In Antarctic dry valleys, early signs of climate change-induced shifts in soil
In a study spanning two decades, a team of researchers found declining numbers of soil fauna, nematodes and other animal species in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, one of the world's driest and coldest deserts.
Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/csu-iad010518.php
Tobacco shops associated with crime in urban communities of color
Tobacco shops, also known as smoke shops, may represent potential 'nuisance properties' in urban communities of color, a study led by a researcher at the University of California, Riverside has found. Nuisance properties are properties where unsafe activities affecting public health and safety occur repeatedly. The study focused on 2014 violent and property crime data from South Los Angeles, a large urban community whose homicide rate is nearly four times the national rate.
Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/uoc--tsa010518.php
NASA catches Tropical Cyclone Ava's landfall on Madagascar's coast
NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone Ava as it made landfall along the coast of northeastern Madagascar.
Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/nsfc-nct010518.php
Molecular imaging technique identifies lung nodules for resection in osteosarcoma patient
Utility of near-infrared molecular imaging in a patient undergoing pulmonary metastasectomy for osteosarcoma has been reported by researchers from Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Purdue University. The work is reported in an article in the Journal of Biomedical Optics published this week by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.
Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/ssfo-mit010518.php
University of Montana publishes research on unusual gene evolution in bacteria
University of Montana researchers have made another discovery at the cellular level to help understand the basic processes of all life on our planet -- this time within the unusual bacteria that has lived inside cicada insects since dinosaurs roamed Earth.
Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/tuom-uom010518.php
Penn study on super-silenced DNA hints at new ways to reprogram cells
Newly described stretches of super-silenced DNA reveal a fresh approach to reprogram cell identity to use in regenerative medicine studies and one day in the clinic.
Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/uops-pso010518.php
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