Month: March 2025
Pope Francis is showing gradual, slight improvement after being hospitalized
Pope Francis, who was admitted to hospital last month for a respiratory crisis, has shown “a good response to the therapies”, the Holy See Press Office said. However, doctors at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital remain “guarded” about his prognosis, it added. The Pope entered his fourth week at the hospital with his condition stable following a few bouts of acute respiratory crises last week.
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One million years ago, bone tools were used by humans
Scientists have identified antimicrobial peptides which could one day help protect humans against infections, a study claimed. The peptides were found in the fossilised remains of Homo erectus, a small-brained hominins, that lived between 1.8 and 1.5 million years ago, it added. A team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Harvard Medical School had tested the peptides on mice.
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Single cell histone modifications are used for embryo tracing
A new study has found that genome-coverage single-cell histone modifications could be used to tracing lineages in embryos. Researchers used fragment counts in 5kb genome windows to assess genome coverage for all three of the histone modifications. This was done using data from a CoTACIT database of embryo lineages from pregnant female mice.
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There is anxiety over the future of its grants
US President Donald Trump’s administration has barred federal agencies from awarding any federal funding for scientific research. This comes after the administration froze all federal grants and loans to align it with his Executive Orders. It also cancelled review panels for research-grant funding and halted communications.
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