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Health care unions defending Newsom from recall will want single-payer payback

Should Gavin Newsom survive the Republican-driven attempt to oust him from office, the Democratic governor will face the prospect of paying back supporters who coalesced behind him.

13 Sep 2021

Researchers engineer E. coli bacteria to make carbohydrates, renewable fuel from CO2

Researchers from Newcastle University, UK have engineered Escherichia coli bacteria to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) using hydrogen gas (H2) to convert it into formic acid.

12 Sep 2021

UM researcher wins $2.5 million NSF grant to study hantavirus disease transmission

University of Montana researcher Angela Luis has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to study how diversity of competitor species affects infectious disease transmission in wildlife – specifically hantavirus in deer mice.

10 Sep 2021

Study: Canadians have the highest risk of respiratory mortality from wildfire pollution

An international study has found Canadians have the highest relative risk of respiratory mortality resulting from wildfire pollution, with Regina and Saskatoon among the worst hit.

10 Sep 2021

Study finds stark racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic inequities in COVID-19 vaccination rates

In a study of the 9 largest U.S. cities, researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health found stark racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic inequities in COVID-19 vaccination rates across neighborhoods.

8 Sep 2021

Understanding how pathogens evolve novel virulence activities

Understanding how pathogens evolve is a fundamental component of learning how to protect ourselves and our world from pests and diseases.

7 Sep 2021

Fact-checking is an effective tool to combat misinformation, study shows

Fact-checking reduces belief in misinformation and leaves a more enduring mental imprint than false claims, according to a new study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

7 Sep 2021

COP26 President: Support available for quarantine hotel stays for registered delegates coming to Glasgow

COP26 has already been postponed by one year, and we are all too aware climate change has not taken time off. The recent IPCC report underlines why COP26 must go ahead this November to allow world leaders to come together and set out decisive commitments to tackle climate change.

7 Sep 2021

Jo Lomas appointed as UK’s Envoy to the Commonwealth

Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon, FCDO Minister of State for South Asia and the Commonwealth, has announced the appointment of Jo Lomas as the UK's Envoy to the Commonwealth.

6 Sep 2021

Hotter weather associated with worsening of COPD symptoms

Warmer weather is linked to a worsening of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) symptoms, according to research to be presented on Sunday at the 'virtual' European Respiratory Society International Congress.

3 Sep 2021

Growing wheat varieties with biological nitrification inhibition trait could increase yields

An international collaboration has discovered and transferred to elite wheat varieties a wild-grass chromosome segment that causes roots to secrete natural inhibitors of nitrification, offering a way to dial back on heavy fertilizer use for wheat and to reduce the crop's nitrogen leakage into waterways and air, while maintaining or raising its productivity and grain quality, says a new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

2 Sep 2021

Science advisors gather in an international call for evidence-based policy making

The largest-ever independent gathering of interest groups, thought-leaders, science advisors to governments and global institutions, researchers, academics, communicators and diplomats is taking place in Montreal and online.

31 Aug 2021

University of Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science receives $23.5 million NIH award

The University of Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science has received a $23.5 million, four-year award from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences at the National Institutes of Health.

30 Aug 2021

New $14.5 million NIH grant to support research on HIV treatment and care in Central Africa

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy have been awarded a five-year, $14.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue leading and expand their research on HIV treatment and care in five Central African nations.

24 Aug 2021

Exposure to wildfire smoke during pregnancy raises risk for preterm birth

Exposure to wildfire smoke during pregnancy increases the risk that a baby will be born too early, a new Stanford University study suggests.

23 Aug 2021

As temperatures rise, so do the health risks for California’s farmworkers

Leoncio Antonio Trejo Galdamez, 58, died in his son's arms on June 29 after spending the day laying irrigation pipes in California's Coachella Valley. News of his death reverberated through the largely Latino community near the Mexican and Arizona borders — another casualty in a dangerous business.

23 Aug 2021

Study provides a detailed picture of oil refining capacity and global CO2 emissions

A global inventory has revealed that CO2 emissions from oil refineries were 1.3 Gigatonnes (Gt) in 2018 and could be as large as 16.5 Gt from 2020 to 2030.

23 Aug 2021

Improving widely-adopted thermal vulnerability indices to mitigate the effects of climate change

It is not easy to predict how animals – from insects to fish – are going to respond to climate change and especially extremes of temperature. This lack of understanding hinders our ability to predict the vulnerability of these animals to climate change.

23 Aug 2021

Researchers recommend urgent adaptation plans to mitigate heat-related deaths and illnesses

Extreme heat is an increasingly common occurrence worldwide, with heat-related deaths and illnesses also expected to rise.

20 Aug 2021

New insights into opportunities and challenges of macrogenetics

The burgeoning field of macrogenetics is the focus of a new review published in Nature Reviews Genetics by a global, multidisciplinary team of researchers seeking to better answer fundamental biodiversity questions.

20 Aug 2021

Climate Change News and Research

Health care unions defending Newsom from recall will want single-payer payback

Researchers engineer E. coli bacteria to make carbohydrates, renewable fuel from CO2

UM researcher wins $2.5 million NSF grant to study hantavirus disease transmission

Study: Canadians have the highest risk of respiratory mortality from wildfire pollution

Study finds stark racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic inequities in COVID-19 vaccination rates

Understanding how pathogens evolve novel virulence activities

Fact-checking is an effective tool to combat misinformation, study shows

COP26 President: Support available for quarantine hotel stays for registered delegates coming to Glasgow

Jo Lomas appointed as UK’s Envoy to the Commonwealth

Hotter weather associated with worsening of COPD symptoms

Growing wheat varieties with biological nitrification inhibition trait could increase yields

Science advisors gather in an international call for evidence-based policy making

University of Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science receives $23.5 million NIH award

New $14.5 million NIH grant to support research on HIV treatment and care in Central Africa

Exposure to wildfire smoke during pregnancy raises risk for preterm birth

As temperatures rise, so do the health risks for California’s farmworkers

Study provides a detailed picture of oil refining capacity and global CO2 emissions

Improving widely-adopted thermal vulnerability indices to mitigate the effects of climate change

Researchers recommend urgent adaptation plans to mitigate heat-related deaths and illnesses

New insights into opportunities and challenges of macrogenetics

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Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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