New UBC research shows for the first time that soil silicates—the most abundant material on the Earth’s crust—play a key role in blood clotting.

The average picker now experiences 21 days each year when the daily heat index — a mix of air temperature and humidity — would exceed workplace safety standards.

In one of the first reported cases of its kind, a 3-week-old infant in critical condition recovered from COVID-19 due to rapid recognition and treatment by physicians from McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

An important goal of early-phase clinical trials is to discover a drug’s possible side effects. 

In a policy brief published today in its namesake journal (DOI: 10.1111/jgs.16510), the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) offered a roadmap to guide federal, state, and local governments addressing COVID-19 concerns in an important but oft-overlooked arena: Assisted living facilities (ALFs). 

PNNL has patented an accurate and portable way to detect miniscule amounts of an extremely persistent toxic chemical that accumulates in our bodies and our environment.

As the novel coronavirus has emerged and spread around the globe, science writer David Quammen has not been surprised.

A team of scientists led by Yosuke Toda, Designated Assistant Professor at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University, and Fumio Okura, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research,Osaka University, have developed a system which utilizes image analysis and artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically and precisely analyze the shape of large numbersof seeds from a single image. As the shape of the seed is an important agronomic trait that is closely linked to the yield and quality of crops, a method for automatically determining and evaluating suchfrom an image is an indispensable tool for plant breeding. However, creating the training dataset is laborious and time consuming, especially when the number of objects to annotate is as large as it is in the case of seeds. To date,it has been difficult to quickly and conveniently analyze the number of seeds of different crop species at once.

Scientists in Texas and Pennsylvania have identified a protein sensor that restricts how much sugar and fat our cells convert into energy during periods of starvation.

As the world reels from a global viral wildfire costing hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars, epidemiologists are turning their attention to how best to prevent the next pandemic.