multidisciplinary

Aetiology of acute respiratory infection in Vientiane, Lao PDR, from a case–control study

by

UNICEF. Pneumonia. https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-health/pneumonia/#:~:text=Pneumonia%20kills%20more%20children%20than,or%20around%202%2C000%20every%20day. (2024). Nair, H. et al. Global and regional burden of hospital admissions for severe acute lower respiratory infections in young children in 2010: A systematic analysis. Lancet 381, 1380–1390. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61901-1 (2013). Google Scholar  Shen, Y.-S., Lung, S.-C.C., Zhai, X., Wu, X. & Cui, S. Identifying crucial urban form characteristics for reducing pneumonia … Read more

A comparative anti-proliferative and immunomodulatory analysis in wild and lab-acclimatized seaweed extracts unravel the functional biopotentials of Acrosiphonia orientalis

by

Choudhary, B., Chauhan, O. P. & Mishra, A. Edible seaweeds: a potential novel source of bioactive metabolites and nutraceuticals with human health benefits. Front Mar. Sci 8, 740054 (2021). Mishra, A. Algal Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals: Benefits, Opportunities, and Challenges (Bentham Science, 2022). Baghel, R. S. et al. Rehashing our insight of seaweeds as a … Read more

The impact of different exercise modes on prostate cancer: a Bayesian network meta-analysis

by

Schafer, E. J. et al. Recent Patterns and Trends in Global Prostate Cancer Incidence and Mortality. Update Eur. Urol. 87 (3), 302–313 (2025). Google Scholar  Van Blarigan, E. L. et al. Trends in Prostate Cancer Incidence and Mortality Rates. JAMA Netw. Open. 8(1). (2025). Tao, Z. Q., Shi, A. M., Wang, K. X. & Zhang, … Read more

Urinary 6-sulfatoxymelatonin as a predictive biomarker for brain injury in very preterm infants

by

Rees, P. et al. Preterm Brain Injury and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes: A Meta-analysis. Pediatrics 150 (6), (2022). Google Scholar  Grunau, R. E. & Miller, S. P. Size and Location of Preterm Brain Injury and Associations With Neurodevelopmental Outcomes. Neurology 102 (8), e209264 (2024). Google Scholar  Joseph, T. T., Schuch, V., Hossack, D. J., Chakraborty, R. & … Read more

World-first stem-cell therapy shows promise for treating spina bifida in the womb

by

An in utero treatment using placenta-derived stem cells could treat infants with a neural-tube condition called spina bifida. Credit: Simon Fraser/Science Photo Library Stem cells applied to the exposed spinal cords of fetuses in utero could treat infants with a severe birth complication that affects movement and continence. Researchers report that the therapy is safe, … Read more

The surprising science of squeaky sneakers

by

It’s not just shoes that squeak when they slide over a hard surface. Bike brakes, rubber tyres, even some biomedical implants such as artificial hips have been known to squeal as soft and hard surfaces come into contact with each other. Read the paper: Squeaking at soft–rigid frictional interfaces So to better understand exactly what … Read more

Limitations of probing field-induced response with STM

by

a-f, A sample of six plane-subtracted STM topographs used for figure 3 in Xing et al.7. Insets to the right show their Fourier transform (top inset) as well as a region common to all topographs (bottom inset). Fourier transform in (a) indicates CDW peaks by circles and Bragg peaks by diamonds, with Q1, Q2, and … Read more

Vectorized instructive signals in cortical dendrites

by

Sacramento, J., Bengio, Y., Costa, R. P. & Senn, W. Dendritic cortical microcircuits approximate the backpropagation algorithm. In Proc. 32nd International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (eds Bengio, S. & Wallach, H. M.) 8735–8746 (ACM, 2018). Payeur, A., Guerguiev, J., Zenke, F., Richards, B. A. & Naud, R. Burst-dependent synaptic plasticity can coordinate learning … Read more

Cavity-altered superconductivity | Nature

by

Sentef, M. A., Ruggenthaler, M. & Rubio, A. Cavity quantum-electrodynamical polaritonically enhanced electron-phonon coupling and its influence on superconductivity. Sci. Adv. 4, eaau6969 (2018). Article  ADS  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  Ruggenthaler, M., Tancogne-Dejean, N., Flick, J., Appel, H. & Rubio, A. From a quantum-electrodynamical light–matter description to novel spectroscopies. Nat. Rev. Chem. 2, … Read more

The effect of biological control on mycotoxin concentrations and the mycobiome in durum wheat grain and stems

by

Beccari, G. et al. Causal agents of Fusarium head blight of durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf,) in central Italy and their in vitro biosynthesis of secondary metabolites. Food Microbiol. 70, 17–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fm.2017.08.016 (2018). Google Scholar  Grosse-Heilmann, M., Cristiano, E., Deidda, R. & Viola, F. Durum wheat productivity today and tomorrow: A review of influencing factors … Read more