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Bird Brains Can Flick Switch to Perceive Earth’s Magnetic Field
May 26, 2023 Study from researchers at Western’s Advanced Facility for Avian Research (AFAR), home to the world’s first hypobaric climatic wind tunnel for bird flight, explores a brain region called …
Protein-Based Nano-‘Computer’ Evolves in Ability to Influence Cell Behavior
May 26, 2023 The first protein-based nano-computing agent that functions as a circuit has been created. The milestone puts them one step closer to developing next-generation cell-based therapies to treat diseases …
Unexpected Wins in Both Humans and Monkeys Increase Risk Taking
May 26, 2023 Researchers have developed ‘Dynamic Prospect Theory,’ which integrates the most popular model in behavioral economics — prospect theory and a well-established model from neuroscience — …
Robots and Rights: Confucianism Offers Alternative
May 25, 2023 As robots assume more roles in the world, a new analysis reviewed research on robot rights, concluding that granting rights to robots is a bad idea. Instead, the article looks to Confucianism to …
Using AI, Scientists Find a Drug That Could Combat Drug-Resistant Infections
May 25, 2023 Using AI, researchers identified a new antibiotic that can kill Acinetobacter baumannii, a type of bacteria that is responsible for many drug-resistant …
Research Offers Clues for Potential Widespread HIV Cure in People
May 25, 2023 New animal research is helping explain why at least five people have become HIV-free after receiving a stem cell transplant, and may bring scientists closer to developing what they hope will be a …
Brain Imaging Is on the Move With Wearable Scanning Development
May 25, 2023 New research has demonstrated that a wearable brain scanner can measure brain function whilst people are standing and walking around. This breakthrough could help better understand and diagnose a …
Induction of a Torpor-Like State With Ultrasound
May 25, 2023 Researchers induced a hibernation-like state in mice by using ultrasound to stimulate the hypothalamus preoptic area in the brain, which helps to regulate body temperature and metabolism. The …
Scientists Target Human Stomach Cells for Diabetes Therapy
May 25, 2023 Stem cells from the human stomach can be converted into cells that secrete insulin in response to rising blood sugar levels, offering a promising approach to treating diabetes, according to a …
Researchers Weave Deeper Understanding of Diverse Ancestry and Gene Expression
May 25, 2023 Researchers is the largest of its kind that focuses on ancestry correlations with biomedical traits and the first study to examine the role of genetic variants across diverse ancestries in regulating …
Experimental Drug Inhibits or Prevents Diabetic Eye Disease
May 25, 2023 Researchers say they have evidence that an experimental drug may prevent or slow vision loss in people with diabetes. The results are from a study that used mouse as well as human retinal organoids …
Cancers in Distant Organs Alter Liver Function
May 25, 2023 Cancers often release molecules into the bloodstream that pathologically alter the liver, shifting it to an inflammatory state, causing fat buildup and impairing its normal detoxifying functions, …
Researchers Identify Potential New Treatment for Those Who Act out Their Dreams While Sleeping
May 25, 2023 Experts say medication commonly used to treat insomnia may also be a therapeutic option for the condition known as REM sleep behavior …
Words Matter: How Researchers Can Avoid Stigmatizing Language
May 25, 2023 New research offers insights into how researchers can use their platforms to help end the use of stigmatizing …
Keeping Time: Understanding the Master Clock in the Brain
May 25, 2023 Researchers found that, in neurons that produced the neuropeptide NMS, the interaction between molecules SIK3 and HDAC4 has a critical role in sleep regulation through both the length of the …
Gene Editing Tool Could Help Reduce Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance
May 25, 2023 A new tool which could help reduce the spread of antimicrobial resistance is showing early promise, through exploiting a bacterial immune system as a gene editing …
‘Jumping Genes’ Found to Alter Human Colon Genomes, Offering Insights Into Aging and Tumorigenesis?
May 25, 2023 A team of researchers discovered mutations that occur during normal aging of human tissues that are induced by the jumping gene of ‘long interspersed nuclear element-1’ …
The White Matter of the MS Brain Shows Abnormalities Even Before Inflammation
May 25, 2023 Patients with MS show structural abnormalities in their white matter even before MS inflammation develops. Could this finding lead to a target for a new treatment to prevent MS …
Stretchable Knee Wearable Offers Insight Into Improving E-Textiles for Healthcare
May 25, 2023 Researchers developed a fully knitted, circuit-embedded knee wearable for wireless sensing of joint motion in real-time. Compared to other knitted electronics, this model has fewer externally …
Tens of Thousands of Lives a Year Could Be Saved by New Treatment Protocol for Brain Hemorrhage
May 25, 2023 New data from the phase III INTERACT3 study demonstrates that a new combination of treatments for stroke due to intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) significantly improves the chances of surviving without …
