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Released: 8-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
Patterns of brain connectivity differ between pre-term and term babies
King's College London

A new King’s College London scanning study of 390 babies has shown distinct patterns between term and pre-term babies in the moment-to-moment activity and connectivity of brain networks.

Newswise: How nearly identical RNA helicases drive “mRNA export” via distinct protein complex pathways
Released: 8-Feb-2024 1:05 PM EST
How nearly identical RNA helicases drive “mRNA export” via distinct protein complex pathways
Newswise Review

Genetic expression, often leading to protein synthesis, requires a complex coordination of molecular machinery across several stages.

Newswise: Blood test predicts psychosis risk, most effective treatments
Released: 8-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Blood test predicts psychosis risk, most effective treatments
Indiana University

Team of researchers led by Indiana University School of Medicine faculty have developed a breakthrough new blood test for schizophrenia, a psychiatric disorder that includes hallucinations and delusions.

Newswise: Mount Sinai Study Shows That Circulating Immune Cells Drawn to the Brain During Stress Can Control Emotional Behaviors
Released: 7-Feb-2024 1:30 PM EST
Mount Sinai Study Shows That Circulating Immune Cells Drawn to the Brain During Stress Can Control Emotional Behaviors
Mount Sinai Health System

Findings shed light on mechanisms underlying psychosocial stress and depression susceptibility

Released: 7-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
New study sheds new light on forests' role in climate and water cycle
Stockholm University

Forests, which cover a third of Earth's land surface, are pivotal in carbon storage and the water cycle, though the full scope of their impact remains to be fully understood. In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers from Stockholm University and international colleagues provide new insights into the complex role forests play in the climate system and water cycle.

Newswise: Innovation in stone tool technology involved multiple stages at the time of modern human dispersals
Released: 7-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
Innovation in stone tool technology involved multiple stages at the time of modern human dispersals
Nagoya University

A study led by researchers at the Nagoya University Museum in Japan may change how we understand the cultural evolution of Homo sapiens at the time of their dispersal across Eurasia about 50,000 to 40,000 years ago.

Newswise: How the Brain’s Internal Compass Guides the Body
7-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
How the Brain’s Internal Compass Guides the Body
Harvard Medical School

A study in fruit flies reveals how the brain’s compass and steering regions make course corrections

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Released: 6-Feb-2024 7:05 PM EST
RESEARCH ALERT: The New Geography of the Gut
Cedars-Sinai

Investigators from Cedars-Sinai; the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF); Harvard University; and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel conducted a study to determine where individual nutrients are absorbed in the small intestine. For the first time, they identified the molecular markers that define five distinct intestinal regions.

Newswise: Research Team Takes a Fundamental Step Toward a Functioning Quantum Internet
Released: 6-Feb-2024 1:05 PM EST
Research Team Takes a Fundamental Step Toward a Functioning Quantum Internet
Stony Brook University

A team of Stony Brook University physicists and their collaborators have taken a significant step toward the building of a quantum internet testbed by demonstrating a foundational quantum network measurement that employs room-temperature quantum memories.

Newswise: Deciphering dynamics of electric charge
Released: 6-Feb-2024 12:05 PM EST
Deciphering dynamics of electric charge
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Research led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Marti Checa and Liam Collins has pioneered a groundbreaking approach, described in the journal Nature Communications, toward understanding the behavior of an electric charge at the microscopic level.

Newswise: How T cells combat tuberculosis
Released: 6-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
How T cells combat tuberculosis
La Jolla Institute for Immunology

Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have uncovered important clues to how human T cells combat the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.

Newswise: How a city is organized can create less-biased citizens
Released: 6-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
How a city is organized can create less-biased citizens
Santa Fe Institute

The city you live in could be making you, your family, and your friends more unconsciously racist.

Released: 6-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Mechanism of plants obtain nitrogen by supplying iron to symbiotic bacteria
University of Tsukuba

Leguminous plants have a mechanism (rhizobial symbiosis) to efficiently acquire nitrogen, which is an essential macronutrient for growth, through the nitrogen-fixing bacteria rhizobia.

Newswise: Breaking boundaries in quantum photonics:
Groundbreaking nanocavities unlock new frontiers in light confinement
5-Feb-2024 9:30 AM EST
Breaking boundaries in quantum photonics: Groundbreaking nanocavities unlock new frontiers in light confinement
Bar-Ilan University

In a significant leap forward for quantum nanophotonics, a team of European and Israeli physicists, introduces a new type of polaritonic cavities and redefines the limits of light confinement. This pioneering work, detailed in a study published today in Nature Materials, demonstrates an unconventional method to confine photons, overcoming the traditional limitations in nanophotonics.

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Released: 5-Feb-2024 11:00 PM EST
Extra Fingers and Hearts: Pinpointing Changes to Our Genetic Instructions That Disrupt Development
University of California San Diego

Scientists can now predict which single-letter changes to the DNA within our genomes will alter genetic instructions and disrupt development, leading to changes such as the growth of extra digits and hearts.

Newswise: UB study challenges the classical view of the origin of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and warns of its vulnerability
Released: 5-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
UB study challenges the classical view of the origin of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and warns of its vulnerability
Universitat de Barcelona

The Circumpolar Current works as a regulator of the planet’s climate. Its origins were thought to have caused the formation of the permanent ice in Antarctica about 34 million years ago.

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Released: 5-Feb-2024 8:05 PM EST
New Ion Cooling Technique Could Simplify Quantum Computing Devices
Georgia Institute of Technology

A new cooling technique that utilizes a single species of trapped ion for both computing and cooling could simplify the use of quantum charge-coupled devices (QCCDs), potentially moving quantum computing closer to practical applications.

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Released: 5-Feb-2024 6:05 PM EST
Cedars-Sinai Behavioral Health App Launches On Apple Vision Pro
Cedars-Sinai

Cedars-Sinai clinicians and artificial intelligence experts have developed a new application that takes advantage of the unique capabilities of Apple Vision Pro to support patients’ mental health needs.

   
Newswise: Smells like evolution: Fruit flies reveal surprises in chemical sensing
Released: 5-Feb-2024 5:05 PM EST
Smells like evolution: Fruit flies reveal surprises in chemical sensing
Queen Mary University of London

A new study in Nature Communications unveils the hidden world of sensory evolution in fruit flies.

Newswise: Creating a Virus-Resistant Bacterium Using a Synthetic Engineered Genome
Released: 5-Feb-2024 4:05 PM EST
Creating a Virus-Resistant Bacterium Using a Synthetic Engineered Genome
Department of Energy, Office of Science

To improve bioproducts productivity, researchers have engineered the genome of E. coli to make it immune to viral infections.

   
Released: 5-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
Green steel from toxic red mud
Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)

An economical process with green hydrogen can be used to extract CO2-free iron from the red mud generated in aluminium production.

Newswise: New Technology Unscrambles the Chatter of Microbes
2-Feb-2024 4:05 PM EST
New Technology Unscrambles the Chatter of Microbes
University of California San Diego

Researchers from University of California San Diego have developed a new search tool to that can match microbes to the metabolites they produce with no prior knowledge, an innovation that could transform our understanding of both human health and the environment.

   
Newswise: Improving Climate Predictions by Unlocking the Secrets of Soil Microbes
5-Feb-2024 5:00 AM EST
Improving Climate Predictions by Unlocking the Secrets of Soil Microbes
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

A team of scientists led by Berkeley Lab has developed a new model that incorporates genetic information from microbes.

1-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
Immune response, not acute viral infections, responsible for neurological damage, McMaster researchers discover
McMaster University

For years, there has been a long-held belief that acute viral infections like Zika or COVID-19 are directly responsible for neurological damage, but researchers from McMaster University have now discovered that it’s the immune system’s response that is behind it.

Newswise: Why are people climate change deniers?
Released: 2-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
Why are people climate change deniers?
University of Bonn

Do climate change deniers bend the facts to avoid having to modify their environmentally harmful behavior? Researchers from the University of Bonn and the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) ran an online experiment involving 4,000 US adults, and found no evidence to support this idea.

Released: 2-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
Immune cells lose ‘killer instinct’ in cancerous tumors – but functionality can be re-awakened
University of Birmingham

Some immune cells in our bodies see their ‘killer instinct’ restricted after entering solid tumours, according to new research.

Newswise: Reaping agricultural emissions solutions
Released: 2-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Reaping agricultural emissions solutions
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORNL climate modeling expertise contributed to a project that assessed global emissions of ammonia from croplands now and in a warmer future, while also identifying solutions tuned to local growing conditions.

Released: 1-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
Climate change: Fungal disease endangers wheat production
Technical University of Munich

Climate change poses a threat to yields and food security worldwide, with plant diseases as one of the main risks.

Newswise: Increased temperature difference between day and night can affect all life on earth
Released: 1-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
Increased temperature difference between day and night can affect all life on earth
Chalmers University of Technology

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden, have discovered a change in what scientists already knew about global warming dynamics.

Newswise: Tidal landscapes a greater carbon sink than previously thought
Released: 1-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
Tidal landscapes a greater carbon sink than previously thought
University of Gothenburg

Mangroves and saltmarshes sequester large amounts of carbon, mitigating the greenhouse effect.

Newswise: Plant receptors that control immunity and development share a common origin
Released: 1-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
Plant receptors that control immunity and development share a common origin
RIKEN

Plants are continuously evolving new immune receptors to ever-changing pathogens.

Released: 1-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
Resistant bacteria can remain in the body for years
University of Basel

Fighting disease-causing bacteria becomes more difficult when antibiotics stop working.

Released: 1-Feb-2024 12:05 PM EST
Had COVID-19 But Your Friend Didn’t? Why the Difference?
Cedars-Sinai

Investigators in the Department of Computational Biomedicine at Cedars-Sinai wanted to find out which factors influenced susceptibility to COVID-19 infection and disease severity the most. Was it genetics? Or was it home environment, meaning the germs circulating throughout your everyday life?

Newswise: Single proton illuminates perovskite nanocrystals-based transmissive thin scintillators
Released: 1-Feb-2024 4:05 AM EST
Single proton illuminates perovskite nanocrystals-based transmissive thin scintillators
National University of Singapore (NUS)

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a transmissive thin scintillator using perovskite nanocrystals, designed for real-time tracking and counting of single protons.

Released: 31-Jan-2024 5:05 PM EST
Bringing order to disordered proteins
University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Science

Protein molecules lie at the heart of biology. Our typical understanding of proteins states that each type of protein has a specific three-dimensional shape that enables it to perform its function.

Newswise: As sea otters recolonize California estuary, they restore its degraded geology
Released: 31-Jan-2024 5:05 PM EST
As sea otters recolonize California estuary, they restore its degraded geology
Duke University

In the several decades since sea otters began to recolonize their former habitat in Elkhorn Slough, a salt marsh-dominated coastal estuary in central California, remarkable changes have occurred in the landscape.

Released: 31-Jan-2024 5:05 PM EST
Oxford scientists launch ambitious roadmap for circular carbon plastics economy
University of Oxford

Researchers from the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Plastics, University of Oxford, have outlined ambitious targets to help deliver a sustainable and net zero plastic economy.

Released: 31-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
New and highly infectious E. coli strain resistant to powerful antibiotics
University of Birmingham

A new type of E. coli that is both highly infectious and resistant to some antibiotics has been discovered.

Newswise: Firing nerve fibers in the brain are supplied with energy on demand
Released: 31-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
Firing nerve fibers in the brain are supplied with energy on demand
University of Zurich

Brain function depends on the swift movement of electrical signals along axons, the long extensions of nerve cells that connect billions of brain cells.

Released: 31-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
Groundbreaking genome editing tools unlock new possibilities for precision medicine
Technische Universität Dresden

Traditional genome editing faced limitations in achieving ultimate precision until now. Prof. Buchholz's team has broken through this barrier by creating what many have sought after: a zinc-finger conditioned recombinase.

Newswise: New study reports that Greenland is a methane sink rather than a source
Released: 31-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
New study reports that Greenland is a methane sink rather than a source
University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Science

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have concluded that the methane uptake in dry landscapes exceeds methane emissions from wet areas across the ice-free part of Greenland.

Newswise: Mapeamento dos comportamentos celulares em glioma de alto grau para a melhora do tratamento
Released: 31-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
Mapeamento dos comportamentos celulares em glioma de alto grau para a melhora do tratamento
Mayo Clinic

Gliomas de alto grau são tumores cancerígenos que se espalham rapidamente no cérebro ou na medula espinhal.

Newswise: January Research Highlights
Released: 31-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
January Research Highlights
Cedars-Sinai

A roundup of the latest medical discoveries and faculty news at Cedars-Sinai for January 2024.

Released: 31-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
UC Irvine scientists make breakthrough in quantum materials research
University of California, Irvine

Irvine, Calif., Jan. 31, 2024 — Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and Los Alamos National Laboratory, publishing in the latest issue of Nature Communications, describe the discovery of a new method that transforms everyday materials like glass into materials scientists can use to make quantum computers.

Newswise: وضع خريطة لسلوكيات خلايا الورم الدِبقي عالي الدرجة لتحسين العلاج
Released: 31-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
وضع خريطة لسلوكيات خلايا الورم الدِبقي عالي الدرجة لتحسين العلاج
Mayo Clinic

الأورام الدبقية عالية الدرجة هي أورام سرطانية تنتشر بسرعة في الدماغ أو الحبل النخاعي. في دراسة جديدة أجريت تحت إشراف مايو كلينك، وجد الباحثون أن هوامش أورام الدماغ الغزوية للورم الدبقي عالي الدرجة تحتوي على تغيرات جينية وجزيئية مميزة بيولوجيًا تشير إلى السلوك العدواني وتكرار المرض. وتُظهر النتائج تصورات متعمقة للعلاجات المحتملة التي يمكن أن تحوّل مسار المرض.

Newswise: Mapeo de los comportamientos celulares en glioma de alto grado para la mejora del tratamiento
Released: 31-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
Mapeo de los comportamientos celulares en glioma de alto grado para la mejora del tratamiento
Mayo Clinic

Los gliomas de alto grado son tumores cancerígenos que se propagan rápidamente en el cerebro o en la médula espinal.

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29-Jan-2024 2:10 PM EST
Homo sapiens already reached northwest Europe more than 45,000 years ago
Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)

An international research team reports the discovery of Homo sapiens fossils from the cave site Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany. Directly dated to approximately 45,000 years ago, these fossils are associated with elongated stone points partly shaped on both sides (known as partial bifacial blade points), which are characteristic of the Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician (LRJ).

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Newswise: As cities grow, how will city trash, wastewater, and emissions rise?
Released: 30-Jan-2024 5:05 PM EST
As cities grow, how will city trash, wastewater, and emissions rise?
New York University

More than half of the world’s population—4.4 billion people—lives in cities, and that proportion will grow to two-thirds by the year 2050, according to the United Nations.

Released: 30-Jan-2024 1:05 PM EST
DNA particles that mimic viruses hold promise as vaccines
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Using a virus-like delivery particle made from DNA, researchers from MIT and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard have created a vaccine that can induce a strong antibody response against SARS-CoV-2.



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