Quantcast

Latest News

Faster Drug Discovery Through Machine Learning

New technique speeds up calculations of drug molecules’ binding affinity to proteins.

Decrease in Relapses of Crohn's Disease in Youth

A research team led by Dr. Prévost Jantchou, clinician and researcher at the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre, focused on the rate of Crohn’s disease relapse, as well as factors associated with relapse, in children over the past decade.

Cell Division in Embryos: Not a Textbook Case of Symmetry

As cell biologists, Université de Montréal professor Greg FitzHarris and his PhD student Lia Paim are very interested in fertility and what happens inside the eggs and embryos of the mice they study in their lab.

Wider-Reaching Solutions Urgently Needed to Reach Realistic ‘Net Zero’, Warn Researchers

There should be greater investment in using a wider group of experts to make decisions about how the landscape is managed if the UK is to reach climate targets such as net zero, a new report warns.

Zoo Enrichment Could Go Further

Zoos and aquariums could improve the lives of a wider range of their animals, new research suggests.

Forest Emissions Scheme Makes “Tiny” Contribution to Indonesia’s Paris Targets

More than 70 million tons of carbon were prevented from being released into the atmosphere under a deforestation emissions reduction scheme in Indonesia – but researchers point out this is only 3 per cent of the total required by Indonesia’s Nationally Defined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement.

Lucky Genes Can Help Protect People with Obesity from Some Disease

Geneticists from the University of Exeter and Brunel University London have revealed why some people with obesity remain relatively healthy, whilst others suffer from life-changing ailments such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

Alexe Bilodeau-Houle: 'The more the parent and child showed synchronized physiological reactions, the greater the child’s fear when it was his or her turn to take part in the experiment'

A recent study that was conducted by Alexe Bilodeau-Houle through her master's degree at Université de Montréal has found that children with less secure attachment relationship and high physiological concordance with their parents are more likely to be fearful. According to a press release, the study was published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology in February, and showed factors that influence observational fear learning in children.

Oxford professor: 'We had not expected the logged forest to be so ecologically vibrant'

As the world grapples with the challenges of biodiversity loss and deforestation, this research offers a fresh perspective on the potential for conservation and sustainable land-use practices in logged tropical forests.

Dr Janet Geipel: 'The modality effect suggests that by providing surveys in the spoken modality responses might be relatively more intuitive'

In a 2022 study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, researchers, including Dr. Janet Geipel from the University of Exeter Business School, found that the way information is presented, either spoken or written, affects how people think.

Kristian Parton: 'These feeding behaviours show that nurse sharks are adapted to feed on different prey across a variety of habitats'

Underwater cameras have provided insight into the feeding habits of nurse sharks, which reveal their flexibility and skills during feeding activirties. According to a release by the University of Exeter which conducted the study with NGO Beneath the Waves, baited remote underwater video (BRUV) cameras were used off the Turks and Caicos Islands, and found the sharks with habits including vertical feeding, ventral feeding and pectoral positioning.

Cannabis Impacts Sperm Counts, Motility in Two Generations of Mice

An intense but short-term exposure to cannabis vapor lowered sperm counts and slowed sperm movement, or motility, not only in the directly exposed male mice but also in their sons.

Researchers Reject 30-Year-Old Paradigm: The Emergence Of Forests Did Not Reduce The Amount Of CO2 In The Atmosphere

CO2 For more than 30 years, researchers throughout the world have assumed that the emergence of forests on the planet reduced the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. But this is not the case, a new study concludes. The insight it provides can help us understand how we can counter present-day climate change.

Budtenders, Healthcare Providers Seek More Training as Cannabis Use Rises

In the absence of consistent counseling from healthcare providers, women who are pregnant or breastfeeding are getting information on using cannabis from the retail marijuana workers known as budtenders, according to a study led by Celestina Barbosa-Leiker, vice-chancellor for research at Washington State University Health Sciences.

Test Determines Antibiotic Resistance in Less Than 90 Minutes

A technique that measures the metabolic activity of bacteria with an electric probe can identify antibiotic resistance in less than 90 minutes, a dramatic improvement from the one to two days required by current techniques.

Increased Take‑home Methadone During Pandemic Did Not Worsen Outcomes

Relaxing limits on take-home doses of methadone—a medication used to treat opioid addiction—does not appear to lead to worse treatment outcomes, according to a new study led by Washington State University researchers.

Dr. Fornwagner: 'Gender has long been reported to be a driving factor in domains'

In December 2022, researchers from the University of Exeter Business School and the University of Regensburg published a groundbreaking study in Nature: Scientific Reports, examining the influence of gender identity and biological sex on economic decision-making.

Committee Urges Greater Management of Antimicrobials

A new congressionally mandated report recommends ways to hold nursing homes, dialysis centers, and long-term care hospitals accountable for appropriate use of antimicrobials.

Many New College Students Report Pet Separation Anxiety

Pets are not the only ones who experience separation anxiety; their people do too.