhenze Yang, Markus Buehler, et…

IMAGE: Single center double-blind RCT of adult patients requiring parenteral sedation ED view more  Credit: KIRSTY CHALLEN, B.SC., MBCHB, MRES, PH.D., LANCASHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS, UNITED KINGDOM Des Plaines, IL – In a randomized, double-blind trial of patients with acute undifferentiated agitation…

IMAGE: Volunteer monitoring programs, such as eBird, typically rely on observations made by nonscientist members of the public. view more  Credit: Kayla Farmer Over recent decades, community-based environmental monitoring (often called “citizen science”) has exploded in popularity, aided both by smartphones…

IMAGE: Wilson Majee is an associate professor in the MU School of Health Professions. view more  Credit: MU School of Health Professions COLUMBIA, Mo. — Having grown up poor in a rural village in Zimbabwe, Wilson Majee saw firsthand as a…

IMAGE: Neurons in the fruit fly brain are made by passing through various differentiation states, and are segregated into unique subtypes based on the age and cell division number of their… view more  Credit: Nigel Michki Neurons result from a highly…

IMAGE: International, multi-center clinical trial results show surgical procedure may help restore hand and arm function after stroke view more  Credit: Courtesy of MicroTransponder Inc. LOS ANGELES — Every year, more than 795,000 people in the United States have a stroke.…

A multi-institutional team of researchers has identified both the genetic abnormalities that drive pre-cancer cells into becoming an invasive type of head and neck cancer and patients who are least likely to respond to immunotherapy. “Through a series of surprises,…

As researchers continue to study the neurological impacts of COVID-19, a Houston Methodist international collaboration has documented an unexpectedly frequent occurrence of acute transverse myelitis (ATM) – inflammation of the spinal cord – in 43 COVID-19 patients. Led by Houston…

Each year over 150,000 infants worldwide are infected with HIV in the womb, at birth, or through breastfeeding. Why transmission occurs in some cases but not others has long been a mystery, but now a team led by Weill Cornell…

IMAGE: Neutrons can “see ” through metal. Therefore neutron diffraction is an ideal method for measuring residual stress inside of components made by additive manufacturing. The image shows a lattice structure in… view more  Credit: Dr. Tobias Fritsch / BAM 3D…

IMAGE: Schematic of the skin and bone bioprinting process. After scanning, the bone and then skin layers are bioprinted creating a layered repair with bone, a barrier layer, and dermis and… view more  Credit: Ozbolat laboratory, Penn State Fixing traumatic injuries…

IMAGE: Charles Clevenger, M.D., Ph.D. view more  Credit: VCU Massey Cancer Center The hormone prolactin has long been understood to play a vital role in breast growth and development and the production of milk during pregnancy. But a pair of recent…

One in five pharmacies refuse to dispense a key medication to treat addiction, according to new research. The study, published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, was conducted by researchers at Oregon Health Science University and the Oregon State…

IMAGE: UC Davis and SpectraPass have developed a 20-minute COVID-19 test that pairs a mass spectrometer with a powerful machine-learning platform to detect SARS-CoV-2 in nasal swabs…. view more  Credit: UC Davis Health A partnership between UC Davis and Maurice J.…

Nearly 80 percent of higher education faculty report dealing with student mental health issues–issues that more than 90 percent of faculty believe have worsened or significantly worsened during the pandemic, according to a new nationwide survey led by a Boston…