The inflammatory illness may affect nearly 1 in 4,000 older men in the United States A mysterious new disease may be to blame for severe, unexplained inflammation in older men. Now, researchers have their first good look at who the disease strikes, and how often. VEXAS syndrome, an illness discoveredContinue Reading
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian found nerve cell sensors for heat, cold, pain and pressure. Some touching research took the 2021 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. David Julius of the University of California, San Francisco and Ardem Patapoutian of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., were awardedContinue Reading
More than 31,000 cases of mucormycosis have been reported as of June 11 As India reels from a devastating second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new horror is plaguing people there. Some COVID-19 patients “go home only to come back to the hospital with a damaged nose, swollen cheeksContinue Reading
A method called optogenetics offers insights into memory, perception and addiction. Some big scientific discoveries aren’t actually discovered. They are borrowed. That’s what happened when scientists enlisted proteins from an unlikely lender: green algae. Cells of the algal species Chlamydomonas reinhardtii are decorated with proteins that can sense light. ThatContinue Reading
Along with talk therapy, the drug led to some patients no longer having a PTSD diagnosis. The key ingredient in the illicit drug known as Ecstasy or Molly may offer profound relief from post-traumatic stress disorder. When paired with intense talk therapy, MDMA drastically eased symptoms in people who hadContinue Reading
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine approval is younger teens’ shot at freedom In a long-awaited announcement on Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA vaccine in adolescents aged 12 to 15. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee of Immunization Practices (ACIP) atContinue Reading
The illegal substance—paired with intensive therapy and hard work—dramatically improves PTSD symptoms A long-awaited study is making worldwide headlines for finding that the outlawed psychoactive drug MDMA is startlingly effective in treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). But researchers and study participants say the substance itself, while extremely powerful, catalyzes healingContinue Reading
Miniaturization has enabled so many unfathomable dreams. Shrinking down electronic circuits has allowed us to access technology like smartphones, health watches, medical probes, nano-satellites, unthinkable a couple decades ago. Just imagine that in the course of 60 years, the transistor has gone from being the size of your hand palmContinue Reading
Osaka University researchers synthesize an easy-to-handle nano-cobalt phosphide catalyst for efficient hydrogenation of nitriles to primary amines Osaka, Japan – The need to be mindful consumers is becoming a priority for an ever-growing portion of society. This means that achieving efficient and environmentally sustainable chemical processes is more important thanContinue Reading
Understanding the character of hardware errors helps stabilise the technology Scientists at the University of Sydney have adapted techniques from autonomous vehicles and robotics to efficiently assess the performance of quantum devices, an important process to help stabilise the emerging technologies. The innovative approach has been shown experimentally to outperformContinue Reading
