Latest News Releases 6 April

Large-scale multidisciplinary ecological survey reveals long-term changes in the eastern Indian sector of the Southern Ocean

Recently, the research teams led by Professors Yu Tao and Feng Yugong from The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University collaborated to investigate the functional roles and underlying mechanisms of a novel class of small non-coding RNAs—tsRNAs—in the pathogenesis of intracranial aneurysms. Their findings were published in Research under the title, "tRF-AspGTC Promotes Intracranial Aneurysm Formation by Regulating TRIM29-Mediated Galectin-3 Ubiquitination."

An Osaka Metropolitan University researcher investigated the impact of the group work environment on motivation in English as a second language classes. The study revealed that the group work environment plays an important role in motivating students.

The Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (President Seog-Hyeon Ryu, hereinafter referred to as KIMM) has signed international cooperation agreements with research institutions in Slovenia, a manufacturing technology powerhouse in Eastern Europe, and Germany, a leading country in advanced technologies in Europe.

Scientists in Florida have linked shading from a major phytoplankton bloom in 2011 to the loss of key habitats in the Indian River Lagoon and changes in the prey available to bottlenose dolphins. By 2013, these changes caused widespread malnutrition and an unusual mortality event, where 77 dolphins stranded and died. Analyses of stable isotope ratios and the energy content of common prey showed that dolphins were eating fewer energy-rich ladyfish and more of the less nourishing sea bream. The scientists stress the importance of controlling discharges of nutrient-rich by-products of human activity like fertilizer or effluent, which feed intense, long-lasting phytoplankton blooms.