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In an analysis of electronic health records for 18,355 live births during the COVID-19 pandemic, maternal SARSCoV2 positivity during pregnancy was associated with nearly two-fold higher odds of a neurodevelopmental diagnosis at 12 months of age among male...

Continued warming of the climate would see a rise in the number and spread of potentially fatal infections caused by bacteria found along parts of the coast of the United States.Vibrio vulnificus bacteria grow in warm shallow coastal waters and can infect...

According to the study the theory that Stonehenge served as a a solar calendar is wrong. Instead, its structure would have been linked to the connection between the afterlife and winter solstice, found in Neolithic societies....

Cases of dengue fever and other zoonotic diseases will keep increasing owing to climate change, and prevention via early warning is one of our best options against them. Recently, researchers combined a machine learning model with remote sensing climatic ...

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the role of an enzyme responsible for the cross-linking reaction that activates macrophage, which is important in the development of kidney fibrosis. These enzymes induce a common activation mechan...

Applying hydrostatic pressure as an external stimulus, Tokyo Tech and Keio University researchers demonstrate a new way to regulate singlet fission (SF), a process in which two electrons are generated from a single photon, in chromophores, opening doors t...

The 2022 summer heatwave resulted in a fifth of UK hospitals being forced to cancel operations during the three days when temperatures soared, a new study reveals....

In a scientific first, a team led by physicists at the University of California, Irvine has detected neutrinos created by a particle collider. The discovery promises to deepen scientists' understanding of the subatomic particles, which were first spot...

Research in languages other than English is critically important for biodiversity conservation and is shockingly under-utilised internationally, according to an international research team....

For the first time, world-leading researchers from the fields of healthcare, the ocean and the environment have collaborated to quantify plastic's considerable risks to all life on earth. The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health pre...

As they seek new foods because climate change has altered their traditional diet of salmon carcasses, bald eagles in northwestern Washington state have become a boon to dairy farmers, deterring pests and removing animal carcasses from their farms, a new s...

Multiple types of beta cells produce insulin in the pancreas, helping to balance blood sugar levels. Losing a particularly productive type of beta cell may contribute to the development of diabetes, according to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine inves...

Using a new computational approach they developed to analyze large genetic datasets from rare disease cohorts, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and colleagues have discovered previously unknown genetic causes of three rare condit...

It has long been known that viral infections can be more severe in males than females, but the question as to why has remained a mystery until possibly now. UCLA researchers have found that female mouse and human Natural Killer cells have an extra copy of...

In a new forum paper published in Trends in Biology, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte encapsulated the young field of nucleolar DNA damage response (DDR) pathways. The review highlights six mechanisms by which cells repair DN...

In a new study published in Nature, Sivaraj Sivaramakrishnan and University of Minnesota researchers uncovered the role of the third intracellular loop in the G protein-coupled receptors' signaling mechanism, which could lead to a more targeted approa...

It is extremely rare for a new plant species to be discovered in Japan, a nation where flora has been extensively studied and documented. Nevertheless, Professor SUETSUGU Kenji and his associates recently uncovered a stunning new species of orchid whose r...

New UC Riverside research makes it likely that proteins responsible for activating mosquito sperm can be shut down, preventing them from swimming to or fertilizing eggs....

A new approach that delivers a "one-two punch" to help T cells attack solid tumors is the focus of a preclinical study by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The findings, published in the Proceeding...

An artificial pancreas originally developed at the University of Virginia Center for Diabetes Technology improves blood sugar control in children ages 2 to 6 with type 1 diabetes, according to a new study. Details of the clinical study and its findings we...

More donated hearts could be suitable for transplantation if they are kept functioning within the body for a short time following the death of the donor, new research has concluded....

Vitamin A may help prevent side effects from a common treatment for ALL, according to scientists at Cincinnati Children's and Stanford University....

MIT researchers have built TILE2NET, an open-source tool that uses aerial imagery and image-recognition to create complete maps of sidewalks and crosswalks. The tool can help planners, policymakers, and urbanists who want to expand pedestrian infrastructu...

An international panel of scientists have identified 100 of the most important questions facing plant science. The international initiative has identified key research priorities and highlights the importance of diversity, collaboration, and funding for p...

In a groundbreaking announcement at the 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference held in The Woodlands, Texas, scientists revealed the discovery of a relict glacier near Mars' equator. Located in Eastern Noctis Labyrinthus at coordinates 7 33' ...

A multi-state study from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) VISION Network has found that first-generation COVID-19 mRNA vaccines were associated with protection against COVID-19 during periods of Omicron BA.4/BA.5 predominance...

At a glance:In a step forward for genetic engineering and synthetic biology, researchers have modified E. coli bacteria to be immune to infection by all natural viruses tested so farThe team also employed two methods to prevent the bacteria and their modi...

Tuning the reaction conditions such as degree of filling and gas composition can have a major impact on the products obtained by hydrothermal synthesis obtained. This was clearly represented in the new Tokyo Tech study where they synthesized an unreported...

Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) shed light on the neural stem and progenitor cell (NSPC) microenvironment during development. Neurosphere formation from embryonic mouse forebrain NSPCs was significantly increased under low oxyg...

Sugar content reductions perform comparable to similar, non-reduced products while smaller package sizes perform better than regular sizes....

People living in the United States must travel significantly farther to access methadone treatment for opioid addiction than Canadians, suggests a new study led by Washington State University researchers. The researchers' analysis showed that the aver...

Trichloroethylene (TCE), a common and widely used chemical may be fueling the rise of the world's fastest growing brain condition Parkinson's disease....

Thanks to technological advances in microbial DNA analysis, University of Colorado Boulder researchers have discovered that mountaineers' boots aren't the only things leaving footprints on the world's tallest mountain....

Peru's first great empire, the Wari, stretched for more than a thousand miles over the Andes Mountains and along the coast from 600-1000 CE. The pottery they left behind gives archaeologists clues as to how the empire functioned. In a new study in the...

UNSW experts hope this evidence will ensure pregnant people are prioritised as a vulnerable group for mental health in future disease outbreaks....

A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, demonstrates that increased levels of ozone resulting from anthropogenic air pollution can degrade insect sex pheromones, which are crucial mating signals, and thus prevent...

Consumption of a traditional Mediterranean-type diet rich in foods such as seafood, fruit, and nuts is associated with a reduced risk of dementia, reports a study published in BMC Medicine....

A global maternal immunization program for group B Streptococcus - strep B - would save millions in healthcare costs by reducing death and disability, but without tiered pricing, equitable access would likely not be achieved. Several vaccines are currentl...

Climate models used by the UN's IPCC and others to project climate change are not accurately reflecting what the Arctic's future will be....

Surprisingly, bitter taste receptors are not only located in the mouth, but also elsewhere in the body, including the airways. Activating those receptors opens up lung passageways, so they're a potential target for treating asthma or chronic obstructi...

The aim of the study was to analyze the virulence and antimicrobial resistance profile of the main agent of urinary tract infections....

A new study published in PeerJ Life & Environment and featured in the International Association for Biological Oceanography Hub evaluates the use of DNA metabarcoding to identify fish eggs. The study assessed the performance of DNA metabarcoding to increa...

We all know how important sleep is for mental health, but a meta-analysis publishing in the journal Current Biology on March 13 found that getting good shut-eye also helps our immune systems respond to vaccination. The authors found that people who slept ...

After three years of pandemic living, loneliness, isolation and lack of social contact have finally started to decline among older adults, a new poll shows. But one in three people between the ages of 50 and 80 still say they sometimes or often experience...

A new Pitt Engineering study tests the thermal conductivity of metal organic frameworks...

A physics theory that's proven useful to predict the crowd behavior of molecules and fruit flies also seems to work on another group NBA players....

New research from the University of Georgia suggests most people don't understand the difference between a preprint and a published academic journal article. Preprints are research papers that haven't undergone peer review, the process by which st...

A new biosensor engineered by Penn State researchers offers scientists the first dynamic glimpses of manganese, an elusive metal ion that is essential for life....

Technology developed at the University of Freiburg enables experimental testElectroporation is used as a technique in fields such as medicine and biotechnologyThe new findings could help to improve the transport of active substances into cells...

As almost 200 countries agree a legally-binding treaty to protect the High Seas, a collaboration of experts in ocean plastic pollution and satellite technology has urged world leaders to learn lessons from the management of the High Seas and act now to pr...