Low-oxygen air both prevented and reversed symptoms in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease. Scientists at the Broad Institute and Mass General Brigham have discovered that placing mice with Parkinson’s-like disease in a low-oxygen…
Author: admin
-
Mount Everest Air Offers Clues to Parkinson’s Treatment
-
Streaked Shearwaters Prefer to Excret in Air, New Study Shows
Ornithologists from the University of Tokyo have observed excretions of streaked shearwaters (Calonectris leucomelas) in the open ocean using belly-mounted video cameras. These seabirds exhibited a tendency to avoid excretion while floating on…
Continue Reading
-
Ultra-fast Airy beams keep network flowing past walls and obstacles
Ultra-fast wireless signals have a weakness: they can’t see walls. As engineers push into the sub-terahertz spectrum to handle the enormous data demands of virtual reality and autonomous vehicles, even a bookcase or a passing person can block…
Continue Reading
-
Self-powered microneedle patch monitors biomarkers without blood
Researchers have developed a self-powered microneedle patch that can collect health biomarker samples without blood, batteries, or external devices. In proof-of-concept tests using synthetic skin, the patch successfully collected biomarkers over…
Continue Reading
-
Psoriasis Breakthrough: Scientists Restore Immune Balance Without Harsh Side Effects
The study improves understanding of chronic inflammatory skin disease. Psoriasis is one of the most widespread chronic inflammatory skin conditions, affecting about 250,000 people in Austria. Traditional treatments have largely concentrated on…
Continue Reading
-
Dr. Michael Piepkorn on How the Discovery of the p16 Gene Transformed Familial Melanoma Diagnosis
The discovery of the p16 gene was a significant turning point in understanding familial melanoma. This development was primarily responsible for enhancing genetic counseling for families at higher risk. Testing for expression of the p16 gene…
Continue Reading
-
Creating Dashboards Using Vizro MCP: Vizro is an Open-Source Python Toolkit by McKinsey
Vizro is an open-source Python toolkit by McKinsey that makes it easy to build beautiful, production-ready data visualization apps. With just a few lines of configuration (via JSON, YAML, or Python dictionaries), you can create…
Continue Reading
-
The Night Sky This Week
August is a great month for the Milky Way.
getty
Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere). Check my main feed for more in-depth…
Continue Reading
-
Mysterious Object Hurtling Toward Us From Beyond Solar System Appears to Be Emitting Its Own Light, Scientists Say
Last month, astronomers made an exciting discovery, observing an interstellar object — only the third ever observed — hurtling toward the center of the solar system.
The object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, has caught the attention of Harvard astronomer…
Continue Reading
-
75-Million-Year-Old Dragonfly Species Found | Sci.News
Named Cordualadensa acorni, the new dragonfly species from Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park represents the only Mesozoic dragonfly for Canada and fills a major 30-million-year gap in the evolutionary history of dragonflies.
Cordualadensa…
Continue Reading