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In a world-first pilot study, researchers from the University of South Australia have used video footage of insects to extract their heart rates without touching or disturbing them.
Junk food firms have more than 90 current sponsorship deals within top UK sports amid growing concerns over their impact on public health, finds an investigation published by The BMJ today.
Fungi are increasingly resistant to antifungals, and the variation in resistance has significantly increased. This is evident from the analysis of more than 12,000 lung samples collected over thirty years in Dutch hospitals. In addition, a resistant infection in a patient almost always consists of different fungal strains, making treatment more challenging. This study by Radboud university medical center and public health institute RIVM has been published in The Lancet Microbe.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/acta-pharmaceutica-sinica-b/vol/15/issue/6
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B (APSB) was founded with the goal of creating a global high-level forum centred around drug discovery and pharmaceutical research/application. APSB was included by Chemical Abstracts in 2011, accepted by PubMed Central in 2015, indexed by Science Citation Index in 2017 and has evolved to become one of the most important international journals in the field of pharmaceutical sciences.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsb.2025.04.007
This new article publication from Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, discusses how a photodynamic nanohybrid system reverses hypoxia and augments anti-primary and metastatic tumor efficacy of immunotherapy.