New-born piglets often die painfully from infection with an intestinal bacterium. A team of researchers has now discovered how the…
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Ensuring and Sustaining a Pandemic Workforce
Current efforts to fight the Covid-19 pandemic aim to slow viral spread and increase testing, protect health care workers from…
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DNA crossovers can drive healthy, abnormal sperm, egg cell division
Human genetic diversity wouldn’t be possible without DNA crossovers in egg and sperm cells. Two studies provide new insights into…
A potential new weapon in the war against superbugs
Researchers have shown that a newly discovered natural antibiotic, teixobactin, could be effective in treating bacterial lung conditions such as…
Not children, but ‘super-happy families’ the aim of assisted reproduction
Researchers studied how staff at fertility clinics view the assessments that childless couples and women undergo in order to access…
Fluorescence bioimaging: Near-infrared fluorescence imaging of living subjects
Scientists can monitor biomolecular processes in live tissue by noninvasive optical methods, such as fluorescence imaging. However, the fluorescent dyes…
Some infants can identify differences in musical tones at six months
Neuroscientists suggest the capacity to hear the highs and lows, also known as the major and minor notes in music,…