Predicting the behavior of any market is a slippery thing. Energy markets are changing especially quickly, and this is most clearly seen in the oil industry. With decreasing demand during the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of electric vehicles, the market has experienced a shock, and it probably won’t be […]
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Outcomes for hospitalized COVID-19 patients taking immunosuppressive medications similar to non-immunosuppressed patients, study finds — ScienceDaily
A large, nationwide study of COVID-19 cases led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has found that people taking medications that suppress the immune system — for example, to prevent transplant rejection or to treat cancer — overall do not have a higher risk of […]
Research into the way our immune systems respond to COVID-19 reveals the sex of a patient may affect how well drugs work — ScienceDaily
A new study from the University of Calgary shows how dexamethasone, the main treatment for severe COVID-19 lung infections, alters how immune cells work, which may help male patients, but has little to no benefit for females. These remarkable findings are the result of a multidisciplinary study published in Nature […]
Research in mice shows how diet alters immune system function through a gut microbe — ScienceDaily
The cliché “you are what you eat” has been used for hundreds of years to illustrate the link between diet and health. Now, an international team of researchers has found the molecular proof of this concept, demonstrating how diet ultimately affects immunity through the gut microbiome. The work, conducted in […]
Research could lead to a wealth of drug targets — ScienceDaily
UT Southwestern and University of Washington researchers led an international team that used artificial intelligence (AI) and evolutionary analysis to produce 3D models of eukaryotic protein interactions. The study, published in Science, identified more than 100 probable protein complexes for the first time and provided structural models for more than […]
As we develop, the brain connects lessons learned differently — ScienceDaily
A new study of brain activity patterns in people doing a memory task finds that the way we make inferences — finding hidden connections between different experiences — changes dramatically as we age. The study’s findings might one day lead to personalized learning strategies based on a person’s cognitive and […]
Research finds key advances towards reducing the cost of plant improvement — ScienceDaily
Crop advancement frequently requires the transfer of genetic materials from just one organism to a different to make a important trait. Some important illustrations of crops with these so-identified as “transgenes” involve disorder-resistant cotton and beta-carotene-improved golden rice. Having said that, when overseas DNA is launched into a host organism, […]
Engineers design autonomous robot that can open doors, find wall outlet to recharge — ScienceDaily
One particular flaw in the notion that robots will just take about the entire world is that the environment is entire of doorways. And doors are kryptonite to robots, said Ou Ma, an aerospace engineering professor at the College of Cincinnati. “Robots can do several things, but if you want […]
Combined stressors could impair soils’ ability to cycle nutrients and trap carbon — ScienceDaily
Soils are home to diverse microbial communities that cycle nutrients, support agriculture, and trap carbon — an important service for climate mitigation. Globally, around 80% of Earth’s terrestrial carbon stores are found in soils. Due to climate warming and other human activities that affect soil microorganisms, this important carbon sink […]
Seasonal bottlenecks in available food determined overall limit on population size — ScienceDaily
Short expanding seasons confined the feasible size of hunter-gatherer societies by forcing folks to depend on meat, according to a current study by a workforce of intercontinental reseachers which includes McGill University professor Eric Galbraith. After looking at populace size for the around 300 hunter-gatherer societies which existed until very […]
Blood plasma protein fibrinogen interacts directly with nerve cells to cause brain inflammation — ScienceDaily
Neuroinflammatory ailments, together with Alzheimer’s sickness and traumatic mind injuries, have been linked to deposits of a rough protein acknowledged as fibrin, derived from the blood clotting aspect fibrinogen. These mesh-like fibrin deposits take place outdoors blood vessels in the brain, contributing to the death of specific central nervous program […]