#Coronavirus patients in ICU experiencing ‘terrifying’ hospital delirium

“#Coronavirus patients in ICU experiencing ‘terrifying’ hospital delirium” June 30, 2020 | 10:44am Enlarge Image A “prone team,” wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), turns a COVID-19 patient onto his stomach in a Stamford Hospital intensive care unit. Getty Images Coronavirus patients are battling “hospital delirium” through “nightmarish visions,” delusions and “paranoid imaginings,” according to multiple…

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#Explainer: A theoretical cosmologist describes how large black holes really are, and the ‘point of no return’

“#Explainer: A theoretical cosmologist describes how large black holes really are, and the ‘point of no return’” The first photo of a black hole, taken in 2019, shows light bending around a black hole that is 6.5 billion times larger than the sun. Credit: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration Black holes are among the most fascinating…

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#Scientists develop novel predictable multi-nucleotide deletion systems in plants

“#Scientists develop novel predictable multi-nucleotide deletion systems in plants” Figure: AIFD systems induce precise and predictable multi-nucleotide deletions in plants (a) Schematic representation of the AFID system. (b) Structures of AFIDs 1–3 and eAFID-3. (c) The proportions of predictable deletions generated by Cas9 and AFID-3. (d) Comparison of predictable deletion types between AFID-3 and eAFID-3….

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#Researchers access both enantiomers by varying reaction time

“#Researchers access both enantiomers by varying reaction time” Figure 1. Strategies for obtaining both enantiomers of chiral molecules. Credit: SIOC Homochirality is a fundamental feature of all living organism. It is well known that a pair of enantiomers of chiral drug molecules, whose structures have a non-superimposable mirror-image relationship to each other, will probably exert…

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