Testosterone Increases Severity of Bacterial Skin Infections
Newswise — DALLAS – Feb. 27, 2026 – Men are more susceptible than women to skin infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria,…
At the Bedside: Houston Man Achieving Bucket List Dream After Game-Changing Rare Disease Care at UTHealth Houston
Newswise — Brandon Morris’ family always centered around food. The Houston native and his relatives would often gather…
Electric Eel Biology Inspires Powerful Gel Battery
Newswise — Power sources used in devices found in or around biological tissue must be flexible and non-toxic,…
Nanoplastics Can Interact with Salmonella to Affect Food Safety, Study Shows
Newswise — URBANA, Ill. – Plastic products are ubiquitous in our food supply chain, shedding microplastics into every…
Scientists Develop New Gut Health Measure That Tracks Disease
BYLINE: Kitta MacPherson Newswise — Scientists have identified a new way to distinguish healthy guts from diseased ones…
Alpha-Ketoglutarate Enhances Adipose-Derived Stem Cells Survival in Wound Healing by Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1-Alpha-Mediated Redox Homeostasis and Glycogen-Dependent Bioenergetics
BACKGROUND Adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) hold significant therapeutic potential for regenerative medicine, particularly in wound healing, owing to…
Rubin Observatory launches real-time monitoring of the sky with thousands of alerts
On Feb. 24, astronomers’ computers around the world lit up with a deluge of cosmic notifications — 800,000…
Differing immune responses in infants may explain increased severity of RSV over SARS-CoV-2
(MEMPHIS, Tenn., Farmington, Conn. – February 25, 2026) Young infants hospitalized with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) often become…
Surprising culprit leads to chronic rejection of transplanted lungs, hearts
Despite advances in the field of organ transplantation, long-term organ rejection that can become apparent a decade or…
Illinois and UChicago Physicists Develop a New Method to Measure the Expansion Rate of the Universe
Newswise — We have known for several decades that the universe is expanding. Scientists use multiple techniques to…
Physicists Open Door to Future, Hyper-Efficient ‘Orbitronic’ Devices
BYLINE: Lisa Potter, research communications specialist, University of Utah communications Newswise — To keep up with today’s computing…
ETRI Unveils “Safe LLaVA,” a Vision Language Model with Enhanced Safety
Newswise — Korean researchers have achieved a breakthrough in the safety of generative AI. They developed a vision…