In a Perspective for the New England Journal of Medicine, members of the National Institutes of Health’s Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) Vaccines Working Group assess practical considerations and prerequisites for using controlled human infection models (CHIMs), which can be used for human challenge studies, to support SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development.
Study shows LIGO’s 40-kilogram mirrors can move in response to tiny quantum effects, revealing the “spooky popcorn of the universe.”
A “sea squirt” living at the bottom of the ocean may help scientists find a cure for melanoma, the most dangerous type of skin cancer, researchers at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada, said.
The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment found a connection between air pollution and infant mortality, a Stanford news release states.
Scientists searching for ice in the Moon’s polar craters found evidence that more metal lurks beneath the lunar surface than they expected.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope caught an image of a shadow across a young star that has been nicknamed the "Bat Shadow," according to a press release from NASA.
Movement of proteins to the bacterial cell surface, the environment outside the cell, and even into target cells is critical for bacterial communities and pathogen-host interactions. The export of proteins, from Gram-negative bacteria in particular, is challenging, because two membranes (inner and outer) must be passed.
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New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine reveals how plants create the load-bearing structures that let them grow – much like how building crews frame a house.
New research by the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) may be able to explain why some individuals have extensive scarring from heart attacks than others, according to a UCLA release.
Study finds that people literally don’t always see things the same way, which can impact activities that require visual precision.
UCLA–USC study finds exposure is associated with a 50% greater risk for preterm birth
The National Science Foundation found that a certain large group of flowering plants called rosids have been evolving at twice the rate in temperate zones versus in the tropics, according to a press release from the National Science Foundation.
When most people think of carbon emissions, they think of electricity and heat as well as transportation and manufacturing, but scientists are grappling with carbon emissions from another source.
A collaborative effort between astronomers and backyard star gazers has produced proof of two “brown dwarfs,” strange massive balls of gas far out in the solar system that scientists hope will tell them how planets form.
Stanford graduate students published a paper on July 8 detailing a study claiming that Polynesians made contact with Native Americans hundreds of years before the arrival of Europeans.
Living under a translucent rock can be quite comfortable — if you’re a moss in the Mojave Desert.