A drug already in trials may stop chemotherapy nerve damage

Chemotherapy appears to activate a stress-sensing system inside immune cells. According to new research from Weill Cornell Medicine and Wake Forest University School of Medicine, this reaction sets off inflammation and nerve injury, which may help explain why many people undergoing cancer treatment experience serious and often long-lasting pain. Up…

Aste da Guinness, il record resta al Salvator Mundi – Notizie – Ansa.it

Arte da Guinness: nonostante la crisi del mercato dell’arte, le aste ‘blue chip’ continuano a sfornare record. Il primato di sempre resta al Salvator Mundi attribuito a Leonardo da Vinci, venduto da Christie’s ai reali sauditi nel 2017 per 450,3 milioni di dollari, un vertice stratosferico tuttora inviolato a cui…

New airflow device captures indoor germs before they spread

With winter on the way and people spending more time inside, the air they breathe becomes a more significant concern. This is especially true during cold and flu season. Researchers at UBC Okanagan are examining a new air-cleaning device designed to capture airborne pathogens. Their goal is to provide a…

Scientists reveal kissing began millions of years before humans

A new investigation led by the University of Oxford reports that kissing may have originated in the shared ancestor of humans and other large apes roughly 21 million years ago. The research, published on November 19 in Evolution and Human Behavior, also indicates that Neanderthals likely practiced kissing. Kissing is…

This engineered fungus cuts emissions and tastes like meat

A recent study published November 19 in Trends in Biotechnology reports that scientists used the gene-editing tool CRISPR to improve how efficiently a fungus produces protein while also lowering the environmental footprint of that production by as much as 61% — all without introducing foreign DNA. The modified fungus has…

This tiny pill could change how we diagnose gut health

Move over, colonoscopies — researchers writing in ACS Sensors report that they have created tiny microspheres filled with bacteria that can sense the presence of blood, a key sign of gastrointestinal disease. These microspheres function like miniature “pills” that are swallowed and include magnetic particles so they can be easily…

Arriva la neve, fiocchi dalla Valtellina alla Toscana – Notizie – Ansa.it

È arrivata la neve sull’Italia. Dopo la prima comparsa sulle Dolomiti e nell’Alessandrino, da questa mattina nevica sull’intero territorio bergamasco, con intensità maggiore in montagna, ma anche fiocchi nel capoluogo e in pianura. Mentre non si registrano particolari problemi sulle strade, la nevicata sta creando disagi sulla rete ferroviaria: risultano…

Japanese spacecraft faces a massive challenge from a house-size asteroid

Astronomers have gathered new data on the asteroid 1998 KY26 using observatories across several continents, including the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT). These coordinated observations show that the asteroid is almost three times smaller than earlier estimates and rotates far more rapidly. The object is the planned…

Century-old catalysis puzzle cracked by measuring a fraction of an electron

A research team from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering and the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering has successfully identified and measured the fraction of an electron involved in catalytic manufacturing. Their findings, published in the open-access journal ACS Central Science, clarify why…

A twist of light could power the next generation of memory devices

Modern digital systems depend on information encoded in simple binary units of 0s and 1s. Any physical substance that can reliably switch between two different, stable configurations can in principle serve as a storage platform for that binary information. Ferroic materials fall into this category. These solids can be toggled…

Triple therapy sparks a powerful immune attack on leukemia

Immunotherapy is designed to help a patient’s own immune cells seek out and remove tumor cells. In a preclinical model, researchers at the Institut Pasteur and Inserm succeeded in triggering a strong anti-tumor immune reaction by altering how malignant B cells die. Their work showed that a triple-therapy combination could…