News Feeds

New York Times Health News Feed

• How to Lower Deaths Among Women? Give Away Cash.
• Honoring the Body Donors Who Are a Medical Student’s ‘First Patient’
• El cuarto trimestre o los riesgos después del parto
• Sacklers Can Be Shielded From Opioid Liability, Appeals Court Rules
• How Harmful Are Gas Stove Pollutants, Really?

Covid-19 News

• Transcript: Mpox Briefing
• Update on Rapid Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission at 2023 EIS Conference
• HIV Declines Among Young People and Drives Overall Decrease in New HIV Infections
• New Funding Opportunity to Strengthen Outbreak Response through Data, Forecasting, and Analytics
• Transcript: PHE Briefing

Forensic Biology – The Wire

• Identifying the critical skillset of top crime scene examiners: Why this matters and why agencies should develop top performers
• The professionalism of forensic science
• Post‐mortem redistribution of drugs and other factors affecting interpretation: A review
• Analytical strategies for herbal Cannabis samples in forensic applications: A comprehensive review
• Nontoxic ammunition: Challenges and perspectives for GSR identification

Microbiology

• How a mysterious protein plays a crucial role in plant growth
• Researchers highlight emerging climate change risk to seafood industry
• Detailed structure of understudied cell division 'nanomachine' revealed
• High-resolution roadmap charted for regeneration of pancreatic beta-cells
• Researchers reveal drug resistance mechanism of pathogen Staphylococcus aureus

National Science Foundation

• Unraveling the mathematics behind wiggly worm knots
• Using quantum physics to secure wireless devices
• Searching for ancient bears in an Alaskan cave led to an important human discovery
• This week with NSF Director Panchanathan
• Hitchhiker plants inspire improved techniques for reattaching tendon to bone

World Health Organization

• Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 30 May 2023
• Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 29 May 2023
• Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 27 May 2023
• Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 26 May 2023
• Awards for outstanding contributions to public health presented during the Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly

NYTimes – Well Blog

• We Dated for Three Years. He Forgot It All.
• Do We Have to Pay for Our Children’s ‘Platonic Partners’ on Family Vacations?
• What Is Binge Eating Disorder? What to Know About Causes and Treatment
• Tiny Love Stories: ‘Everyone Knew but Him’
• To Prevent Heart Attacks, Doctors Try a New Genetic Test

Science Daily

• Plants can distinguish when touch starts and stops, study suggests
• Saved from extinction, Southern California's Channel Island Foxes now face new threat to survival
• New catalyst lowers cost for producing environmentally sustainable hydrogen from water
• Towering plume of water escaping from Saturn moon
• Fastest industry standard optical fiber

Phys-Org – Biology

• How a mysterious protein plays a crucial role in plant growth
• Geneticists discover hidden 'whole genome duplication' that may explain why some species survived mass extinctions
• Study shows alligators are the engineers of the wetlands
• Overfishing linked to rapid evolution of codfish
• Researchers highlight emerging climate change risk to seafood industry

Molecular & Computational Biology

• Plants can distinguish when touch starts and stops
• Study shows light conveyed by signal-transmitting sucrose controls growth of plant roots
• Evolution driving improvements in racehorse speed, study shows
• Essential process for SARS-CoV-2 viral replication visualized
• How insects track odors by navigating microscale winds

Plants & Animals

• How a mysterious protein plays a crucial role in plant growth
• Study shows alligators are the engineers of the wetlands
• Desert ants increase the visibility of their nest entrances in the absence of landmarks
• Plants can distinguish when touch starts and stops
• Marine fish are responding to ocean warming by relocating towards the poles

Evolution

• Geneticists discover hidden 'whole genome duplication' that may explain why some species survived mass extinctions
• Overfishing linked to rapid evolution of codfish
• The clams that fell behind, and what they can tell us about evolution and extinction
• Evolution driving improvements in racehorse speed, study shows
• Humans have lost half of primate ancestors' gut bacteria, finds new study

NYTimes – Health

• How to Lower Deaths Among Women? Give Away Cash.
• Honoring the Body Donors Who Are a Medical Student’s ‘First Patient’
• El cuarto trimestre o los riesgos después del parto
• Sacklers Can Be Shielded From Opioid Liability, Appeals Court Rules
• How Harmful Are Gas Stove Pollutants, Really?

Ecology

• Study shows alligators are the engineers of the wetlands
• Overfishing linked to rapid evolution of codfish
• Desert ants increase the visibility of their nest entrances in the absence of landmarks
• Saved from extinction, Southern California's Channel Island Foxes now face new threat to survival
• Marine fish are responding to ocean warming by relocating towards the poles

Genome Research

• A single-cell transcriptome atlas of the maturing zebrafish telencephalon [RESOURCES]
• Inferring the mode and strength of ongoing selection [METHODS]
• Accurate transcriptome-wide identification and quantification of alternative polyadenylation from RNA-seq data with APAIQ [METHODS]
• Genome enrichment of rare and unknown species from complicated microbiomes by nanopore selective sequencing [METHODS]
• Density separation of petrous bone powders for optimized ancient DNA yields [METHODS]

Biologynews.net

• The proteins that domesticated our genomes
• Study reveals how ionising radiation damages DNA and causes cancer
• Human kidney progenitors isolated, offering new clues to cell renewal
• Giraffes more speciose than expected
• New 'Trojan horse' antibody strategy shows promise against all Ebola viruses