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Medical Xpress / Five ways microplastics may harm your brain

Microplastics could be fueling neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, with a new study highlighting five ways microplastics can trigger inflammation and damage in the brain.

8 hours ago in Health
Phys.org / X-ray spikes reveal electron beam size

While synchrotron radiation is often thought of as "stable," the electromagnetic field exhibits pronounced randomly fluctuating distributions both temporally and spatially. These fluctuations encode spatial information about ...

8 hours ago in Physics
Medical Xpress / PFAS exposure may limit improvements in blood sugar after bariatric surgery

A new USC study shows teens with higher blood levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) measured before bariatric surgery had smaller improvements in blood sugar over five years, including fasting glucose and hemoglobin ...

8 hours ago in Surgery
Medical Xpress / US vaccine advisers say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth

A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they're born.

4 hours ago in Pediatrics
Phys.org / Physicists provide key mass data for determining X-ray burst reaction rate

A research team from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has directly measured the masses of two highly unstable atomic nuclei, phosphorus-26 and sulfur-27. These precise measurements ...

8 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Yeast cell factory converts methanol into L-lactate for biodegradable plastics

Methanol is an ideal feedstock for bio-manufacturing. Converting it into lactate, a monomer for biodegradable plastic, offers a promising strategy for addressing the challenge of white pollution. However, it remains difficult ...

8 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / Spain not ruling out lab leak as cause of swine fever outbreak

Spain's government said Friday it had not ruled out an accidental laboratory leak as the cause of an outbreak of African swine fever that has rocked the country's lucrative pork industry.

4 hours ago in Biology
Tech Xplore / Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. studio and streaming business for $72 billion

Netflix struck a deal Friday to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, the Hollywood giant behind "Harry Potter" and HBO Max, in a $72 billion deal that would bring together two of the biggest players in television and film and potentially ...

4 hours ago in Business
Phys.org / Programmable CRISPR platform can reduce stem cell differentiation from months to weeks

Syntax Bio, a synthetic biology company programming the next generation of cell therapies, has published new research in Science Advances detailing the company's CRISPR-based Cellgorithm technology, which lays the groundwork ...

5 hours ago in Biology
Tech Xplore / Light yet strong material inspired by egg whites can cool devices faster

A research team at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) has developed a high-performance heat-dissipating composite material that achieves both eco-friendliness and low-cost processing.

Medical Xpress / America doesn't have enough hospital beds. This could help

Every day, across the nation, patients wait hours or days in emergency departments until a bed opens up for them in the hospital.

9 hours ago in Medical economics
Medical Xpress / New tuberculosis case detected in Northern California

An individual with contagious tuberculosis was recently identified within the UC Davis "campus community," the university said in a Dec. 2 news release.