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UC Irvine-Led Study Links Metabolism Changes In Certain Brain Cells To Huntington’s Disease

Findings show high-dose thiamine and biotin treatments can restore normal processes

Has Pandemic-Related Stress Negatively Impacted Your Sleep?

Low-quality sleep is nothing new. However, the COVID-19 pandemic brought to the forefront the topic of stress and how it plays a role in negatively affecting sleep quality.

Can Cosmic Inflation Be Ruled Out?

Astrophysicists say that cosmic inflation – a point in the Universe’s infancy when space-time expanded exponentially, and what physicists really refer to when they talk about the ‘Big Bang’ – can in principle be ruled out in an assumption-free way.

International group of scientists identifies cancer-resistance genes across species

Cancer is a leading cause of human disease and death worldwide, but it's also common in animals. Can we learn something about the genetic mutations associated with cancer in animals that sheds light on the origins of human cancer and how to prevent and treat it?

Appendiceal Cancer Gets Its Own Preclinical Model

UC San Diego researchers develop a 3-D culture for a rare disease that has long defied effective study and development of therapies

Study: First-Degree Relatives of Patients with NAFLD at Risk of Liver Disease

Findings show that early screening for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease can be the key to successful treatment or prevention of advanced fibrosis, scarring of the liver

Organoids Reveal How SARS-CoV-2 Damages Brain Cells — and a Potential Treatment

COVID-19 infections can result in long-lasting neurological symptoms; new research suggests an already approved anti-viral may inhibit viral replication and rescue impaired neurons

Parasites Associated with Eating Fish Showing Up in Southern California Fishing Locales

Snail that hosts potentially dangerous flatworms found to be widespread

Eight UC San Diego Researchers Among ‘1,000 Best Female Scientists in the World’

Inaugural ranking seeks to celebrate and elevate the long-overlooked contributions of women in academic science

These Robots Can Build Almost Anything—Including Clones Of Themselves

The breakthrough robot swarms function as both the builders and final products.

Study Of ‘Polluted’ White Dwarfs Finds That Stars And Planets Grow Together

A team of astronomers have found that planet formation in our young Solar System started much earlier than previously thought, with the building blocks of planets growing at the same time as their parent star.

Feeling Poorer Than Your Friends In Early Adolescence Is Associated With Worse Mental Health

How rich or poor young people think they are compared to their friendship group is linked to wellbeing and even bullying during the shift between childhood and teenage years.

Signs Of Past Chemical Reactions Detected On Mars

The Perseverance rover landed in the Jezero crater in 2021 and has already found some clues to the planet's past.

Mussel Survey Reveals Alarming Degradation Of River Thames Ecosystem Since The 1960s

Scientists replicated a 1964 River Thames survey and found that mussel numbers have declined by almost 95%, with one species – the depressed river mussel – completely gone.

Non-Detection Of Key Signal Allows Astronomers To Determine What The First Galaxies Were – And Weren’t – Like

Researchers have been able to make some key determinations about the first galaxies to exist, in one of the first astrophysical studies of the period in the early Universe when the first stars and galaxies formed, known as the cosmic dawn.

Automating The Income Gap

This is going to be another one of those “let’s ask ourselves some difficult questions” newsletter introductions, so if you’re in the U.S., I certainly won’t blame you for not giving Actuator your full attention until after the holiday.

Fossil Overturns More Than A Century Of Knowledge About The Origin Of Modern Birds

Fossilised fragments of a skeleton, hidden within a rock the size of a grapefruit, have helped upend one of the longest-standing assumptions about the origins of modern birds.

A New Chapter In The History Of Evolution

Two-million-year-old DNA has been identified for the first time opening a new chapter in the history of evolution.

Drought Encouraged Attila’s Huns To Attack The Roman Empire, Tree Rings Suggest

Hunnic peoples migrated westward across Eurasia, switched between farming and herding, and became violent raiders in response to severe drought in the Danube frontier provinces of the Roman empire, a new study argues.

Researchers Create Novel Device to Measure Nerve Activity for Treatment of Sepsis, PTSD

A multi-campus research team has developed a novel device for non-invasively measuring cervical nerve activity in humans.