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Sponges Leave Mysterious Trails, Possibly Not As Immobile As Previously Thought KEY POINTS Video evidence shows trails of spicules leading to living sponges This suggests that sponges may actually be more active than we think Are sponges really immobile creatures? A team of researchers found evidence that they may actually be more mobile than people may think. Sponges in their larva stage are known to be quite mobile but they become sessile once they reach adulthood. This means that they stay...

Research led by Barbara Nikolajczyk, Ph.D., was selected as "Best of Cell Metabolism 2020" Photo | UK Office of Research Communications LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 27, 2021) — Annually, Best of Cell Press celebrates the highest-impact research published in their journals during the previous year. A paper by Barbara Nikolajczyk, Ph.D., professor of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences and associate director for Translational Research in Diabetes at the University of Kentucky, has been included in...

Credit: AWI OFOBS team, PS101 The aquatic animal known as the sponge is often described as entirely sessile: once theyve settled in a spot and matured, they arent generally thought of as moving around. But, according to a new study in the journal Current Biology on April 26--in which researchers describe mysterious trails of light brown sponge spicules (spike-like support elements in sponges) across the Arctic seafloor--that isnt always so. "We observed trails of densely interwoven spicules co...

**    Duration of WHO-declared COVID-19 pandemic (a)  Wellcome Trust Publishers Pledge The first pandemic-related IP pledge addressed copyrights. On January 31, 2020, the Wellcome Trust, a large UK-based medical charity, led a group of approximately thirty scientific and medical publishers in committing to make all peer-reviewed research publications relating to COVID-19 available without charge on an open access basis. The signatories included Elsevier, Cell Press, Karger, the JAMA Network...

The White House 11:01 A.M. EDT MR. ZIENTS: Good morning, and thank you for joining us. Today, Dr. Walensky will provide an update on the state of the pandemic, Dr. Fauci will highlight the latest science, and Dr. Murthy will share an update on our efforts to strengthen vaccine confidence. But first, I want to step back to provide an overview of where we are in our vaccination program, and where we’re headed as we enter our next phase. Our vaccination efforts to date have focused on signific...

 E-Mail IMAGE: This image shows a quote from Jane Austens Mansfield Park written in oligourethanes. view more  Credit: Sarah Moor Using a novel molecular-data-storage technique, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have encoded a quote from Jane Austens classic novel Mansfield Park in a series of oligomers, which a third party could read back without prior knowledge of the structures that encoded the passage. The findings, published April 21st in the journal Cell Reports ...

 E-Mail Dietary sugars and gut microbes play a key role in promoting malaria parasite infection in mosquitoes. Researchers in China have uncovered evidence that mosquitoes fed a sugar diet show an increased abundance of the bacterial species Asaia bogorensis, which enhances parasite infection by raising the gut pH level. The study appears April 20 in the journal Cell Reports. "Our work opens a new path for investigations into the role of mosquito-microbiota metabolic interactions concerning t...

Why Women May Be Better Equipped Against COVID-19 Than Men KEY POINTS Researchers found that women have a stronger defense against the virus Women have more MAIT cells, which contribute to immune defense Researchers found a clue as to why women appear to be able to fight COVID-19 better than men. Even earlier in the pandemic, it became apparent that COVID-19 was more severely affecting men than women, with the trend appearing in different parts of the world. In the U.S., for instance, there are...

Credit: Weizhi Ji, Kunming University of Science and Technology Investigators in China and the United States have injected human stem cells into primate embryos and were able to grow chimeric embryos for a significant period of time--up to 20 days. The research, despite its ethical concerns, has the potential to provide new insights into developmental biology and evolution. It also has implications for developing new models of human biology and disease. The work appears April 15 in the journal ...

by Sarah Avery — April 15, 2021 . DURHAM – When it comes to COVID-19, women seem to be the stronger sex, suffering severe disease at about half the rate as men, but the reason for this has been elusive. Now a chance experiment by an ophthalmology researcher at Duke Health has led to an insight: Women have more of a certain type of immune cell that fights infections in mucosal tissue, and these immune cells amass in the lungs, poised to attack the COVID virus. “Better armed with these spec...