Category: Uncategorized
Immune cells bandage wounds
Neuophils aid in wound healing by releasing extracellular matrix and other toxins, as observed in mice skin, lungs and intestinal organs by atomic force microscopy. The neutrophils stained for Col3a1 in their skin in WT control, as well as images from 2 mice, and TgfbrN mice. Further, independent experiments showed that fibre size can be determined in the skin of TgfbrN mice.
Read More
Brain scans show we aren’t remembering being babies
Yale University neuroscientist Nick TurkBrowne has said that what happens in baby’s brain in the first two years of life is’magnificent’. “What happens in baby’s brain in the first two years of life is magnificent…better understanding how your brain learns…in infancy lays the foundation for everything you know and do for the rest of your life,” he added.
Read More
How bad could the measles get in the US?
The US has reported its first case of measles in over 10 years after a six-year-old girl died from the disease, which is known to spread through airborne droplets if a person is too sick to breathe. Measles can spread through air droplets if a person is too sick to breathe. “If sparks from this initial fire land in communities where vaccination rates are low, then we’re going to have multiple large outbreaks,” a researcher said.
Read More
Stone Age Europeans sailed by sea to Africa
Researchers have said that eastern Maghreb carried local indigenous hunter-gatherer ancestry similar to that of ancient people from what’s now Morocco. But unlike those western Maghreb hunter-gatherers, whose ancestry was largely replaced by European farmers probably arriving through the Strait of Gibraltar, the local ancestry persisted in Tunisia and Algeria long after the arrival of farmers from Europe and the Middle East.
Read MorePope 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.
Read More
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.
Read More
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.
Read More
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.
Read More
The first in-womb treatment for motor-neuron condition is a success
Researchers trained an artificial intelligence engine on one-second slices of gameplay from online multiplayer game ‘B Bleeding Edge’, taken from controllers’ inputs. The engine, World and Human Action Model (WHAM), can create a world that responds to player inputs. WHAM was trained on one-second slices of gameplay taken from 5,00,000 anonymized play sessions.
Read More
Despite lawsuits challenging Trump’s order, the research grant from the NIH is still frozen
US President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered Federal employees to post notices at least 35 days in advance of grant-review meetings, the Department of Government Efficiency said. If federal employees don’t do so, they would face “adverse consequences”, the department added. The notice will have to be posted at least 15 days prior to the grant-review meetings.
Read More