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Gut microbiota could play big role in COVID-19, French researchers find

SARS CoV-2 viral protein is detected in fecal samples of up to 50% of people diagnosed with Covid-19, even when the nasopharyngeal swab test proves negative. However, the role of intestinal infection in Covid-19 disease progression remains to be clarified.

Researchers Develop Novel 3D Atomic Force Microscopy Probes

Advancement paves the way for a range of potential AFM novel applications and nano-scale discoveries

Design Prevents Buildup of Scar Tissue Around Medical Implantsa

A new device, which doesn’t rely on immunosuppressing drugs, may assist efforts to develop an artificial pancreas to treat diabetes.

Researchers Create the First Artificial Vision System for Both Land and Water

Inspired by a fiddler crab eye, scientists developed an amphibious artificial vision system with a panoramic visual field.

New Test May Predict COVID-19 Immunity

The paper test measures the level of neutralizing antibodies in a blood sample and could help people decide what protections they should take against infection.

Measuring the “Woodwork Effect” in Medical Insurance

Study: When adults gain access to Medicaid, they sign up their previously unenrolled kids, too — yet many more remain outside the system.

MIT Scientists Discover New Antiviral Defense System in Bacteria

Prokaryotes can detect hallmark viral proteins and trigger cell death through a process seen across all domains of life.

Scientists Identify a Plant Molecule That Sops Up Iron-Rich Heme

The peptide is used by legumes to control nitrogen-fixing bacteria; it may also offer leads for treating patients with too much heme in their blood.

Israeli scientists learn important lessons for drug design from acetylcholinesterase

Enzyme inhibitors are used by pesticides and nerve agents to target acetylcholinesterase, an enzyme that starts the breakdown of an organism's neurotransmission. It is also used in the laboratory to preserve a protein for study by shutting down the organism's nerve impulse transmission.

A New Method Boosts Wind Farms’ Energy Output, Without New Equipment

By modeling the conditions of an entire wind farm rather than individual turbines, engineers can squeeze more power out of existing installations.

Female Monkeys with Female Friends Live Longer

Female white-faced capuchin monkeys living in the tropical dry forests of northwestern Costa Rica may have figured out the secret to a longer life — having fellow females as friends.

UCLA-Led Team Develops New Approach for Building Quantum Computers

Quantum computing, though still in its early days, has the potential to dramatically increase processing power by harnessing the strange behavior of particles at the smallest scales.

New Way to Make Microparticles Could Accelerate Drug Development, Production of New Cell Strains

UCLA scientists have devised a method for producing intricately shaped hydrogel microparticles at a rate of more than 40 million per hour — at least 10 times faster than the current standard approach.

Sweating the Small Stuff: Smartwatch Developed at UCLA Measures Key Stress Hormone

The human body responds to stress, from the everyday to the extreme, by producing a hormone called cortisol.

Notches on Lions’ Teeth Reveal Poaching in Zambia’s Conservation Areas

UCLA study shows the strange markings are the result of trapped big cats chewing through wire snares, indicating these animals are injured at far higher rates than previously assumed

Researchers Discover an Unexpected Regulator of Heart Repair

A study using mice by scientists at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA reveals that cardiac muscle cells play a pivotal role in determining how the heart heals following a heart attack.

Ditching Cigarettes for Smokeless Tobacco Can Help Cut Cardiovascular Risks, Study Finds

Regular smokers are at heightened risk of developing cardiovascular disease, but crushing the butts in favor of a “smokeless” alternative like chewing tobacco, snuff or tobacco lozenges may go a long way toward bringing the danger down to a more normal level, a new UCLA-led study shows.

Opioid Overdoses Among Incarcerated People May Be Reduced by Improving Release Process and Treatment Continuity

Many people with opioid use disorder engage with the justice system, making it a critical place to offer evidence-based treatment.

Study Finds Evidence That Giant Meteorite Impacts Created the Continents

Dr Tim Johnson, from Curtin’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said the idea that the continents originally formed at sites of giant meteorite impacts had been around for decades, but until now there was little solid evidence to support the theory.

One More Clue to the Moon’s Origin

Researchers from ETH Zurich discover the first definitive proof that the Moon inherited indigenous noble gases from the Earth’s mantle.