Monthly Archives: Settembre 2019
Toxoplasma parasite causes a distinctive lesion in the retina
One-third of the world population is infected with Toxoplasma, which causes a common eye infection called ocular toxoplasmosis.
Researchers have shed new light on how...
New strategy to enhance interactions between humans and robotic swarms
Researchers at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) in Russia have recently introduced a new strategy to enhance interactions between humans and...
Zero-energy – researchers invent low-cost alternative to Bitcoin
The cryptocurrency Bitcoin is limited by its astronomical electricity consumption and outsized carbon footprint.
A nearly zero-energy alternative sounds too good to be true,...
Olfactory importance of the smell of a newborn baby’s head and mother-child bonding
A team led by Kobe University Professor Mamiko Ozaki (Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science) has become the first to identify the chemical...
Musical preference may reveal a lot about your personality traits and political orientation
You are what you listen to. That is the conclusion of a new study conducted by Adrian North and his team from Curtin University.
Recently...
Telomere shortening is associated with gray matter reduction
Telomeres are protective caps at the ends of chromosomes that become shorter with each cell division.
If they become so short that the genes...
Why do the elderly seem more opposed to new popular music?
When I was a teenager, my dad wasn’t terribly interested in the music I liked.
To him, it just sounded like “a lot of...
New imaging technique allows to view synaptic proteins at high resolution
Our brains contain millions of synapses — the connections that transmit messages from neuron to neuron.
Within these synapses are hundreds of different proteins,...
Washing machines are a reservoir of multidrug-resistant pathogens
For the first time ever, investigators have identified a washing machine as a reservoir of multidrug-resistant pathogens.
The pathogens, a single clone of Klebsiella...
People with heart disease or defective or artificial heart valves are at increased risk...
People with heart disease or defective or artificial heart valves are at increased risk of developing a potentially deadly valve infection.
Rutgers researchers reported...
Patients with heart artery stenting can reduce risk of future heart attacks with additional...
Research has shown that patients who have had emergency heart attack treatment with heart artery stenting - and have significant narrowings in their other...
New exploit could be used to jailbreak iPhone models that are using either the...
While a jailbreak is technically illegal, Apple users have been doing them since the launch of the very first iPhone.
The motive being...
Vigorous physical activity is associated with lower death rates in patients with stable coronary...
Vigorous physical activity one or two times a week is associated with the lowest death rates in patients with stable coronary artery disease, reports...
Biomedical engineers created new cardiac patch using silk
How do you use silk to help repair a damaged heart? With a 3-D printer, dry ice, a silicon mold and a copper plate,...
Adults who were maltreated as children have an increased risk of serious mental illness
A study by the University of Birmingham has shown that children who have experienced child abuse or neglect are four times more likely to...