(Tokyo Institute of Technology) Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology working in collaboration with colleagues at the Kanagawa Institute of Industrial Science and Technology and Nara Medical University in Japan have succeeded in preparing a mate…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Littlest shop of horrors: Hungry green algae prefer to eat bacteria alive
(American Museum of Natural History) New research suggests that the ability of green algae to eat bacteria is likely much more widespread than previously thought, a finding that could be crucial to environmental and climate science. The work, led by sc…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Energy switching decisions could widen social inequalities
(University of Leeds) New energy tariffs designed for a low carbon future could leave people on bad deals even worse off. The tariffs could benefit all kinds of customers, but many people are unlikely to choose them. Those likely to adopt them first ar…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Coronavirus-like particles could ensure reliability of simpler, faster COVID-19 tests
(University of California – San Diego) Rapid COVID-19 tests are on the rise to deliver results faster to more people, and scientists need an easy, foolproof way to know that these tests work correctly and the results can be trusted. Nanoparticles that …
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Mouse sperm generated in rats
(National Institutes of Natural Sciences) Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) can make all the tissues including gametes such as sperm and eggs. Researchers from the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Japan report a robust method for the genera…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: High fat diets may over-activate destructive heart disease protein
(University of Reading) Consumption of a high fat diet may be activating a response in the heart that is causing destructive growth and lead to greater risk of heart attacks, according to new research.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Origin of life – The chicken-and-the-egg problem
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) A Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich team has shown that slight alterations in transfer-RNA molecules (tRNAs) allow them to self-assemble into a functional unit that can replicate information expone…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Protein Science Best Papers for 2020
(The Protein Society) The winners of the 2020 Protein Science Best Paper awards are Yu-Ting Huang from National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, and Samuel Junod and Joseph Kelich from Temple University, USA.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Ecology: The scientific literature dominated by men and a handful of countries
(CNRS) A research team has just shown that the vast majority of scientific articles in the fields of ecology and conservation biology are authored by men working in a few Western countries. They represent 90% of the 1,051 authors that have published th…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Tissue, scaffold technologies provide new options for ****** cancer, other diseases
(Purdue University) New technology from Purdue University innovators may help improve tissue restoration outcomes for people with ****** cancer and other diseases or traumatic injuries. It involves a regenerative tissue filler. This is a first-of-a-kin…
