Day May 2, 2021

Vaccines bring us closer

IMAGE: World Health Organization (WHO) Member States affirmatively reporting national adult immunisation programmes, by WHO Region and worldwide, 2018 view more  Credit: Eurosurveillance, WHO Effectively and safely protecting against disease–this is what makes vaccines a vital and successful public health tool…

How to invest in a fairer and low carbon energy system

IMAGE: Integrated Energy System Illustration view more  Credit: Heriot-Watt University Governments throughout the world have accelerated their ambitions towards effective climate change mitigation. What is clear, in this challenge of how to tackle the complex and global issue of climate change,…

Engineering T cells to attack cancer broadly

IMAGE: Control mice (left panel) with prostate cancer show large areas of metastasis in the lungs (blue). When a subset of animals were treated with unmodified T cells (middle panel), the… view more  Credit: Shawn Wang, Ph.D. Through T cell engineering,…

Articles for Geosphere posted online in April

Boulder, Colo., USA: GSA’s dynamic online journal, Geosphere, posts articles online regularly. Locations and topics studied this month include the Central Anatolian Plateau; the Southern Rocky Mountain Volcanic Field; petrogenesis in the Grand Canyon; and the evolution of the Portland…

A glimmer of hope: New weapon in the fight against liver diseases

IMAGE: Increased levels of annexin A1, lactotransferrin, and aminopeptidase N. Increase the counts of anti-inflammatory macrophages with high motility and phagocytic ability, which increase repair of damaged tissue. Induces regulatory T… view more  Credit: Niigata University Niigata, Japan–Researchers from Niigata University…