The expression of the viral protein Vpu is essential in allowing infected cells to evade the elimination mechanism known as ADCC, a new study shows.
The traumatic effects of colonization, particularly the forced disconnection from Hawaiʻi’s abundant ʻāina, which has led to complex, interconnected, health disparities seen today in Native Hawaiian communities and especially in the ʻōpio (youth), is the focus of new research from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health.
An international research team is looking for systematic evidence of linkages between changes in art-making and disorders of the central nervous system.
Researchers discover that to sharpen its control over precise maneuvers, the brain uses comparisons between control signals — not the signals themselves.
The cattle industry is the single leading driver of deforestation, and the tanning of leather creates a great deal of chemical pollution.
An extremely high-energy jet of matter shot out of a supermassive black hole billions of light-years away is pointed at Earth, astronomers have found.
The jet is from the most distant tidal disruption event yet observed.
Mass transit, and subways in particular, are essential to the economic viability and environmental sustainability of cities across the globe.
The device has practical uses too, such as improving self-driving car sensors and brain scanners.
An investigation into National Science Foundation (NSF) data on funding rates, award types and proposal ratings from 1996 to 2019 found pervasive racial disparities.
As climate change continues, human cases of rat lungworm disease are anticipated to become more widespread globally, especially in places where the parasite that causes the disease is not yet present.
WASHINGTON, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Astronomers have detected an act of extreme violence more than halfway across the known universe as a black hole shreds a star that wandered too close to this celestial savage. But this was no ordinary instance of a ravenous black hole.
“Over 100,000 people in the U.S. are currently waiting for organ transplants,” Sykes writes in the piece. “Because the human organ donor pool cannot keep pace with this demand, many patients die without receiving the life-saving transplant they need.”
An incredibly bright flash that appeared in the night sky in February was the result of a star straying too close to a supermassive black hole, meeting its untimely end there as it was ripped to shreds.
The study proves quantum processors can be a key testbed in investigating mysterious cosmic phenomena, scientists say.
Simultaneous cannabis and alcohol use, defined as using both substances at the same time so their effects overlap, increased in adults from 2008 to 2019, according to new research conducted at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
(Bloomberg) -- Cognito Therapeutics Inc. became the latest company to secure a large-scale trial to treat Alzheimer’s disease. Unlike most other remedies in development today, this one involves a device rather than medicine.
As with many natural phenomena, scientists look to the climate of the past to understand what may lie ahead as Earth warms.
It’s not a real rip in spacetime, but it’s still cool.
The first major professional conference that Pallavi Kache ever attended was an international symposium focused on wild pigs.