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EurekAlert! – Breaking News- Born to be wild: Fungal highways let bacteria travel in exchange for thiamineResearchers from the University of Tsukuba have found a fungal-bacterial relationship that allows bacteria to travel along fungal highways and supply the fungus with thiamine (vitamin B1), which is essential to most organisms. Thiamine provided by the bacteria helped the fungal filaments to grow, and the highways let the bacteria travel farther than otherwise possible. […]
- Placenta is initiated first, as cells of a fertilised egg divide and specialiseThe first stages of placental development take place days before the embryo starts to form in human pregnancies. The finding highlights the importance of healthy placental development in pregnancy, and could lead to future improvements in fertility treatments such as IVF, and a better understanding of placental-related diseases in pregnancy.
- Gravity causes homogeneity of the universeGravity can accelerate the homogenization of space-time as the universe evolves. This insight is based on theoretical studies of the physicist David Fajman of the University of Vienna. The results have been published in the journal 'Physical Review Letters'.
- High-intensity resistance training in post-acute care produced better outcomes and patient experienceToday, researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus released a new study evaluating the effectiveness and safety of high-intensity rehabilitation for older adults in skilled nursing facilities. "Our study identified an impactful opportunity to improve the way we care for patients in skilled nursing facilities." said lead author Allison Gustavson, PT, DPT, PhD, […]
- Choanozoan and picozoan marine protists are probably virus eaters - studyScientists used single-cell genomics to show that two groups of poorly known marine protists routinely ingest viruses. They hypothesize that this serves to absorb phosphorus and nitrogen - that is, using viruses as food. This discovery has important implications for our understanding of oceanic food webs and carbon cycles.
- Born to be wild: Fungal highways let bacteria travel in exchange for thiamine
- EurekAlert! – Policy and Ethics
- CU researcher: Outdated corneal donation policies prevent sight-restoring surgery(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) U.S. and Canadian restrictions on corneal donations prevented as many as 3,217 corneal donations from gay and bisexual men in 2018, despite a worldwide need for corneas for vision-restoring surgery and a lack of scientific evidence of harm caused by corneas from these men, according to a new study […]
- Camera traps show impact of recreational activity on wildlife(University of British Columbia) The COVID-19 pandemic has fired up interest in outdoor activities in our parks and forests. Now a new UBC study highlights the need to be mindful of how these activities may affect wildlife living in protected areas. All wildlife tended to avoid places that were recently visited by recreational users. And […]
- Climate pledges 'like tackling COVID-19 without social distancing'(University of Exeter) Current global pledges to tackle climate change are the equivalent of declaring a pandemic without a plan for social distancing, researchers say.
- Virtual conference on the regulation of genome-edited plants in the EU(Leopoldina) In the debate on the regulation of genome-edited plants in the European Union, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the German Research Foundation call for a differentiated regulatory framework that takes current scientific knowledge into account. On the occasion of Germany's EU Council Presidency this year, the two organizations are hosting an […]
- New issue of Daedalus features essays from sixteen climate change witnesses(The MIT Press) A new Issue of Daedalus -- the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences -- brings together essays by sixteen prominent climate change witnesses, representing multiple fields, backgrounds, and generations.
- CU researcher: Outdated corneal donation policies prevent sight-restoring surgery
- EurekAlert! – Social and Behavioral Science
- Sweet success: Heavy consumption of sugary beverages declined in the US from 2003 to 2016(Elsevier) According to a new study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, published by Elsevier, the percentage of heavy sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumers - those who drink more than 500 calories of SSBs daily - trended downwards in the United States between 2003 and 2016.
- Assessment of disparities in COVID-19 testing, infection across language groups in Seattle(JAMA Network) Researchers evaluated the proportion of patients who completed COVID-19 testing and the proportion of positive cases using language as a surrogate for immigrant status.
- High-intensity resistance training in post-acute care produced better outcomes and patient experience(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Today, researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus released a new study evaluating the effectiveness and safety of high-intensity rehabilitation for older adults in skilled nursing facilities. "Our study identified an impactful opportunity to improve the way we care for patients in skilled nursing facilities." said lead […]
- Loneliness levels high during COVID-19 lockdown(PLOS) During the initial phase of COVID-19 lockdown, rates of loneliness among people in the UK were high and were associated with a number of social and health factors, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jenny Groarke of Queen's University Belfast, UK, and colleagues.
- Researchers explore how the human brain is so resilient(U.S. Army Research Laboratory) Future technology may be able to monitor and modify the brain to produce enhanced team performance, while increasing the efficiency and accuracy of decisions. The US Army may be able to use this information to enhance future operations.
- Placenta is initiated first, as cells of a fertilised egg divide and specialise(The Francis Crick Institute) The first stages of placental development take place days before the embryo starts to form in human pregnancies. The finding highlights the importance of healthy placental development in pregnancy, and could lead to future improvements in fertility treatments such as IVF, and a better understanding of placental-related diseases in pregnancy.
- Parental touch reduces pain responses in babies' brains(University College London) Being held by a parent with skin-to-skin contact reduces how strongly a newborn baby's brain responds to a painful medical jab, finds a new study led by researchers at UCL and York University, Canada.
- Loving-kindness meditation will make you happier(National Research University Higher School of Economics) Researchers from HSE University compared the effect of two meditation practices - loving-kindness meditation (LKM) and compassion meditation (CM). Loving-kindness meditation turned out to be more effective when it comes to increasing happiness, but, in contrast with previous studies, compassion meditation also did not result in a growth […]
- New issue of Daedalus features essays from sixteen climate change witnesses(The MIT Press) A new Issue of Daedalus -- the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences -- brings together essays by sixteen prominent climate change witnesses, representing multiple fields, backgrounds, and generations.
- Jindal school researchers examine COVID-19 impact on manufacturing(University of Texas at Dallas) Two Jindal School faculty members found that manufacturing response to COVID-19 has been largely reactive and uncoordinated, and many firms' crisis communication plans do not include managing an infectious-disease outbreak.
- Sweet success: Heavy consumption of sugary beverages declined in the US from 2003 to 2016