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Bioluminescence: a life study of ocean light

March 30, 2021
Bioluminescence is visually magical and has inspired many scientists to dive deep to discover its secrets. As a result of this research, some fantastic research tools have been developed that...

Don’t Panic! You have not been infected with SARS-CoV-2: Understanding COVID vaccine side-effects

March 29, 2021
COVID-19 vaccines are not capable of infecting anyone with SARS-CoV-2. Although a fraction of people experience side effects after receiving their COVID-19 vaccinations, these effects do not mean you have...

COVID waste is killing animals – how to pick COVID PPE litter safely

March 26, 2021
How many times have you stepped over someone else's lost or discarded facemask crushed in the dirt beneath your feet, grimaced and thought "how disgusting!" Were you even tempted to...

Machine learning plus vital signs provides objective patient pain levels

March 18, 2021
Describing pain from zero to ten is currently as good as it gets on the hospital floor when it comes to understanding a patient's pain levels and is very subjective....

Microbial lipoxygenases: a next target against antibiotic resistance?

March 15, 2021
Russian researchers Georgy Kurakin, Anna Samoukina and Nadezhda Potapova use bioinformatics to uncover the evolutionary roots of microbial lipoxygenase functionality and raise the possibility that these enzymes may be the...

Tracking mosquito flight patterns in 3D using digital holography and mathematics

March 12, 2021
Researchers have been asked to use large field-of-view digital holography to accurately apply 3D tracking to mosquito flight. By capturing the diffraction pattern of mosquitoes in a telecentric volume, the...

Bringing DNA sequencing to the frontlines in the fight against anti-microbial resistance

March 10, 2021
The future may see DNA sequencing as a routine bacterial diagnostic technique in hospitals and clinical care settings. An interdisciplinary network of academics and industry experts aim to bring the...

Towards ‘Zero Leprosy’ – model shows 40 million people need preventive treatment

March 5, 2021
As the world considers strategies towards 'Zero COVID', research specialists also continue to work on eliminating the many other infectious diseases we have learned to 'live with'. Now, new research...

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