Study Unveils the Potent Antimicrobial Properties of Pomegranate Varieties. Credit: Severino Zara: National Council of Research, Institute of Food Production Sciences, Sassari 07100, Italy, [email protected] Pomegranates, known for their rich phenolic content, have been explored for their potential as natural antimicrobials. The research focuses on the peel, which contains a high concentration of these beneficial … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The inauguration of the world’s most powerful fusion machine brings the dream of clean, safe and abundant power closer. In the eastern Japanese city of Naka stands a six-story-high tower that is far from being an ordinary building. The device inside the cylindrical steel structure is called a tokamak. It’s designed … Read more
An illustration of the main idea and results from Wang et al. Credit: NAOC Scientists at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and their international collaborators have recently developed a new method for efficiently extracting information from galaxy surveys. Their research results are published in the journal Communications Physics. Massive … Read more
Investigation of Cu(I) salts for γ-dehydrogenation. Reaction conditions: catalyst (10 mol%), AcOH (0.2 M), 125 °C, 12 h. Isolated yields are reported. Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07341-z Inspired by what human liver enzymes can do, Scripps Research chemists have developed a new set of copper-catalyzed organic synthesis reactions for building and modifying pharmaceuticals and other … Read more
Above 32 °C, PNIPAm changes from a hydrophilic to a hydrophobic state. As a consequence, the nanogel particles rapidly change their size by expelling water. Credit: Felix Lehmkühler An international team at the world’s largest X-ray laser European XFEL at Schenefeld near Hamburg has scrutinized the properties of an important nanogel that is often used … Read more
Professor Lindsay Stark. Credit: Washington University in St. Louis A group-based curriculum called Journey of Life (JoL)—delivered over 12 sessions in the Kiryandongo refugee settlement in Uganda—led to improvements in mental health, social support, parental warmth and attitudes around violence against children, finds a new study from the Brown School. “This study highlights the crucial role … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The H5N1 bird flu virus strain has been detected in very high concentrations in raw milk from infected animals, the WHO said Friday, though how long the virus can survive in milk is unknown. Avian influenza A(H5N1) first emerged in 1996 but since 2020, the number of outbreaks in birds has … Read more
A genetic suppressor screen identifies RdDM to be the major pathway for repeat expansion-induced epigenetic silencing. a, Phenotypes (denoted by their original screen identifiers) of the isolated suppressors compared to Bur-0. The irregularly impaired leaves are marked by white arrows in the Bur-0 wild type. Scale bars, 2 cm. b, Relative IIL1 expression levels in genetic … Read more
a) Schematic of the processes that occur following photon absorption (equation 1), starting from point 1 and proceeding to point 4. b) Schematic of measurement approach—a gold flake is excited from above and below, and the photoluminescence signal is recorded from the same bottom side in both measurements. c) Wavelength dependence of the ratio between … Read more
When the team infected mice with Candida albicans strains taken from the severely affected Covid patients, they discovered that the mice generated increased fungal antibodies and neutrophils. And when they then treated these infected mice with the common antifungal drug fluconazole, numbers of these fungal-induced neutrophils decreased—as did the quantity of fungal antibodies. This indicated … Read more
