Why Do You Get Sick in the Winter? Blame Your Nose
[ad_1] To figure out what exactly was causing this antiviral capability, the scientists then incubated the vesicles with the viruses and imaged them under a microscope. They found that the…
This Low-Cost Test for Hearing Loss Lives on a Smartphone
[ad_1] Inside the snug confines of the human ear lies a bony structure, curly and shaped like a seashell. This structure, called the cochlea, contains little hairy cells that vibrate…
The Spooky Science of How Undead Spores Reanimate
[ad_1] Here’s a spooky conundrum: Is a spore alive or dead? Gürol Süel, a biologist at the University of California, San Diego, wouldn’t blame you if you voted for dead:…
To Understand Brain Disorders, Consider the Astrocyte
[ad_1] This was slow going. “We spent a lot of time, probably the first couple of years, really just working out the immunopanning and culturing the astrocytes,” recalls Caldwell. One…
With ‘What If? 2’, Randall Munroe Is Back to Answer Your Impossible Questions
[ad_1] I was first just reading about how MRIs have got really big magnets in them, and thinking: I know that the magnetic field extends out away from them. It…
What If Cells Kept Receipts of Their Gene Expression?
[ad_1] They added the chemical that triggered the first gene (corresponding to barcode A) for 24 hours, followed by the one for the second gene (corresponding to barcode B) for…
The Fall of Roe Makes Complex Pregnancies Even Riskier
[ad_1] Doctors who care for pregnant people often have to make time-sensitive decisions when lives are on the line. But in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision,…
This Stamp-Sized Ultrasound Patch Can Image Internal Organs
[ad_1] When a patient goes into a clinic for an ultrasound of their stomach, they lie down on crinkly paper atop an exam table. A clinician spreads a thick goo…
These Vaccines Will Take Aim at Covid—and Its Entire SARS Lineage
[ad_1] Even though the researchers only used a RBD from one version of Covid, their vaccine generated a robust polyclonal response—meaning it created multiple antibody types, rather than just one.…