Beneficial Side Effect: Botox Injections May Reduce Anxiety
FDA database of drug side effects indicates the benefit may hold up no matter where Botox is injected. Botox, or Botulinum toxin, a medication derived…
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New Technology Shows Climate Change Is Making One of the World’s Strongest Currents Flow Faster
A change in the Southern Ocean, the region absorbing the most human-induced warming globally, is detected by new technology. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the…
COVID-19: How Well Do Damp Masks Work To Contain Droplets?
Study shows damp masks still stop respiratory droplet penetration. After studying the effectiveness of varying layers of masks in stopping respiratory droplets from escaping face…
AI Reveals Previously Unknown Biology – We Might Not Know Half of What’s in Our Cells
Artificial intelligence-based technique reveals previously unknown cell components that may provide new clues to human development and disease. Most human diseases can be traced to…
Illuminating Dark Matter in Human DNA – Unprecedented Atlas of the “Book of Life”
In an unprecedented atlas, researchers begin to map how genes are turned on or off in different cells, a step toward better understanding the connections…
Mapping the Mouse Brain in Intricate Detail, and by Extension, the Human Brain Too
The circuits of the human brain contain more than 100 billion neurons, each linked to many other neurons via thousands of synaptic connections, resulting in…
More Likely To Relapse: E-Cigarettes Don’t Help Smokers Stay off Cigarettes
Cigarette smokers who quit smoking but substitute e-cigarettes, or other tobacco product, are more likely to relapse. The United States Centers for Disease Control and…
Hidden Mangrove Forest Deep in the Heart of the Yucatan Peninsula Reveals Ancient Sea Levels
Researchers investigate an ancient coastal ecosystem found more than 120 miles from the nearest ocean, revealing sea level impacts from the last interglacial period. Deep…
Zaki Syndrome: Scientists Discover Unknown Childhood Genetic Condition and Its Potential Cure
Findings point to the possibility of treating and preventing birth defects before birth. Describing a previously unknown genetic condition that affects children, researchers at University…
New High-Performance Solid-State Battery Surprises the Engineers Who Created It
Engineers create a high performance all-solid-state battery with a pure-silicon anode. Engineers created a new type of battery that weaves two promising battery sub-fields into…
Nanoengineered Plant Virus Could Protect and Save Your Lungs From Metastatic Cancer
Using a virus that grows in black-eyed pea plants, nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego developed a new treatment that could keep metastatic…
Your Eyes May Reveal Your Alzheimer’s Disease Risk
Protein deposits in retina and brain appear to parallel possible neurodegeneration, an insight that might lead to easier, quicker detection. Amyloid plaques are protein deposits…
Futuristic AI-Based Computing Devices: Physicists Simulate Artificial Brain Networks With New Quantum Materials
Pandemic lockdown forces a new perspective on designs for futuristic AI-based computing devices. Isaac Newton’s groundbreaking scientific productivity while isolated from the spread of bubonic…
New CRISPR-Based Technology To Genetically Control Disease-Spreading Mosquitoes
CRISPR-based system developed to safely restrain mosquito vectors via sterilization. Leveraging advancements in CRISPR-based genetic engineering, researchers at the University of California San Diego have…
New Infrared Imager Can Map Out a Person’s Blood Vessels Without Touching the Skin
Thin, Large-Area Device Converts Infrared Light Into Images Seeing through smog and fog. Mapping out a person’s blood vessels while monitoring heart rate at the…
Viruses From Plants/Bacteria Key Ingredient for New COVID-19 Vaccine Candidates
These Fridge-Free COVID Vaccines Are Grown in Plants and Bacteria Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed COVID-19 vaccine candidates that can…
It’s Not Just COVID-19: Most Respiratory Viruses Actually Spread by Aerosols
Conventional wisdom on viral disease transmission needs revision, international science team finds. SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind today’s global coronavirus pandemic, spreads primarily by inhalation of…
Hidden SARS-CoV-2 “Gate” Discovered – Opens To Allow COVID Infection
Supercomputing-derived movies reveal details of deceptive sugar coating on spike protein, presenting new possibilities to block cell entry and infection. Since the early days of…
