Focus: Hidden - DC Metro

• share
• favorite_border

Findings could rewrite textbooks about molecular structure for solvent ubiquitous in chemistry and biology.

• share
• favorite_border

Barry Ross Muchnick, assistant professor of environmental studies, recently presented an invited talk at the annual conference of the Association of American Colleges & Universities in Atlanta, Georgia.

• share
• favorite_border

A team at GW Cancer Center is investigating Prussian blue nanoparticles used in combination with checkpoint inhibitors for cancer treatment

• share
• favorite_border

• Among kidney transplant recipients, cognitive performance improved significantly for both frail and nonfrail recipients by 3 months post-transplant. • Between 1 and 4 years post-transplant, improvements plateaued among nonfrail recipients, whereas cognitive function declined among frail recipients.

• share
• favorite_border

• Influenza-like illness was linked with seasonal variation in the death rates of US patients with kidney failure.

• share
• favorite_border

In this issue, find research on police-related deaths, homocide in Mexico and life expectancy, tobacco and polytobacco use in young adults, and a 1970s heroin intervention

• share
• favorite_border

Algae that turn carbon dioxide into fuel feedstock are enhanced by surrounding bacteria.

• share
• favorite_border

Element-selective method reveals interfacial properties of materials used for water purification, catalysis, energy conversion, and more.

• share
• favorite_border

Pasadena, CA-- "Can moons have moons?" This simple question--asked by the four-year old son of Carnegie's Juna Kollmeier--started it all. Not long after this initial bedtime query, Kollmeier was coordinating a program at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) on the Milky Way while her one-time college classmate Sean Raymond of Université de Bordeaux was attending a parallel KITP program on the dynamics of Earth-like planets. After discussing this very simple question at a seminar, the two joined forces to solve it. Their findings are the basis of a paper published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

• share
• favorite_border

Children tend to prefer to be friends with other children who speak with the same local accent as they have, even if they grow up in a diverse community and are regularly exposed to a variety of accents, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

• share
• favorite_border

Lower-than-normal zinc levels may contribute to high blood pressure (hypertension) by altering the way the kidneys handle sodium. The study is published ahead of print in the American Journal of Physiology—Renal Physiology.

• share
• favorite_border

Research by psychologists at the University of Sydney has shown that increased exposure to negative messages about same-sex marriage was associated with greater psychological distress for lesbian, gay and bisexual Australians during the 2017 Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey.

• share
• favorite_border

Researchers facing a future with a larger population and more uncertain climate are looking to photosynthetic bacteria for engineering solutions to improve crop yields. A Canadian research team reports on how bacteria build protein machines to finesse one of the most wasteful steps in photosynthesis.

• share
• favorite_border

The genetics of viruses living along a permafrost thaw gradient may help scientists better predict the pace of climate change.

• share
• favorite_border

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) applauds the introduction of the Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2019 by House Nursing Caucus Co-Chairs, Representatives David Joyce (R-OH) and Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI); House Nursing Caucus Vice Co-Chairs, Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) and Rodney Davis (R-IL); and Representatives Doris Matsui (D-CA), Kathy Castor (D-FL), David McKinley (R-WV), and Lauren Underwood (D-IL).

• share
• favorite_border

Engineers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have created the first 3D-printed fluid circuit element so tiny that 10 could rest on the width of a human hair. The diode ensures fluids move in only a single direction--a critical feature for products like implantable devices that release therapies directly into the body.

• share
• favorite_border

Most consumers’ exposure to toxic methylmercury occurs when they eat fish. But research just published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology could help clarify why methylmercury concentrations in tuna vary geographically.

• share
• favorite_border

The American College of Gastroenterology is pleased to announce publication of the first issue of The American Journal of Gastroenterology under the College’s new partnership with Wolters Kluwer, who now publishes all three of ACG’s scientific journals: The American Journal of Gastroenterology (AJG), Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology (CTG), and the ACG Case Reports Journal (ACGCRJ).

• share
• favorite_border

The Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), the world’s leading authority on risk and risk analysis, will host the Fifth World Congress on Risk, in partnership with the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC).

• share
• favorite_border

Complimentary press passes and virtual newsroom access are now available for the Experimental Biology (EB) 2019 meeting, to be held April 6–9 in Orlando. EB is the annual meeting of five scientific societies bringing together more than 12,000 scientists and 25 guest societies in one interdisciplinary community.

• share
• favorite_border

A signaling pathway controlled by transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) could be involved in the progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

• share
• favorite_border

The Council on Undergraduate Research has selected the University of West Florida in Pensacola to host the spring 2022 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). At this annual three-day event, more than 4,000 students present scholarly research, network with peers and faculty mentors, and meet with graduate school and corporate recruiters.

• share
• favorite_border

Six cameras are revolutionizing observations of shallow cumulus clouds.

• share
• favorite_border

Mortality rates of moist tropical forests are on the rise due to environmental drivers and related mechanisms.

• share
• favorite_border

Following is the statement of Rosie Phillips Davis, PhD, president of the American Psychological Association, marking Martin Luther King Day:

• share
• favorite_border

Widespread fracturing during lake drainage triggers vertical shafts to form that affect the Greenland Ice Sheet.

• share
• favorite_border

AU Sine Institute of Policy and Politics Announces Inaugural Class of Fellows

• share
• favorite_border

• Whole-exome sequencing of blood or saliva revealed a genetic diagnosis of kidney disease in 32.7% of pediatric kidney transplant recipients. • The findings indicate that such a sequencing strategy may help individualize pre- and post-transplant care for many young kidney transplant recipients.

• share
• favorite_border

The data system will allow for more detailed, consistent, and up-to-date global emissions trends that will aid in understanding aerosol effects.

• share
• favorite_border

An international team of researchers including Chryssa Kouveliotou, a professor of physics at the George Washington University, discovered the missing link connecting hypernovae to gamma-ray bursts in the form of a hot cocoon around the jets of matter expelled by the central engine as these spread through the outer layers of the progenitor star.

• share
• favorite_border

The AACN is pleased to announce the launch of the first awards program sponsored by the Graduate Nursing Student Academy (GNSA) to spotlight exemplary partnerships between students in research-focused and practice-focused doctoral programs. The GNSA Award for PhD-DNP Collaboration Excellence recognizes the outstanding work underway to advance the nursing profession through an innovative and synergistic approach in translating research into practice and generating new knowledge.

• share
• favorite_border

Bioengineers have developed implantable and wearable nanogenerators that create electrical pulses when compressed by body motions. The pulses controlled weight gain and enhanced healing of skin wounds in rat models.

• share
• favorite_border

To develop a future fusion reactor, scientists need to understand how and why plasma in fusion experiments moves into a “high-confinement mode” where particles and heat can’t escape. Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory simulated the transition into that mode starting from the most basic physics principles.

• share
• favorite_border

A powerful new technique combines expansion microscopy with lattice light-sheet microscopy for nanoscale imaging of fly and mouse neuronal circuits and their molecular constituents that’s roughly 1,000 times faster than other methods.

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

New research suggests that drinking sugary, caffeinated soft drinks while exercising in hot weather may increase the risk of kidney disease. The study is published ahead of print in the American Journal of Physiology—Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology.

• share
• favorite_border

The American Psychological Association has named Katherine B. McGuire its first chief advocacy officer, responsible for implementing a unified, strategic vision for the association’s government relations efforts and coordinating APA’s broader advocacy initiatives in non-governmental sectors.

• share
• favorite_border

WASHINGTON -- An image from the international Cassini spacecraft provides evidence of rainfall on the north pole of Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons. The rainfall would be the first indication of the start of a summer season in the moon's northern hemisphere.

• share
• favorite_border

Using a novel patient-specific stem cell-based therapy, researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI) prevented blindness in animal models of geographic atrophy, the advanced “dry” form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which is a leading cause of vision loss among people age 65 and older. The protocols established by the animal study, published January 16 in Science Translational Medicine (STM), set the stage for a first-in-human clinical trial testing the therapy in people with geographic atrophy, for which there is currently no treatment.

• share
• favorite_border

New insights into molecular-level processes could help prevent corrosion and improve catalytic conversion.

• share
• favorite_border

Gastric bypass surgery improves relative muscle strength and physical performance in people with obesity, according to a study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

• share
• favorite_border

Patients with type 1 diabetes and poor blood sugar control face a higher risk of fragility fracture—any fall from standing height or less that results in a broken bone—than type 1 diabetes patients with good blood sugar control, according to a study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

• share
• favorite_border

NIBIB-funded researchers have developed a 3D-printed scaffold coated in aggrecan, a native cartilage component, to improve the regeneration of cartilage tissue in joints. The scaffold was combined with a common microfracture procedure and tested in rabbits. The University of Maryland researchers found the combination of the implant and microfracture procedure to be ten times more effective than microfracture alone.

• share
• favorite_border

Drinking bone broth is a recent diet fad that proponents claim fights inflammation, eases joint pain and promotes gut health. Simmering animal bones in water releases collagen and other proteins into the broth that may have health benefits, although more research is needed to validate these claims. Now, a new study in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry has shown that ham bones contain peptides that could have cardioprotective effects.

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

Scientists discover key types of microbes that degrade organic matter and release carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere.

• share
• favorite_border

For the first time, researchers at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences have successfully used the gene-editing tool CRISPR/Cas9 to limit the impact of parasitic worms responsible for schistosomiasis and for liver fluke infection, which can cause a diverse spectrum of human disease including bile duct cancer. 

• share
• favorite_border

Researchers can precisely study how different genes affect key properties in a yeast used industrially to produce fuel and chemicals.

• share
• favorite_border

The American Sociological Association (ASA) proudly announces the the 2019 award recipients, the highest honors the Association confers

• share
• favorite_border

The American Psychological Association called for an immediate end to the partial government shutdown because of the deleterious effect it is having on the economic security and mental health of federal employees and contractors, as well as their families.