Medicine First-ever Lab Model of Human Eye Offers Hope For Macular Degeneration Patients (Medicine) 29 Mar 2021 Rochester researchers say their breakthrough could lead to patient-specific treatments. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which leads to a loss of central vision, is the most frequent cause of blindness in…
Medicine Common Medications Contain Animal Byproducts, Study Finds (Medicine) 29 Mar 2021 More physicians and pharmacists are advocating for patients to be made aware of animal byproducts contained in common medications, according to new research in the Journal of Osteopathic Medicine. Common medications, including…
Medicine Diabetes Drug May Be A New Weapon Against HIV (Medicine) 29 Mar 2021 Research from the UNC School of Medicine lab of Jenny Ting, PhD, shows that widely used drug metformin reduces metabolism of infected T cells to suppress HIV replication. A team…
Astronomy Black Hole Key to Galaxies Behemoths (Cosmology / Astronomy) 29 Mar 2021 A new black hole breaks the record –– not for being the smallest or the biggest –– but for being right in the middle. The recently discovered ‘Goldilocks’ black hole…
Astronomy Dark Matter Is The Most Likely Source of Excess of Gamma Rays From Galactic Center (Cosmology / Astronomy) 29 Mar 2021 In the recent past, space missions dedicated to the study of astrophysical signals in the high-energy spectrum revealed a series of enigmatic excesses not predicted by the theoretical models. In order to find an explanation…
Astronomy MIT Astronomers Discover New Galaxy Clusters Hiding in Plain Sight (Astronomy) 29 Mar 2021 Lesson learned from the CHiPS survey must inform future cluster searches, researchers say. MIT astronomers have discovered new and unusual galactic neighborhoods that previous studies overlooked. Their results, published today, suggest…
Material science Tires Turned Into Graphene That Makes Stronger Concrete (Material Science) 29 Mar 2021 Rice University lab’s optimized flash process could reduce carbon emissions This could be where the rubber truly hits the road. Rice University scientists have optimized a process to convert waste…
