Genetic analyses of the bird flu virus unveil its evolution and potential

A flurry of reports about the genetics of the bird flu currently infecting U.S. cattle are offering insight into how the virus has and continues to spread. Since it first…

Cows might host both human and bird flus

Cows have entry portals for both human and bird flus. This new finding may mean that cattle could host both types of flus at once. The two viruses could then…

Arm fat may reveal women and men at risk of spinal fracture

Credit: cottonbro studio from Pexels Measuring the total mass of fat in the arms could potentially predict which women and men over 50 are at risk of spinal fracture, according…

Underwater scans reveal lost submerged landscape

Researchers from the Life on the Edge project, a collaboration between the University of Bradford and the University of Split, has revealed a lost submerged landscape off the coast of…

Do We Really Learn From Failure?

Summary: A recent study investigated how cardiothoracic surgeons learn from failures, revealing that there is a threshold beyond which they no longer gain knowledge from their mistakes. The research highlights…

How cannabis and psilocybin might help some of the 50 million Americans who are experiencing chronic pain

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency announced in late April 2024 that it plans to ease federal restrictions on cannabis, reclassifying it from a Schedule I drug to the less restricted…

Pressure to lose weight in adolescence linked to how people value themselves almost two decades later

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain People who as teenagers felt pressure to lose weight from family or from the media, females, people who are not heterosexual, and people experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage,…

Study shows key role of physical activity and body mass in lung function growth in childhood

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) sheds light on the growth of lung function in children. The results show that…

Human muscle map reveals how we try to fight effects of aging at cellular and molecular levels

Skeletal muscle fibers. Credit: Berkshire Community College Bioscience Image Library / Public domain How muscle changes with aging and tries to fight its effects is now better understood at the…

Inside the tomb of the First Emperor

The tomb of the First Emperor, also known as the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, is the burial complex and mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the founder of the…