Illustration of an electron-beam “sketching” a quantum dot at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface. Credit: Muqing Yu Technique is 10,000 faster than previous methods, and can create…
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Lead author Yufei Xiang holds of 3D printed model of nanobodies (purple) on top of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (gray). Credit: UPMC Researchers at the…
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists have discovered the fastest way to identify potent, neutralizing human monoclonal antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes…
When viruses, parasites, and other pathogens spread, humans and other animals tend to hunker down with immediate family and peer groups to avoid outsiders as…
Wei Li, Ph.D., of Pitt, demonstrates a step in the process of obtaining a potential drug against COVID-19. Credit: UPMC University of Pittsburgh School of…
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (green) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (purple), isolated from a patient sample. Image captured at the…
Illustration of the vagus nerve. Credit: Kenneth Probst/UCSF New research by neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh and University of California San Francisco (UCSF) revealed…
Prostate biopsy with cancer probability (blue is low, red is high). This case was originally diagnosed as benign but changed to cancer upon further review.…
Hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses will need to be produced worldwide, so the researchers made sure up front that their process was scalable.…
Electrons travel in cars with increasing numbers, giving rise to a conductance series that shows up in Pascal’s triangle. Credit: Yun-Yi Pai Discovery shows electrons…
Green Slime covers the surface of a tadpole (bottom) and a goblet-cell regenerated aggregate (top, not the same scale). The images show the molecule intelectin-1,…
Worldwide, more people die from tuberculosis (TB) than any other infectious disease, even though the vast majority were vaccinated. The vaccine just isn’t that reliable.…
An illustration shows the wetting behavior of carbon nanotubes, which both repel water and hold it in place. Credit: University of Pittsburgh Carbon nanotubes (CNTs)…
A qualitative study by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine found that women in their 60s report various reasons behind why they…
Physicians who received gifts from pharmaceutical companies related to opioid medications were more likely to prescribe opioids to their patients the following year, compared to…
The health care market is failing to support new antibiotics used to treat some of the world’s most dangerous, drug-resistant “superbugs,” according to a new…
New, more effective antibiotics are being prescribed in only about a quarter of infections by carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), a family of the world’s most intractable…