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New Edith Cowan University (ECU) research has found that by eating just one cup of nitrate-rich vegetables each day people can significantly reduce their risk of heart disease.
Micropropagation is a technique used for growing large quantities of new plants from fewer "parent" plants, yielding clones with the same, predictable qualities. The cannabis (Cannabis sativa) industry, however, has been largely left out of this beneficial technique, because this species of plant is extremely difficult to micropropagate.
A new study published in JAMA Network Open by Dr. Benjamin Rome and colleagues in the Brigham's Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics finds that more than half of patients may experience increases in out-of-pocket spending when drug prices increase.
A previously underappreciated part of the body's natural defense against SARS-CoV-2, called non-RBD-directed antibodies, actually plays a major role in combating the virus, according to a new study in the journal Science. That's good news for scientists designing the next generation of vaccines to protect against variants of the virus or future emerging coronaviruses.
Nearly one in five older adults say their mental health has gotten worse since the pandemic began in March 2020, and an equal percentage say their sleep has suffered in that time too. More than one in four say they're more anxious or worried than before the COVID-19 era, according to a new poll of people age 50 to 80. But the poll also reveals hopeful signs that many older adults are showing...
Almost half of the parents who have children together with a parent with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, are themselves burdened by psychological issues. This can affect family life and the children. This is shown in the research result from the major Danish psychiatry project iPSYCH.
A new paper from the University of Georgia suggests that unconscious biases in the health care system may have influenced how individuals with intellectual disabilities were categorized in emergency triage protocols.
If you come from a family where people routinely live well into old age, you will likely have better cognitive function (the ability to clearly think, learn and remember) than peers from families where people die younger. Researchers affiliated with the Long Life Family Study (LLFS) recently broadened that finding in a paper published in Gerontology, suggesting that people who belong to long-lived...
Researchers at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), in Brazil, have found a crucial link between phase transition (aggregation) of mutant p53 protein and cancer pathology. The study opens new paths for the development of novels drugs against the disease. The results have been published in advance in the scientific journal Chemical Science.
Measures to contain the Corona pandemic are the subject of politically charged debate and tend to polarize segments of the population. Those who support the measures motivate their acquaintances to follow the rules, while those who oppose them call for resistance in social media. But how exactly do politicization and social mobilization affect the infection figures? Researchers at the Max Planck...
Polarization-sensitive photodetection is central to optics applications and has been successfully demonstrated in photodetectors of layered hybrid perovskites; however, achieving high polarization sensitivity in such a photodetector remains challenging. Scientists based in China demonstrate a high-performance polarization-sensitive photodetector using single-crystalline 2D/3D perovskite...
A study to understand the dating violence experience and perpetration of college-age women, as well as how they conceptualize violence in dating relationships, reveals normalization of unhealthy violent behaviors where sexual pressure or sexualized verbal harassment are viewed as an innate part of men, supporting the idea that "boys will be boys." Study participants demonstrated a lack of...
New findings from Ontario have shown that children born in Sarnia have a higher risk of developing asthma compared to neighbouring cities. A research team from Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University, using provincial data from ICES, found that higher air pollution exposure in the first year of life very likely contributed to this higher risk.
Research funding agencies around the world are testing creative approaches to address urgent needs while laying the foundation for discoveries that will meet the unpredictable demands of the future. According to a new expert panel report from the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA), Canada can bolster its research capacity by reducing administrative burdens, experimenting with funding approaches,...
The latest evidence for epigenetic mechanisms associated with transgenerational disease and public policy implications
Pyrosomes spend their entire lives in the open ocean and therefore easily go unnoticed. Nevertheless, they are key components of deep-sea ecosystems. This is shown by a novel study conducted off the Cabo Verde Islands led by an international team under the leadership of GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.
A new study published in Medical Care Research and Review found that the Affordable Care Act, which expanded Medicaid programs to cover people previously uninsured, provided a financial boost to hospitals. The study is the first to investigate the effects of Medicaid expansion by comparing estimates using data from both the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
Professor Arda Gozen looks to a future someday in which doctors can hit a button to print out a scaffold on their 3-D printers and create custom-made replacement skin, cartilage, or other tissue for their patients.
A new map of the Schrodinger basin of the moon could help guide future exploration missions. The map project was supported by NASA and created by a team of researchers including a University of Arkansas graduate student.
The combination approach uses immune checkpoint inhibitors with ATRA, a safe medication that is widely used to treat leukemia.
Researchers have identified more than 250 "severity associated" proteins in the worst cases of COVID-19. These findings could help researchers identify the mechanisms that cause severe COVID-19.
Coral can fight back against attacking juvenile crown of thorns starfish - using stinging cells to injure and even kill, showing that coral are not as passive as people may think.
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) developed a breakthrough in energy-efficient phototransistors. Such devices could eventually help computers process visual information more like the human brain and be used as sensors in things like self-driving vehicles.
A team of researchers from A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI), and the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI) have identified a genetic mutation associated with exfoliation syndrome, characterised by abnormal protein material accumulating in the front of the eye. It is the most common cause of glaucoma, and a major cause of irreversible...
A team of international researchers, including Dr Rich Crane from the Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, have developed a new method to extract metals, such as copper, from their parent ore body.