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Analyzing a Novel Adenovirus: Predicting Future Eye Pathogens

The ongoing dance between a virus and its host distinctly shapes how the virus evolves. While human adenoviruses typically cause mild infections, recent…

Life & Chemistry

Nanoparticles Enhance siRNA Drug Delivery for Targeted Therapy

But the specific delivery of siRNAs to target cells to exert their effects remains a significant challenge. A novel nanoparticle-based approach that enables…

Studies and Analyses

Marketing Insights Fuel Better Nutrition Strategies

It may seem counter-intuitive to take health advice from a marketing professor, but when it comes to analyzing consumer data and its relationship to managing…

Interdisciplinary Research

Superconducting Qualities of Topological Insulators Unveiled

Topological insulators (TIs) are an exciting new type of material that on their surface carry electric current, but within their bulk, act as insulators. Since…

Environmental Conservation

Early warning signs of population collapse

Many factors — including climate change, overfishing or loss of food supply — can push a wild animal population to the brink of collapse. Ecologists have long…

Health & Medicine

Restoring Hand Function with Artificial Neural Connections

An artificial neural connection that bridges the lost pathway and connects brain to spinal circuits has potential to ameliorate the functional loss. Yukio…

Studies and Analyses

Endometriosis Treatments May Reduce Ovarian Cancer Risk

Endometriosis is a common, and often painful, gynecological disease where tissue normally found inside the uterus, grows elsewhere in the body. According to…

Life & Chemistry

Call for Marine Biodiversity Observation Network Proposal

A comprehensive marine biodiversity observation network could be established with modest funding within 5 years, according to an expert assessment published in…

Life & Chemistry

Building a National Marine Biodiversity Observation Network

Humans depend on the ocean for food, medicine, transportation and recreation, yet little is known about how these vast ecosystems spanning 70 percent of the…

Life & Chemistry

Blood Stem Cells: Key to Fighting Infections During Transplants

This property could be used to protect against infections in patients undergoing bone marrow transplants, while their immune system reconstitutes itself…

Studies and Analyses

Sediba’s ribcage and feet were not suitable for running

The fossils discovered four years ago in Malapa near Johannesburg show a mixture of primitive features of australopiths and advanced features of later human…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Variations Impact Medication Effects on Reproductive Health

The results may help to explain why certain medications have strong side effects on sperm and eggs, and why certain organisms remain unaffected by…

Materials Sciences

Geckos’ Sticky Toes: Adhering Underwater Surfaces Explained

Geckos are known for their sticky adhesive toes that allow them to stick to, climb on, and run along surfaces in any orientation–even upside down! But until…

Health & Medicine

UCLA Study Links Auto Pollution to Childhood Cancers

The results of their study — the first to examine air pollution from traffic and a number of rarer childhood cancers — were presented on April 9 in an abstract…

Technology Offerings

New DPP8 and DPP9 Inhibitors Transform Peptidase Research

Peptidases are essential for many biological processes and are therefore intensively studied within the research community. Scientists at the University of…

Technology Offerings

LICE ERASER – reliably killing of head-lice and their nits

The LICE-ERASER kills the head-lice and their nits reliably and without any side effects. For the use, the LICE-ERASER has to be moved through the hair like a…

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