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Medical Xpress / Pakistan begins last anti-polio vaccination drive of the year after surge in new cases
Pakistani authorities on Monday launched the final nationwide anti-polio vaccination campaign of the year, aiming to protect 45 million children after more than two dozen cases of the potentially paralyzing disease were reported, ...
Medical Xpress / Poll reveals few parents offer teens guidance on healthy eating during holiday season
As teens gain more independence in their food choices, many parents struggle to navigate conversations about nutrition—which could be especially important during the holidays, when celebrations often center around meals.
Medical Xpress / Cannabis derivatives could provide new ovarian cancer treatments
In the future, scientists could use drugs made from cannabis to fight ovarian cancer. A team of scientists testing the effects of two chemical compounds sourced from cannabis on ovarian cancer cells have found that both show ...
Phys.org / Biologists reveal ancient form of cell adhesion
The cells of all animals—including humans—are characterized by their ability to adhere particularly well to surfaces in their environment. This mechanically stable adhesion enables the development of complex tissues and ...
Phys.org / How a new algorithm predicts cell fate from just one genetic snapshot
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and KTH have developed a computational method that can reveal how cells change and specialize in the body. The study, which has been published in the journal PNAS, can provide important ...
Phys.org / Neutron star P13 shows dramatic X-ray variability linked to rotation velocity
A research team has investigated long-term X-ray variability in the neutron star NGC 7793 P13, an object thought to be driven by supercritical accretion, where an extraordinary amount of gas falls onto the object and emits ...
Phys.org / Ultrashort laser pulses catch a snapshot of a 'molecular handshake'
Liquids and solutions are complex environments—think, for example, of sugar dissolving in water, where each sugar molecule becomes surrounded by a restless crowd of water molecules. Inside living cells, the picture is even ...
Phys.org / Scientists discover nine new species of butterfly from South America stored at London's Natural History Museum
An international team of scientists have identified nine new species of butterflies using a combination of geographical, morphological and molecular analysis.
Dialog / Cracking the mystery of heat flow in few-atoms thin materials
For much of my career, I have been fascinated by the ways in which materials behave when we reduce their dimensions to the nanoscale. Over and over, I've learned that when we shrink a material down to just a few nanometers ...
Tech Xplore / Tech savvy users have most digital concerns, study finds
Digital concerns around privacy, online misinformation, and work-life boundaries are highest among highly educated, Western European millennials, finds a new study from researchers at UCL and the University of British Columbia.
Phys.org / A new five-year survey of the Magellanic Clouds will answer some questions about our neighbors
The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 light-years away and the SMC is about 206,000 light-years away, and their close proximity makes ...
Medical Xpress / Canadian study finds 1 in 4 children with major traumatic injuries not cared for in pediatric trauma centers
New research shows that one in four children with major traumatic injury do not receive care in a pediatric trauma center, where outcomes are generally better than in adult centers.
