IMAGE: Northern Arizona University professor David Wagner, director of the Pathogen and Microbiome Institute’s (PMI) Biodefense and Disease Ecology Center, led a study to better understand the life cycle and behavior… view more Credit: Northern Arizona University Although it is not…
An estimated one in seven Ohio women of adult, reproductive age has visited a crisis pregnancy center, a new study has found. In a survey of 2,529 women, almost 14% said they’d ever attended a center. The prevalence was more…
The bacterium, which they named Candidatus Phytoplasma dypsidis was found to cause a fatal wilt disease. This new discovery was reported in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. In 2016, several ornamental palms within a conservatory in the…
On scales too small for our eyes to see, the business of life happens through the making of proteins, which impart to our cells both structure and function. Cellular proteins get their marching orders from genetic instructions encoded in DNA,…
IMAGE: Noboru Hiroi, PhD, and collaborators are studying which mouse pup cries are most predictive of the pups developing autism spectrum disorder later. Dr. Hiroi is a professor at The University… view more Credit: The University of Texas Health Science Center…
IMAGE: Pavement can be hard to find on some winter roads. Sensor technology and image processing could help autonomous vehicles better navigate snowy conditions. view more Credit: Sarah Atkinson/Michigan Tech Nobody likes driving in a blizzard, including autonomous vehicles. To make…
Ionizing radiation is used for treating nearly half of all cancer patients. Radiotherapy works by damaging the DNA of cancer cells, and cells sustaining so much DNA damage that they cannot sufficiently repair it will soon cease to replicate and…
May 27, 2021 – Patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty (THA) show significant reduction in pain and other symptoms and improvement in walking gait biomechanics. However, those improvements do not lead to increased daily physical activity levels, reports a study in…
IMAGE: The Dark Energy Survey camera (DECam) at the SiDet clean room. The Dark Energy Camera was designed specifically for the Dark Energy Survey. It was funded by the Department of… view more Credit: DOE Hahn/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA In 29 new scientific papers,…
LA JOLLA, CA–Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, most people in the United States already had been sick with a coronavirus, albeit a far less dangerous one. That’s because at least four coronaviruses in the same general family as SARS-CoV-2 cause…
