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(University of Georgia) Researchers at the University of Georgia's Regenerative Bioscience Center and their colleagues have found that 'natural killer' white blood cells could guard against the cascade of cellular change...

An analysis of public genome sequence data from SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses found no evidence that the virus was made in a laboratory or otherwise engineered.

A new study calculates that the median incubation period for COVID-19 is just over 5 days and that 97.5% of people who develop symptoms will do so within 11.5 days of infection.

Many people dream of comfortably living out their golden years. A new study however shows that older Europeans, and especially women, frequently underestimate how many years they have left, which could lead to costly dec...

Botulinum toxin (BoNT) is used for a range of applications, but when injected it can diffuse into the surrounding tissue and give rise to adverse effects. A new study shows that a subtle modification of an FDA-approved f...

New research finds that the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is stable for several hours to days in aerosols and on surfaces. Scientists found that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SA...

Power Integrations today announced that its SIC118xKQ SCALE-iDriver, a high-efficiency, single-channel gate driver for silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs, is now certified to AEC-Q100 for automotive use. Devices can be config...

Yes, APEC 2020 organizers are promising paper presentations online but it looks like one fast and furious Silicon-Valley-based supplier of power electronics just took up the virtual-exhibit show banner with today’s lau...

Need to reduce high-pitched noises? Science may have an answer. Theoretical physicists report that materials made from tapered chains of spherical beads could help dampen sounds that lie at the upper range of human heari...

Saelig Company, Inc. has announced the compact, multi-channel CDP-07M UHF Narrow-Band Transmitter/Receiver Pair: CDP-TX-07M (transmitter) and CDP-RX-07M (receiver). The modules contain almost all of the components necess...

Performance Motion Devices, Inc. (PMD) today announced the availability of Juno Velocity Control ICs, new members of PMD’s Juno Motion IC family providing advanced velocity control of 3-phase Brushless DC and DC Brush ...

Synopsys announced the immediate availability of RTL Architect, an innovative product that signifies a shift-left for RTL design closure. Synopsys RTL Architect is the industry’s first physically aware RTL design syste...

Heilind Electronics has added JAE Electronics DC04 Series HDMI connectors to its growing inventory of audio and visual interconnects. As one of the first connectors approved for HDMI 2.1 use, the DC04 series meets the in...

In celebration of Pi Day, the element14 community has published a new eBook: "Essential Raspberry Pi Tips". In recent years, the Raspberry Pi has transitioned from a tool for students and hobbyists to a viable option for...

Researchers were able to test blood samples at four different time points in an otherwise healthy woman in her 40s, who presented with COVID-19 and had mild-to-moderate symptoms requiring hospital admission.

(Emory Health Sciences) Stimulating immune cells with two cancer immunotherapies together can shrink the size of the viral 'reservoir' in SIV-infected nonhuman primates treated with antiviral drugs. Important implication...

(American Society for Nutrition) Nutrition 2020 is your source for the latest news on food, nutrition and health. This flagship meeting of the American Society for Nutrition, to be held May 30-June 2 at the Washington St...

(University of Massachusetts Amherst) A new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine calculates that the median incubation period for COVID-19 is just over 5 days and that 97.5% of people who develop symptoms will do so ...

(Children's National Hospital) Research into how to create a robust emergency evacuation preparedness plan and continually train Children's National Hospital staff was lauded by editors of The Journal of Perinatal & Neon...

(Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology) Walter Reichman, Ed.D has been named a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). The profession of industrial and organizational psy...

(Technical University of Munich (TUM)) During a viral infection, viruses enter the body and multiply in its cells. Viruses often specifically attach themselves to the sugar structures of the host cells, or present charac...

(Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science) The key to effective cures for cancers is to find weak points of cancer cells that are not found in non-cancer cells. Researchers at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of M...