Credit: Journal of Clinical Investigation (2024). DOI: 10.1172/JCI180983 A team from the Wistar Institute has demonstrated the role of Parkin—a protein implicated in Parkinson’s disease—in the body’s innate immune response…
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Team develops versatile knee exoskeletons for safer lifting
Emily Keller, a doctoral student in robotics at the Locomotor Control Systems Lab, University of Michigan, demonstrates the knee exoskeletons on the steps outside of the Ford Robotics Building at…
Some healthy fish have bacteria in their brains
Some fish have bacteria on the brain. Wild and lab-grown members of the salmon family including European rainbow trout, Chinook salmon and Gila trout harbor active microbial communities inside their…
Preventive care is free by law, but many Americans get incorrectly billed − especially if you’re poor, a person of color or don’t have a college degree
Even though preventive care is supposed to be free by law for millions of Americans thanks to the Affordable Care Act, many don’t receive recommended preventive services, especially racial and…
SpaceX Crew-9 astronaut launch delayed to Sept. 25
The next space station astronaut mission will delay one day to Sept. 25. The delay in the SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is “to complete prelaunch…
EU court trims Qualcomm fine to 238.7 mn euros
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain An EU court on Wednesday largely upheld an antitrust fine against US chipmaking giant Qualcomm but reduced the penalty slightly to 238.7 million euros ($265 million).…
Vaccine alliance secures deal for 500,000 mpox jabs for Africa
Mpox Virus Particle Colorized transmission electron micrograph of an mpox virus particle (yellow and red) found within an infected VERO E6 cell (blue), cultured in the laboratory. Image captured at…
Hidden craters reveal Earth may once have had a ring—like Saturn
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The rings of Saturn are among the most famous and spectacular features in the solar system. Earth may once have had something similar. In a paper…
Studies indicate no major concerns about risks to offspring for would-be dads taking epilepsy meds
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Would-be dads taking drugs to stop their epilepsy seizures—and valproate in particular—should be largely reassured that the available evidence on the developmental risks to their offspring…
