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New coronavirus cases fell most sharply

in counties where people stopped going

to offices

Cellphone tracking data reveals new coronavirus

cases fell by 20% in US counties where people

stopped going to offices and...

Coronavirus US: Over 90% fatalities had

underlying conditions

CDC says 94% of ALL Americans who have died of

COVID-19 had at least one other underlying disease

More than 180,000 Americans...

Flu vaccine during pregnancy has NO link

to a baby’s risk of developing autism,

study confirms

Getting the flu jab while pregnant doesn’t increase

the baby’s risk of being diagnosed with autism later

on,...

How virus-proof is your mask? Under

laboratory conditions, a professor

answers the burning question

Face coverings may be compulsory in more places

now than ever — but how much protection do they

really afford to people...

Fungi in gut linked to higher Alzheimer’s

risk can be reduced through ketogenic

diet

The small study is published in the current online

edition of the journal EBioMedicine. “Our study

reveals that unique...

Novel Dual CAR T cell immunotherapy

holds promise for targeting the HIV

reservoir

“This study highlights how relatively straightforward

alterations to the way T cells are engineered can

lead to dramatic...

Arthritis drug may help coronavirus

patients by calming deadly inflammatory

cytokine storms

Is Acterma the next severe COVID-19 treatment? All

seven critically ill patients recovered from their

fevers and needed less...

Coronavirus US: 78% think vaccine

approval is politics-driven

Nearly 80% of Americans think that the speedy

approval process of a coronavirus vaccine is driven

by politics – NOT...

Why are patients STILL at risk from stem

cell jabs?

A patient left blinded in one eye, another who

suffered a life-threatening artery blockage and a

third now blighted with...

Are YOU getting the right pills to help

beat crippling gout?

For seven years, Sue McDonagh struggled with

agonising gout attacks so intense, it felt as though

shards of glass were...

How antibiotics interact

‘We wanted to find out how antibiotics that inhibit

protein synthesis in bacteria work when combined

with each other,...

Genetic mutations may be linked to

infertility, early menopause

The study appears Aug. 28 in the journal Science

Advances. The human gene — called nuclear

envelope membrane protein...

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Covid-19: How winter exercise could help us cope with

pandemic

Covid-19: How will the pandemic affect global health in

2021?

Is it wise to carry on shielding in the 12 weeks between your

first and second jabs?

Thousands at risk of blindness set to benefit from a new eye

drug

HEALTH NOTES: Surge in patients admitted to hospital for

alcohol-related liver disease

I caught Covid from a hospital, we must give all NHS

workers the jab

My chest pains are terrifying

How many have to die before Britain tackles its black and

Asian organ donor crisis?

A couch potato took part in experiment on boosting immunity

‘Covid loves a crowd… so stay at home this New Year’s Eve’

says NHS boss

Professor Hugh Montgomery says hospitals are facing a

"tsunami" of Covid cases.

Face masks: How to wear one correctly

‘We filmed our dad’s final months to help people’

JOANNA HALL’S 30-day exercise plan to kickstart your New

Year

New mutant coronavirus strain IS more contagious by nearly

50%

DR MICHAEL MOSLEY launches a new series to make

2021 your healthiest year yet

Allergists offer reassurance regarding potential allergic

reactions to COVID-19 vaccines

Putty-like composites of gallium metal with potential for realworld

application

Nanoparticle drug-delivery system developed to treat brain

disorders

Scientists develop first drug-like

compounds to inhibit elusive cancerlinked

enzymes

The enzymes — known as the nuclear receptorbinding

SET domain (NSD) family of histone

methyltransferases — have...

Being a selfish jerk doesn’t get you

ahead: Study

That’s the clear conclusion from research that

tracked disagreeable people from college or

graduate school to where...

To the choir: Forward-thinking faculty

sharing innovations mostly among

themselves

A seminal theory proposed in the mid-20th century

would suggest that she, as an early adopter of the

innovations, might share...

Unique antibody profile sets gluten

sensitivity apart from Celiac disease

Until recently, many doctors often dismissed the

complaints of people who claimed to be sensitive to

foods containing gluten...

Improving FDA’s COVID-19 vaccine

authorization and approval process

HANOVER, N.H. – Aug. 31, 2020 – On March 28,

the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) exercised

its Emergency Use...

How’s the transit weather?

If the words in a weather forecast, such as “cool,”

“sunny” or “windy,” can influence...

Unique antibody profile sets gluten

sensitivity apart from celiac disease

NEW YORK, NY–A new study of the antibodies

produced by people with gluten sensitivity may lead

to a better way to detect...

CU Anschutz researchers shed light on

split-second decision making

AURORA, Colo. (Aug. 31, 2020) – A little

understood region of the cerebellum plays a critical

role in making split-second...

Study: Portable, point-of-care COVID-19

test could bypass the lab

IMAGE: Illinois researchers developed a microfluidic

cartridge for a 30-minute COVID-19 test. The

cartridges are 3D-printed...

Scientists show how brain flexibility

emerges in infants

IMAGE: This image is of MRI data, showing neural

flexibility over time. view more Credit: Biomedical

Research...

People with less body response to stress

task had more PTSD signs after COVID-19

began

IMAGE: Baylor University psychologist Annie Ginty,

Ph.D. view more Credit: Baylor University People

who...

Brain protein linked to seizures, abnormal

social behaviors

IMAGE: Confocal image of a mouse brain tissue

shows the astrocytes (red) and neurons (green).

view more Credit:...

Pills to lower blood pressure can prevent

heart attacks even in HEALTHY people

Pills to lower blood pressure can prevent heart

attacks even in HEALTHY people and millions more

should take the drugs, study...

People who won’t wear face masks are

more likely to be sociopaths, study

claims

People who refuse to wear a face mask or comply

with social distancing are more likely to have

sociopath tendencies, a study...

More Covid-19-like viruses to come,

warns Oxford professor

More diseases with pandemic potential are likely to

jump from animals to humans in the near future

because of modern lifestyles,...

Experts say US’s coronavirus positivity

rate is high because tests are ‘too

sensitive’

Up to 90 percent of people tested for COVID-19 in

Massachusetts, New York and Nevada in July

carried barely any traces of...

At-home abortions before 10 weeks could

become permanent option

Taking abortion pills at home could become a

permanent option in parts of Britain after being

temporarily allowed during...

Body mass index is a more powerful risk

factor for diabetes than genetics

In 2019, approximately 463 million people worldwide

had diabetes, of which the vast majority (around

90%) was type 2 diabetes....

Cells can remain functional despite

damage to mitochondria

In our increasingly ageing society,

neurodegenerative diseases are posing a significant

burden. A growing body of evidence...

People love winning streaks by

individuals — teams, not so much

“Everyone wants Usain Bolt to win another gold

medal for sprinting. Not so many people want to see

the New England...

Genomic analysis predicts survival

benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy

following radiotherapy over radiotherapy

alone in low-grade gliomas in NRG

Oncology clinical trial

Serengeti leopard population densities

healthy but vary seasonally, study finds

IMAGE: Leopards in the Serengeti try to avoid

interacting with lions and other top predators during

the dry season,...

A practice-changing study, NRG Oncology clinical

trial NRG-RTOG 9802, has demonstrated, for the

first time, a survival benefit...

DAPA-CKD trial meets primary endpoint

in patients with chronic kidney disease

Sophia Antipolis, France – 30 Aug 2020:

Dapagliflozin reduces the risk of kidney failure,

death from cardiovascular...

Study finds insect shows promise as a

good, sustainable food source

IMAGE: The yellow mealworm species Tenebrio

molitor. An IUPUI-led study finds the insect could

serve as a good alternate...

True holographic movie is within grasp

Holographic movies, like the one R2D2 projected of

Princess Leia in the Star Wars: A New Hope, have

long been the province...

SGLT2 inhibitors can slow progression of

chronic kidney disease

Team’s flexible micro LEDs may reshape

future of wearable technology

IMAGE: The flexible micro LEDs can be twisted (on

left) or folded (on the right). The LEDs, which can be

peeled off...

Biocompatible TeSex nano-alloys for

PT/PA/CT/PET imaging-guided NIR-IIphotothermal

therapy

850 million people worldwide are affected by chronic

kidney disease (CKD) – a worrying figure, and one

that continues...

Nanotheranostics, integrating diagnostic and

therapeutic functions by nanoplatform, exhibits a

great potential in precision...

Super-scan spots heart problems in

women faster

Super-scan spots heart problems in women faster:

Breakthrough technique could detect issues more

quickly after research revealed...

NASA’s Terra Satellite sees the end of

Bavi

IMAGE: NASA’s Terra satellite provided a visible

image to forecasters of Tropical Storm Bavi after it

made landfall...

Researchers develop a yeast-based

platform to boost production of rare

natural molecules

IMAGE: Vincent Martin, Research Chair in Microbial

Engineering and Synthetic Biology. view more

Credit: Concordia...

Growing demand for zero-deforestation

cacao might not help Colombian forests

IMAGE: Harvested cacao pods, near Gauchené, in

the north of Colombia’s Cauca Department. view

more Credit:...

Optical imaging enters sub-nanometer

era

IMAGE: Schematic of the experimental set-up for

single-molecule photoluminescence imaging with

sub-nanometer resolution ...

New evaluation of universal health

coverage, world will likely fall short of

WHO goal

SEATTLE (August 27, 2020) – A new study projects

that 3.1 billion people will still lack effective health

service coverage...

Intelligent software tackles plant cell

jigsaw puzzle

IMAGE: Microscopy provides imagery to the

algorithm that then delineates the cellular structures,

making the segmentation...

Round nanoparticles improve quality

factors of surface lattice resonances:

Study

IMAGE: An energy flux propagates along a surface

and bypasses the nanoparticle at SLR. The

hemisphere shape introduces...

Study confirms link between influenza,

heart complications

The link between influenza and serious heart

conditions just grew stronger. A CDC study looking

at more than 80,000 adult...

The northern quoll: An amazingly

versatile survivor?

IMAGE: Illustration of northern quolls by Nellie

Pease view more Credit: Nellie Pease The northern

quoll,...

QUT algorithm could quash Twitter abuse

of women

Online abuse targeting women, including threats of

harm or sexual violence, has proliferated across all

social media platforms...

Cholesterol drug combinations could cut

health risk for European patients

New findings from a large European study of

patients in 18 countries, including the UK, show that

while many patients are...

Cardiac biomarker shows stronger

associations with kidney disease

progression than BP

The primary goal of this study by Amanda H.

Anderson et al was to identify independent risk

factors of CKD progression among...

Fidelity of El Niño simulation matters for

predicting future climate

IMAGE: Future increase of El Nino and La Nina

intensity leads to enhances warming in the eastern

tropical Pacific (left)....

Vaccines against respiratory infections

linked with less heart failure deaths

Sophia Antipolis, France – 28 Aug 2020: Influenza

and pneumonia vaccinations are associated with

fewer hospital deaths...

How to treat high blood pressure without

ruining your sex life

Sophia Antipolis, France – 28 Aug 2020: Men with

untreated high blood pressure have poorer penile

blood flow than...

New palliative care model shown to

reduce costs without compromising on

quality of care

Findings from a large-scale clinical trial testing a

new palliative care model have shown to be lower

cost, viewed positively...

India coronavirus: Covid strikes remote

Greater Andamanese tribe

Andamans: US man’s death puts spotlight on ‘tribal

tourism’

Coronavirus loss of smell: ‘Meat tastes

like petrol’

Losing the ability to smell or taste are two of the

symptoms associated with Covid-19. But while many

have regained their...

Coronavirus: University return ‘could

spark Covid avalanche’

Universities in the UK are being urged to scrap

plans for face-to-face teaching until Christmas in

order to prevent a second...

Children with no COVID-19 symptoms

may shed virus for weeks

WASHINGTON-(Aug. 28, 2020)- New research

suggests that children can shed SARS-CoV-2, the

virus that causes COVID-19, even...

Fossil trees on Peru’s Central Andean

Plateau tell a tale of dramatic

environmental change

IMAGE: Paleontologist Edwin Cadena poses next to

giant, fossilized (permineralized) tree on Peruvian

Central Plateau. ...

Sunflower oil shows unexpected

efficiency in corrosion prevention

IMAGE: Synthesis of epoxidized sunflower oil

(ESFO) and phosphorylated polyol (Phospol). view

more Credit:...

Researchers find potential to make brain

cancers in children respond better to

treatment

IMAGE: Dr. Branavan Manoranjan is a graduate of

McMaster University’s MD/PhD program view more

Credit:...

Knowledge about the past can preserve

the biodiversity of tomorrow

Approximately 40 per cent of terrestrial ecosystems

are projected to have experienced shifts in

temperature during the past...

"Jumping" DNA regulates human

neurons

The human genome contains over 4.5 million

sequences of DNA called “transposable elements”,

these virus-like...

How bacteria adhere to fiber in the gut

IMAGE: Depiction of a gut bacteria attached to

cellulose fibers through adhesion proteins on the

bacterial surface....

Now doctors could STRIKE over pay amid

public sympathy for NHS workers

Now doctors could STRIKE over pay amid public

sympathy for NHS workers following the coronavirus

crisis The average GP partner...

How Neanderthals adjusted to climate

change

Climate change occurring shortly before their

disappearance triggered a complex change in the

behaviour of late Neanderthals...

Study provides hope for young women

after heart attack

Sophia Antipolis, France – 30 Aug 2020:

Premenopausal women have good long-term

outcomes after a heart attack, according...

A novel salvinia-like slippery surface

IMAGE: Design of the Salvinia-like slippery surface.

(a) Salvinia molesta floating leaf on which water

drop displays...

A review of ridge subduction, magmatism

and metallogenesis

IMAGE: Ocean spreading, mantle plume or hot spot,

and oceanic lithosphere subduction and arc

magmatism view...

Maternal insecticide use during

pregnancy and neonatal jaundice

IMAGE: Association between pesticide usage during

pregnancy and neonatal hyperbilirubinemia requiring

treatment: The...

A coffee and catnap keep you sharp on

the nightshift

A simple coffee and a quick catnap could be the

cure for staying alert on the nightshift as new

research from the University...

Change is constant: How the COVID-19

pandemic may shape the future of

studying abroad

IMAGE: How will the pandemic affect the

international student? view more Credit: East China

Normal University...

Coronavirus: Children’s role in spread

puzzles scientists

Children can carry coronavirus in their noses for up

to three weeks, according to a study from South

Korea. Earlier studies...

LSU Health study explains multipronged

SARS-CoV-2 attack and widespread

COVID-19 infection

New Orleans, LA – A study of a gateway receptor

for SARS-CoV-2 led by Walter J. Lukiw, PhD,

Professor of Neuroscience,...

New study examines long-term aesthetic

outcomes of implant-based breast

reconstruction

August 28, 2020 – Breast reconstruction is an

important option for women undergoing mastectomy,

and a two-stage approach...

First Scotland deaths after positive test

for six weeks

The deaths of two people in Scotland are the

country’s first confirmed coronavirus fatalities in six

weeks. It is...

Coronavirus: Schools could go part-time

and year-group bubbles be sent home

Secondary school pupils in England could be kept

home every other fortnight if local coronavirus cases

soar, new guidance...

Coronavirus: Winter plans revealed in

leaked Sage report

A leaked government report suggests a “reasonable

worst case scenario” of 85,000 deaths across the

Patch up a torn shoulder with a COW’S

Achilles

An implant made from the Achilles heel of a cow is

being used by NHS surgeons to repair debilitating

UK this winter...

torn shoulder muscles,...

DR ELLIE CANNON: Bleeding after the

menopause must be checked out NOW

I am a 69-year-old woman – long past the

menopause but recently I have started bleeding –

it’s a bit like a short...

HEALTH NOTES: New ‘gargle-and-spit’

test spots Covid-19 in a SECOND

HEALTH NOTES: New ‘gargle-and-spit’ test spots

Covid-19 in a SECOND and could spare patients

from uncomfortable...

Now a single blood test can diagnose the

gluten illness that brings misery to

suspected sufferers

Thousands of Britons suspected of suffering with

agonising coeliac disease can now be diagnosed

with a simple blood test,...

Can your child or grandchild REALLY

give you Covid?

Children are ‘more likely to be hit by a bus’ than

catch coronavirus at school. Classrooms are

‘safe’....

The ‘gold’ in breast milk

“Alarmins are the ‘gold’ in breast milk. These

proteins prevent dangerous intestinal colonization

disorders...

The "gold" in breast milk

IMAGE: The photo shows Professor Dorothee

Viemann (right) and Dr. Sabine Pirr, senior physician

at the intensive care...

Preventing infection, facilitating healing:

New biomaterials from spider silk

IMAGE: Scanning electron microscope images give

overwhelming proof of the difference. Left: A biofilm

forms on the...

You could be eating killer courgettes

When the pandemic left millions stuck at home,

bored Britons took to their gardens to grow their own

vegetables. Seed suppliers...

Has Pendle been named England’s No 1

Covid hotspot because they’re mass

testing in the street?

It’s Wednesday lunchtime on Market Street, the

main shopping parade in Nelson town centre.

Pensioners potter about,...

Look beyond opioids to solve national

substance use epidemic

The study reveals that among patients who

participated in an in-hospital addiction medicine

intervention at OHSU, three-quarters...

Why are there differing preferences for

suffixes and prefixes across languages?

AUDIO: While speakers of English and other

Western languages prefer using suffixes more than

prefixes, a new study...

Failures of Germany’s largest cliff coast

sensed by seismometers

IMAGE: The chalk cliff of Jasmund at the coast of

Rügen. view more Credit: photo: Kristen Cook, GFZ

The...

What did the katydids do when picking up

bat sounds?

IMAGE: Steirodon stalii view more Credit: Laurel

Symes Ithaca, N.Y.–Ecosystems can be incredibly

complex,...

Algorithm aims to alert consumers before

they use illicit online pharmacies

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Consumers are

expected to spend more than $100 billion at online

pharmacies in the next few...

Researchers explore how retail drone

delivery may change logistics networks

IMAGE: Three UT Dallas researchers found that

last-mile delivery networks will become more

decentralized and the delivery...

Study finds younger and older drivers

more likely to drive older, less safe

vehicles

Both younger and older drivers face unique

challenges in reducing their crash risk. Newly

licensed drivers have the highest...

Spouses shed more pounds together

than alone

“Lifestyle improvement after a heart attack is a

crucial part of preventing repeat events,” said study

author...

Physiological test for autism proves

effective independent of co-occurring

conditions

TROY, N.Y. — Developing a physiological test for

diagnosing autism spectrum disorder (ASD), one

that measures certain...

Lung injuries from vaping have

characteristic patterns on CT

Electronic nicotine delivery systems such as e-

cigarettes and vaporizers heat nicotine, flavorings

and other chemicals to...

Gut microbes could unlock the secret to

healthy aging

“Our study indicates that microbiota might have an

important role in maintaining health and could help

us develop novel...

Why ‘one day at a time’ works for

recovering alcoholics

Breakthrough in using stem cells to treat

enteric nervous system disorders

Imaging scans of those diagnosed with alcohol use

disorder (AUD) taken one day to two weeks after

their last drink reveal...

The findings, published in the journal Stem Cell

Reports, pave the way for using stem cells to

understand and treat a range...

Mosquito immune system mapped to help

fight malaria

Published today (27 August) in Science, the findings

offer opportunities for uncovering novel ways to

prevent mosquitoes...

Stereocenters rendered dynamic in one

succinct step

The research demonstrates the ability of photoredox

catalysis to take traditionally static stereocenters

and render them...

NASA sees wind shear still battering

tropical storm Iselle

IMAGE: On Aug. 28 at 2:40 a.m. EDT (0640 UTC)

the MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA’s

Terra satellite revealed...

Tungsten isotope helps study how to

armor future fusion reactors

IMAGE: ORNL researchers used natural tungsten

(yellow) and enriched tungsten (orange) to trace the

erosion, transport...

Cellular energy audit reveals energy

producers and consumers

IMAGE: Gladstone scientists Ken Nakamura (left)

and Neal Bennett (right) screened the human

genome to discover how...

Risk of heart attacks halves in patients

with diabetes in 15 years

Sophia Antipolis, France – 29 Aug 2020: Dramatic

reductions in the risk of heart attacks in patients with

diabetes...

Can people with heart disease exercise

safely?

Sophia Antipolis, France – 29 Aug 2020: The first

recommendations on sports and physical activity in

all types of...

What happens when babies with heart

defects become adults?

Sophia Antipolis, France – 29 Aug 2020: More than

90% of babies born with heart defects survive into

adulthood. As...

Heart rhythm disorders are best managed

when patients are listened to

Sophia Antipolis, France – 29 Aug 2020: Atrial

fibrillation is the most common heart rhythm disorder

and increases...

How to treat the most common heart

attacks

Sophia Antipolis, France – 29 Aug 2020: One in five

patients die within a year after the most common

type of heart...

Coronavirus: Obesity ‘increases risks

from Covid-19’

Being obese doubles the risk of hospital treatment

from Covid-19 and increases the risk of dying by

nearly 50%, a global...

Boris Johnson hires personal trainer

Harry Jameson

Boris Johnson has hired personal trainer Harry

Jameson to lose weight, after acknowledging he

was “too fat” when...

Scientists target coronavirus immunity

puzzle

A new effort is under way to understand how the

immune system responds to coronavirus. Scientists

from 17 UK research centres...

Coronavirus cases continue to level off in

England

Cases of coronavirus are still levelling off in

England, according to data from swab tests of

thousands of people in random...

Children without COVID-19 symptoms

may spread the virus for up to THREE

weeks, study finds

Children without COVID-19 symptoms may spread

the virus for up to THREE weeks, study finds

Researchers looked at 91 children...

Vaping companies took advantage of

pandemic offering frees roll of toilet

paper or hand sanitizer

Vaping companies took advantage of the

coronavirus pandemic by offering products that were

in short supply, a new study suggests.

Researchers...

Poll finds those aged 40 to 60 are more

‘glass half-full’ than younger people

Middle-aged people are the ‘most optimistic’: Poll

finds those aged 40 to 60 are more ‘glass half-full’...

High blood pressure could ruin your love

life

High blood pressure could ruin your love life: Men

with untreated hypertension ‘are almost twice as

likely to suffer...

DR MAX THE MIND DOCTOR: Ban

gossiping at the school gates? Never…

King Canute famously (and apocryphally) took his

throne to a beach and commanded the incoming

tide to halt. This week, Education...

Care homes ‘bribed’ to take coronavirus

patients

Care home managers feel ‘pressured’ into accepting

coronavirus patients into their facilities as they are

offered...

Thousands of physiotherapists, dentists

and even vets will be trained to give

Covid-19 injections

Prior Zika virus infection increases risk of

severe dengue disease

1. GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Pasteur: 60million

doses The Government revealed on July 29 it had

signed a deal with pharmaceutical...

The study, which drew on data from two cohorts of

Nicaraguan children who lived through a Zika

epidemic in 2016 and a dengue...

Synthetic compound could serve as

prototype for novel class of drugs to treat

neurological damage

The human brain’s neuronal network undergoes lifelong

changes in order to be able to assimilate

information and store...

Making brain cancers in children respond

better to treatment

Medulloblastoma (MB) is the most common

malignant childhood brain tumour and it has recently

been categorized into four molecular...

COVID-19 less deadly and causes milder

symptoms in children, UK study finds

Obesity, Black ethnicity and being under one month

old are factors that increased the risk of a child

being admitted into...

New malaria transmission patterns

emerge in Africa

Malaria is a climate sensitive disease; it thrives

where it is warm and wet enough to provide surface

water suitable for...

Vaccines against respiratory infections

linked to fewer heart failure deaths

One out of five individuals will develop heart failure

in their lifetime. An estimated 26 million people are

affected worldwide....

Cholesterol drug combinations could cut

health risk

According to the authors, the study highlights a gap

between current clinical guidelines and clinical

practice for cholesterol...

Infants in households with very low food

security may have greater obesity risk

The study tracked nearly 700 infants in North

Carolina over their first year of life, with regular

interviews of the infants’...

Plant scientists study the interaction of

heat stress responses in corn

IMAGE: The Enviratron robotic collects data on

plants. view more Credit: ISU News Service AMES,

Iowa –...

Farmers’ quick sale of poultry during

outbreaks may increase deadly virus

transmission

IMAGE: Small-scale poultry farmers in Vietnam tend

to respond to viral outbreaks of highly pathogenic

avian influenza...

Study shows efforts in mangrove

conservation and restoration paying off

IMAGE: Mangrove forests, such as the one in

Sundarbans, Bangladesh, are long known for storing

large amounts of carbon...

Researchers dramatically downsize

technology for fingerprinting drugs and

other chemicals

IMAGE: Schematic showing the steps for creating

the optical waveguide view more Credit: Texas AM

University...

Host tissue T cells may have an

unexpected role in graft-versus-host

disease

Allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

(HSCT) is a procedure that infuses a donor’s healthy

blood-forming...

NASA Terra Satellite examines Tropical

Storm Hernan’s relocated center

IMAGE: On Aug. 28, 2020 at 1 a.m. EDT (0500

UTC) the MODIS instrument that flies aboard

NASA’s Terra satellite...

Train conductor almost BLINDED by deer

antler returns to work

A commuter rail conductor who was nearly blinded

in a freak accident is now back on the job one year

later with perfect 20/20...

Research brief: Researchers 3D print

lifelike heart valve models

Researchers from the University of Minnesota, with

support from Medtronic, have developed a

groundbreaking process for multi-material...

Study finds that sleep restriction

amplifies anger

DARIEN, IL – Feeling angry these days? New

research suggests that a good night of sleep may be

just what you need. This...

Senators call for probe after

hydroxychloroquine was administered to

patients in nursing homes

Three US Senators are calling for a federal

investigation after two nursing homes administered

hydroxychloroquine to residents...

Drug for CATS may help fight coronavirus

in humans, study finds

A drug designed for cats may protect people from

the coronavirus, scientists have claimed. The

medicine GC376 was made to...

Hazmat officials board Ryanair flight at

Stansted and drag off Covid-infected

passenger

Holidaymakers were left gripping their seats in

horror last night as hazmat-clad officials rushed onto

a Ryanair plane as...

Android cleaner patrols school corridors

and classrooms blasting out a powerful

UV ray

It’s Robomop! Android cleaner patrols school

corridors and classrooms blasting out a powerful UV

ray to keep pupils...

Teen is left with the lungs of an 80-yearold

lifelong smoker after vaping for just

SIX MONTHS

Vaping could put you at the same risk of getting

heart disease as smoking cigarettes, research

suggests. Public Health England...

Could having a common cold protect you

from Covid-19? Scientists given

£8.4million to answer

Could having a common cold protect you from

coronavirus? Government gives scientists

£8.4million to discover the truth on...

A surprising protein player in diabetes

Diabetes is a common disorder that causes very

high blood glucose levels. Left untreated, it can lead

to serious health problems...

Engineers uncover biomechanical effects

of skin rubbing

Tohoku University biomechanical engineers have

developed a better understanding of the damage

that can be caused by something...

Covid-19 has brought out Britain’s ‘Blitz

spirit’, scientists say

The Covid-19 outbreak killed more British people

than the Blitz air raids did in the Second World War,

data suggests. Figures...

Nurses burned out and want to quit

“Nurses’ wellbeing is central to ensuring the best

outcomes for patients,” said study author Dr.

Annamaria...

Giant nanomachine aids the immune

system

Machine operates with atomic precision The

peptide-loading complex ensures that the MHC

molecules are correctly loaded with...

Study explains multipronged SARS-CoV-2

attack and widepread COVID-19 infection

To better understand the mechanism and pathways

of SARS-CoV-2 infection and susceptibility to

specific cell and tissue types...

A coffee and catnap keep you sharp on

the nightshift, study suggests

In Australia, more than 1.4 million people are

employed in shift work, with more than 200,000

regularly working night or...

Researchers 3D print lifelike heart valve

models

These patient-specific organ models, which include

3D-printed soft sensor arrays integrated into the

structure, are fabricated...

‘Jumping’ DNA regulates human neurons

Now, an international team of scientists led by Didier

Trono at EPFL has discovered that transposable

elements play a significant...

NASA-NOAA satellite nighttime imagery

tracks Tropical Depression Laura over US

IMAGE: NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite

captured a nighttime image of Tropical Depression

Laura during the early...

Look beyond opioids to solve national

substance use epidemic, study suggests

Overcoming the nation’s opioid epidemic will require

clinicians to look beyond opioids, new research from

Oregon Health...

NASA Terra Satellite sees development of

Tropical Storm Maysak

IMAGE: On Aug. 28, 2020 at 9:15 a.m. EDT (1315

UTC) the MODIS instrument that flies aboard

NASA’s Terra satellite...

Scientists listed the main approaches to

the treatment of coronavirus

Researchers from Sechenov University together

with Russian and Iranian colleagues described

currently known approaches to...

Atheists are more likely to sleep better

than Catholics and Baptists

DARIEN, IL – A new study of sleep, religious

affiliation, and perceptions of heaven found that

atheists and agnostics...

Experiment contradicts assumptions

about sleep loss and criminal

interrogations

DARIEN, IL – An experimental study suggests that

sleep restriction may hinder information disclosure

during criminal...

Natural disasters must be unusual or

deadly to prompt local climate policy

change

IMAGE: A map of the U.S. depicting the extreme

weather events included in the study. view more

Credit: Oregon...

Waiting for Godot Metaphor

The “Waiting for Godot Metaphor” for the COVID-19

response is carried forward and in an “Epilogue”...

Coronavirus: High-risk health workers

‘may not be protected’ in Wales

Guidance to protect at-risk healthcare workers in

Wales from coronavirus infection has been relaxed,

the BBC has learned. A...

Coronavirus: Wales has ‘one of lowest’

Covid-19 mortality rates

Wales has one of the lowest mortality rates for

coronavirus during the pandemic so far, according to

the Office for National...

Coronavirus: ‘Reassuring’ study of

children’s ‘tiny’ risk

Parents should be “reassured” Covid-19 has not

caused the deaths of any otherwise healthy

schoolchildren in the...

Coronavirus: Health workers’ army to be

trained to deliver Covid vaccine

The government plans to train up an army of health

professionals to be ready to give the coronavirus

vaccine, if and when...

NHS surgeons say productivity is 50%

lower than before Covid-19

NHS surgeons are only working at around 50 per

cent capacity in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic,

despite record numbers...

Drug that ‘repairs damage to the brain

and spinal cord’ has been created by

British scientists

A drug created by British scientists could repair

damage to the brain and spinal cord by improving

messaging between cells.

Scientists...

Coronavirus UK: Individual care home

death figures ‘kept secret’

Regulators have refused to release the Covid-19

death tolls at individual care homes with the public, it

emerged today. Care...

Trafford ‘will be RELEASED from tough

North West lockdown rules’

Trafford, Burnley and Hyndburn will be released

from tough North West lockdown measures, it was

claimed today. Everyone living...

Coronavirus UK: 7 new hotspots named,

though outbreak shrinks

Seven new coronavirus hotspots in the north of

England and Wales have been flagged up today by

a Covid-19 symptom-tracking...

UK prepares to fast-track coronavirus

vaccine and train army of health workers




How many people have died of Covid-19

in YOUR area? Interactive map shows

victims by postcode

Seventy-one areas in England and Wales didn’t

suffer a single death from Covid-19 in July,

according to an interactive...

New study takes aim at advanced types

of non-addictive pain therapies

The ability to sense and respond to temperature is

fundamental in biology. Ion channels are formed by

membrane proteins that...

Britain and the US are bottom of the pile

in rankings of how governments have

handled Covid-19

Boris Johnson‘s Britain and the Donald Trump

administration in the US have handled the Covid-19

pandemic the worst,...

Are all vegetarian diets healthy?

“Our study highlights the variable nutritional quality

of plant foods,” said author Dr. Matina Kouvari of

Harokopio...

Study examines link between sperm

quality and light from devices at night

Preliminary results show that greater self-reported

exposure to light-emitting media devices in the

evening and after bedtime...

Study finds ‘nomophobia’ is associated

with poor sleep health in college students

Preliminary results show that 89% of a sample of

college students had moderate or severe

nomophobia. Greater nomophobia was...

Genetic link between cattle temperament

and autism in humans

UQ genomic expert Professor Ben Hayes said the

research by his interdisciplinary team headed by Dr

Roy Costilla could lead...

Binding sites for protein-making

machinery

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the

Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering

(D-BSSE) at ETH Zurich...

Elderly in the US: Risk of dementia has

been rising for years

The burden might be heavier than long assumed:

For years, most studies using survey data

suggested that the risk of suffering...

Age no criteria for decisions on heart

attack treatment, new research finds

The study draws on data captured over seven years

from 1500 patients aged 80 or over. It was

conducted by researchers from...

Portland State lab finds finds new levels

of detail about key membrane proteins

Portland State University researchers used

advanced electron microscopy to create a 3-D

reconstruction of a membrane protein...

COVID-19 exposes broadband gaps

The COVID-19 crisis has increasingly highlighted

shortcomings in Australia’s National Broadband

Network, Flinders University...

Women with higher neuroticism are less

physically active

IMAGE: Women who score high in extraversion

report more physical activity. view more Credit:

University of...

New analysis reveals where marine

heatwaves will intensify fastest

IMAGE: Picture (above): Small boat on still, sunset

ocean. view more Credit: Johannes Plenio (Pexels)

The...

Can’t be away from your phone? Study

finds link to higher levels of obsessioncompulsion

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Feelings of panic when a

person is away from their smartphone could be

connected to general feelings...

International screening of the effects of a

pathogenic fungus

Structural colors from cellulose-based

polymers

The pathogenic fungus Candida auris, which first

surfaced in 2009, is proving challenging to control. It

is resistant to...

A surface displays structural colors when light is

reflected by tiny, regular structural elements in a

transparent material....

Observation charge accumulation at

nanocavity on plasmonic photocatalyst

IMAGE: SCHEMATIC ILLUSTRATION OF AU

DIMERS/TIO2 TO SIMULATE THE

PHOTOSYSTEM II AND PLASMONIC CHARGE

ACCUMULATION AT...

Coronavirus US: CDC director U-turns on

testing asymptomatic

CDC director backtracks on new coronavirus testing

guidelines that excludes asymptomatic people

following backlash from health...

Organs from elderly donors can be

‘rejuvenated’, says study

Despite the lack of organs available for patients on

transplant waitlists, organs from older, deceased

donors are frequently...

Chemical found in insect repellents ‘can

kill the coronavirus’

A virus-killing chemical found in insect repellent can

also destroy the infection that causes Covid-19,

scientists have claimed. Citriodiol,...

Duchenne: ‘Crosstalk’ between muscle

and spleen

The muscular atrophy in Duchenne disease is

caused by a lack of dystrophin, a protein of the

cytoskeleton. In vertebrates,...

Homemade cotton masks can prevent

99.9% of coronavirus droplets from

spraying into the air

Homemade cotton masks can prevent 99.9% of

coronavirus droplets from spraying into the air when

someone coughs or speaks...

More evidence blood-thinners could fight

Covid-19: Drugs boost survival odds by

up to 50%

Blood-thinners could boost the survival chances for

people hospitalised with Covid-19, growing evidence

suggests. Several...

How genetics could impact COVID-19

treatments

University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy faculty

Pamala Jacobson and Melanie Nicol, and Pediatric

Hematology/Oncology...

Neighborhoods with high walk and bike

scores also have greater crash risks

In a study outlined in Transportation Research

Record, researchers used five years of crash data

from provincial auto insurer...

Researchers develop a fast, accurate,

low-cost COVID-19 test

The surging demand for rapid screening and

identification of COVID-19 poses great diagnostic

challenges. Metagenomic next-generation...

Single-use N95 respirators can be

decontaminated and used again, study

finds

An early-release version of their study has been

published online, with the full study to appear in

September in the journal...

Children notice race several years before

adults want to talk about it

Delays in these important conversations could make

it more difficult to change children’s misperceptions

or racist...

Estrogen may lessen severity of COVID-

19 symptoms in women, study finds

In an effort to understand why this occurs, scientists

at Wake Forest School of Medicine conducted a

review of published...

Antiviral used to treat cat coronavirus

also works against SARS-CoV-2

“In just two months, our results have shown that the

drug is effective at inhibiting viral replication in cells

with...

NASA finds new Tropical Storm Iselle

already battling wind shear

IMAGE: On Aug. 27 at 5:30 a.m. EDT (0930 UTC)

the VIIRS instrument that flies aboard NASA-

NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite...

Age-appropriate contraception

counseling helps health care providers

educate teens

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) – Preventing unplanned

pregnancies in adolescents with effective and easyto-use

contraception is...

Genetics of the tree of life

IMAGE: The African baobab tree has 168

chromosomes in total. USDA researchers used

fluorescent probes to see the genetic...

Mouse-adapted SARS-CoV-2 model

provides new tool for COVID-19

discoveries

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – A new COVID-19 mouse

model developed at the University of North Carolina

at Chapel Hill captures...

Estrogen may lessen severity of COVID-

19 symptoms in women, study says

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Aug. 27, 2020 – Why are

men at greater risk than women for more severe

Which OCD treatment works best? New

brain study could lead to more

personalized choices

symptoms and worse...

IMAGE: A compilation of brain images from the

study of obsessive-compulsive disorder treatment

response and its correlation...

Low-cost, fly footpad-like adhesive

structure capable of repeated

attachment/detachment

IMAGE: Electron micrograph of the fly foot. The

adhesive spatula-shaped setae (light-blue

structures) allow the fly...

Period poverty: Schools ‘not aware’ they

can order free tampons

Charities say many schools and colleges are not

aware they can order free period products through a

government scheme, amid...

Amateur drone videos could aid in

natural disaster damage assessment

IMAGE: Drone video of damage from Hurricane

Laura in Lake Charles, LA, was processed

automatically by a Carnegie Mellon...

Coronavirus: Self-isolation payment for

low-income workers

Workers on low incomes in parts of England where

there are high rates of coronavirus will be able to

claim up to £182 if...

Covid-19: Five ways to avoid catching the

virus indoors

Four die as Hurricane Laura batters Louisiana There

is severe damage from the US state’s most powerful

storm, but flooding...

Coronavirus: Daily cases highest since

mid-June

The number of daily UK cases of coronavirus has

risen to 1,522 in 24 hours – up from 1,048 on

Wednesday – the...

Peter: The Human Cyborg: Scientist

diagnosed with motor neurone disease

opens up about journey

A scientist diagnosed with motor neurone disease

teared up as he heard his new robot voice singing

Gene Wilder’s Pure...

Alzheimer’s zapped: Scientist launch

landmark trial to treat dementia

Alzheimer’s zapped: Scientists launch landmark trial

to treat dementia by sending electric currents deep

into the brain Imperial...

Matt Hancock grilled over supply teacher

coronavirus risk

Matt Hancock insists it will be up to schools to make

sure UK’s tens of thousands of supply teachers do

not act as...

South Korean woman likely infected with

COVID-19 after using an airplane toilet

South Korean woman was likely infected with

COVID-19 when she used an airplane toilet during a

flight from virus-hit Italy,...

Experts fear osteoporosis drugs may

make bones WEAKER

Osteoporosis drugs designed to salvage crumbling

bones may actually make them weaker, research

suggests. Imperial College...

Trump-backed hydroxychloroquine

doesn’t treat Covid-19 and raises the risk

of death

Hydroxychloroquine — touted by President Donald

Trump as a ‘game changer’ and a ‘gift from God’...

Losing weight is easier if your spouse

joins in: Success rate is almost THREE

times higher

Couples who attempt to lose weight together are

almost three times more likely to be successful, a

study has found. Heart...

Amazon takes aim at Fitbit and Apple

with new Halo health tracker

Amazon has just joined the battle of the fitness

trackers. The firm unveiled a sensor fitted wristband

called Halo that pairs...

Gout treatment may aid patients with

congenital heart disease

Jack Rubinstein, MD, associate professor in the UC

College of Medicine and UC Health cardiologist,

conducted a randomized...

Vertebral body tethering shows clinical

success as treatment for scoliosis

VBT is an alternative to PSF for scoliosis patients

who still have growth remaining and flexibility of their

spine. Screws...

Cochlear implants should be

recommended for adults more often

The consensus statement, published Aug. 27 in

JAMA Otolaryngology, was developed by a panel of

31 hearing experts representing...

Helminth infections common in Medieval

Europe, grave study finds

Helminths are parasitic worms and they infect an

estimated 1.5 billion people worldwide. The worms

are transmitted through...

DNA repair: Locating and severing lethal

links

DPCs can be created by interactions with highly

reactive products of normal metabolism or with

synthetic chemotherapeutic...

Beating HIV and COVID-19 may depend

on tweaking vaccine molecules

American Academy of Sleep Medicine

calls for elimination of daylight saving

time

The AASM supports a switch to permanent standard

time, explaining in the statement that standard time

more closely aligns...

Phase 1 human trials suggest breast

cancer drug is safe, effective

Scientists know a lot about how to design vaccines,

but there are many diseases that haven’t been

controlled through...

The results are published in the journal Breast

Cancer Research and Treatment. Breast cancer

affects one in eight women in...

A nighttime view of Tropical Storm

Hernan from a NASA-NOAA satellite

Nighttime imagery from NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP

satellite revealed the Eastern Pacific Ocean’s

Tropical Storm Hernan...

NASA’s Terra Satellite reveals burn scars

from California’s two largest fires

IMAGE: NASA’s Terra satellite captures this image

of the burn scars from both the LNU Lightning fire

complex...

A.I. tool promises faster, more accurate

Alzheimer’s diagnosis

By detecting subtle differences in the way that

Alzheimer’s sufferers use language, researchers at

Stevens Institute...

Older adults’s faced mental health issues

during the pandemic

IMAGE: by Anne Krendl, associate professor in IU’s

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.

view...

Black children with cancer three times

less likely to receive proton radiotherapy

than White children

A deep concern among pediatric oncologists has

been confirmed by the data: Black children enrolled

in national clinical trials...

An improved wearable, stretchable gas

sensor using nanocomposites

IMAGE: An example of a flexible gas sensor worn

over a knuckle. view more Credit: Cheng Lab, Penn

State A...

Only 10% of people plan to return to

living exactly as they did before Covid-19

Only 10% of people plan to return to living exactly as

they did before Covid-19 after the pandemic ends,

study claims University...

Songbirds reduce reproduction to help

survive drought

IMAGE: An indigo flycatcher visits its nest in

Malaysia. view more Credit: Photo by Thomas

Martin MISSOULA...

Phase 1 human trials suggest UICdeveloped

breast cancer drug is safe,

effective

IMAGE: Debra Tonetti, associate professor of

biopharmaceutical sciences, and Greg Thatcher,

Professor of Medicinal...

Army of tiny injectable marching robots

set to wage war on disease

Scientists have created an army of microscopic

robots, each smaller than the width of a human hair,

that can be injected...

Flu fears as vaccine uptake in at-risk

adults is falling

The number of vulnerable people getting free flu

jabs in England is at an eight-year low, raising fears

of an outbreak coinciding...

Oral sex can trigger bacterial vaginosis,

study finds

Receiving oral sex may trigger the condition

bacterial vaginosis because germs in the mouth can

disrupt those that occur...

UK coronavirus deaths announced for

Thursday

England and Wales have today announced eight

more people have died of coronavirus, while no

further fatalities have been...

Number of heart attacks detected and

treated fell by 40 per cent during Covid-19

pandemic

Heart attacks diagnosis rates fell by 40 per cent

during the Covid-19 pandemic, a study claims.

Figures also show the number...

Test and Trace gets worse… AGAIN:

Record-low 72.6% of infected patients

were reached

The Government’s Test and Trace system is getting

worse as figures today revealed that call handlers

reached a record-low...

Why breakfast could be causing you to

gain weight, says professor Tim Spector

If you were led to believe that breakfast was the

most important meal of the day… then you may

have fallen victim to...

Seizures during menstrual cycle linked to

drug-resistant epilepsy

Women with a form of genetic generalized epilepsy

called catamenial epilepsy — when seizure

frequency increases during...

SARS-CoV-2 RNA detected in untreated

wastewater from Louisiana

Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE) is a

process by which the spread of disease in human

populations is tracked by testing...

How are information, disease, and social

evolution linked?

However, gaining this information requires physical

contact among individuals, an action that risks

spreading contagion....

NBA playoff format is optimizing

competitive balance by eliminating travel

Preliminary results of the study suggest that the

2020 NBA playoffs, which begin Aug. 17, will

eliminate any advantages or...

Novel alkaline hydrogel advances skin

wound care

Link between cognitive impairment and

worse prognosis in heart failure patients

It is important to create an optimal physiological

environment around a wound to promote the growth

of new cells. Recent...

Researchers at Skåne University Hospital and Lund

University conducted the new study, published in the

medical journal ESC...

Neutralizing antibodies appear to protect

humans from coronavirus infection

Although SARS-CoV-2 swept the vessel, infecting

104 of 122 people on board, all 3 individuals who

tested positive for neutralizing...

U.S. political parties become extremist to

get more votes

The research team, which includes Northwestern

University researchers, found that extremism is a

strategy that has worked...

Improving weather forecasts with

observations from the microwave

instruments onboard China’s FY-3D

satellite

IMAGE: Illustration of FY-3D MWRI observations at

89 GHz on 25 July 2019. view more Credit: Fabien

Carminati China’s...

Search for COVID-19 drugs boosted by

SARS discovery

An extensive search and testing of current drugs

and drug-like compounds has revealed compounds

previously developed to fight...

First in situ radiation measurements 21

km up into the air over Tibetan Plateau

IMAGE: The release of the stratospheric balloonbased

radiation measurement system. view more

Credit: Jinqiang...

Genetic link between cattle temperament

and autism

IMAGE: The cattle industry’s standard for measuring

temperament is ‘flight time’ – the speed...

Japanese sake: the new pick-me-up?

Yeast strain makes fatigue-fighting

ornithine

Nara, Japan – Fans of sake, the traditional

Japanese alcoholic beverage, may have even more

reason to enjoy it now:...

Molecular dispersion enhances quasibilayer

organic solar cells

IMAGE: Molecular dispersion enhances quasibilayer

organic solar cells view more Credit:

©Science China Press In...

Flu: Why we still need to worry about it

this winter

Health officials are ramping up efforts to ensure

everyone who needs a flu vaccine has one. The

UK’s largest flu-immunisation...

A Politecnico di Milano study reveals

DNA "grammar"

IMAGE: CTCF proteins isolate the various

topological DNA domains. The study found that

topological domains can be divided...

Playfulness can be trained

Simple exercises can help to make people more

playful and consequently feel more satisfied with

their lives. This has been...

UK flu jab rates prompt complacency

warning

Complacency over the flu jab risks overwhelming

the NHS, experts warn, as data reveals the scale of

the challenge in expanding...

Genetic quirk which could delay the

onset of Alzheimer’s is twice as common

in women

One in eight women may have a genetic quirk which

could delay the onset of Alzheimer’s, a study has

revealed. About...

Rare group of HIV patients don’t need

drugs to suppress virus due to way it

integrates in their DNA

A rare group of HIV patients are able to naturally

suppress the virus without taking any drugs, a new

study suggests. These...

Coronavirus US: CDC on how Maine

summer camps avoided outbreak

How four overnight summer camps in Maine

prevented coronavirus outbreaks: Children who

tested positive had to delay arrival,...

Hospital admissions for strokes fell by

ONE-THIRD during coronavirus

lockdowns, study finds

Hospital admissions for strokes fell by ONE-THIRD

during coronavirus lockdowns, study finds A new

study looked at hospital...

Do you cheat when you eat?

Do you cheat when you eat? The nine rules to a

healthy diet… that just one in 1,000 of us stick to

Experts compared...

Unique HIV reservoirs in elite controllers

HIV affects more than 35 million people worldwide

and can be effectively controlled, but not cured, with

a daily regimen...

Sleep duration, efficiency and structure

change in space

How ‘swapping bodies’ with a friend

changes our sense of self

“As a child, I liked to imagine what it would be like to

one day wake up in someone else’s body,” says...

Study evaluates immersive virtual reality

as a sleep aid for teens

Preliminary results show that perceived sleepiness

increased, alertness decreased, and heart rate

dropped following the relaxation...

New form of brain analysis engages

whole brain for the first time

Researchers at Harvard College, Harvard Medical

School, and NASA Ames Research Center studied

the sleep patterns of four...

The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience,

has direct implications for improving the benefits of

transcranial magnetic...

Got fatigue? Study further pinpoints brain

regions that may control it

The findings, they say, could advance the

development of behavioral and other strategies that

increase physical performance...

Novel PROTAC enhances its intracellular

accumulation and protein knockdown

In this study published in the journal Nature

Communications, a team led by researchers at

Baylor College of Medicine developed...

Overlooked ‘housekeeping’ gene plays

unexpected role in seizures

Because they play such a vital role in this

translational “housekeeping,” tRNAs are plentiful.

There are hundreds...

Cigarette-like ‘cigarillos’ flout efforts to

curb smoking

The introduction of cigarette-like mentholated

‘cigarillos’ (mini cigars which are leaf-wrapped) to

the UK is...

Premature deaths from alcoholic liver

disease rising as gap between men and

women narrows

IMAGE: Age-adjusted rates of premature deaths

from liver disease and alcoholic liver disease among

U.S. population...

Char application restores soil carbon and

productivity

IMAGE: Application of char with about 30% C

changed the color of the soil. view more Credit:

Photo courtesy...

Reduce insecticide spraying by using ant

pheromones to catch crop pests

Scientists at the Universities of Bath and Sussex

have developed a new system that slowly releases

ant pheromones to attract...

First complete dinosaur skeleton ever

found is ready for its closeup at last

IMAGE: The first complete dinosaur skeleton ever

identified has finally been studied in detail and found

its place...

AI accurately identifies infants with low

risk of serious bacterial infection

Artificial intelligence, or “supervised machine

learning,” could help identify which well-appearing

infants with...

Fabrication of a single-crystal giant

magnetoresistive device on a

polycrystalline film

IMAGE: Cross-sectional transmission electron

micrographs of the bonded interface between the

single-crystal GMR film...

Continuous infrared winds discovered

during the eruption of a stellar mass

black hole

IMAGE: Artistic impression of the constant emission

of winds produced during the eruption of a black

hole in an X-ray...

NHS doctors trialling breathalyser test for

coronavirus

DNANudge One of the new test kits, made by

London-based DNANudge, will be launched next

month. It analyses DNA in...

‘No human wants to take a limb from a

child’ Jonnie Peacock praises surgeon

who amputated his leg

GB Paralympian star Jonnie Peacock praises

surgeon who amputated his leg at five, saying: ‘no

human ever wants to take...

Immune response could explain why

coronavirus hits men harder

Men may be more likely to suffer severe cases of

coronavirus or die of the disease because they have

weaker immune responses,...

Britain’s two-metre social distancing rule

‘is based on outdated science’

Britain’s two metre social distancing rule is based on

outdated science and is not far enough in crowded

places like...

Spitting in a tube ‘could tell if you’ve had

a heart attack in just 10 minutes’

Getting suspected heart attack patients to spit into a

tube could help diagnose them six times faster than

blood tests currently...

Coronavirus vaccine may not be as

effective in obese people, scientists warn

Obese people are 48 per cent more likely to die of

Covid-19 than people of a healthy weight, according

to research. Scientists...

UK announces Covid-19 deaths for

Wednesday

Britain today recorded 16 more coronavirus deaths

as Scotland’s six-week run of no fatalities

was ended with the announcement...

Napping for more than an hour ‘could

raise heart disease or early death risk by

a THIRD’

Napping for too long in the day could make you

more likely to get heart disease or die young,

according to scientists. In...

Current poultry food safety guidelines do

not stop salmonella outbreaks

The poultry industry currently uses Salmonella

prevalence or positivity rate as an indicator of food

safety, but there are...

New insights into mechanism of therapy

to reduce liver fat and prevent fibrosis

Don’t forget to clean robotic support pets,

study says

NAFLD is an umbrella term for a spectrum of

conditions that begin with a build-up of liver fat,

which can set the stage for...

There is a wealth of research on the use of social

robots, or companion robots, in care and long-term

nursing homes. “Paro...

Additional data on blood thinner efficacy

for COVID-19 and insight on best possible

regimens

In this observational study, the researchers found all

regimens of anticoagulants — drugs that prevent

blood clotting...

Tethering together type 2 diabetes drugs

increases efficacy of combination therapy

This novel approach features the commonly

prescribed type 2 diabetes drug glucagon-like

peptide-1 (GLP-1) and the compelling...

Transplanted brown-fat-like cells hold

promise for obesity and diabetes

The potential therapy for obesity would transplant

HUMBLE (human brown-like) fat cells, human white

fat cells that have been...

Researchers unravel two mysteries of

COVID-19

The studies were conducted by analyzing blood

samples from critically ill patients at London Health

Sciences Centre (LHSC)....

Placenta can indicate how body responds

to opioids during pregnancy

Cheryl S. Rosenfeld, an author on the study, said

women often take opioids for pain regulation during

pregnancy, including...

New method to combat damage, help

revive NY berry industry

ITHACA, N.Y. – At the Berry Patch farm in

Stephentown, New York, big, ripe blueberries are

waiting to be picked. The...

New treatment possibilities for young

women diagnosed with rare form of

ovarian cancer

IMAGE: A recent finding by researchers at the BC

Cancer Research Institute and the University of

British Columbia (UBC)...

Researchers discover gene controlling

nectar spur development

IMAGE: Second generation spurred and spur-less

flowers derived from the interspecific cross of spurless

Aquilegia...

Terms in Seattle-area rental ads reinforce

neighborhood segregation

IMAGE: These word clouds show how certain terms

dominate Seattle-area rental ads, based on

neighborhood. view...

Study finds that water efficiency

achievable throughout US without decree

A recent study co-authored by two Northern Arizona

University researchers showed that targeted efforts

to increase water...

Progress toward a treatment for Krabbe

disease

In one out of 100,000 infants, a mutation in the

GALC gene causes an incurable, always fatal

disorder known as infantile...

NASA examines powerful Major

Hurricane Laura headed for landfall

IMAGE: NASA’s Terra satellite provided a visible

image of the large and powerful major Hurricane

Laura in the...

Thermodynamics of computation: A

quest to find the cost of running a Turing

machine

IMAGE: A Turing Machine performing a computation

over a sequence of steps. view more Credit:

Kolchinksy and...

Spreadsheet error led to Edinburgh

hospital opening delay

A mistake in a spreadsheet set in motion a series of

events that delayed the opening of a £150m

hospital, a new report has...

Coronavirus: Face coverings U-turn for

England’s secondary schools

Secondary pupils will have to wear face coverings in

school corridors in local lockdown areas of England,

after the government...

Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding

diagnosed with breast cancer

Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding has been

diagnosed with breast cancer, which she says has

spread to other parts of her body. Writing...

Oral sex linked to vaginal condition

bacterial vaginosis

Healthy pregnant women are not more

vulnerable to Covid-19 and do not fall

more seriously ill

Healthy pregnant women are not more likely to fall

seriously ill with Covid-19, a study suggests. There

were fears mothers-to-be...

Hospital baby deaths: Health chiefs

raised fears SEVEN years ago… but failed

to intervene

Health bosses raised concerns about maternity care

at a scandal-hit hospital seven years ago but failed

Nottingham woman, 75, is the earliest

known Covid-19 patient to catch the

disease in the UK

A 75-year-old woman in Nottingham was the first

known case of Covid-19 spreading in the UK

to intervene to...

because she gave a positive sample...

Obese children are more likely to get

multiple sclerosis

Obese children are more likely to get multiple

sclerosis: One in 10 cases of the crippling condition

are linked to bulging...

Cambridge joins the coronavirus vaccine

race




Britain has become MORE lazy as the

number of people who spend hours

sitting around leaps by 22.5%

Britain is getting lazier, with a huge rise in the

number of people who spend more than four-and-ahalf

hours a day sitting...

Before eyes open, they get ready to see?

This new finding featured in the August 19 edition of

Journal of Neuroscience as a cover article has

resolved a long-standing...

Magnetic stimulation dramatically

improves fecal incontinence

They have early evidence that TNT, or

translumbosacral neuromodulation therapy, is a

promising, novel, safe, low-cost treatment...

Studying water polo for kicks

While polo played with horses may seem genteel

and relaxing, the same cannot be said of water polo.

It is a grueling competition...

New system for accurate telomere

profiling in less than 3 hours

Each time a cell divides in our body, the telomeres

shorten, thus functioning like a molecular “clock” of

the...

Hip fracture risk linked to nanoscale bone

inflexibility

The findings, published today in Scientific Reports,

suggest that doctors should look not only at bone

density, but also...

Depressed or anxious teens risk heart

attacks in middle age

In a warning to parents, study author Dr. Cecilia

Bergh of Örebro University in Sweden, said: “Be

vigilant and look...

Unlocking the mysteries of the brain

The results of their study are presented today in

Nature Communications. Led by Professor Roberto

Araya, the team studied...

NTU Singapore scientists use fruit peel to

turn old batteries into new

IMAGE: A team of scientists led by NTU has

developed a novel method of using fruit peel waste

to extract and reuse...

Domesticated chickens have smaller

brains

IMAGE: Researchers from Linköping University

suggest a process by which the timid junglefowl

from the rain forest...

Pollution exposure at work may be

associated with heart abnormalities

among Latinx community

Environmental toxin exposure is a recognized

cardiovascular disease risk factor. Researchers

have found environmental pollutant...

New device can measure toxic lead within

minutes

IMAGE: Sediments collected by a ship can be

rapidly tested for toxic lead with a new portable labon-a-chip

device....

Tailored hardening of ZrCuAl bulk

metallic glass induced by 2D gradient

rejuvenation

IMAGE: A schematic illustration of metallic glass

with various relaxation states depending on the

cooling rate ?Tohoku...

Too many COVID-19 patients get

unneeded ‘just in case’ antibiotics

More than half of patients hospitalized with

suspected COVID-19 in Michigan during the state’s

peak months received...

Sm(Fe0.8Co0.2)12 with a lean rare earth

content exhibits superb magnetism

IMAGE: The new compound developed in this

research exhibited magnetic properties significantly

superior to those exhibited...

Fear of missing out impacts people of all

ages

PULLMAN, Wash. – Social media addicted

teenagers are not the only people who experience

the Fear of Missing Out also...

Immune protein IL-17A responsible for

lethal side effects of gastric cancer

IMAGE: Fig. 1 The number of IL-17A and MCT

double positive cells correlated with the ratio of

fibrotic area in the...

Children born at higher altitudes are

smaller at birth and have stunted growth

Children who are born at higher altitudes tend to be

smaller than those born at lower altitudes, a new

study suggests. Researchers...

Metabolic syndrome linked to worse

outcomes for COVID-19 patients

The study, published in the journal Diabetes Care, is

the first to look at the impact of metabolic syndrome

on outcomes for...

Breastfeeding’s legacy may protect

against diabetes

Epidemiologic studies suggest that breastfeeding

protects women from developing Type 2 diabetes,

even decades after their...

Study leads to potential for new treatment

approach for Alzheimer’s

New blood, new hope: Transfusions

protect the brain from stroke damage

The paper explains that current therapeutic

approaches to the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease

focus on the major pathological...

Doctors replace your blood with the blood of a

healthy person who’s never suffered a stroke. This

blood swap lessens...

Nursing home study suggests dialysis

patients at greater risk of SARS-CoV-2

infection

The finding was reported in the Aug. 14, 2020, issue

of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,

published by the U.S....

Compared to placebo, vitamin D has no

benefit for severe asthma attacks, study

finds

These results were published today in JAMA. “The

reason that’s important is there are colleagues

around this...

Virtual imaging trials optimize CT,

radiography for coronavirus disease

(COVID-19)

Leesburg, VA, August 25, 2020–An open-access

article in ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology

(AJR) established...

Pain ‘catastrophizing’ may lead to little

exercise, more time sedentary

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Chronic pain affects the

majority of older adults in the U.S., and getting

enough exercise plays...

Bacteria could survive travel between

Earth and Mars when forming aggregates

IMAGE: The bacterial exposure experiment took

place from 2015 to 2018 using the Exposed Facility

located on the exterior...

Getting to the root of the problem

IMAGE: Experiments on common bean were done

at the Agricultural Research Institute of Mozambique

in Sussundenga, Mozambique. ...

Coronavirus: Are teachers more at risk of

coronavirus?

Children in England and Wales are due to go back

to the classroom in September. In Scotland, where

pupils have already returned,...

Researchers develop AI to detect fentanyl

and derivatives remotely

The method, published recently in the journal

Scientific Reports, uses infrared light spectroscopy

and can be used in a portable,...

Effectiveness of cloth masks depends on

type of covering

To allay these doubts, Padmanabha Prasanna

Simha, from the Indian Space Research

Organisation, and Prasanna Simha Mohan Rao,...

A multicenter look at gene therapy for

spinal muscular atrophy

In May 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

(FDA) approved a gene replacement therapy for the

inherited, progressive...

Socially isolated elderly more likely to

use hospital and emergency room

resources

IMAGE: Comprehensive, integrated approach to the

field of population health and provides information

designed to improve...

Parental instruction instrumental for

children to learn how to safely cross busy

roads

Learning to cross a busy street is anything but easy

for a child, especially in places where the traffic

doesn’t stop. Children...

Antagonistic genes modify rice plant

growth

IMAGE: A short paddy rice variety (above) and long

deepwater variety (below) were placed in rising

levels of deep water....

Face coverings U-turn for England’s

secondary schools

Secondary pupils in England will have to wear

masks in school corridors in local lockdown areas of

England, after the government...

Africa declared free of wild polio in

‘milestone’

Africa has been declared free from wild polio by the

independent body, the Africa Regional Certification

Commission. Polio...

Coronavirus: Nottinghamshire woman,

75, ‘first positive test within UK’

The earliest known person to contract coronavirus

within the UK has been identified, scientists believe.

Analysis of samples...

Experts are divided over FDA approval of

plasma for COVID-19 treatment

Health experts are divided over the recent approval

of convalescent blood plasma as a treatment for

coronavirus patients...

Coronavirus: Metabolic syndrome

sufferers’ death risk 300% higher

Hospitalized coronavirus patients who are obese,

have diabetes and high blood pressure are THREE

TIMES more likely to die,...

PaiTree Eye Mask for Sleeping sale

Amazon

This contoured blackout eye mask will help you get

a better night’s rest – and it’s only £6.79 in

Biogen conference in Boston led to

roughly 20,000 coronavirus infections in

two months

Amazon’s...

A strategy meeting of a Massachusetts-based drug

company played a much greater role in spreading

the novel coronavirus than...

One million more whites would have die

from COVID to reach life expectancy

levels of blacks

Coronavirus would have to kill an additional one

million white Americans for their life expectancy

levels to fall to those...

Single-cell RNA sequencing sheds new

light on cancer cells’ varied response to

chemotherapy

Gaining a better understanding of why some cancer

cells survive while others die is critical for making

chemotherapy more...

Rates of e-cigarette and marijuana use

not associated with vaping-related lung

injuries, study finds

Published in the journal Addiction, the study

estimates the relationship between states’ total

reported EVALI cases...

Hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin

increases heart risk, finds global study

OHDSI has established an international network of

researchers and observational health databases

with a central coordinating...

Virtual imaging trials optimize CT,

radiography for COVID-19

Virtual imaging trials have two main components–

representative models of targeted subjects and

realistic models of...

Children raised in greener

neighbourhoods have higher IQs

Children raised in greener neighbourhoods have

higher IQs and lower levels of difficult behaviour,

study finds Researchers...

To be or not to be in the ER, that is the

question

“Many proteins in the cell have sugar (glycan)

chemical groups attached to them. Research has

suggested that when these...

Treatment for teen anxiety

“These disorders are not only common in children

and teens, but, if untreated, result in considerable

personal and...

Why we distort probability

But why we distort probability is unclear. While the

question has been previously studied, there is no

consensus on its causes. A...

Demographers put COVID-19 death toll

into perspective

Seeking to put current COVID-19 mortality rates into

historic, demographic and economic perspective,

UC Berkeley demographers...

Using light’s properties to indirectly see

inside a cell membrane

For those not involved in chemistry or biology,

picturing a cell likely brings to mind several discrete,

blob-shaped objects;...

Revised code could help improve

efficiency of fusion experiments

IMAGE: PPPL physicist Stuart Hudson was part of

an international team of researchers that has

upgraded a key computer...

One size may not fit all: BILH

psychiatrists develop mental health app

assessment tool

Cambridge, Mass. – About one in five U.S. adults,

an estimated 47 million people, lives with a mental

illness. Fewer...

Study: Student debt may hurt chances at

full-time employment

IMAGE: Ariane Froidevaux view more Credit: UT

Arlington A recently published study led by The

University...

Cyberintimacy: Technology-mediated

romance in the digital age

IMAGE: Explores the psychological and social

issues surrounding the Internet and interactive

technologies view...

Thin layer protects battery, allows cold

charging

IMAGE: Image of the layers in a lithium metal anode

for low temperature batteries view more Credit:

Donghai...

Coastal development, changing climate

threaten sea turtle nesting habitat

IMAGE: Ocean waves cover a sea turtle nest in Fort

Lauderdale, Florida. Florida State University

researchers found...

Wearing face masks makes people more

careless and less likely to follow social

distancing guidelines

Wearing face masks can lull people into a false

sense of security — making them more careless and

less likely to follow...

Opioid prescription rates for knee

surgery vary, but higher strength dosage

common

A new study published in BMJ Open found that

opioid prescription rates for outpatient knee surgery

vary widely across the...

Robot tests for the coronavirus by

probing the nose with a long swab and

sticking samples in a vial

Would you trust this robot to test you for COVID?

New machine performs invasive nasal swab test 10

minutes faster than humans...

Doctors to trial treatment for Covid-19

patients with diabetes

Drug giant AstraZeneca rejects Donald

Trump’s ‘plan to fast-track the jab’

A ‘potentially life-saving’ treatment for coronavirus

patients with diabetes will begin human trials in

Britain...

Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has dismissed

claims its experimental Covid-19 vaccine could be

fast-tracked in the US amid...

Ministers have defied SAGE advice to

screen all hospital patients for Covid-19

Patients being discharged from NHS hospitals are

still not all being tested for coronavirus — despite

scientists warning...

Drug giant AstraZeneca starts trial of

Covid-19 antibody injections

Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is now injecting

volunteers with its new antibody treatment for Covid-

19 in a bid to see...

Step-father’s cancer turns terminal after

his life-saving liver surgery was cancelled

due to Covid

A step-father has revealed how his cancer has

become terminal after NHS doctors cancelled his

potentially life-saving surgery...

More people are dying than expected in

England and Wales for first time in two

months

England today posted another 15 coronavirus

deaths in the preliminary count, while no new victims

were recorded in Scotland,...

Mother transmitted COVID-19 to baby

during pregnancy, physicians report

The case, detailed in an article published last month

in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, adds to

a growing body...

When it comes to supporting candidates,

ideology trumps race and gender

“There is some evidence that has already cast doubt

on the conventional view that racial and gender

prejudice hurts...

Failure to ‘flatten the curve’ may kill more

people than we thought

“A spike in hospitalization naturally leads to more

deaths, but these deaths may not only come from

those who are hospitalized,...

Mail delays may affect medication supply

for nearly 1 in 4 Americans over 50

Nearly one in four people in this age group said they

receive at least one medication by mail, but that

percentage rises...

New surgical approach for women at risk

of ovarian cancer

For women at high risk of ovarian cancer, the

standard preventive practice is to offer removal of

both the fallopian tubes...

How dinosaur research can help

medicine

Present-day snakes and other reptiles do not have

intervertebral discs; instead, their vertebrae are

connected with so-called...

Ventilators could be adapted to help two

COVID-19 patients at once

Now, researchers from King’s College London and

Imperial College London have developed a

theoretical model for how...

Plant living with only one leaf reveals

fundamental genetics of plant growth

IMAGE: (A) An individual Monophyllaea glabra with

one large leaf in front and a cluster of flowers

growing from the...

Fat crystals trigger chronic inflammation

Some individuals suffer from a genetic defect that

causes their cells to form an unusual kind of fat. The

consequences of...

Blocking cellular communication stops

SARS-CoV-2

In the transmission of signals within the cell which,

for example, stimulate cell growth or trigger

metabolic processes,...

High human population density negative

for pollinators

Population density, and not the proportion of green

spaces, has the biggest impact on species richness

of pollinators in...

Mineral dust ingested with food leaves

characteristic wear on herbivore teeth

IMAGE: Microscopic images of surfaces of guinea

pig teeth show the typical abrasions caused by

different foods. ...

Researchers reversibly disable brain

pathway in primates

IMAGE: The researchers temporarily switched off

the connection between the ventral tegmental area

(VTA) and the nucleus...

New insights into lithium-ion battery

failure mechanism

IMAGE: Coin batteries similar to those used in this

study. view more Credit: University of Cambridge

Researchers...

Study revealing structure of a protein

complex may open doors to better

disease research

IMAGE: An artistic representation of the Arp2/3

complex structure in an inactive state (top left) and

active state...

Faster, more efficient energy storage

could stem from holistic study of layered

materials

IMAGE: Charged ions, shown in green, move into

ultra-thin layers of energy storage materials, shown

as blue and brown...

Hong Kong reports ‘first case’ of virus

reinfection

Coronavirus: One in eight hospital cases

were ‘caught on-site’

Hong Kong scientists are reporting the case of a

healthy man in his 30s who became reinfected with

coronavirus four and a...

Thousands of patients are likely to have been

infected with coronavirus in UK hospitals, a study

suggests. The King’s...

Having some caffeine in pregnancy ‘is

fine’

While mums-to-be and women trying for a baby

should limit their caffeine intake, a couple of cups of

tea or coffee a day...

Coronavirus: Dr Anthony Fauci warns

against rushing out vaccine

The top US virus expert has warned against rushing

out a Covid-19 vaccine before it has been proven to

be safe and effective. Speaking...

Florida healthcare worker, 41, may lose

both of her HANDS after developing

blood clots

A Florida healthcare worker may lose her hands

after a long and arduous five-month battle against

the novel coronavirus. Rose...

Drug trials can offer hope but as Wendy’s

story reveals, the pandemic has even

stolen that

Last chance: Wendy’s family has started a

fundraiser to pay for private treatment There have

been many moments...

The magnet in your neck that stops you

SNORING

Magnets are the latest technology to be tested as a

treatment for snoring. The pull of two magnets is

being used to keep...

Is ‘fake’ milk fit for drinking?

Supermarket chiller cabinets are awash with new

products to pour into your coffee and over cereal.

But are these ‘new’...

Antibodies that may protect against

COVID-19

Yang Wang, MD, PhD, deputy director for product

discovery at MassBiologics and associate professor

of medicine, and colleagues...

Why eating at your screen could be

making you FAT

A sandwich at your desk, eaten in bites as you type

on the keyboard. Tea and biscuits while absorbed

reading the newspaper. Pudding...

Expert says new rules on buying

laxatives are a ‘disaster’ for IBS patients

They’re the over-the-counter remedies relied upon

by hundreds of thousands of Britons to ease

digestive problems, but now...

Mothers-to-be urged to avoid caffeine as

study finds there is NO safe level of

consumption

Mothers-to-be urged to avoid caffeine as study finds

there is NO safe level of consumption ‘and even low

levels of...

From cancer and Covid to dementia,

BAME patients are shamefully more at

risk

Moise Roche says that if ever he thought he was

losing his memory and had dementia, there’s ‘no

way’ he’d see a doctor...

Living at higher altitudes associated with

higher levels of child stunting

“More than 800 million people live at 1,500 meters

above sea level or higher, with two-thirds of them in

Sub-Saharan...

Heart repair factor boosted by RNAtargeting

compound

A new study from Scripps Research Chemist

Matthew Disney, PhD, shows that by targeting an

essential biomolecule that surges...

People can make better choices when it

benefits others

Humans are often motivated by self-interest.

Participants in one study, for example, learned a

game faster when they earned...

In one cancer therapy, two halves are

safer than a whole

The study, published today in the Proceedings of the

National Academy of Sciences, suggests that

splitting immunotoxins into...

Machines rival expert analysis of stored

red blood cell quality

For years, labs have used expert microscopic

examinations to assess the quality of stored blood.

How viable is a unit by...

Patient monitoring systems for sepsis

August 24, 2020 – Automated patient monitoring

systems (PMSs) have been designed to reduce

delays in diagnosis of sepsis...

Online searches for ‘chest pain’ rise,

emergency visits for heart attack drop

amid COVID-19

Mayo Clinic researchers looked at Google Trends

data for Italy, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S., reviewing

search terms such...

Optical illusions explained in a fly’s eyes

It turns out that flies are fooled by optical illusions as

easily as humans. “It was exciting to find that flies

perceive...

How men and women network impacts

their labor market performance

A new paper in The Economic Journal, published by

Oxford University Press, develops a theory of how

people’s social...

Research shows potential to improve

paints, coatings

BINGHAMTON, NY — New research from

Binghamton University, State University of New York

could lead to more environmentally...

Cutting surgical robots down to size

Media Contact Minimally invasive laparoscopic

surgery, in which a surgeon uses tools and a tiny

camera inserted into small...

Most adults with lupus or common types

of arthritis have similar risks of getting

admitted to hospital as other COVID-19

patients

Most adults with systemic lupus erythematosus

(SLE) are not at increased risk of hospitalization

from COVID-19 due to medications...

Spot the best ways to beat bad skin: Our

expert guide is here to help

Problem skin isn’t just a worry for teenagers —

spots affect half of over-25s, many of whom get their

first outbreak...

Babies exposed to pollution ‘have worse

lung function as children’

CAUSE CHILDREN TO HAVE A LOW IQ:

Researchers at the University of California, San

Francisco, found in May 2019 that children...

Coronavirus patient treated with HIV drug

saw heart rate drop dangerously low

A HIV drug combination used to treat some

coronavirus patients could cause their hearts to slow

down or stop completely,...

Donald Trump ‘could fast-track Oxford

University’s Covid-19 vaccine’

Britain ‘will be first’ to get doses of Oxford

University’s Covid-19 vaccine if it works, Number 10

confirmed...

New technique to prevent imaging

cyberthreats proposed by Ben-Gurion

University researchers

BEER-SHEVA, Israel…August 25, 2020 —

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

have developed a new artificial...

University of Ky study leads to potential

for new treatment approach to

Alzheimer’s

IMAGE: Donna Wilcock, of the Sanders-Brown

Center for aging in her lab on August 14, 2019. view

more Credit:...

Treating COVID-19 could lead to

increased antimicrobial resistance

The use of antibiotics in people with COVID-19

could result in increased resistance to the drugs’

benefits among the...

At last I know what’s wrong with me

Self-employed plasterer Andrew Hill was having up

to 60 seizures a week since falling from scaffolding

on to a concrete...

Nose cells that help us detect odors are

key entryway for coronavirus, new study

finds

Is this why COVID-19 patients lose their sense of

smell? Nose cells that help us detect odors are key

entryway for coronavirus,...

Thousands of clinical trials to find drugs

for cancer and heart disease have

stopped due to Covid-19

Thousands of trials to find new treatments for

diseases including cancer and heart disease have

been halted because of the...

Britain announces Covid-19 victims for

Monday

Only one Covid-19 victim whose death was

announced by NHS England over the past week

was under the age of 40, according to...

Global gut health experts guide growth of

synbiotics

The next wave of gut-health supplements, known as

synbiotics, essentially combine pre- and probiotics.

To keep research and...

Are antivitamins the new antibiotics?

Antivitamins are substances that inhibit the

biological function of a genuine vitamin. Some

antivitamins have a similar chemical...

Having a doctor who shares the same

race may ease patient’s angst

In a study recently published in the academic journal

Pain Medicine, and led by Steven R. Anderson,

recent psychology Ph.D....

Each human gut has a viral ‘fingerprint’

An analysis of viruses in the guts of healthy

Westerners also showed that dips and peaks in the

diversity of virus types...

Excessive fructose consumption may

cause a leaky gut, leading to fatty liver

disease

Developing treatments that prevent intestinal barrier

disruption, the authors conclude in a study published

August 24, 2020...

Inflammatory bowel disease linked to an

immune cell run amok

In a new study, published August 21, 2020 in

Science Immunology, an international team of

researchers, led by scientists...

Re-engineered enzyme could help

reverse damage from spinal cord injury

and stroke

Their new version is more stable than the protein

that occurs in nature, and could lead to new

treatments for reversing nerve...

Scientists get atomistic picture of

platinum catalyst degradation

Degradation of platinum, used as a key electrode

material in the hydrogen economy, severely

shortens the lifetime of electrochemical...

Less aggressive treatment better for

heart patients who go into shock

New Haven, Conn. — Less is sometimes more

when treating heart patients who go into shock after

a heart attack. A new...

Reprogramming immune cells to reduce

inflammation, promote tissue repair

This regulated programming allows the body to fight

off infections but also ensures that inflammation

naturally subsides...

Ludwig Chicago study identifies a novel

drug target for the control of cancer

metastasis

AUGUST 24, 2020, NEW YORK – Researchers led

by Ludwig Chicago Co-director Ralph

Weichselbaum and Ronald Rock of the...

Fossils reveal diversity of animal life

roaming Europe 2 million years ago

IMAGE: Research team members Marius Robu,

Alexandru Petculescu and Claire Terhune discuss

where to look for fossils...

Online searches for ‘chest pain’ rise,

emergency visits for heart attack drop

amid COVID

ROCHESTER, Minn. – A study of search engine

queries addressed the question of whether online

searches for chest pain...

Citizens’ adherence to COVID-19 social

distancing measures depends on

government response

A new study conducted by a team of researchers,

including University of Colorado Denver Business

School associate professor...

Protein ‘chameleon’ colors long-term

memory

HOUSTON – (Aug. 24, 2020) – A chameleonlike

protein in neurons can change its mind, and in the

process change...

Why COVID-19 infection curves behave

so unexpectedly

IMAGE: …would have introduced measures to

reduce the average degree in contact networks from

five to 2.5 people...

US allows emergency use of blood

plasma treatment for coronavirus

patients

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has

given emergency authorisation to use plasma to

treat Covid patients. The technique...

How Covid-19 entered Britain through 79

countries: Where hospitalised NHS

patients had travelled to

Covid-19 may have entered Britain through at least

79 countries and Croatia is not one of them,

according to NHS statistics...

Blood pressure drug cuts Covid death

risk by third

Blood pressure drugs taken by millions of Britons

cuts the risk of dying from coronavirus by a THIRD,

research shows Those...

NHS told care homes to put ‘do not

resuscitate’ orders on ALL residents at

height of Covid crisis

Professor Alison Leary MBE (pictured) wrote the

report which found that one in 10 care home staff

were told to change...

Deep chest compressions can prevent

brain damage during cardiac arrest

Study author Dr. Irene Marco Clement of University

Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain said: “Deep chest

compressions improve...

Coronavirus: Boris Johnson says it is

‘vitally important’ children return to class

It is “vitally important” children go back to school,

with the life chances of a generation at stake, Boris

Johnson...

Teachers are far more likely to spread

Covid than children says leading scientist

Teachers are far more likely to spread Covid-19 than

children, according to a leading scientist. Shamez

Ladhani, a paediatric...

Matt Hancock launches ‘Operation Moon

Shot’ plan to test four MILLION people

every day within months

Matt Hancock is said to be planning an astonishing

rise in the number of coronavirus tests carried out,

with a target of...

Yoga linked with improved symptoms in

heart patients

Atrial fibrillation is the most common heart rhythm

disorder. One in four middle-aged adults in Europe

and the US will develop...

None of the most common blood

pressure medications increased the risk

of depression, some lowered the risk

Depression is common among patients with high

blood pressure (also called hypertension), heart

disease and stroke, and this...

RNA quality control system goes awry in

frontotemporal lobar degeneration

IMAGE: Increased number of C9orf72 repeat RNA

foci (aggregated RNA) in a patient-derived cell with

reduced expression...

Water availability has changed, and

humans are to blame

Changes in the water cycle have important impacts

on ecosystems and human activities. In the context

of the current and expected...

Mechanisms identified to restore myelin

sheaths after injury or in multiple

sclerosis

IMAGE: Remyelination in the spinal cord after

experimental focal degradation of myelin sheaths,

simulating a lesion...

Investigation of core-shell nanocatalyst

AU@CDs for ammonia synthesis

IMAGE: Synthesis and visible-light photocatalytic

N2/H2O to ammonia of Au@CDs core-shell

nanocatalyst. view...

Wide variations in car seat breathing

assessment conducted on premature

newborns

IMAGE: A new study from the University of Maryland

School of Medicine has found wide variations

throughout the United...

Routing valley exciton emission of a WS2

monolayer via in-plane inversionsymmetry

broken PhC slabs

IMAGE: a, PhC slabs with C4 symmetry and without

in-plane inversion symmetry. By breaking the inplane

inversion symmetry,...

Finding a way to STING tumor growth

IMAGE: Researchers discovered that the protein

STING has important functions besides activating

the type 1 interferon...

Lensless light-field imaging through

diffuser encoding

IMAGE: A diffuser is placed at a small distance in

front of a sensor so that a temporally incoherent

point source in...

Electronic alert reduces excessive

prescribing of short-acting asthma

relievers

IMAGE: Alert that pops up on GP’s computer

screens. view more Credit: European Respiratory

Society An...

Report reveals young people felt less

anxious and more connected to school in

lockdown

Younger teenagers in the South West of England felt

less anxious and more connected to school when

they were away from it...

Illicit fentanyl, stimulants found in

majority of overdose deaths in BC

Nonprescribed fentanyl and stimulants were the

primary contributors to overdose mortality, while few

people had prescribed...

Autistic people’s nerve cells differ before

birth

Philadelphia, August 24, 2020 – Autism is a

neurodevelopmental condition that researchers are

now tracing back to prenatal...

Blood pressure medication improves

COVID-19 survival rates

Medication for high blood pressure could improve

Covid-19 survival rates and reduce the severity of

infection – according...

Cancer and its treatment may accelerate

the aging process in young patients

A new study examines the effects of cancer and its

treatment on the aging process. Investigators found

that expression of...

Survey finds most Americans feel

unprepared to aid victims after a mass

casualty attack

Orlando, Fla – Though it’s difficult to think about,

what we would do in the event of a violent attack

has probably...

Pigs grow new liver in lymph nodes,

study shows

IMAGE: Part of the liver is removed and hepatocytes

isolated and injected back into the lymph nodes of

the same animal. ...

Coronavirus: ‘I became alcoholic during

lockdown’

Before lockdown, Chris McLone was looking forward

to a good year. In his late 40s, he felt fit and healthy,

enjoying life...

Coronavirus: Schools let down by lack of

‘plan B’, says union

More staff, extra teaching space and greater clarity

on what to do if there is a spike in cases is needed

for schools to...

Discovering the mechanism of brain

vascular pathfinding during development

IMAGE: Z-axis and X-axis projected confocal

images of the brain vasculature of a larval zebrafish.


Energy transition away from coal in China

will yield benefits

IMAGE: A coal transfer hub near Ordos, China. view

more Credit: Stony Brook University STONY

BROOK, NY,...

Modeling contact tracing strategies for

COVID-19

Epidemiology of COVID-19 among

incarcerated individuals, staff in

Massachusetts jails, prisons

What The Study Did: The potential for contract

tracing to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the

context of reduced physical...

What The Study Did: COVID-19 among incarcerated

individuals and staff in Massachusetts jails and

prisons is described in...

Large tin monosulfide crystal opens

pathway for next generation solar cells

IMAGE: SnS crystals grown by flux growth

technique. Large single crystals were obtained by

halogen addition to the...

Researchers link end of Green Sahara

with SE Asia megadrought

IMAGE: To create a paleoclimate record for the

study, co-author Kathleen Johnson, UCI associate

professor of Earth...

Research links Southeast Asia

megadrought to drying in Africa

Physical evidence found in caves in Laos helps tell a

story about a connection between the end of the

Green Sahara, when...

A new method for in vivo plant cell

imaging with SNAP-tag proteins

IMAGE: A new technique for the fluorescent marking

of proteins in plant cells which represents an

important step forward...

Rogue planets could outnumber the stars

COLUMBUS, Ohio – An upcoming NASA mission

could find that there are more rogue planets –

planets that float in...

Effect of remdesivir vs standard care on

clinical status of patients with moderate

COVID-19

What The Study Did: This open-label randomized

trial compares the effect of remdesivir (5 or 10 days)

compared with standard...

Nutrients make coral bleaching worse

IMAGE: Samples of past bleaching events in the

Red Sea suggest nutrients worsen the already

devastating effects of...

Developing precise medicines for triple

negative breast cancer

IMAGE: Dr. Lupien and team of world experts is

aiming to improve our understanding of the

molecular basis of triple...

Women surgeons earn their cut of NIH

funding — and then some

IMAGE: The study was led by Shayna L. Showalter,

MD, a breast surgical oncologist at UVA Health and

the UVA Cancer...

Unbalanced microtubule networks launch

establishment of neuronal polarity

IMAGE: Hypothetical model of the regulatory

mechanisms and functions of CAMSAP1 in

establishing neuronal polarization ...

Key molecule responsible for poor

prognosis of breast cancer identified

IMAGE: The expression of IL-34 is much higher in

TNBC than in other types of breast cancer. (modified

from Nabeel Kajihara,...

Coronavirus: Missing school is worse

than virus for children

Media captionProf Chris Whitty: “The chances of

children dying from Covid are incredibly small”

Children...

Scientists sink teeth into identifying

several new bacteria that cause dental

caries

IMAGE: The red areas of this cladogram indicate a

greater abundance of the Prevotellaceae and

Veillonellaceae bacterial...

What kind of animal transports the seeds

of the world’s smallest fruit-bearing

plants?

IMAGE: Red-flanked bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus

simultaneously consuming both the fleshy bracts

and dry fruits of Balanophora...

From biopaste to bioplastic

IMAGE: The biopaste used to print this cylinder

consists of 50 percent lignin and 50 percent

cellulose. view...

Microfluidic chip technology enables

rapid multiplex diagnosis of plant viral

diseases

IMAGE: The simultaneous detection of multiple

RNA-based plant viruses (MYSV and CCYV)

(Fluorescence intensity increased...

"All-in-one" strategy for

metalla[3]catenanes, borromean rings

and ring-in-ring complex

IMAGE: Single-crystal X-ray structures of ring-in-ring

complex. view more Credit: ©Science China Press

Interlocked...

Why obeying orders can make us do

terrible things

IMAGE: Empathy related brain activity while

observing a victim receive a shock was reduced

while obeying orders ...

Simple test could improve public

attitudes to autism

Using a simple ‘thermometer scale survey’ to

measure public attitudes towards people with autism

could help improve...

A powder method for the high-efficacy

measurement of electro-optic coefficients

IMAGE: Schematic illustration of the powder method

using powder SHG measurement, IRRS, and

Raman spectrum view...

Psychological disease avoidance linked

to preventative behavior, study finds

Masks in the workplace, mass testing and

mutations: DR ELLIE CANNON answers

Creeped out by cooties? Grossed out by germs?

Squeamish about sickness? If so, then you might

also find yourself engaging...

your questions

Will masks soon be compulsory in the workplace?

France has said it will become compulsory for its

workers to wear masks in...

Psychiatrists sound alarm over the

thousands hooked on ‘Valium on

steroids’

It’s early evening, and I’m in town to meet a friend. I

catch sight of my phone – it’s 6pm. I root around...

Why do I find small purple bruises on my

forearms? DR ELLIE CANNON answers

your questions

From time to time, I find small purple bruises on my

forearms for no reason. They usually fade after a

couple of days and...

BARNEY CALMAN: Our fearful nation

needs a new slogan, Boris: Just cheer up

and get on with life!

Queues. Don’t you hate them? I do, possibly

because it feels as if I’ve spent much of this year in

one. Queues...

We’ve been fobbed off by our male

doctors too! More women speak out over

agonising endometriosis

Stranded. Ashamed. Vulnerable. Like you’re going

crazy. This is how it feels to hear your debilitating

symptoms dismissed...

Look away Jamie! The new Turkey

Twizzlers really ARE healthier

Has there ever been a more maligned food than the

Turkey Twizzler? More than a decade ago, these

corkscrew-shaped turkey...

New operation cuts the risk of ovarian

cancer… and an early menopause

Young women who have surgery to cut their risk of

ovarian cancer could now avoid an early

menopause, thanks to a new technique...

Sea-level rise linked to higher water

tables along California coast

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – In the first comprehensive

study of the link between rising sea levels and inland

water tables...

Children with cognitive delays are more

likely to have CT scan to diagnose

appendicitis

CHICAGO (August 21, 2020): Computed

tomography (CT) is used at a higher rate than

ultrasound in children with developmental...

HEALTH NOTES: Virtual photography

exhibition of those living with multiple

sclerosis

HEALTH NOTES: Virtual photography exhibition

shines light on remarkable stories of those living

with multiple sclerosis By...

Loop, resonate, and accelerate!

IMAGE: Schematic depiction of a network of

networks with one resonance pair: 200 excitatory

neurons (E) in each network,...

Scientists discover a social cue of safety

IMAGE: Are you in danger? Looking at how others

behave is one of the ways social animals, such as

humans, find the...

New research on Post-fracture Care

Coordination Programs highlighted at

WCO-IOF-ESCEO

After the first fragility fracture, there is a high risk of

subsequent fractures, with the risk highest in the

following...

Molecule secreted by cancer-associated

fibroblasts promotes anticancer drug

resistance

IMAGE: A: The expression level of Annexin A6

protein in gastric cancer cells and CAFs. Annexin A6

is expressed only...

Mount Sinai study finds COVID patients

were most commonly readmitted to

hospital for respiratory complications

Publication: Journal of General Internal Medicine

Authors: Girish Nadkarni, MD, Co-Chair; Anuradha

Lala, MD, Member; Benjamin...

Unveiling rogue planets with NASA’s

Roman Space Telescope

New simulations show that NASA’s Nancy Grace

Roman Space Telescope will be able to reveal

myriad rogue planets –...

Coronavirus hospitals converted back to

leisure centres

Two field hospitals set up to help cope with the

coronavirus pandemic are to be converted back into

leisure centres. Carmarthenshire...

Coronavirus: ‘No socialising’ rules in

parts of North West

Residents in Oldham and parts of Blackburn and

Pendle can no longer socialise with other

households under new measures introduced...

Coronavirus will be with us forever, Sage

scientist warns

Coronavirus will be present “forever in some form or

another”, a member of the government’s Scientific...

This smart body fat scale has over 41,000

reviews on Amazon and is currently

reduced to less than

The smart way to track your health: This body fat

scale has over 41,000 reviews on Amazon and is

Shifting public health messaging about

face coverings could improve uptake

Helene-Mari van der Westhuizen and colleagues at

the University of Oxford argue that protracted

debates about face coverings...

currently reduced to less...

Premature delivery linked to heightened

risk of early death for mothers

These findings were not explained by shared

genetic or early life environmental factors in families,

suggesting that women...

Bioluminescent tag to detect DNA break

repair

“One of the main reasons cancer cells are resistant

to treatment is that they can inherently repair the

DNA damage...

NASA nighttime image shows a weaker

Genevieve moving away from Mexico

IMAGE: NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed

the Eastern Pacific Ocean overnight on Aug. 20 at

4:14 a.m. EDT...

NASA’s Terra satellite analyzes

Caribbean’s Tropical Depression 14

IMAGE: On Aug. 21 at 0315 UTC (Aug. 20 at 11:15

p.m. EDT), the MODIS instrument that flies aboard

NASA’s Terra...

Understanding how birds respond to

extreme weather can inform conservation

efforts

IMAGE: Short-distance migrants like yellow-bellied

sapsuckers were negatively affected by heat waves,

with their numbers...

NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite highlights

California wildfires at night

IMAGE: NOAA-NASA’s Suomi NPP was able to

image this nighttime image of the California fires on

Aug. 20, 2020....

Finding clues to a successful immune

response in the T cells of COVID-19

patients

When news about a novel coronavirus switched

from a chronicle of its progress in China to headlines

about a worldwide COVID-19...

Researchers validate rapid tests to detect

dengue, Zika, yellow fever and other

viruses

IMAGE: The method identifies and distinguishes

between flaviviruses that cause many diseases in

humans and animals...

Hubble snaps close-up of celebrity comet

NEOWISE

IMAGE: This image of comet C/2020 F3

(NEOWISE) was taken by the Hubble Space

Telescope on Aug. 8, 2020. Hubble’s...

Long-acting, injectable drug could

strengthen efforts to prevent, treat HIV

Scientists have developed an injectable drug that

blocks HIV from entering cells. They say the new

drug potentially offers...

New remdesivr study raises questions

after some patients’ conditions improved

and others didn’t

Remdesivir may NOT be effective in treating

COVID-19 in moderate cases, new study finds

Remdesvir is the only drug in the...

Nearly one-third of all American high

school students used e-cigarettes in

2019, CDC finds

Nearly one-third of American high school students

said they used e-cigarettes in 2019, a new report

finds. Last year,...

DR MAX PEMBERTON: To hell with

Covid! Children MUST go back to school

This past week has been an emotional roller-coaster

ride for A-level and GCSE students. I have every

sympathy with them,...

Two million women have lost access to

contraception across the world because

of coronavirus

Covid-19 pandemic could trigger a ‘baby boom’

because almost two million women have lost access

to contraception...

Viagra and other erectile dysfunction

drugs may reduce risk of death from

colon cancer by 20%

Viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs may

reduce risk of death from colon cancer by 20%,

study finds Researchers looked...

Nearly half of British parents will NOT get

their children vaccinated against Covid-

19, poll claims

University of Oxford Oxford University academics

began developing the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine in

January. It is now named...

WHO official urges young people not to

feel ‘invincible’ against Covid-19

Younger people should not feel ‘invincible’ as

draconian coronavirus restrictions are lifted, a World

Health...

England records five more coronavirus

deaths in the preliminary toll

Britain today recorded 1,182 more Covid-19 cases

as government figures revealed the rolling average

number of daily infections...

Air pollution linked to higher risk of

young children developing asthma

Other risk factors associated with a higher risk of

developing asthma and persistent wheezing were

having parents with asthma,...

When learning on your own is not enough

Single dose radiotherapy as good as

conventional therapy for most women

with early breast cancer

This combination of targeted radiotherapy (restricted

to the area around the tumour) given immediately

after surgery is called...

Biochemistry: Move over Michaelis-

Menten!

In the new study, researchers from the University

Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) in

Germany placed groups of five...

“Currently, we describe signalling enzymes with

equations developed for metabolic enzymes,”

Magnus Kjærgaard...

Inconsistencies in data presentation

could harm efforts against COVID-19

Recently, explains study senior author Emmanuèle

Délot, Ph.D., research faculty at Children’s National

Research Institute,...

New ‘molecular computers’ find the right

cells

Even cells that become cancerous may differ from

their healthy neighbors in only a few subtle ways. A

central challenge in...

A gatekeeper against insulin resistance in

the brain

Insulin is a pancreatic hormone that controls our

blood sugar levels. Insulin not only stimulates the

uptake of glucose from...

Group of international scientists align on

a definition for ‘synbiotic’

The word ‘synbiotic’ appears on a growing number

of food and supplement products, with synbiotic

ingredients...

Reproducing the pathophysiology of

polycystic kidney disease from human

iPS cells

ADPKD is estimated to affect 1 in every 400-1,000

people. Although half of ADPKD patients progress to

renal failure by the...

Hubble snaps close-up of comet

NEOWISE

IMAGE: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope

has captured the closest images yet of the sky’s

latest visitor to...

Mass General researchers create

bioluminescent tag to detect DNA break

repair

BOSTON – A new bioluminescent reporter that

tracks DNA double stranded break (DSB) repair in

cells has been developed...

DNA nanoswitches rapidly detect Sars-

Cov-2 and other emerging viruses

Programmable DNA nanoswitches that bind to viral

RNA in human body fluids may provide an

inexpensive platform to rapidly...

Detailed map of natural killer cells in

COVID-19 patients expands

understanding of innate immune

response to SARS-CoV-2

A new study of 27 patients hospitalized with COVID-

19 has provided a detailed map of natural killer (NK)

cell responses to...

Urine sediment test results, diagnoses

vary significantly across nephrologists

Boston – A new study shows that nephrologists do

not always agree on their interpretation of images

from urine sediment...

NASA nighttime imagery finds Tropical

Storm Laura developing

IMAGE: NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed

the Atlantic Ocean in the early morning hours of

Aug. 21 and captured...

Surface deep: Light-responsive top layer

of plastic film induces movement

IMAGE: Schematic of the film (left): The film is

mostly composed of a non-photoresponsive polymer

(200 – 400...

Coronavirus pandemic could be over

within two years

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO)

says he hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be

over in under two years. Speaking...

Rapid pregnancy style tests for Covid-19

‘while you eat your cornflakes’ could be

sold for £5

Rapid pregnancy-style tests for Covid-19 could be

approved within weeks, according to a leading

scientist. Sir John Bell,...

Test and Trace: Number of infected

patients reached drops again

The number of coronavirus cases identified by the

national testing programme has risen by 27 per cent

– despite a drop...

Hospital coronavirus admissions were

over-reported at peak of pandemic

The figures of those admitted to hospital for

coronavirus during the peak of the pandemic were

over-reported, it was revealed...

A cure for hangovers? 13p pill can

alleviate the dreaded nausea and

headaches, scientists claim

Scientists claim to have found a cure for hangovers

in the form of a pill which can be bought for as little

as 15p. It...

Talking is just as risky as SINGING for

spreading coronavirus

Talking loudly in pubs is just as risky as SINGING for

spreading coronavirus because they produce equal

amounts of infectious...

Is England’s Covid-19 outbreak finally

shrinking for good? ONS estimates 2,400

new cases a day

England’s coronavirus crisis could be in retreat for

good as official data today suggested the number of

people getting...

Coronavirus UK: Meetings banned in

Oldham, Blackburn, Pendle

Households in Oldham, Pendle and Blackburn will

be banned from socialising together from midnight

tonight after the Government...

Coronavirus UK: SAGE fears R rate could

be as high as 1.1

Britain’s coronavirus outbreak shrank again today as

the average number of people testing positive for

the life-threatening...

Why babies don’t always remember what

they have learned

One minute happy, next minute sad The mood of

infants is unpredictable: they may be playing happily

one moment and be completely...

Skat and poker: More luck than skill?

“Whether a game is one of skill or luck also

determines whether it can be played for money. But

assigning a game to...

New insights into lung tissue in COVID-19

disease

In severe Covid-19 disease, the researchers

observed significant changes in the vasculature,

inflammation, blood clots and...

Nasal vaccine against COVID-19 prevents

infection in mice

The study is available online in the journal Cell.

Unlike other COVID-19 vaccines in development,

this one is delivered via...

Self-collected saliva and deep nasal

swabs are equally effective for

diagnosing COVID-19, study finds

The study, published in the Journal of Clinical

Microbiology, represents one of the largest

prospective specimen type comparisons...

More than politics or age, psychological

disease avoidance linked to preventative

behavior, study finds

If so, then you might also find yourself engaging in

more preventative health behaviors, like frequent

handwashing and disinfecting...

‘Selfies’ could be used to detect heart

disease

The study is the first to show that it’s possible to use

a deep learning computer algorithm to detect

coronary artery...

Tiny engineered therapeutic delivery

system safely solves genetic problems in

mice

Scientists report today (Aug. 21) in the journal

Science Advances that the lipid-based nanoparticles

they engineered, carrying...

Arctic ocean moorings shed light on

winter sea ice loss

IMAGE: Large yellow floats connected to several

scientific sensors are lowered over the edge of a

ship in the Arctic...

The age of the Earth’s inner core revised

IMAGE: A computer simulation of the Earth’s

magnetic field, which is generated by heat transfer

in the Earth’s...

COVID-19 pooling test method from Ben-

Gurion U. IDs asymptomatic carriers

BEER-SHEVA, Israel, August 21, 2020 – A new

peer-reviewed study published in Science Advances

confirms the success...

Early NK cell-mediated immune response

may contribute to severe COVID-19

IMAGE: Niklas Björkström, physician, researcher at

the Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of

Medicine Huddinge,...

UCF researchers generate attosecond

light from industrial laser

ORLANDO, August 21, 2020 – University of Central

Florida researchers are making the cutting-edge

field of attosecond...

Gaps in early surveillance of coronavirus

led to record-breaking US trajectory

As the United States exceeds 5 million reported

coronavirus cases — the world’s first country to do

so —...

Argonne scientists use artificial

intelligence to strengthen power grid

resiliency

America’s power grid system is not only large but

dynamic, which makes it especially challenging to

manage. Human operators...

Genomic analysis reveals many animal

species may be vulnerable to SARS-CoV-

2 infection

IMAGE: A new genomic study ranks the potential of

the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein to bind to the ACE2

receptor site in...

Pregnant women and new mothers died

needlessly in lockdown, Oxford

University report finds

Pregnant women and new mothers died needlessly

in lockdown after being denied intensive care beds

or mental health services,...

Flavoured ice cubes of breast milk of

women who have had Covid-19 could

help fight off the infection

Flavoured ice cubes containing the breast milk of

women who have had Covid-19 could help fight off

the life-threatening infection,...

Face mask wearers are 13 times more

likely to stick to social distancing or wash

their hands

Under-60s are almost THREE TIMES more

infectious than the elderly

People under the age of 60 are 2.78 times more

likely to spread the coronavirus than the elderly, data

from the US reveals. It...

France sees another sharp rise in

coronavirus cases with 4,700 new

infections

Research on how well various types of masks and

face coverings varies but, recently, and in light of the

pandemic of COVID-19,...

France recorded another sharp rise is coronavirus

cases yesterday with 4,700 infections – up by a

thousand –...

Putting Birmingham under a city-wide

lockdown is ‘risk averse’, top doctor

says

An intensive care doctor working in Birmingham has

said that putting the entire city under lockdown

would be ‘risk...

Cases are going up… but hospitals are

EMPTY because spike in infections is

down to younger people

Hospitals are empty despite coronavirus cases

having gone up over the past month – and it could

be because the most...

Coronavirus is now the EIGHTH biggest

killer and four times as many people are

dying from dementia

Coronavirus has been bumped down to become the

eighth most common killer in England, in another

sign the darkest days of...

‘Biorubber’ glue created for faster

surgical recovery and pain relief

In a paper published in Elsevier’s Biomaterials in

July jointly with clinicians from Singapore General

Hospital (SGH),...

Defiance and low trust in medical doctors

related to vaccine scepticism

“The vaccine recommendations given by authorities

or the social pressure in society to get vaccinated

may cause defiance...

COVID-19: How South Korea prevailed

while the United States failed

In a commentary published ahead of print in The

American Journal of Medicine, researchers from

Florida Atlantic University’s...

Anorexia may stunt young women’s

growth

Anorexia nervosa is a condition in which a person

loses an unhealthy amount of weight on purpose by

dieting, sometimes along...

Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 spreads more

indoors at low humidity

According to the WHO, the coronavirus SARS-CoV-

2 has led to at least 21 million infected persons and

over 750,000 deaths...

New research finds association between

COVID-19 hospital use and mortality

“These estimates provide a better understanding of

the projections of the COVID-19 pandemic in the

U.S. especially...

Contact tracing apps unlikely to contain

COVID-19 spread: UK researchers

The systematic review*, published in Lancet Digital

Health, shows that evidence around the

effectiveness of automated contact...

Generic public health messages work

best at shifting dietary behaviors

In the new study from health economists, published

in the journal European Economic Review,

researchers tested the impact...

Why babies not always remember what

they have learned

IMAGE: Can babies remember what they have

learned – and under what circumstances? view

more Credit:...

Concussions can cause long-term sleep

problems

IMAGE: Chief radiologist Bjarte Snekvik from St.

Olavs Hospital in Trondheim, Norway and Alexander

Olsen, an associate...

Smart responsive lasing signals for highsecurity

optical encryption

IMAGE: (a) Schematic of the competition between

radiative delay of donor and energy transfer to

acceptor.(b) Multiple...

Electron movements in liquid measured

in super-slow motion

IMAGE: The scientists inject water from above into

the analysis chamber, where it forms a short

microjet that meets...

A new molecular guardian of intestinal

stem cells

IMAGE: A. Flow cytometric analysis revealed that

the number of ISCs was reduced in Irf2-/- mice

compared with control...

One more hit from rare Earth: Efficient

coherent spin manipulation by the

electric field

IMAGE: The periodic evolution of the electron spin

superposition state controlled by the external electric

field. ...

Spinning black hole powers jet by

magnetic flux

IMAGE: The centre of quasar 3C279 emits flickering

gamma radiation, which is characteristic of the

phenomenon of magnetic...

A four-state magnetic tunnel junction for

novel spintronics applications

A tunnel junction is a device consisting of two

conducting layers separated by an insulating layer.

Classically, the resistance...

Coronavirus: ‘It’s not how I thought

maternity leave would be’

Many new parents are facing mounting debts,

childcare issues and mental health problems due to

coronavirus, according to...

NHS staff sign up to Covid-19 sniffer dog

trial

Singing ‘no riskier than talking’ for virus

spread

NHS staff are taking part in a trial to see if dogs can

sniff out Covid-19 – even in people who are

asymptomatic. Eleven...

Singing does not produce substantially more

respiratory particles than speaking at a similar

volume, a study suggests. But...

Coronavirus antibodies tests ‘put public

at risk’

Poor regulation of antibodies tests – that could

indicate if someone has had coronavirus – could be

putting the...

Coronavirus: Pfizer’s second vaccine has

fewer side effects

Pfizer’s second experimental coronavirus vaccine

left HALF as many people with side effects

compared to its first in...

Coronavirus has infected TWICE as many

poor New Yorkers compared to the

richest residents

New Yorkers living in poor areas of New York City

are twice as likely to have tested positive for

coronavirus antibodies,...

Hanging out at fast food joints is GOOD

for elderly people’s brains, study finds

Socializing at fast food joints is actually beneficial for

elderly people’s brains, a new study suggests.

Previous...

Trump administration will give control of

coronavirus data BACK to CDC

A little over a month after taking control over

coronavirus data collection away from the Centers

for Disease Control and...

Coronavirus: Johnson & Johnson

vaccine trial to test 60k people

Johnson Johnson plans to launch largest-ever

coronavirus vaccine trial with up to 60,000 people in

September Johnson Johnson...

February lockdown in China caused a

drop in some types of air pollution, but

not others

Learning how behavior shifts due to the COVID-19

pandemic affect air quality is of immediate

importance, since the virus...

A healthy lifestyle for cardiovascular

health also promotes good eye health

Globally, about 2.2 billion people suffer from ocular

diseases leading to vision impairment or blindness.

Approximately half...

Research shows air pollution could play

role in development of cardiometabolic

diseases

Researchers found that air pollution was a “risk

factor for a risk factor” that contributed to the

common soil...

Exoskeleton research marches forward

with study on fit

Exoskeletons, many of which are powered by

springs or motors, can cause pain or injury if their

joints are not aligned with...

A smart eye mask that tracks muscle

movements to tell what ‘caught your eye’

“Our mask can track people’s eye movement as

they’re shown images, so you can start to

understand what...

Affirmative action incentivizes high

schoolers to perform better, new research

shows

Affirmative action is a contentious issue across the

globe, hotly debated in countries such as India, Sri

Lanka, Malaysia,...

Study finds signs of altruism in people’s

COVID-19 worries

The findings were published online today by the

journal Translational Psychiatry. The COVID-19

pandemic has affected not...

Blood clots and lung injuries found in

patients who have died of COVID-19

Ten post-mortem examinations performed on

patients with confirmed COVID-19 found that all

patients had lung injuries and...

Exoskeleton research marches forward

with NIST study on fit

A shoddily tailored suit or a shrunken T-shirt may not

be the most stylish, but wearing them is unlikely to

hurt more than...

IUPUI study looks at prevention strategy

for substance use disorder

IMAGE: Ukamaka M. Oruche view more Credit:

Indiana University There are well documented risk

factors associated...

New database shows more than 20% of

nursing homes still report staff, PPE

shortages

Nearly half of all COVID-19 deaths in the United

States have occurred among nursing home

residents, whose age, chronic medical...

UA research finds relationship between

COVID-19 deaths and morbid obesity

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The prevalence of morbid

obesity in a population is associated with negative

outcomes from COVID-19,...

NASA gets a wide angle view of hurricane

Genevieve

IMAGE: International Space Station Astronaut Chris

Cassidy snapped photos of the Eastern Pacific

Ocean’s Hurricane...

Anthropogenic CO2 increase is

unprecedented

IMAGE: Concordia research station in Antarctica at

3233 m asl. view more Credit: © Thibaut Vergoz,

Institut...

Heart failure, hypertensive deaths rise in

black women and men

CHICAGO— Deaths due to heart failure and

hypertensive heart disease are increasing in the

U.S. –particularly...

At least 25 people at nursing homes get

experimental covid preventive drug

Big Pharma firm Eli Lilly is testing whether its

experimental antibody drug can stop a single

infection from turning into...

Antibiotics may make the contraceptive

pill LESS effective

Antibiotics may make the contraceptive pill LESS

effective and people should ‘take extra precautions’

when having...

Matt Hancock suggests ‘no excuse’ for

people not to return to their desks

Matt Hancock faced criticism today after telling

workers to get back to their offices because the risk

of catching coronavirus...

Research team develops the first

physics-based method for predicting

large solar flares

IMAGE: The process of solar flare production in the

physics-based prediction method. A: Electric

currents flow along...

Microplastic pollution found in human

organs could increase the risk of

infertility and cancer

Microplastic pollution has been found in human

organs — with scientists fearing the tiny particles

could increase the risk...

Reproduction: Female body has the final

say on which sperm fertilise eggs to

create healthy babies

Women’s bodies can filter out ‘unwanted’ sperm to

secure the best genetic match and create healthy

babies,...

‘Morning people’ who wake up early at

higher risk of Alzheimer’s

Is early rising the first sign of Alzheimer’s? ‘Morning

people’ who wake up early have higher risk of the...

Women who have a premature baby are

twice as likely to die young, new study

suggests

Women who have a premature baby are twice as

likely to die young, new study suggests Greatest risk

of death highest in the...

Skin cancer deaths more than DOUBLE in

50 years as British sunseekers jet abroad

on cheap holidays

Deaths from skin cancer have more than doubled in

the past fifty years as more and more British

sunseekers jet abroad on...

Vaccine that harnesses antifungal

immunity protects mice from staph

infection

S. aureus is one of the most common bacterial

infections worldwide, and antibiotic-resistant strains

such as methicillin-resistant...

Robotic surgery may improve outcomes

in mouth and throat cancer

Transoral robotic surgery is a minimally invasive

procedure in which a surgeon uses a computerenhanced

system to guide an...

Fighting cancer with rejection-resistant,

‘off-the-shelf’ therapeutic T cells

Cancer patients today can be a part of the following

clinical scenario: a patient comes to the hospital

where physicians...

Paying attention to the neurons behind

our alertness

Although this scenario is familiar to many people,

the reason behind why our brains do this is not

properly understood. This...

Relationship between COVID-19 deaths

and morbid obesity

In a paper published in the journal World Medical

and Health Policy, researchers found a statistically

significant relationship...

Prevention strategy for substance use

disorder

The study proposes a primary prevention strategy

for SUD that is individualized for people within

defined age groups. This...

Dilated blood vessels in the lung may

explain low oxygen levels in severe cases

of COVID-19

In classical ARDS, pulmonary inflammation leads to

leaky pulmonary blood vessels that flood the lungs

with fluid, making...

Study focuses on low-carb, high-fat diet

effect on older populations

Older adults with obesity are at particularly high risk

of developing cardiometabolic disease such as Type

2 diabetes and...

New approach uses wild genes to

improve biological nitrogen fixation in

soybeans

IMAGE: Cover of the June issue of the MPMI journal

view more Credit: Thi Nguyet Minh Dao and

Svetlana Y. Folimonova. One...

Firefighters exposed to more potentially

harmful chemicals than previously

Unleashing the immune system’s ‘STING’

against cancer

Scientists at Scripps Research have discovered a

molecule that can activate a natural immuneboosting

protein called STING....

Downstream effects: Sturgeon lifespan,

fertility vary strikingly with river

thought

conditions

IMAGE: Firefighters in the Kansas City, Missouri,

area, wore personal passive samplers in the shape

of a military-style...

IMAGE: New research has found that pallid

sturgeon stocked in a northerly segment of the

Missouri River live an average...

First daily surveillance of emerging

COVID-19 hotspots

IMAGE: Weekly clusters resulting from the

prospective space-time scan statistic. view more

Credit: Hohl et...

A new lens on the world: Improving the

metalens with liquid crystal

IMAGE: An illustration of how a metalens refracts

light. view more Credit: Giuseppe Strangi Federico

Capasso CLEVELAND–For...

Stanford scientists slow and steer light

with resonant nanoantennas

Light is notoriously fast. Its speed is crucial for rapid

information exchange, but as light zips through

materials, its...

Your in-laws’ history of drinking problems

could lead to alcohol issues of your own

The statistics are sobering. More than 14 million

American adults suffer from some form of alcohol

use disorder (AUD), a...

‘I’m very anxious about getting back to

work’

“I’m very anxious… anxious about catching Covid,”

says Kate Skoczylas. She is one of thousands of...

Leicester lockdown: Beauty salons and

nail bars to reopen

Beauty salons and nail bars are among businesses

in Leicester allowed to reopen from Wednesday in a

further easing of lockdown...

Linda Nolan and Bill Turnbull urge public

not to delay cancer checks

Singer Linda Nolan and presenter Bill Turnbull are

among the celebrities with cancer who are urging

the public not to put...

Breast cancer: One-dose radiotherapy ‘as

effective as full course’

A single targeted dose of radiotherapy could be as

effective at treating breast cancer as a full course, a

long-term study...

Wonder treatments in your own kitchen

cupboard that could help you stay

healthy

With modern medicine finally confirming the longheld

healing power of honey, which has been found

to be more effective than...

Almost 75% of hospital Covid-19 patients

still suffer symptoms three months later,

study claims

Almost three quarters of Covid-19 patients admitted

to hospital still suffer symptoms three months later, a

study has claimed. Researchers...

10,000 NHS workers sign up to take part

in study into Covid reinfection

Ten thousand healthcare workers have signed up to

take part in a Government study which aims to solve

the mystery of whether...

Keep calm, stay busy and eat an orange a

day: The tips of Britain’s oldest Covid-19

survivor

Eat an orange each day and count your blessings:

107-year-old Angela — Britain’s oldest Covid-19

survivor — reveals...

Children are ‘silent super spreaders’ of

Covid-19, scientists claim

Older pupils spread the virus ‘like adults do’

Secondary school pupils are as likely to transmit

coronavirus...

Heart attack damage reduced by shielded

stem cells

In a study using rodents, a team led by Rice’s Omid

Veiseh and Baylor’s Ravi Ghanta showed it could

make capsules...

Radiotherapy administered inside the

body for 30 minutes can treat breast

cancer, study says

A 30-minute dose of radiotherapy administered

inside the body is as effective for early breast cancer

as conventional therapy...

NHS sickness rates hit decade high amid

Covid-19 crisis

A record-breaking number of NHS staff were off sick

during the height of the Covid-19 crisis, official

figures show. NHS...

Could Wigan be freed from lockdown?

Andy Burnham says it’s ‘clear’ measures

have to worked

Birmingham could be on the brink of going into

lockdown after ministers met today to thrash out

plans to tackle the city’s...

Naming guides how 12-month-old infants

encode and remember objects

Encoding objects in memory and recalling them later

is fundamental to human cognition and emerges in

infancy. Evidence from...

Opioid use linked to pregnancy loss,

lower chance of conception, study

suggests

“Our findings indicate that women who are pregnant

or planning a pregnancy should, along with their

physicians, consider...

Ratio of two proteins may add kidneys to

the transplant donor pool

The team’s findings were reported online July 27,

2020, by the journal Transplantation. Currently, the

national discard...

Down syndrome mice open door to better

understanding of the disorder

A report of their research appeared June 29, 2020,

in the journal eLife Sciences. The new model may

help researchers better...

Digital contact tracing alone may not be

miracle answer for COVID-19

Senior Research Fellow in the Department of

Preventive and Social Medicine, Dr Andrew

Anglemyer, led this systematic review...

Portrait of a virus

With the arrival of COVID-19, researchers quickly

realized that electronic medical records (EMRs) had

not lived up to their...

Blocking copper uptake in tumor cells

may be clue to boosting immune system

While immunotherapy, a treatment that works

through a patient’s immune system to kill the

cancers, has proven to be...

COVID-19: How South Korea prevailed

while the US failed

IMAGE: Charles H. Hennekens, M.D., Dr.PH, senior

author and the first Sir Richard Doll Professor and

senior academic...

NTU scientists develop "biorubber" glue

for faster surgical recovery and pain relief

IMAGE: Liquid CaproGlu gel applied to meat bought

from the supermarket. When cured by UV light it

turns into biorubber. ...

Study adds to evidence that cells in the

nose are key entry point for SARS CoV-2

IMAGE: Red stain is ACE2. The green probe is

staining CK18, which is found in supporting cells

and mucus glands. ...

Move over Michaelis-Menten!

IMAGE: Magnus Kjærgaard (left) and Mateusz Dyla

challenge one of the cornerstones of biochemistry,

the Michaelis-Menten...

Save the data: A new approach to

database management in solid-state

drives

IMAGE: On the left, Prof. Sungjin Lee from the

Department of Information and Communication

Engineering at DGIST. In...

The DIY jab that stops migraines before

they start

Severe migraine sufferers could soon be given a

home use injection pen containing a powerful drug

that stops attacks before...

Insulin-producing pancreatic cells could

treat type 1 diabetes

Could THIS be a cure for diabetes? Scientists create

insulin-making pancreatic cells that escape the

disease’s attacks...

FDA approval of COVID-19 survivors’

plasma is put on hold

US regulators have put a hold on the emergency

approval process for the use of blood plasma taken

from coronavirus survivors...

Mothers who give birth to premature

babies are at-risk of early deaths

Mothers who give birth to premature babies are at

nearly TWICE the risk of dying early compared to

other women, study finds An...

Cyclohexyl phenyl sulfide cleavage

studied for degradation of sulfurcontaining

heavy oil

IMAGE: General Representation of the Reaction

Steps Involved in the Heterolytic Mechanism of

Catalytic Cleavage of...

Unique protein structures could hold the

key to treatment for Parkinson’s disease

IMAGE: A variety of large ?S structures are formed

upon incubation with phospholipids. Four subtypes

with varying degrees...

Dementia education

IMAGE: Intergenerational dementia education can

transform the way we treat older people to

encourage a much-needed...

California resident tests positive for the

PLAGUE in the state’s first case in five

years

California resident tests positive for the PLAGUE

after being ‘bitten by an infected flea while walking

their dog’...

Anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine

does NOT prevent people from

contracting coronavirus

More evidence has emerged that taking

hydroxychloroquine does not prevent someone from

contracting the novel coronavirus. Researchers...

Scientists launch study to find out if

babies can get COVID-19 from their

breast milk

Should women breastfeed during the pandemic?

Scientists launch study to find out if babies can get

COVID-19 from their mothers’...

A coronavirus vaccine could be widely

available in the US by APRIL

A coronavirus vaccine could be widely available to

much of the American public as early as April of next

year, Operation...

Telemedicine may well outlast the

pandemic, say mental health care staff

In a new survey in the UK and an international

review of evidence from 29 countries, mental health

Disorders in movement

“Spinocerebellar ataxias” are diseases of the

nervous system associated with a loss of motor

coordination. A...

care staff report how...

Toddlers who use touchscreens show

attention differences

The research team, co-led by Dr Rachael Bedford of

the University of Bath’s Department of Psychology,

say the findings...

The secret of lymph: How lymph nodes

help cancer cells spread

The study, published today in Nature, found

melanoma cells that pass through the lymph nodes

pick up a protective coating,...

First immune-evading cells created to

treat type 1 diabetes

Using stem cell technology, Salk researchers

generated the first human insulin-producing

pancreatic cell clusters able to...

Understanding the inner workings of the

human heart

In humans, the heart is the first functional organ to

develop and starts beating spontaneously only four

weeks after conception....

Words used to describe alcohol

intoxication may give clues to drinking

habits

A team of researchers led by Ashley Linden-

Carmichael, assistant research professor in the

Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention...

Researchers predict deficits in female

birth numbers in India over coming

decades

There has been a reported imbalance in India in the

sex ratio at birth (SRB) since the 1970s due to the

emergence of prenatal...

A how-to guide for teaching GIS courses

online with hardware or software in the

cloud

IMAGE: In the current remote learning era, Forrest

Bowlick at UMass Amherst and others provide

expert insight into...

Ancient gene family protects algae from

salt and cold in an Antarctic lake

IMAGE: Foreground: the ice-covered, hypersaline

Lake Bonney on Antarctica. Background: Taylor

Glacier. view...

Unlocking the cell enhances student

learning of the genetic code

IMAGE: The Genetic Code Kit transforms the way

students learn about the central concepts of life.


Researchers show children are silent

spreaders of virus that causes COVID-19

BOSTON – In the most comprehensive study of

COVID-19 pediatric patients to date, Massachusetts

General Hospital (MGH)...

Small enzyme-mimicking polymers may

have helped start life

IMAGE: The micrograph shows uniform

nanoparticles under 10nm in diameter. view more

Credit: Tony Z. Jia, ELSI Most...

Declining US plant breeding programs

impacts food security

IMAGE: Phenotyping replicated apple population for

susceptibility to the bacterial disease Fire blight

(Erwinia amylovora). ...

Broccoli and Brussels sprouts a cut

above for blood vessel health

New research has shown some of our least favourite

vegetables could be the most beneficial when it

comes to preventing advanced...

South Korea tightens Covid-19 curbs

amid warning of new ‘crisis’

Museums, nightclubs and karaoke bars have closed

in and around South Korea’s capital, Seoul, as

Covid-19 cases reach...

Australia’s wish list of exotic pets

IMAGE: Juvenile green iguana for sale at Repticon

Trading Convention 2018 in Palm Springs, Florida.


A-levels U-turn: Government considering

lifting cap on medicine places

The government is “absolutely looking at” lifting the

cap on the number of places to study medicine,

Health Secretary...

Coronavirus: UK ‘not considering’

compulsory face masks in workplaces

The UK government is not considering making the

wearing of face masks compulsory in offices and

workplaces, Health Secretary...

Coronavirus: UK to ramp up coronavirus

monitoring programme

Coronavirus tests are to be carried out on more

people in the government’s monitoring programme

to get a better idea...

Coronavirus US: Native Americans 3.5

times more at risk

Native Americans make up a larger percentage of

novel coronavirus cases than compared to their

share of the US population,...

75% US dementia sufferers on drugs not

made for the disease

Almost three-quarters of older American adults with

dementia filled prescriptions for medications that

aren’t designed...

Coronavirus: WHO says planet ‘nowhere

near’ herd immunity

The world is nowhere near achieving herd immunity

against coronavirus, the World Health Organization

(WHO) has warned. Dr...

Contagious droplets can spread more

than 16 FEET from a patient infected with

coronavirus

Since the coronavirus pandemic began, health

experts have recommended that we socially

distance by standing or sitting six...

Federal study will test combination of

remdesivir and multiple sclerosis in

coronavirus patients

Remdesivir will be combined with a multiple

sclerosis drug in next phase of federal tests in hopes

the combination will fight...

What is the truth on humidity and

coronavirus? How scientists are split

Researchers are split over whether Covid-19

spreads more easily in dry or humid air after two

conflicting studies were released...

Coronavirus: Nations should work

together on vaccine, says WHO

University of Oxford Oxford University academics

began developing the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine in

January. It is now named...

Coronavirus UK: 15 fatalities in

preliminary daily death toll

The number of people getting diagnosed with

coronavirus in the UK shrunk again today as health

chiefs recorded just 812 more...

Study sheds new light on certainty of

opinions

The findings, published in the Journal of Personality

and Social Psychology, could help polling

researchers and others interested...

Speeding up nerve regrowth for trauma

patients

“We use the term ‘time is muscle,'” said Christine

Webber, an associate professor in the U of A’s...

New insights into how skin can

regenerate after severe burns

New research led by Dr. Jeff Biernaskie, PhD, has

made an exciting leap forward in understanding how

skin heals, which could...

Team creates better tool to aid COVID-19

diagnosis

Emma R. Schachner, PhD, Associate Professor of

Cell Biology Anatomy, and Bradley Spieler, MD, Vice

Chairman of Radiology...

Clinical and sociodemographic features

of early COVID-19 patients in

Massachusetts

“Our medium follow-up revealed that many of these

patients are very sick even after leaving the

hospital,” says...

Is COVID-19 transmitted through breast

milk? Study suggests not likely

IMAGE: Christina Chambers, PhD, MPH, professor

of pediatrics at UC San Diego School of Medicine,

director of Mommy’s...

Toward a coronavirus breathalyzer test

In addition to being uncomfortable, the current gold

standard for COVID-19 testing requires RT-PCR, a

time-consuming laboratory...

New study calculates alarming lifetime

risk of death from firearms and drug

overdoses in the United States

The lifetime risks vary depending on who you are

and where you live. The lifetime risk of firearm death

is highest among...

Low-cost, accurate COVID-19 antibody

detection platform

The UCI system can go a long way toward the

deployment of a vaccine for COVID-19 and toward

reopening the economy, as both...

Older adults with existing depression

show resilience during the pandemic

IMAGE: Helen Lavretsky, MD, is a professor-inresidence

of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences

at the Jane and Terry...

Seafood could account for 25% of animal

protein needed to meet increases in

demand

IMAGE: Policy reforms and technological

improvements could drive seafood production

upward by as much as 75% over the...

This cuttlefish is flamboyant on special

occasions only!

WOODS HOLE, Mass. – The flashy Flamboyant

Cuttlefish is among the most famous of the

cephalopods (octopus, squid, and...

Increasing graduation rates of students

of color with more faculty of color

A new analysis published in Public Administration

found that student graduation rates improve as more

faculty employed by...

Genetic background may affect adaptions

to aging

IMAGE: Chandra Reynolds is a professor of

psychology at UC Riverside. view more Credit: UC

Riverside. RIVERSIDE,...

Sustained planetwide storms may have

filled lakes, rivers on ancient mars

IMAGE: New research from The University of Texas

at Austin has used dry Martian lake beds to

determine how much precipitation...

Quick fixes won’t stop sexual harassment

in academia, experts say

IMAGE: U. of I. anthropology professor Kathryn

Clancy and her colleagues were among the authors

of a 2018 report on...

Honey ‘beats antibiotics’ for curing colds:

Study shows it’s more effective than

medication

Honey ‘beats antibiotics’ for curing coughs or colds:

New research shows it is more effective than

Study claims patients taking Pepcid AC

are more likely to survive COVID-19

Coronavirus patients taking Pepcid AC are less

likely to die of the infection, a new study claims.

Famotidine, the active...

medication Oxford...

Pregnant women with high blood

pressure at greater risk of suffering hot

flushes during menopause

Pregnant women who have high blood pressure are

at greater risk of suffering hot flushes during

menopause, research suggests Link...

Up to 150,000 people will be regularly

tested for coronavirus by October

Ministers today revealed they will ramp up the size

of a major Covid-19 surveillance testing scheme to

150,000 people every...

Coronavirus could survive for LONGER in

humid conditions, study finds

The coronavirus that causes Covid-19 can survive in

the air for longer in humid conditions, a new study

has reported. SARS-CoV-2,...

Oldham lockdown row: Three MPs warn

against lockdown

Locking down Oldham would devastate the town’s

already-crippled economy, three Labour MPs have

warned in a letter to...

Matt Hancock vows to introduce mass

testing of the public

Matt Hancock today vowed to bring in populationwide

mass coronavirus testing – but failed to offer a

time frame and referred...

Researchers discover protective factor

against psychological trauma

Traumatic experiences, such as an accident, rape or

torture, can become deeply entrenched in a person’s

memory and...

Global daily Covid deaths nearing levels

last seen in April as experts brand it

‘wake up call’

The number of people dying each day from

coronavirus across the world is rapidly approaching

levels seen at the peak of the...

Low-cost home air quality monitors prove

useful for wildfire smoke

The answer is: yes — to a degree. Published

recently in the journal Sensors, their study tested

four models of low-cost...

Wide variation across hospitals in nurse

staffing is threat to public’s health

New York City, an international gateway to the US

with three major international airports and the early

epicenter of the...

Unraveling the initial molecular events of

respiration

Respiratory proteins work by binding and releasing

small molecules like oxygen, carbon monoxide etc.,

called ligands. They...

New gene therapy approach eliminates at

least 90% latent herpes simplex virus 1

The study, published August 18 in Nature

Communications, used two sets of genetic scissors

to damage the virus’s DNA,...

Airborne viruses can spread on dust,

non-respiratory particles

“It’s really shocking to most virologists and

epidemiologists that airborne dust, rather than

expiratory droplets,...

Low humidity increases COVID-19 risk:

Another reason to wear a mask

Now a second study by the same team confirms the

risk. The study is published today in Transboundary

and Emerging Diseases. The...

Social connection boosts fitness app

appeal

Sharing physical activity outcomes and progress to

app communities and social networking platforms

provides the necessary...

Unconventional monetary policy and

bank risk taking

IMAGE: Central banks are ramping up efforts to limit

the economic fallout of the pandemic. view more

Credit:...

Trust is key to effectiveness in virtual

communities, researchers find

With the global COVID-19 pandemic shifting more

and more of our work and school online, virtual

communities are more important...

Protein influences regeneration of

vascular cells

IMAGE: The image shows the immunofluorescence

staining of human endothelial cells, with the cell

nucleus in blue, certain...

Researchers find link between gut

microbiome and cancer treatment

outcomes

DUARTE, Calif. — Physicians at City of Hope,

working in collaboration with scientists at

Translational Genomics Research...

Study of one million Danish children:

Childhood adversity increases the risk of

early death

In many ways, our childhood lays the foundation of

our health in adult life. It is central to our physical

and cognitive...

Toward an ultrahigh energy density

capacitor

IMAGE: To make the new material, the thin film is

first deposited via a pulsed-laser deposition process

in this chamber....

Brain remapping dysfunction causes

spatial memory impairment in

Alzheimer’s disease

Partner selection ultimately happens in

the woman’s reproductive tract

Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most serious

diseases in an aging society, yet the cause is often

unclear and there...

The female reproductive tract has the final say in

human mate choice, according to new research from

the University of Eastern...

Basildon University Hospital maternity

unit rated ‘inadequate’

A maternity unit has been rated inadequate after a

“lack of learning” from a mother’s death has led to...

Coronavirus smell loss ‘different from

cold and flu’

The loss of smell that can accompany coronavirus is

unique and different from that experienced by

someone with a bad cold...

Coronavirus: Care homes ask for

insurance cost help

Care home owners whose insurance premiums

have soared this year have called for government

protection from being sued over...

A-levels U-turn: Medical schools call for

increase in student places

Ministers are coming under pressure to lift the limit

on the number of places to study medicine in

England, after this week’s...

Fewer than half of Americans say they

will get a coronavirus vaccine

Less than half of Americans say they will get a

coronavirus vaccine when one becomes available, a

new survey reveals. Low...

Only ONE healthy child has been killed by

Covid-19 in Britain, reveals study

One healthy child has been killed by Covid-19 in

Britain, reveals study that says under-16s played a

‘limited role’...

Kensington and Chelsea is Britain’s most

miserable borough

Kensington and Chelsea is Britain’s most miserable

borough, according to official data. Government

researchers quizzed...

Coronavirus UK: Two fatalities in

preliminary daily death toll

Britain today recorded fewer than 1,000 Covid-19

cases for the first time in a week after 713 more

Britons tested positive...

Exercise: Turning a 12-minute stroll into a

7-minute power walk daily lowers the risk

of early death

Turning a 12-minute stroll into a 7-minute power

walk every day decreases the chance of an early

death by 30 per cent Experts...

Feeling sleepy: Going out for evening

drinks helps you sleep better at night

An evening meal and drinks out can help you sleep

better and feel more refreshed, but going for brunch

has the opposite effect...

Coronavirus: Why face masks DO work,

according to study

Coughing or sneezing without a face covering

exposes bystanders to at least 10,000 times more

droplets, scientists claim.

Droplets...

More fructose in diet during pregnancy

impacts metabolism of offspring, animal

study finds

The research, which was led by Dr Clint Gray, a

Research Fellow in the Department of Paediatrics

and Child Health, found...

Aging heart cells offer clues to

susceptibility of older people to severe

COVID-19

“When this novel coronavirus first emerged, we

expected it to be primarily a respiratory illness, as

the virus usually...

Half of breast cancer survivors had

delays in care due to COVID-19

“The motivation for the study came from widespread

reports of cancer care being delayed or procedures

being canceled...

Police officers face multifaceted,

compounding stressors that can lead to

adverse events

The study team aims to use this research to develop

intervention models that can address and help

prevent these multifaceted...

Chronic stress caused by Covid-19

pandemic will lead to a generation of

babies being born smaller

Chronic stress caused by the Covid-19 pandemic

may lead to a wave of babies being born smaller,

scientists claim. Researchers...

How protein protects against fatty liver

Causes and consequences of a non-alcoholic fatty

liver Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is

characterized by a build-up...

COVID-19 pandemic likely to cause sales

tax loss for Ohio municipalities

The study, published Monday in the journal Local

Development and Society, also found that

municipalities that rely on grocery...

School flu vaccine program reduces

community-wide influenza

hospitalizations

Seasonal influenza contributes substantially to

hospitalization and mortality, especially among

infants and the elderly....

Cold-weather accounts for almost all

temperature-related deaths

According to the new study by researchers at the

University of Illinois Chicago, patients who died

because of cold temperatures...

Migration and dispersal of butterflies

have contrasting effect on flight

morphology

High blood pressure during pregnancy

may mean worse hot flashes during

menopause

IMAGE: Female Lemon Emigrant feeding on a

lantana flower, taking a momentary break on its long

flight. view...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Women with a history of

high blood pressure disorders during pregnancy are

more likely to experience...

High blood pressure during pregnancy

associated with more bothersome

menopause symptoms

CLEVELAND, Ohio (August 19, 2020)–Women with

high blood pressure during pregnancy are at an

increased risk for chronic...

Hydrogen economy with mass production

of high-purity hydrogen from ammonia

IMAGE: KIST researchers who developed this high

purity hydrogen extractor, Dr. Young-suk Jo (left), Dr.

Yong-haPark...

Illegal trade with terrestrial vertebrates in

markets and households of Laos

IMAGE: East Asian bullfrogs with broken legs at a

market in Laos. view more Credit: Dr Thomas

Ziegler It’s...

Improving protein digestibility in

sorghum

IMAGE: Sorghum varieties with high protein quality

will help sorghum crop industry and the livestock

industry. ...

Patients with recently discovered

antibodies have more severe myasthenia

gravis

IMAGE: Dr. Lin Mei, chair of the Department of

Neurosciences and Allen C. Holmes Professor of

Neurological Diseases...

Researchers identify better classification

system for adult idiopathic scoliosis

Researchers have designed a new X-ray

classification system for adult idiopathic scoliosis

that can more precisely define...

Black newborns cared for by white

doctors 3-times more likely to die

Black babies in the US are up to three times more

likely to die in the days and weeks following their

births compared to...

Phones know when you’re drunk from

your wobbly walk

Smartphone app built by scientists knows when

you’re drunk by using the device’s in-built sensors to

detect tell-tale...

Leicester could leave lockdown TODAY

as coronavirus infections fall

Leicester is set to have its lockdown relaxed today

just seven weeks after seeing the rate

of coronavirus infections fall. The...

Lockdown is eased in Leicester as beauty

salons can reopen

Leicester will be brought partially out of its

coronavirus local lockdown, with nail bars, outdoor

pools, and beauty salons...

Nicola Sturgeon rejects calls for an

urgent inquiry into Scotland’s Covid-19

care home scandal

Nicola Sturgeon has rejected calls for an immediate

public inquiry into Scotland’s Covid-19 care home

catastrophe. Politicians...

Coronavirus: Do parts of London and

NYC have herd immunity?

Herd immunity against Covid-19 could be closer

than scientists first thought and as little as 10 per

cent of people may need...

Coronavirus deaths fall to ANOTHER low:

Flu and pneumonia is now killing six

times more people

Britain today recorded another 1,089 coronavirus

cases, meaning the rolling average number of daily

infections has dropped...

Food safety model may help pandemic

management

“It’s crucial that the public does not lose trust in

governments and the officials communicating

information...

Coronavirus triggers inflammatory

condition MIS-C in children

The inflammatory condition affecting children during

the pandemic is linked to infection with the

coronavirus, a peer-reviewed...

COVID-19 has major impact on psychosocial

care of cancer patients

During this unique study, researchers from six

universities, as part of their work on the British

Psychosocial Oncology Society...

Flexible and protected

At the start of a COVID-19 infection, the coronavirus

SARS-CoV-2 docks onto human cells using the

spike-like proteins on...

Smartphones are lowering student’s

grades on closed-book exams

The study, published in the journal Educational

Psychology, found that smartphones seem to be the

Insect wings inspire new ways to fight

superbugs

The wings of cicadas and dragonflies are natural

bacteria killers, a phenomenon that has spurred

researchers searching for...

Using a public restroom? Mask up!

If that’s not cringeworthy enough, after running

additional computer simulations, they’ve concluded

that flushing...

culprit. Students who received...

Persistence of ADHD into adulthood is an

important predictor of car crash risk

The authors also found that children whose ADHD

symptoms have decreased by adulthood have no

increased risk for car crashes. Lead...

Why doesn’t Ebola cause disease in bats,

as it does in people?

The Ebola virus causes a devastating, often fatal,

infectious disease in people. Within the past decade,

Ebola has caused...

Machine learning unearths signature of

slow-slip quake origins in seismic data

IMAGE: Using a machine learning model and

historical data from the Cascadia region in the

Pacific Northwest, computational...

OCT-based technique captures subtle

details of photoreceptor function

IMAGE: Researchers have developed a unique

synchronized high-speed OCT/scanning light

ophthalmoscope (SLO) system that...

Alternative cooling strategies could

mitigate COVID-19 and climate change

When most people think of cooling, they

automatically imagine air conditioning (AC), or

cooling the air in a room. But, there...

Cover crop mixtures must be ‘farm-tuned’

to provide maximum ecosystem services

IMAGE: This is how the cover crop mix looked at

one study site. From the same seed mixture, cover

crop mixture expression...

Cryo-EM study yields new clues to

chicken pox infection

IMAGE: Images extracted from cryo-EM data (left

and right panels) show the varicella zoster virus’s gB

protein...

Army researchers explore self-healing

materials

IMAGE: Army researchers expect to embed

materials they developed with Texas AM University

collaborators in intelligent...

Influence of vitamin D supplementation

on a baby’s gut microbiome

New research from the CHILD Cohort Study has

shed light on the influence of vitamin D

supplementation on a baby’s developing...

Songbirds, like people, sing better after

warming up

IMAGE: The dawn chorus of birdsong may be a

warm-up routine that helps birds meet the physical

demands of singing and...

Restrictions on laxative sales in the UK to

stop misuse

The UK government is imposing stricter regulations

on the sale of laxatives, to help prevent their misuse.

The drugs, designed...

NHS cannabis guidelines challenged in

court

The parents of a three-year-old boy with severe

epilepsy are going to court to mount the first legal

challenge to the guidelines...

New public health body ‘vigilant for viral

threat’

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has confirmed

Public Health England will be replaced by a new

body focused on preparing for...

Depression doubles during coronavirus

pandemic

Twice as many adults in Britain are reporting

symptoms of depression now compared with this

time last year, Office for National...

Covid-19 ‘could cause type 1 diabetes in

children’

Covid-19 could lead to type 1 diabetes, researchers

fear after witnessing a spike in cases of the disease

among infected...

Children are far less likely to catch

coronavirus in the classroom than they

are at home

Children are less likely to catch Covid-19 at school

than they are at home, according to research.

Scientists at...

Depression rates have DOUBLED since

coronavirus hit Britain

Depression rates in Britain have doubled since the

Covid-19 pandemic, government research has

revealed. The Office for...

NHS is preparing to spend up to

£10billion in private hospitals over four

years

The NHS is preparing to spend up to £10billion

outsourcing work to private hospitals in a bid to cut

waiting lists. Private...

COVID-19 cases in U.S. nursing homes

jumped nearly 80% earlier this summer

COVID-19 cases in U.S. nursing homes jumped

nearly 80 per cent earlier this summer, driven by

rampant spread across the South...

Faeces transplant cures 47-year-old man

who got drunk after eating carbs

Feces transplant cures a 47-year-old man who has

a rare ‘auto-brewery’ condition which caused him to

get drunk...

Government AXE PHE and replace it with

new institute run by former jockey

Baroness Dido Harding

Matt Hancock today officially axed Public Health

England after a series of failings during the

coronavirus crisis –...

Asian Brits are up to FIVE times more

likely to catch coronavirus than white

people

Asian people are up to five times more likely to

catch the coronavirus than white people, according

to data from a government-run...

More healthful milk chocolate by adding

peanut, coffee waste

The researchers will present their results today at

the American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall 2020

Virtual Meeting Expo. “The...

Micro- and nanoplastics detectable in

human tissues



Virtual Meeting Expo. “You...

Immunotherapy extends survival in

mouse model of hard-to-treat breast

cancer

The researchers will present their results at the

American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall 2020 Virtual

Meeting Expo. A brand-new...

Social distancing decreased pediatric

respiratory tract infections in Finland

The researchers looked at the number of paediatric

emergency room visits in two Finnish hospitals

(Kuopio University Hospital,...

Negative side effects of opioids could be

coming from users’ own immune systems



Virtual Meeting Expo. A...

Gene targeting helps overcome the

resistance of brain cancer to therapy

This approach, led by the laboratory of Arezu

Jahani-Asl, Assistant Professor of Medicine at

McGill University, was successful...

Long-term exposure to traffic noise may

impact weight gain in the UK population

‘While modest, the data revealed an association

between those living in high traffic-noise areas and

obesity, at around...

Targeted treatment for depression could

benefit patients with psychosis

According to scientists at the University of

Birmingham’s Institute for Mental Health, depression

may be an intrinsic...

Ultrafast hydrogen bond dynamics of

liquid water revealed by THz-induced Kerr

effect

IMAGE: a, Schematic diagram of the experimental

system. A broadband THz pump pulse (peak electric

field strength of...

A bright idea — Genetically engineered

proteins for studying neurons using light

IMAGE: Four amino acid mutations were introduced

in GtACR2 to engineer a new variant protein. The

variant can be controlled...

Multivitamin, mineral supplement linked

to less-severe, shorter-lasting illness

symptoms

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Older adults who took a daily

multivitamin and mineral supplement with zinc and

high amounts of vitamin...

Smart AI makes all kinds of shapes on its

own

IMAGE: POSTECH research team develops an

artificial neural network system that recommends

plastic molding process conditions. ...

Shigella prevents infected cells from

sacrificing themselves for the greater

good

IMAGE: Host cells recognize blockade of caspase-8

apoptosis signaling by bacterial pathogens, and

triggers necroptosis...

Dynamic full-field optical coherence

tomography: 3D live-imaging of retinal

organoids

IMAGE: a, Colour bar of the D-FFOCT images with

a consistent colormap for (b,c). b, Image of a D29

retinal organoid,...

NUS-led study considers potential and

constraints of reforestation for climate

mitigation

IMAGE: Nursery seedlings beginning to flourish in

Sungai Tohor, Riau, after a community-based

peatland restoration...

Coronavirus tests made by Thermo

Fisher return false negative AND false

positive results, FDA warns

Coronavirus tests made by Thermo Fisher return

false negative AND false positive results, FDA

warns The FDA has warned there...

New building block in plant wall

construction

University of Adelaide researchers as part of a

multidisciplinary, international team, have uncovered

a new biochemical mechanism...

Scientists make ‘healthy’ milk chocolate

by adding antioxidant-rich peanut skins

and coffee grounds

Adding peanut skins to milk chocolate would make it

healthier, suggests a new study. Researchers found

that recycled food...

The plasma beam that kills off rogue

cancer cells

A hi-tech pen has been developed that uses a beam

of light to remove cancer cells left behind after a

tumour is removed. The...

How your ‘clicky’ hip could give you

arthritis

Two weeks ago, Made In Chelsea star Millie

Mackintosh revealed that her three-month-old

daughter Sienna has developmental...

The chef whose dedication is a recipe for

kindness

Specs with tech: Should you set your

sights on the glasses promising to tackle

a range of problems?

Louisa Batista is justifiably proud that in five

decades she’s never taken a single day off sick —

for it’s...

Almost 70 per cent of people in the UK wear some

sort of glasses to correct their sight. But there are

now special glasses...

As NHS waiting lists rocket while

appointments are limited, one doctor tells

of his frustration

Last week I was sitting in glorious isolation in my

consulting room at St Peter’s Hospital in Chertsey,

Surrey, in what...

‘I can’t make sense of cholesterol

readings’: DR MARTIN SCURR answers

your health questions

I wonder if you could explain cholesterol readings? I

was told mine was 4.1 but was also given other

numbers. I am 74 and...

Naturally occurring antibodies against

prion proteins found in humans

In EMBO Molecular Medicine, researchers at the

University of Zurich and Novartis Institutes for

BioMedical Research in Switzerland...

How the brain’s internal states affect

decision-making

While “internal state” or impulsivity are terms more

generally discussed in psychology or neuroscience,

the concept...

Antibiotics associated with increased risk

of inflammatory bowel disease

IBD is becoming more common, particularly in

Europe, the U.S. and other parts of the world

undergoing rapid economic development,...

Postmenopausal women at risk for

nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, review

suggests

NAFLD is the most common cause of liver damage,

and can lead to liver cirrhosis and death. It also is

one of the leading...

NASA finds short-lived Fausto faded fast

IMAGE: On Aug. 17 at 3 a.m. EDT (0700 UTC), the

MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Terra

satellite showed...

Cashew shell compound appears to

mend damaged nerves

IMAGE: Senior author Subramaniam Sriram, MBBS,

William C. Weaver III Professor of Neurology and

chief of the Division...

Regulation of cancer stemness by the

best combination of nanotech and

genetic engineering

Scientists at Japan Advanced Institute of Science

and Technology (JAIST) have created a regulation

technology of fatal cancer...

Widespread electric vehicle adoption

would save billions of dollars, thousands

of lives

A new study found that if EVs replaced 25% of

combustion-engine cars currently on the road, the

United States would save...

Targeted therapy combination effective

for patients with advanced

cholangiocarcinoma and BRAF mutations

This trial represents the first prospective study for

patients with BRAF-mutated cholangiocarcinoma, or

bile duct cancer,...

Measuring social networks of young

adults with autism

“Many autistic young adults are disconnected from

people, communities and organizations that could

provide them with...

Society perceives the poor as less

affected by distress than those with more

means

IMAGE: The poor are perceived to be “hardened ”

by negative events and therefore less harmed by

them than...

Smartphones can tell when you’re drunk

by analyzing your walk

IMAGE: Analysis of cell phone data of your walk

could determine if you’ve had too much to drink.

view...

Research brief: Bee neighborly — sharing

bees helps more farmers

IMAGE: Researchers combined wild bee ecology,

crop values, and land ownership patterns to reveal

the benefits to landowners...

Women less likely to receive pay for

college internships

The odds of women receiving pay for a college

internship are 34% lower than for men, according to

new research from Binghamton...

Swans reserve aggression for each other

IMAGE: Aggression among mute swans view more

Credit: WWT Swans display more aggression to

fellow swans than...

Coronavirus: Shielding paused for

130,000 in Wales

Media captionRichard Bluck says he may not be

able to hug his daughter until a vaccine is found

People with...

The tropics are expanding, and climate

change is the primary culprit

WASHINGTON–Earth’s tropics are expanding

poleward and that expansion is driven by humancaused

changes to the...

More coronavirus-vaccine volunteers

needed

More than 100,000 people have signed up to take

part in future NHS trials of a coronavirus vaccine –

but more volunteers...

Coronavirus: Dido Harding to be

temporary head of new health agency

Coronavirus US: Black Americans’

hospitalization risk far higher

Baroness Dido Harding, who runs NHS Test and

Trace in England, is to be the interim chief of the

government’s new Health...

Minority Americans with coronavirus are being

hospitalized at far greater rates compared to their

share of states’...

Coronavirus: Hope for immunity in

survivors of mild infections

We’re still at least months away from a coronavirus

vaccine – but studies suggest that that millions of

people...

Coronavirus: 75% Utah’s infected

workers Hispanic, says CDC

Hispanic employees accounted for nearly 75% off all

coronavirus caught at work in Utah – making them

three times more...

Coronavirus: Severe cases could trigger

autoimmune disease

Severe coronavirus infections could trigger a rare,

muscle-weakening autoimmune disease, report

suggests Researchers in...

Cartoonist Bill Tidy lost the power of

speech, but says putting pen to paper

had remarkable results

After Bill Tidy — one of Britain’s best-loved

cartoonists — was rushed to hospital following a

stroke,...

Survival of the fit-ish

The conventional understanding of evolution is that

genes encoding a beneficial function are the most

frequently transmitted,...

High schoolers’ accuracy in classification

of their peers

But how do visible queues of high school cliques

correlate with what youth say about themselves?

Are adolescents that are...

Why young and female patients don’t

respond as well to cancer

immunotherapy

Researchers at University of California San Diego

School of Medicine have found evidence that helps

explain why patients...

COVID-19 hospitalizations analysis

shows disparities across racial and

ethnic groups

Published today in JAMA Internal Medicine,

researchers from the U of M’s Carlson School of

Management found significant...

Six brave souls reveal the body

blemishes that serve as a reminder of

their past

Almost two decades after major surgery to correct a

curvature of her spine, Princess Eugenie posted a

picture of her scar...

Thought your headache was unbearable?

Emma’s had one for six years

Emma Allenby was studying for A-levels when she

developed a headache that just wouldn’t go away

Emma Allenby was...

Designed bacteria produce coralantibiotic

against multi-resistant TB

Sea whips are protected; despite this, their

existence is in danger. The collection and sale of

dried corals is a lucrative...

Opioid use can trigger deafness

The study, published in The Journal of Medical

Toxicology, reviewed records from the New Jersey

Poison Control Center, based...

Chatbots delivering psychotherapy help

decrease opioid use after surgery

“We showed that opioid medication utilization could

be decreased by more than a third in an at-risk

patient population...

Protein produced by the nervous system

may help treatments for inflammatory

diseases

In a study published in the journal Nature

Immunology, researchers discovered that

neuromedin B (NMB), a protein produced...

Potential drug target revealed to help

more children survive a lethal heart

defect

IMAGE: The image on the right shows more robust

cardiac muscle fiber development when the gene

FN1 is active. The fibers...

Penguins are Aussies. Or are they Kiwis?

IMAGE: Juliana Vianna of the Pontifical Catholic

University of Chile among a group of rockhopper

penguins. view...

Study hopes to encourage use of new

technology to reduce errors in DNA

testing

Drexel study: Measuring social networks

of young adults with autism

As many have recently discovered, social

connections are vital to a person’s wellbeing. While

social isolation is a core...

Findings refute idea of monarchs’

migration mortality as major cause of

population decline

IMAGE: A monarch butterfly photographed during a

tagging event for Monarch Watch view more Credit:

University...

Autism-cholesterol link

Researchers at Harvard Medical School,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology and

IMAGE: “We used a realistic model to estimate that

tens of thousands of cases could be wrongly

interpreted over...

Northwestern University have identified...

Photo and collage by Elle Starkman/PPPL

Office of Communications

IMAGE: Physicists Ahmed Diallo, left, and Julien

Dominski shown with collage of DIII-D tokamak.


Desire to be in a group leads to harsher

judgment of others

DURHAM, N.C. –If you’re reluctant to identify as a

Democrat or Republican even though you are

staunchly liberal...

Coronavirus UK: SAGE fear public toilets

will harbour virus

Covid-19 will spread more this winter and public

toilets will be one of the riskiest places to catch

it, scientists advising...

Spring will be a ‘new dawn’ for Britain,

says deputy chief medical officer

Spring will be a ‘new dawn’ for Britain and people

should be able to live safely without fear of the

coronavirus,...

Britons are ‘more likely to die of cancer

than they were 15 years ago’ because of

Covid-19

Britons are now more likely to die from some types

of cancer than they were 15 years ago because of

the coronavirus pandemic,...

Adverts for sausage rolls, fish fingers

and ketchup ‘to be BANNED from daytime

TV ads’

Daytime adverts for sausage rolls, mustard and

ketchup will be banned under the Government’s

obesity crackdown, it...

Mixing silk with polymers could lead to

better biomedical implants

IMAGE: Combining silk fabric with epoxy creates

laminates that can be formed into shapes, like the

structure above,...

Converting solar energy to hydrogen fuel,

with help from photosynthesis

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17, 2020 — Global economic

growth comes with increasing demand for energy,

but stepping up energy...

Patients taking long-term opioids

produce antibodies against the drugs

MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison

scientists have discovered that a majority of backpain

patients they...

To perceive faces, your brain relies on a

process similar to face recognition

systems

Imagine if every time you looked at a face, one side

of the face always appeared distorted as if it were

melting, resembling...

New practice guidelines on non-invasive

ventilation in chronic stable Hypercapnic

COPD

IMAGE: New ATS clinical practice guidelines on

treating hypercapnia in COPD patients published.


Novel method can efficiently create

several ‘building blocks’ of

pharmaceutical drugs

Several drugs, including those for depression,

schizophrenia, and malaria, would not be if not for a

type of organic chemical...

Stomach SIDT1 mediates dietary

microRNA absorption: ending of the 10-

year debate

In a new study published in Cell Research, Chen-Yu

Zhang’s group at Nanjing University School of Life

Sciences, China,...

Realtime observation of structural

dynamic of influenza A hemagglutinin

during viral entry

IMAGE: High-speed atomic force microscopy

enables visualizing the fusogenic transition of HA in

acidic environment,...

Coronavirus: Test for Covid-19 T cells

immunity developed

A company in Cardiff has developed a test for

coronavirus T cells – which can potentially provide

longer-term immunity...

Coronavirus: Appetite grows for home

working and local lockdowns

The public’s appetite for working from home and

local lockdowns if a Covid-19 vaccine cannot be

found appears to be...

The medical school trying to become

anti-racist

A major British medical school is leading the drive to

eliminate what it calls “inherent racism” in the way

doctors...

Coronavirus: Public Health England ‘to be

replaced’

Public Health England is to be replaced by a new

agency that will specifically deal with protecting the

country from pandemics,...

Scientists sound the alarm: Lockdowns

may escalate the obesity epidemic

Rates of obesity may explode because of strategies

to limit the spread of COVID-19, warn a trio of

researchers at the University...

COVID-19 symptom tracker ensures

privacy during isolation

WASHINGTON (August 13, 2020)– An online

COVID-19 symptom tracking tool developed by

researchers at Georgetown University...

Nitrate supplementation could help

breathing and lung clearance in the

New diagnostic criteria shine light on

early dementia mimics

elderly

New research published today in The Journal of

Physiology shows that nitrate improves function in

the diaphragm, the muscle...

Half of parents report butting heads with

child’s grandparent over parenting

IMAGE: Clashes over parenting choices and

enforcing parents’ rules can cause major strife

between a child’s...

Scientists further cowpea research–

boosting canopy CO2 assimilation, wateruse

efficiency

Crops grow dense canopies that consist of several

layers of leaves–the upper layers with younger sun

leaves and the...

Gender parity & heart failure research:

Female authors could mean more female

participants

PHILADELPHIA– While about a quarter of

physicians and researchers working in advanced

heart failure (HF) and transplant...

IMAGE: UK academics and clinicians have

collaborated to develop a diagnostic definition of the

widely recognised but...

Effects of nutrient pollution in marine

ecosystems are compounded by human

activity

Excessive nutrients, such as nitrogen and

phosphorus, have devastating effects on coastal

marine ecosystems by causing algal...

New Guidelines for Phage Preparation

Can Accelerate Lifesaving Treatment

When clinicians resort to phage therapy for patients

who don’t respond to antibiotics, the patients are

usually very...

Preliminary study of 300-plus COVID-19

patients suggests convalescent plasma

therapy effective

From March 28, when Houston Methodist became

the first academic medical center in the nation to

infuse critically ill COVID-19...

A new, 20-minute assay for COVID-19

diagnosis

The findings, published in the Journal of Medical

Microbiology, show the rapid molecular test called

N1-STOP-LAMP, is 100%...

Global deaths due to smokeless tobacco

are up by a third, according to new study

The research, from the University of York, comes at

a time when there are concerns that spitting — a

behaviour common...

Task force examines role of mobile health

technology in COVID-19 pandemic

The technologies — including wearable sensors,

electronic patient-reported data and digital contact

tracing —...

Scientists identify the order of COVID-

19’s symptoms

Knowing the order of COVID-19’s symptoms may

help patients seek care promptly or decide sooner

than later to self-isolate,...

Frequently used serology test may not

detect antibodies that could confirm

protection against reinfection of COVID-

19, study shows

The results, published today in JCI Insight, highlight

findings from a quantitative serological enzymelinked

immunosorbent...

Monolayer transition metal

dichalcogenide lens for high resolution

imaging

IMAGE: Schematic of femtosecond laser fabrication

of a monolayer TMDC lens. Inset: (i) AFM image of

a monolayer TMDC...

Targeting the LANDO pathway holds a

potential clue to treating Alzheimer’s

disease

IMAGE: Bradlee Heckmann, Ph.D., of St. Jude

Immunology view more Credit: St. Jude Children’s

Research...

WTF, when will scientists learn to use

fewer acronyms?

Have you heard of DNA? It stands for Do Not

Abbreviate apparently. Jokes aside, it’s the most

widely used acronym...

Native trees thrive in teak plantations and

may protect the Panama Canal

IMAGE: Teak (Tectona grandis) plantation at the

Agua Salud Project. view more Credit: Jorge

Alemán, STRI Native...

Program achieves 85% reduction in

malaria cases, but does not eliminate the

disease

IMAGE: Mass drug administration campaign against

malaria in Magude, Mozambique. view more Credit:

ISGlobal The...

Comparing ICD-10 Codes With Electronic

Medical Records Among Patients With

COVID-19 Symptoms

What The Study Did: The goal of this study was to

compare International Statistical Classification of

Diseases and Related...

Patients’ access to opioid treatment

cumbersome

Cardiovascular risk factors tied to COVID-

19 complications and death

IMAGE: Cardiovascular risk profile of hospitalized

COVID-19 patients. Each line represents the result

of the meta-analysis...

A light bright and tiny: NIST scientists

build a better nanoscale LED

IMAGE: The “secret shopper ” study used trained

actors attempting to get into treatment with an

addiction...

IMAGE: The fin LED pixel design includes the

glowing zinc oxide fin (purple), isolating dielectric

material (green),...

Anschutz researchers overturn

hypothesis underlying the sensitivity of

the mammalian auditory system

AURORA, Colo. (August 14, 2020) – A new study

from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical

Campus challenges a...

How people and ecosystems fit together

on the Great Barrier Reef

IMAGE: Issuing permits for human activities at

larger scales than the particular individual marine

features of interest,...

Remains of 17th century bishop support

neolithic emergence of tuberculosis

IMAGE: Portrait of Bishop Peder Jensen Winstrup

view more Credit: Orf3us / CC BY-SA

(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)

When...

German-Argentinean doctoral program

bears first fruits

IMAGE: Regina Mencia (middle) with her

supervisors Prof. Elina Welchen (left) and Prof. Jutta

Ludwig-Müller (right)...

200 000 years ago, humans preferred to

kip cozy

IMAGE: Border Cave in the Lebombo Mountains.

Panorama from drone images. A. Kruger view more

Credit: A. Kruger Researchers...

Changes in climate and land cover

affecting European migratory bird

populations

IMAGE: Swallows are a common sight across the

UK. Every year, they make the long journey to South

Africa from Europe. ...

Dynamic membranes set to solve

problems of liquid waste treatment

IMAGE: Graph of the particle size distribution of the

dispersed phase of the PS suspension in an

aqueous solution of...

Gene variants help explain connection

between skin disorder and food allergy

risk

IMAGE: This graphical abstract shows how two

variations in the gene KIF3A can disrupt the skin

barrier, allowing allergens...

Can Covid really make your hair fall out?

Just ask actress Alyssa Milano

It is, unarguably, a distressing scenario. In an

Instagram video, American actress Alyssa Milano

brushes her recently washed...

Are women in agony with endometriosis

because MALE doctors refuse to believe

they have it?

Pain, says Fran Bell, doesn’t come close to

describing it. ‘Imagine someone wringing your

organs, as if they...

Weight between young adulthood and

midlife linked to mortality: BU study

A new Boston University School of Public Health

(BUSPH) study finds that changes in weight

between young adulthood and midlife...

Achieving highly efficient ammonia

synthesis by altering the rate-determining

step

Ammonia is a generic precursor for the manufacture

of essential fertilizer and most nitrogen-containing

organic chemicals....

Organic chemistry — a brilliant tool

An international team led by the chemist Heinz

Langhals of LMU Munich succeeded in molecular

deflection of light radiation...

I can tell the time but can’t draw a clock…

that’s scary: BONNIE ESTRIDGE’S life

with Alzheimer’s

As I write this, it’s 10.30am. I know because I’ve just

had a look at my wristwatch. It’s the old-fashioned...

The flax wilt agent has been sequenced

IMAGE: Cultures of different strains of the fungus

Fusarium oxisporum f. sp. lini view more Credit:

SPbU Crop...

NIH-supported scientists demonstrate

how genetic variations cause eczema

IMAGE: Limb of a young child who is experiencing

the dry, itchy skin associated with eczema, also

called atopic dermatitis. ...

Linking sight and movement

IMAGE: A slice of a rat’s brain showing visual cortex

neurons (green) and axons from the secondary

motor cortex...

Researchers capture footage of fluid

behaving like a solid

Swansea University researchers from the College of

Engineering have captured the moments a fluid

reacts like a solid through...

Pink drink is helping surgeons spot

aggressive brain cancers… by making

tumours ‘glow in the dark’

Pink drink is helping surgeons spot aggressive brain

cancers… by making tumours ‘glow in the dark’

The...

Bronchitis can be treated with a ‘flashfreeze’

icy blast to the lungs in new 30

minute procedure

An unshakable cough, shortness of breath and

constant lung infections are a reality of daily life for

thousands suffering...

HEALTH NOTES: Pregnant women can

now do DIY baby scan

HEALTH NOTES: Pregnant women can now check

up on their babies with DIY ultrasound – using their

phones By Mail on Sunday...

Can grown-ups learn to ride a bike

Earlier this summer, the Prime Minister announced

his £2billion plan to make cities more bicyclefriendly,

and ‘give...

Research helps explain source of

pathogen that causes bitter rot disease

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Fungal spores

responsible for bitter rot disease, a common and

devastating infection in fruit,...

New ‘two-pronged attack’ drug treatment

is giving kidney cancer patients longer

and healthier lives

People with advanced kidney cancer are living

longer, healthier lives thanks to a new ‘two-pronged

attack’ drug...

Why do I feel things going all the way

down after I swallow? Just ask DR ELLIE

CANNON

I have developed the uncomfortable sensation of

feeling anything I swallow – food, or even tablets –

‘going down’...

Study identifies social connection as the

strongest protective factor for depression

BOSTON – Researchers from Massachusetts

General Hospital (MGH) have identified a set of

modifiable factors from a field...

For pregnant patients, number of clinic

visits not tied to risk of getting COVID-19

In the spring of 2020, as Massachusetts

experienced a surge in COVID-19 cases in the

Boston area, four area hospitals conducted...

Aurora mysteries unlocked with NASA’s

THEMIS mission

A special type of aurora, draped east-west across

the night sky like a glowing pearl necklace, is

helping scientists better...

Decline in US bird biodiversity related to

neonicotinoids, study shows

IMAGE: Yijia Li (left) and Madhu Khanna, University

of Illinois. view more Credit: College of ACES,

University...

Climate stabilization: Lessons from the

corona crisis

The dynamics of the current COVID-19 pandemic

could offer valuable insights for the efforts to

mitigate climate change. Highlighting...

Oregon study rewrites the recent history

of productive Cascade Arc volcanoes

EUGENE, Ore. – Aug. 14, 2020 – Volcanic eruptions

in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest over

the last...

Montana State researcher featured in

Nature for work on rare reptile genome

BOZEMAN — A Montana State University

researcher contributed to a novel project with

scientists from around the country...

Historical redlining linked to premature

births, lower birth weight babies

Past discriminatory housing practices may play a

role in perpetuating the significant disparities in

infant and maternal...

Preexisting drug shows promise in fight

against COVID-19

First appearing in late 2019 in Wuhan City, China,

the SARS-CoV-2 virus continues to cause sickness

and death across the...

TGen review suggests postmenopausal

women at risk for nonalcoholic fatty liver

disease

PHOENIX, Ariz. — Aug. 14, 2020 — A review article

authored by a researcher at the Translational

Genomics Research...

NASA finds wind shear affecting Tropical

Storm Josephine


provided forecasters with a visible image of Tropical

Storm Josephine...

Traces of ancient life tell story of early

diversity in marine ecosystems

IMAGE: USask paleobiologists Gabriela Mángano

and Luis Buatois (left to right) in the field in Morocco

examining 478...

Researchers one step closer to bombsniffing

cyborg locusts

If you want to enhance a locust to be used as a

bomb-sniffing bug, there are a few technical

challenges that need solving...

NASA finds wind shear making Tropical

Depression 10E struggle


provided forecasters with a visible image of Tropical

Depression 10E in...

Watching changes in plant metabolism —

live

IMAGE: Young thale cress seedling (Arabidopsis

thaliana) with the fluorescent biosensor in its cells.

The false colour...

Greg Rutherford found testicle lump

during lockdown

Greg Rutherford is encouraging men to check their

testicles for lumps, after revealing he ignored his.

The 33-year-old Olympic...

Coronavirus: Test, trace and the curse of

the 0300 phone number

The system for tracking down people who may be

infected with coronavirus changed this week in

England, with a central pool...

Parents urged to stay up-to-date with

children’s vaccinations

You might be protected from coronavirus

if you survived it, CDC suggests

Parents are being urged to make sure their children

are up-to-date with all their routine vaccinations. The

Local Government...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

(CDC) has suggested for the first time that people

who recover from coronavirus...

Breast cancer patients face ‘cruel’

postcode lottery for fertility treatment

Breast cancer patients face ‘cruel’ postcode lottery

for fertility treatment as vital service is rationed on...

Syphilis may have spread through

Europe before Columbus

Yaws already widespread in Europe The new study

indicates a fair possibility that Treponema pallidum

already existed in Europe...

Becoming a nerve cell: Timing is of the

essence

Our brains are made up of billions of incredibly

diverse neurons. They first arise in the developing

brain when stem cells...

Seasonal flu vaccinations don’t ‘stick’

long-term in bone marrow

The home base for immune cells that produce

antibodies is the bone marrow. Seasonal flu

vaccination does increase the number...

Researchers discover the microbiome’s

role in attacking cancerous tumors

Dr. Kathy McCoy, PhD, is a leading expert on the

body’s relationship with the microbiome. She and

her team are focused...

Weight between young adulthood and

midlife linked to early mortality

Published in JAMA Network Open, the study found

that participants whose BMIs went from the “obese”

range in early...

PARP inhibitor becomes new treatment

option for some men with advanced

prostate cancer

Results from an international clinical trial found that

men with advanced prostate cancer who have

mutated BRCA1/BRCA2 genes...

Synthetic drug ebselen could be

repurposed to treat SARS-CoV-2 by

targeting main protease at distant

The synthetic drug ebselen can bind to both the

catalytic region and a previously unknown distant

site on the SARS-CoV-2...

Targeting a conserved cell pathway may

offer treatments for numerous viruses,

including SARS-CoV-2

Scientists have identified a small molecule that

inhibits multiple different viruses, including SARS-

CoV-2, in tissue culture...

UCLA computer scientists set

benchmarks to optimize quantum

computer performance

Two UCLA computer scientists have shown that

existing compilers, which tell quantum computers

how to use their circuits to...

Study shows frequently used serology

test may not detect antibodies that could

confirm protection against reinfection of

COVID-19

IMAGE: Raghu Kalluri, M.D., Ph.D. view more

Credit: The University of Texas MD Anderson

Cancer Center HOUSTON...

Poor hygiene is significant risk for

antimicrobial-resistant bacteria

colonization

IMAGE: WSU and UVG researchers discuss AMR

projects with CDC – Central America. view more

Credit: WSU PULLMAN,...

Mathematical tool helps calculate

properties of quantum materials more

quickly

IMAGE: Intelligent mathematical tools for the

simulation of spin systems reduce the computing

time required on supercomputers....

Thousands of Seattle ‘flu’ cases may

have been coronavirus

THOUSANDS of people in Seattle who thought they

had flu last winter likely had coronavirus, study finds

Testing of samples...

Warning over rising Covid-19 cases in

locked-down Calderdale

A Nottinghamshire district was today added to the

government’s Covid-19 hotspot watchlist amid a

spike in cases. Public...

How power distance belief affects

consumers’ price sensitivity

Researchers from Indiana University and Miami

University-Ohio published a new paper in the

Journal of Marketing that examines...

Ministers quietly remove 1.3million

coronavirus tests from their official

figures

Ministers have quietly wiped 1.3million Covid-19

swabs off the official testing count, it emerged today.

Number 10 has repeatedly...

Many medical ‘rainy day’ accounts aren’t

getting opened or filled

And even among people who do open a health

savings account (HSA), half haven’t put any money

into it in the past year....

This online calculator can predict your

stroke risk

Scientists demonstrate how genetic

variations cause eczema

The study found that stroke risk increased

consistently with metabolic syndrome severity even

in patients without diabetes....

Atopic dermatitis is an inflammatory skin condition

that affects up to 20% of children in developed

countries. This chronic...

Social connection is the strongest

protective factor for depression

“Depression is the leading cause of disability

worldwide, but until now researchers have focused

on only a handful...

An AI algorithm to help identify homeless

youth at risk of substance abuse

Now, an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm

developed by researchers at the College of

Information Sciences and Technology...

Study explores the association of

malaria, HIV with anemia during

pregnancy

Coinfections of HIV and malaria are common among

expectant mothers in sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Paddy

Ssentongo, a doctoral...

Rewriting the recent history of productive

Cascade Arc volcanoes

A synthesis of volcanic vents on the surface and

data that probes the structure and composition of

the crust to a depth of...

Hypothesis underlying the sensitivity of

mammalian auditory system overturned

The paper, out today in Science Advances,

examines how hair cells transform mechanical

forces arising from sound waves into...

Pregnant mother’s immunity tied to

behavioral, emotional challenges for kids

with autism

IMAGE: Paul Ashwood, professor of microbiology

and immunology and faculty member at the UC

Davis MIND Institute. ...

AI software enables real-time 3D printing

quality assessment

IMAGE: Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher

Chase Joslin uses Peregrine software to monitor

and analyze a component...

Exploring connections between ovarian

cancer and blood cells

Dr. Abhishek Jain, assistant professor in the

Department of Biomedical Engineering and the

Department of Medical Physiology...

Versatile new material family could build

realistic prosthetics, futuristic army

platforms

Nature’s blueprint for the human limb is a carefully

layered structure with stiff bone wrapped in layers of

different...

A method has been developed to study

extreme space weather events

Scientists at Skolkovo Institute of Science and

Technology (Skoltech), together with colleagues

from the Karl-Franzens University...

Is the COVID-19 virus pathogenic

because it depletes specific host

microRNAs?

IMAGE: Sadis Matalon view more Credit: UAB

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Why is the COVID-19 virus

deadly, while...

Using infrared eye tracking to study

infant behavior

A new study from the Beckman Institute for

Advanced Science and Technology describes how

existing infrared technology can...

Green electricity for Europe: Small scale

solutions also affordable

IMAGE: Comparison of continental-scale supply and

regional-scale supply view more Credit: Tim

Tröndle, IASS/ETH...

Check your testicles, Greg Rutherford

says after finding lump

Greg Rutherford is encouraging men to check their

testicles for lumps, after revealing he ignored his.

The 33-year-old Olympic...

Fewer hospital patients in Covid-19

hotspots

The number of people in hospital with Covid-19 fell

in coronavirus hotspots in June and July, according

to data released...

Coronavirus vaccine: UK signs deals for

90 million virus vaccine doses

The UK government has signed deals for a further

90 million doses of coronavirus vaccine. The

vaccines are being developed...

Coronavirus cases stable across most of

England

Coronavirus cases across England appear to be

levelling off, despite flare-ups in local hotspots,

according to estimates...

Coronavirus: Wearing face masks could

lower death rate 5%

Everybody wearing face coverings in public could

reduce a country’s Covid-19 death rate by five per

cent, according...

£3,200 fines for shunning face masks:

Payment of £100 will keep on doubling for

repeat offenders

Repeatedly refusing to wear a face mask could lead

to a fine of up to £3,200, Boris Johnson announced

last night. At present...

Covid-19 cases could be missed because

temperatures are more common in the

evening than the morning

Covid-19 cases could be missed if people are

screened for a fever in the morning, scientists have

warned. US experts...

Public Health England still hasn’t

pinpointed 30,000 duplicated test results

in coronavirus count

Public Health England’s counts of new daily

coronavirus cases still includes 30,000 people who

were counted twice before...

Cancer mapping may solve puzzle of

regional disease links

Epidemiologists use disease atlases to identify

disease prevalence and mortality rates and QUT

researchers say data could...

Researchers design efficient low-cost

system for producing power at night

IMAGE: Researchers have designed an off-grid,

low-cost modular energy source that uses radiative

cooling to efficiently...

Reconstructing global climate through

Earth’s history

IMAGE: Sea surface temperatures in shallow, semienclosed

seas today are warmer than they should

be for their locations....

Virus uses decoy strategy to evade

immune system

The recent research, led by Dr Mihnea Bostina and

PhD student Sai Velamoor from the Department of

Microbiology and Immunology...

Leukemia breakthrough: CircASXL1-1

regulates BAP1 deubiquitinase activity in

leukemia

In a novel step forward, researchers from the

Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI

Singapore) at the National University...

Researchers develop cell injection

technique that could help reverse vision

loss

IMAGE: Nick Mitrousis is a recent PhD graduate

from the lab of University Professor Molly Shoichet

(ChemE, BME). Mitrousis...

New catalyst efficiently turns carbon

dioxide into useful fuels and chemicals

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — As levels

of atmospheric carbon dioxide continue to climb,

scientists are looking...

People power and satellites help

scientists study climate impacts on

Antarctic seals

IMAGE: A crabeater seal in Antarctica view more

Credit: Credit: Ursala Rack A New Zealand-led

international...

UMD discovers a new role for a wellknown

molecule as a plant hormone

IMAGE: ACC facilitates fertilization. The pollen tubes

(stained in blue) fertilize only some of the ovules

when there...

Newly identified gut cells nurture lymph

capillaries

IMAGE: Lacteals (in green) are shown in normal

conditions (left) and with YAP/TAZ hyperactivation

(right). view...

This online calculator can predict your

stroke risk, study finds

IMAGE: Mark DeBoer, MD, of UVA Children’s,

developed a calculator that can predict the risk of

stroke, diabetes...

Over 4% US women use marijuana while

pregnant

More than 4% of US women use marijuana while

pregnant, CDC report reveals – despite Canadian

research that finds the...

Adding a meter between meals boosts

vegetarian appeal

Conservationists at the University of Cambridge are

investigating ways of “nudging” people towards

eating more...

Artificial intelligence recognizes

deteriorating photoreceptors

There is no effective treatment for geographic

atrophy, one of the most common causes of

blindness in industrialized nations....

Strict diet explains metabolic effect of

gastric bypass surgery

By monitoring individuals who underwent a six-week

low-calorie diet followed by a bariatric operation,

they can for the first...

How do we prioritize what we see?

The work, which appears in the latest issue of the

journal Current Biology, relies on a method,

transcranial magnetic stimulation...

When you’re smiling, the whole world

really does smile with you

Groundbreaking research from the University of

South Australia confirms that the act of smiling can

trick your mind into...

Single-cell analysis provides new

insights into mitochondrial diseases

Mitochondrial diseases result from failure of

mitochondria, specialized compartments within cells

that contain their own...

MS drug may be used to inhibit HIV

infection and reduce latent reservoir

“While antiretroviral drugs have been effective in

treating HIV thus far, drug resistance, negative side

effects of...

The behavior of therapeutic antibodies in

immunotherapy

Non-Hodgkin lymphomas are among the most

common cancers affecting almost 1.5 million people

globally. They cause uncontrolled...

Academia from home

As the uncertainty around reopening college and

university campuses this fall continues, those who

work, study, teach and...

UChicago scientists discover way to

make quantum states last 10,000 times

longer

IMAGE: A team of scientists at the University of

Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

announced...

Bacterial enzymes hijacked to create

complex molecules normally made by

plants

JUPITER, FL–Chemists at Scripps Research have

efficiently created three families of complex, oxygencontaining

molecules...

Cover crop roots are an essential key to

understanding ecosystem services

IMAGE: Lead researcher Joseph Amsili taking core

samples of cover crops at the Russell E. Larson

Agricultural Research...

Exercise Enhancement

Sugars and fats are the primary fuels that power

every cell, tissue and organ. For most cells, sugar is

the energy source...

Engineered capsids for efficient gene

delivery to the eye

IMAGE: Journal in the field and provides allinclusive

access to the critical pillars of human gene

therapy: research,...

Liquid crystals that can replace color

shifting ink in preventing counterfeiting

IMAGE: A schematic diagram of multi-layered liquid

crystal particles developed by the KIST-KAIST joint

research team ...

Sounds of action: Using ears, not just

eyes, improves robot perception

PITTSBURGH–People rarely use just one sense to

understand the world, but robots usually only rely on

vision and, increasingly,...

Coronavirus: Leicester patient first to join

‘UK’s largest’ recovery study

A man who had Covid-19 has become the first to

take part in what is thought to be the UK’s largest

study into how the...

Cosmetic surgeon struck off after

botched ops

A cosmetic surgeon who did not have adequate

insurance for operations that went wrong has been

struck off. One woman, from...

Coronavirus: England’s contact tracing

app trial gets under way

A trial of the English coronavirus app is getting

under way. It will be limited to residents in the Isle of

Wight, the London...

NHS figures reveal long waits for routine

ops in England

The number of patients admitted for routine

treatment in hospitals in England was down 67% in

June compared with the same...

Coronavirus led to more NYC ‘excess

deaths’ than Spanish flu, study suggests

The 1918 Spanish flu was more deadly of fatalities

in New York City than coronavirus has been in 2020

– but COVID-19...

More than 4% of US women use

marijuana while pregnant

More than 4% of US women use marijuana while

pregnant, CDC report reveals – despite Canadian

research that finds the...

More than 40% of Americans struggling

with mental health amid pandemic

About 40 percent of Americans were struggling to

maintain their mental health and abusing

substances in late-June as the...

Boris Johnson says the UK will be

‘ruthless’ over travel quarantine ahead of

France decision

Boris Johnson said the UK would be ‘ruthless’ when

it came to travel quarantine even with its ‘closest...

Fundamentally new approach to

ultrasound imaging

“Conventional ultrasound devices have a receiver

that detects ultrasonic waves and converts them into

an electrical...

Potential new approach against fatal

childhood brain cancer

That’s why researchers at the University of Michigan

and their collaborators are excited about discoveries

that point...

Coronavirus UK: 18 new fatalities in daily

death toll

Another 18 people have died of Covid-19 in England

but no-one else has died of the illness in Scotland,

Wales or Northern...

Recalling memories from a third-person

perspective changes how our brain

processes them

“Our perspective when we remember changes

which brain regions support memory and how these

brain regions interact together,”...

New type of taste cell discovered in taste

buds

Taste buds in the mouth are critical to our survival

and help us to decide whether a food is a good

source of nutrients or...

Pollution linked to antibiotic resistance

Using a process known as genomic analysis,

University of Georgia scientists found a strong

correlation between antibiotic...

Hepatitis B: Natural controllers shed light

on immunity mechanisms

Hepatitis B is one of the major human diseases: it is

estimated that 2 billion people have been infected

with the virus and...

Loss of a specific enzyme boosts fat

metabolism and exercise endurance in

mice

The mechanisms for how cells rewire their

metabolism in response to changes in resource

availability are not yet fully understood,...

Study focuses on a different kind of liquid

biopsy to detect cancer

Because cancer is easier to successfully treat when

it’s caught early, a major goal in cancer research is

to develop...

Busting Up the Infection Cycle of

Hepatitis B

The research, which has been published online,

ahead of print, by the American Chemical

Association journal ACS Chemical...

To understand the machinery of life, this

scientist breaks it on purpose

“I’m fascinated with life, and that’s why I want to

break it.” This is how Betül Kaçar, an assistant...

Effective new tool created for discerning

fake news

IMAGE: Research from The University of Texas at

Austin has found that although Facebook users may

be too quick to believe...

Big dogs face more joint problems if

neutered early

Heavier mixed-breed dogs have higher health risks

if neutered or spayed early, according to a new

study from researchers...

Unread second-opinion radiology reports

waste health care resources

IMAGE: aIncludes scintigraphy and PET with and

without concomitant CT. bIncludes conventional

radiography, dual-energy...

Hubble helps uncover the mystery of the

dimming of Betelgeuse

IMAGE: New observations by the NASA/ESA

Hubble Space Telescope suggest that the

unexpected dimming of the supergiant...

Research recommends integrated

approaches to managing reniform

nematodes in cotton

While there are many pests affecting cotton, the

reniform nematode is one the most damaging, with

the ability to cause annual...

Lung cancer deaths have been falling by

nearly 5% a year over last decade thanks

to better treatment

Death rates from lung cancer have been declining

sharply in the US due to recent advances in

treatments, a new study suggests. Researchers...

Could acupuncture help coronavirus

patients?

Could acupuncture help coronavirus patients?

Harvard study claims the ancient technique quiets

inflammation ‘storm’...

Many medical ‘rainy day’ accounts aren’t

getting opened or filled, study finds

One-third of the people who could benefit from a

special type of savings account to cushion the blow

of their health plan...

New Mexico man in his 20s dies of the

PLAGUE, officials confirm

A man in his 20s has died of bubonic plague in New

Mexico, state health authorities confirmed on

Friday. His death came...

New experimental coronavirus vaccine

boosted antibody levels in mice 90-fold

New experimental coronavirus vaccine prevented

severe disease in mice after two doses of the jab

boosted their antibody levels...

Coronavirus US: Big Pharma spent

$250m lobbying lawmakers

The health sector spent nearly $250 million lobbying

lawmakers amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, a

new study suggests. Researchers...

Coronavirus: Contagious particles float

16 FEET from patients

More signs airborne coronavirus can infect you:

Hospital discovers contagious virus particles floating

16 FEET away from...

Black and Asian people may be more

likely to die of Covid-19 because of

POLLUTION

Black and Asian people may be more likely to die of

Covid-19 in England and Wales because many of

them live in polluted areas,...

Nasal spray could prevent people from

catching the coronavirus, scientists

claim

A nasal spray may prevent humans from catching

Covid-19 and could even be more effective than

wearing PPE, scientists claim. Experts...

Flipping a metabolic switch to slow tumor

growth

By restricting the dietary amino acids serine and

glycine, or pharmacologically targeting the serine

synthesis enzyme phosphoglycerate...

Evidence in mice that electroacupuncture

reduces inflammation via specific neural

pathways

“Most Western medicine has been focusing on

blocking the neural pathways of pain to relieve the

Nanotubes in the eye that help us see

Their study was published today in Nature. “For the

first time, we have identified a communication

structure between...

Face mask insert could help diagnose

conditions

Exhaled breath is an aerosol that contains a variety

of volatile and non-volatile compounds dissolved in

microdroplets. Some...

symptoms, but there...

Stress and anger may exacerbate heart

failure

Heart failure is a life-threatening cardiovascular

disease in which the heart is damaged or weakened.

This can lead to a...

Adaptation in single neurons provides

memory for language processing

Model comparisons Together with researchers

Marvin Uhlmann, Dick van den Broek, Peter

Hagoort, Karl Magnus Petersson (all...

TV-watching snackers beware: You won’t

notice you’re full if your attention is

elsewhere

Professor Martin Yeomans, Dr Sophie Forster and

colleagues found that when your senses are taken

up by an engaging task,...

No increased skin cancer risk with topical

immunosuppressant ointments

BOSTON – Adults with the chronic skin condition

atopic dermatitis can rest easy in the knowledge that

two topical immunosuppressant...

Fireflies shed light on the function of

mitochondria

Mitochondria are almost like cells within the cell.

Like their host, they have a membrane that protects

their genetic material...

Mutations may have saved brown

howlers from yellow fever virus

At the start of her 2008 field season at El Parque El

Piñalito in the Misiones province in northeastern

Argentina, Ilaria...

Maternal obesity and the risk of earlyonset

hypertensive disorders of

pregnancy

Pregnant obese women were more at risk of

experiencing early and late-onset hypertensive

disorders, and that risk progressively...

Researchers make green chemistry

advance with new catalyst for reduction

of carbon dioxide

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers at Oregon State

University have made a key advance in the green

chemistry pursuit of...

Breast cancer ‘ecosystem’ reveals

possible new targets for treatment

Researchers from the Garvan Institute of Medical

Research have uncovered four new subtypes of

cells within triple negative...

Coronavirus: How will the world

vaccinate seven billion?

Teams across the world are working to develop a

vaccine that will be effective against Covid-19. Prime

Minister Boris Johnson...

Dignity and respect go a long way in

county jail, new research shows

A University of Wisconsin Oshkosh study indicates a

little respect and decency can go a long way in

improving some aspects...

Waistline matters in kidney disease

Obesity as assessed by body mass index is

associated with an increased risk of heart disease

and progression of kidney disease...

Radiation to treat pediatric cancers may

have lasting impact on heart and

metabolic health

Bottom Line: Adult survivors of childhood abdominal

and pelvic cancers who had been treated with

radiation therapy experienced...

Priti Patel ‘minded’ to decriminalise sales

of ‘poppers’ drug

Home Secretary Priti Patel has said she wants to

“explicitly” remove any legal ban on supplying

“poppers”,...

Coronavirus: England death count review

reduces UK toll by 5,000

A review of how deaths from coronavirus are

counted in England has reduced the UK death toll

by more than 5,000, to 41,329,...

Breast screening women in their 40s

‘could save lives’

Screening women for breast cancer from their 40s

rather than their 50s could save lives without adding

to the diagnosis of...

Coronavirus UK: SAGE say ‘no evidence’

face shields work

Hairdressers and barbers should wear face

coverings and not just visors in order to help curb

the spread of coronavirus,...

Coronavirus UK: Preston put in lockdown

after spike in cases

Areas affected: Preston, Greater Manchester (City of

Manchester, Trafford, Stockport, Oldham, Bury,

Wigan, Bolton, Tameside,...

Number of Covid-19 patients needing

hospital treatment has plummeted by

96% since April, data shows

The number of people needing hospital treatment for

coronavirus infections has plummeted since the

peak of the outbreak in...

Cold, flu and bronchitis infections fell

‘well below average’ during coronavirus

lockdown

Rates of flu and colds have plummeted ‘well below

average’ during the coronavirus crisis thanks to

lockdown and...

Heel-prick blood test could predict type 1

diabetes in children

Coronavirus UK: Oldham is latest hotspot

with 150 new cases

Heel-prick blood test could predict which children

will develop type 1 diabetes, say scientists who can

spot early warnings...




Council-run contact tracing systems

could be set up in 94 areas across

England to squash virus

Britons who fail to answer calls from the NHS Test

and Trace service may now face a knock on the

door after staff only reached...

Exercise induces secretion of biomarkers

into sweat

Sweating is an important part of thermoregulation

during exercise, yet the potential for sweat as a

biomarker source has...

Drive-through flu jabs to be given in

doctors’ CAR PARKS this winter

Drive-through flu vaccines are set to be given in

doctors’ car parks in a bid to stop a potential second

wave of coronavirus...

Nutrition labelling is improving nation’s

diet

The study, from health economists at the universities

of Bath and Bristol published in the Journal of Health

Economics, is...

Trustful collaboration critical for outcome

of therapy

Depression, anxiety, addiction — 30 percent of the

world’s population experience mental illness at least

once...

Oxygen therapy harms lung microbiome

in mice

“It had been assumed that the lungs were relatively

clean and free of bacteria,” says Shanna Ashley,

Ph.D., a...

Yoga shown to improve anxiety, study

shows

Led by researchers at NYU Grossman School of

Medicine, a new study found that yoga was

significantly more effective for generalized...

Human milk based fortifiers improve

health outcomes for the smallest

premature babies

Now, a new research study from the University of

Missouri and University College in London suggests

that using a human-based...

Searching the ancient depths of a

reptilian genome yields insight into all

vertebrates

IMAGE: The tuatara, whose ancestors once roamed

the Earth with dinosaurs, is the last living species of

the order Rhynchocephalia,...

Lack of females in drug dose trials leads

to overmedicated women

Women are more likely than men to suffer adverse

side effects of medications because drug dosages

have historically been...

Study provides insights into how Zika

virus suppresses the host immune

system

The Zika virus, or ZIKV, spreads through mosquito

bites and sexual intercourse. Currently, no approved

vaccine or antivirals...

‘Reelin’ in a new treatment for multiple

sclerosis

The findings, published online today by Science

Translational Medicine, could lead to a new

treatment strategy for this neurological...

Zeroing out their own zap

IMAGE: African fish called mormyrids communicate

using pulses of electricity. New research from

biologists at Washington...

New generation of drugs show early

efficacy against drug-resistant TB

New treatment regimens for multidrug-resistant

tuberculosis (MDR-TB) have shown early

effectiveness in 85 percent of patients...

The (neuro)science of getting and staying

motivated

There is no question that motivation is one of the

hardest and yet important factors in life. It’s the

difference between...

Bird and reptile tears aren’t so different

from human tears

IMAGE: Collecting tears from roadside hawk,

Rupornis magnirostris view more Credit: Arianne P.

Oriá Bird...

Insect diversity boosted by combination

of crop diversity and semi-natural

habitats

To enhance the number of beneficial insect species

in agricultural land, preserving semi-natural habitats

and promoting crop...

Coronavirus Scotland: Teaching unions

react as schools reopen

Teaching unions are still furious at Government

plans to press on with reopening schools in England

in September, insisting...

‘Madsen’ wheat as source of disease

resistance

IMAGE: Madsen, growing next to lines which have it

as a parent, in the Palouse region of Washington

state. view...

Coronavirus UK: Three separate death

tolls now to be published

Officials in the UK plan to start publishing three

separate daily death tolls for Covid-19 amidst

confusion over statistics...

Malaria breakthrough could help speed

up discovery of Covid-19 treatments,

scientists hope

Malaria breakthrough could help speed up discovery

of Covid-19 treatments, scientists claim Drugs

primarily target the disease-causing...

Boris Johnson pleads with Britons NOT

to shun A&E saying hospitals are safe

South East – £44,163,000 Brighton And Sussex

University Hospitals NHS Trust – £3,700,000

Buckinghamshire Healthcare...

Postcode checker reveals how lockdown

rules differ in areas across the UK




Coronavirus UK: Infection risk higher in

areas with air pollution

People are more likely to catch Covid-19 in areas

with bad air pollution because particles can ‘carry’

the virus,...

Coronavirus UK: Six MILLION took NHS

111’s online assessment

Six million people used NHS 111’s online

coronavirus symptom checker at the height of the

UK’s outbreak between...

UK’s official coronavirus death toll

DROPS by 5,000

The UK’s coronavirus death toll has fallen by more

than 5,000 after health chiefs agreed to only include

people who...

Teens’ social media use does not raise

risk for depression, study finds

“Increasingly, teenagers are active on social media,

particularly during the pandemic, as they have to

rely on Instagram,...

How anxiety — and hope — can drive

new product adoption

The study, forthcoming in the Journal of Marketing,

is titled “Strong Anxiety Boosts New Product

Adoption When Hope...

Experimental COVID-19 vaccine prevents

severe disease in mice

“Unlike many of the other vaccines under

development, this vaccine is made from a virus that

is capable of spreading...

New way to make bacteria more sensitive

to antibiotics discovered

Growing antimicrobial resistance is a major threat

for the world with a projected 10 million deaths each

year by 2050 if...

Scientists identify hundreds of drug

candidates to treat COVID-19

“There is an urgent need to identify effective drugs

that treat or prevent COVID-19,” said Anandasankar

Ray,...

Internal differences: A new method for

seeing into cells

Amit and his group had previously made significant

inroads into seeing into cells when they developed

single cell RNA-sequencing...

A quick, cost-effective method to track

the spread of COVID-19 through

untreated wastewater

Tracking the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic is

currently conducted by testing nasal swabs or saliva

samples. Tools and techniques...

Young children would rather explore than

get rewards

Researchers found that when adults and 4- to 5-

year-old children played a game where certain

choices earned them rewards,...

Researchers identify a protein that may

help SARS-CoV-2 spread rapidly through

cells

Eric Ross and Sean Cascarina, biochemistry and

molecular biology researchers at Colorado State

University, have released...

Swallowing this colonoscopy-like

bacteria grabber could reveal secrets

about your health

IMAGE: Once swallowed, this capsule is designed

to collect bacteria throughout the gut. A scientist

unscrews the cap...

New study suggests ADHD- like behavior

helps spur entrepreneurial activity

ORLANDO, Aug. 12, 2020 — Many people have

experienced a few nights of bad sleep that resulted

in shifting attention...

Preliminary study of 300+ COVID-19

patients suggests convalescent plasma

therapy effective

Improving treatment of spinal cord

injuries

IMAGE: A novel spinal osmotic therapy device

removes water molecules from the spinal cord to

reduce swelling and secondary...

Public health consequences of policing

homelessness

IMAGE: Public Health Consequences of Policing

Homelessness view more Credit: UNSPLASH:

Photo credits go to...

Coastal flooding study finds trustbuilding,

power-sharing key for

environmental justice

It took two years and $11 million, but eventually

ranchers, politicians and scientists came to a

consensus about how to prevent...

New super-resolution method reveals fine

details without constantly needing to

zoom in

IMAGE: Houston Methodist physician scientist Eric

Salazar, MD, PhD, looks on as his team works in the

lab on convalescent...

Since the early 1930s, electron microscopy has

provided unprecedented access to the alien world of

the extraordinarily small,...

Coronavirus: Exposure rate ‘similar’ in

London and Stockholm

Exposure to Covid-19 is similar in Stockholm and

London, based on antibody tests, despite different

lockdown strategies,...

Coronavirus: Severe mental health

problems rise amid pandemic

Doctors are seeing a rise in people reporting severe

mental health difficulties, a group of NHS leaders

says. It follows...

UK records highest number of new

coronavirus cases in seven weeks

The UK today recorded its highest number of new

coronavirus cases in seven weeks with 1,148

infections and a further 102...

Lockdown may have killed more UK

children than coronavirus

Lockdown restrictions likely killed more children than

coronavirus itself because ‘Stay at Home’

messaging deterred...

Coronavirus England: Infection rates are

rising in under-65s

Coronavirus infection rates among all age groups

under 65 have been on the rise since lockdown was

eased, official data shows. Among...

Medical examiners ‘will review the

deaths’ of more than 600 health and care

workers

Investigations have been launched into the deaths

of hundreds of NHS and care workers who had

Covid-19 to see if they were...

Oldham could be next in line for full local

lockdown amid sudden spike in new

coronavirus cases

Oldham could face a full lockdown ‘within days’ after

Covid-19 cases doubled in a week despite tighter

restrictions. The...

Molecules in urine allow doctors to

monitor skin cancer

Tracking cancer progression is important as it allows

doctors to see if someone is responding to

treatment. At present, malignant...

Protein uses two antiviral strategies to

ward off infections

The findings reveal how a single protein can use

multiple strategies to defend cells against viral

infection. They could...

Did London’s lockdown work? Capital

has the same level of coronavirus

antibodies as Stockholm

Covid-19 has infected the same number of people in

London and Stockholm, despite the Swedish capital

controversially choosing...

Being overweight increases risk of severe

Covid-19 by at least 40%, study finds

Being overweight can raise the risk of severe Covid-

19 by 40 per cent, while obese people are 70 per

cent more likely to...

Coronavirus Spain: Girl, 11, dies from

Kawasaki-like syndrome

An eleven-year-old girl has died from organ failure in

Spain after suffering from a rare immune

complication linked to the...

Modelling parasitic worm metabolism

suggests strategy for developing new

drugs against infection

The study has identified three potential drugs that

are active against the parasitic worm Brugia malayi

(B. malayi), a leading...

Gluten in wheat: What has changed

during 120 years of breeding?

Wheat grains contain about 70 percent starch. Their

protein content is usually 10 to 12 percent. Gluten

accounts for the...

Right under your nose: A more

convenient way to diagnose Alzheimer’s

disease

However, currently available technologies for

diagnosing AD are limited because they involve

expensive machinery and invasive...

Researchers create mask filtration

effectiveness hierarchy

With so many options, infection prevention experts

at the UNC Medical Center set out to gather

evidence on the fitted filtration...

Cricket umpires fumble on T20 calls

Joshua M. Adie, a PhD candidate in QUT’s School

of Exercise Nutrition Sciences, has just published a

new paper highlighting...

Experts recommend strict, costly

approaches for reopening schools

The American Academy of Pediatrics recently

highlighted the importance of students’ returning to

the classroom in its...

Meditation-relaxation therapy may offer

escape from the terror of sleep paralysis

Sleep paralysis – a condition thought to explain a

number of mysterious experiences including alleged

cases of alien...

PAD patients with depression had worse

recovery, women twice as likely to be

depressed

DALLAS, Aug. 12, 2020 — Patients with peripheral

artery disease (PAD) and depressive symptoms

experience worse recovery...

Research suggests bias against natural

hair limits job opportunities for black

women

New research suggests Black women with natural

hairstyles, such as curly afros, braids or twists, are

often perceived as...

New microrobot with in situ, in vivo

bioprinting offers promise for gastric

wounds

Researchers in China have taken the first step

towards a new way of treating gastric wounds by

using a microrobot combined...

Why walking to work may be better for

you than a casual stroll

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Walking with a purpose –

especially walking to get to work – makes people

walk faster...

Could a blood test predict whether

coronavirus will kill you?

Could a blood test predict whether coronavirus will

kill you? Researchers find five signs for inflammation

and blood vessel...

Age, education, and surgical history

affect hormone use after oophorectomy

CLEVELAND, Ohio (August 12, 2020)–Removal of

the ovaries before natural menopause (surgical

menopause) often exacerbates...

How anxiety–and hope–can drive new

product adoption

Researchers from University of New South Wales,

University of Southern California, and Imperial

College London published...

Scientists propose method for

eliminating damaging heat bursts in

fusion device

IMAGE: Physicists Raffi Nazikian and Qiming Hu

with figure from research behind them. view more

Credit: Photo...

Stockholm blow for hopes that herd

immunity will combat the coronavirus

Herd immunity does not work as a Covid strategy,

research suggests. Sweden, which never imposed a

national lockdown, claimed...

Fauci says new study could be key to

who dies of COVID-19

Fauci says study that found up to 50% of people

may be able to fight off coronavirus because they

have ‘immune cells...

Immunotherapy-resistant cancers

eliminated in mouse study

A new study in mice by researchers at Washington

University School of Medicine in St. Louis has

shown that the effects of...

Why does COVID-19 impact only some

organs, not others?

Ernesto Estrada, from the University of Zaragoza

and Agencia Aragonesa para la Investigación

Foundation in Spain, aimed...

Vaping linked to COVID-19 risk in teens

and young adults, study finds

The study, which will be published online Aug. 11 in

the Journal of Adolescent Health, is the first to

examine connections...

Multifocal contact lenses slow myopia

progression in children

“It is especially good news to know that children as

young as 7 achieved optimal visual acuity and got

used to wearing...

Masks, PPE materials should be

hydrophilic

Droplets can be expelled via the mouth or nose

while coughing, sneezing or simply talking. These

droplets are tiny, around...

Pasteurization inactivates COVID-19 virus

in human milk: new research

The study — published this month in the Journal of

Paediatrics and Child Health — was a partnership

between UNSW...

Health disparities among former NFL

players

But new research from Harvard Medical School and

the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

suggests that even these advantages...

‘AeroNabs’ promise powerful, inhalable

protection against COVID-19

Led by UCSF graduate student Michael Schoof, a

team of researchers engineered a completely

synthetic, production-ready molecule...

Technology can help speed soil recovery

after oil spills

IMAGE: These laboratory-constructed soil samples

contain various concentrations of petroleum

hydrocarbons. Credit:...

Pressure-induced 2D-3D conversion in

hybrid lead iodide layered perovskite

IMAGE: 2D-3D transition in hybrid perovskites. view

more Credit: Gang Liu Hydrostatic pressurization

KIST finds a strong correlation between

ultrasonic stroke rehabilitation treatment

and brain waves

IMAGE: (A) Comparison of ipsilesional (left) and

contralesional (right) normalized delta power

between Stroke and LIFU...

Lipoic acid supplements help some

obese but otherwise healthy people lose

weight

CORVALLIS, Ore. – A compound given as a dietary

supplement to overweight but otherwise healthy

people in a clinical...

KERI creates a super-high-resolution

nano display based on the 3D printing

close to virtual reality

can...

IMAGE: Companies across the world are competing

fiercely to provide high-resolution displays to

electronic devices...

Molecular additives enhance mechanical

properties of organic solar cell material

IMAGE: Showcasing research from Professor

Ganesh Balasubramanian’s laboratory (Group for

Interfacial and Nanoengineering),...

Examining Congress members’

popularity on Instagram

(Carlisle, Pa.) – With a “virtual campaign season”

underway due to the COVID-19 pandemic, social

media...

Secretion of sugar polymers modulates

multicellularity in the bacterium

Myxococcus xanthus

IMAGE: Signal for the activation of the production of

EPS (green) and BPS (orange) in the bacterial

community. ...

Coronavirus: Test and trace system

‘successful’, says health minister

The government has defended its test and trace

programme in England amid plans to cut 6,000

contact tracers. Health minister...

Coronavirus: How does Covid-19 testand-trace

work?

Coronavirus: Essential workers in England to get

tests

Coronavirus: Why infection attacks some

organs and not others

Why does coronavirus attack some organs and not

others? Study suggests COVID-19 infection in the

lungs makes the heart and...

Teenage vapers are FIVE TIMES more

likely to catch coronavirus, study finds

Teenagers who vape are five times more likely to

catch Covid-19, according to new research. And the

risk soars almost seven-fold...

Coronavirus: NY nursing home deaths

may be well over figure

New York’s coronavirus death toll in nursing homes

– already among the highest in the nation – could

actually...

Coronavirus US: Nine suffering grief for

every person that dies

As the nation’s coronavirus death toll continues to

climb, millions of loved ones are facing the

emotional and physical...

US hospital deaths 12-times more likely

to be from coronavirus

For many people who died of coronavirus, the

suffering of their final days was accompanied by the

pain of dying alone and...

Study says CBD improves brain’s blood

flow and helps the mind

CBD DOES help the mind: Study finds that

cannabidiol improves blood flow to parts of the brain

associated with memory and...

Causes of higher risk of stress fractures

in female runners

The researchers examined physiological differences

that might contribute to increased risk of stress

fractures in a study...

Research exposes new vulnerability for

SARS-CoV-2

The spike protein contains the virus’ binding site,

which adheres to host cells and enables the virus to

enter and...

Brain-NET, a deep learning methodology,

accurately predicts surgeon certification

scores based on neuroimaging data

By combining brain optical imaging, and a deep

learning framework they call “Brain-NET,” a

multidisciplinary...

AI-enhanced precision medicine

identifies novel autism subtype

The approach is believed to be the first of its kind in

precision medicine. “Previously, autism subtypes

have been...

Plant-based ‘meats’ improve some

cardiovascular risk factors compared

with red meat

The small study was funded by an unrestricted gift

from Beyond Meat, which makes plant-based meat

alternatives, and used...

Aging memories may not be ‘worse’, just

‘different’

Everyone has heard it, and decades of research

studies seem to confirm it: While it may not always

be the first sign of aging,...

Does high blood sugar worsen COVID-19

outcomes?

Now, after preliminary observations of 200 COVID-

19 patients with severe hyperglycemia, a Michigan

Medicine team is shedding...

Evolutionary theory of economic

decisions

Understanding how humans have made high-stakes

decisions over evolutionary time may help to explain

our choices in the present...

Study points to health disparities among

former NFL players

For bacteria, a small genome means

some serious decluttering — even in the

ribosome

Researchers from Skoltech, Lomonosov Moscow

State University, and the Kharkevich Institute for

Information Transmission Problems...

Nanocrystals from recycled wood waste

make carbon-fiber composites tougher

A career in professional football may yield an array

of health benefits that extend beyond playing years:

NFL players engage...

Polymers reinforced with ultra-fine strands of carbon

fibers epitomize composite materials that are “light

as a feather...

UCF researchers utilize Human-on-a-

Chip® approach to model ALS pathology

IMAGE: Dr. Virginia Smith, NIH postdoctoral fellow,

utilizing the Human-on-a-Chip® system to research

and assess new...

What violin synchronization can teach us

about better networking in complex times

IMAGE: Sixteen violinists participating in the

networking experiment in which they are connected

to a computer system...

Harvard research identifies business

travel as driver of economic growth

CAMBRIDGE, MA – New research from Harvard’s

Growth Lab finds a direct link between a country’s

incoming...

Scientists found genes that help cancer

cells to penetrate the brain

An international team of scientists, including a

researcher from Sechenov University, reviewed

scientific articles on proteins...

Bouncing, sticking, exploding viruses:

Understanding the surface chemistry of

SARS-CoV-2

Researchers at Michigan Tech, TÜV SÜD UK

National Engineering Laboratory and University of

Edinburgh call for increased...

Nine Americans are suffering grief for

every one person that dies from COVID-

19

As the nation’s coronavirus death toll continues to

climb, millions of loved ones are facing the

emotional and physical...

Coronavirus: N95s offer the best

protection, study says

We’ve all been told to wear face masks to reduce

the spread of coronavirus, but it turns out the

material your mask...

Home monitoring program improves

survival between surgeries for babies

with certain heart defects

DALLAS, August 11, 2020 — Interstage Home

Monitoring (IHM) programs for infants with single

ventricle heart defects...

Malaria discovery could expedite antiviral

treatment for COVID-19

IMAGE: Antibody array data showing activation of

kinases in human red blood cells infected with the

malaria parasite. ...

Enzyme discovered in the gut could lead

to new disease biomarker

Enzymes used by bacteria to break down mucus in

the gut could provide a useful biomarker for

intestinal diseases, according...

EULAR: Timely detection of axial

spondyloarthritis

A large European cross-sectional study has now

examined which factors delay the diagnosis of

axSpA (1). A major factor is...

Classifying galaxies with artificial

intelligence

IMAGE: Conceptual illustration of how artificial

intelligence classifies various types of galaxies

according to their...

MSG promotes significant sodium

reduction and enjoyment of better-for-you

foods, according to new study

ITASCA, Illinois – A new study published in the

Journal of Food Science suggests monosodium

glutamate (MSG) can be...

Clot permeability linked to first-attempt

success of aspiration thrombectomy

IMAGE: Max Mokin, MD, PhD, a neurointerventional

surgeon at the University of South Florida Health

Department of Neurosurgery...

Rates of dog bites in children up during

COVID-19 pandemic

Aurora, Colo. (Aug. 11, 2020) – Greater rates of

Colorado’s children are going to the pediatric

emergency department...

‘A Hinge date saved my life’ and other

cancer dating stories

Second night of clashes over disputed Belarus poll

Riot police again fire rubber bullets to quash

protests, as the first...

Coronavirus: Contact tracers to be

reduced by 6,000 in England

The NHS test and trace system in England is cutting

6,000 staff by the end of August, the government

has announced. The remaining...

Experts reveal what going on holiday

does to your mind and body

Whether you’re planning a staycation or braving a

holiday overseas (and the risk of being quarantined

when you get...

1 in 6 cardiac arrest deaths in San

Francisco were actually overdoses

Drug overdoses in the US are the leading cause of

accidental deaths, and accidental deaths are the

third-leading cause of...

DR MARTIN SCURR answers all your

health questions

Nurse invited grief-stricken 81-year-old

grandmother to her house for Christmas

Day

After Angela Coverdale-Robinson missed the last

train back to her home in Cambridge on Christmas

Eve, she faced a bleak few...

Doctors test out new treatment in bid to

boost your blood flow

QUESTION: I get post-nasal drip. I was told it might

be caused by acid reflux, but I don’t have the classic

symptoms....

Doctors test out new treatment in bid to boost your

blood flow… by standing on a wobbly plate The

vibrating plate...

The seven diet myths that stop you losing

weight

For more than 30 years I’ve been a GP, and though I

hope I have been a good one, I owe many of my

overweight patients...

Miscarriage risk increases each week

alcohol is used in early pregnancy

The findings, published in the American Journal of

Obstetrics and Gynecology, examine the timing,

amount and type of alcohol...

Mouthwashes could reduce the risk of

coronavirus transmission, study shows

The results of the study are described by the team

headed by Toni Meister, Professor Stephanie

Pfänder and Professor Eike...

Confused by whole grain labels on food

packaging? Study finds you’re not alone

The study, led by researchers at the Gerald J. and

Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science

and Policy at Tufts University...

Nanocatalysts that remotely control

chemical reactions inside living cells

The research team led by Professor In Su Lee of the

Department of Chemistry at POSTECH has

developed a remote magnetic-sensitive...

Imaging method highlights new role for

cellular ‘skeleton’ protein

“Actin is the most abundant protein in the cell, so

when you image it, it’s all over the cell,” says Uri...

What the rest of the world can learn from

South Korea’s COVID-19 response

Testing Timeline In January, the Korea Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention, in partnership with

the Korean Society...

NASA’s Aqua Satellite shows extent of

Apple Fire’s burn scar

IMAGE: The measurement tool on the Worldview

app was used to show the size of the burn scar.

Using the tool, the scar...

Researchers show mathematically how to

best reopen your business after

lockdown

In the USA, where the curve of infections has not yet

flattened since the beginning of the pandemic,

158,000 people have...

Excess weight among pregnant women

may interfere with child’s developing

brain

Obesity in expectant mothers may hinder the

development of the babies’ brains as early as the

second trimester, a new...

Mathematical patterns developed by Alan

Turing help researchers understand bird

behavior

Scientists from the University of Sheffield have used

mathematical modelling to understand why flocks of

long-tailed tits...

Early neural activity associated with

autism

IMAGE: Correlation between actual and predicted

scores from the ADOS-T, an assessment tool used

by clinicians and researchers...

UBCO researchers link advertising to

uptick in youth vaping

UBC researchers are raising the alarm about the

increase of vaping among teenagers and how e-

cigarette marketing strategies...

Study points out opioid risks for patients

transitioning to skilled nursing facilities

PORTLAND, Ore. – Hospital patients discharged to

skilled nursing facilities often bring a high-dose

painkiller prescription...

Citizens prefer teachers and

administrators to take the hit during

economic crisis

BINGHAMTON, NY — With schools around the

world looking into various cost-cutting measures in

the midst of the COVID-10...

N95s offer the best protection to

coronavirus but neck fleeces could

multiply infectious particles

We’ve all been told to wear face masks to reduce

the spread of coronavirus, but it turns out the

material your mask...

Autism is twice as common in children

whose mothers used cannabis in

pregnancy

Pregnant women who smoke cannabis almost

double the risk of their baby being born autistic,

warns a new study. In the largest...

Two bereaved mothers share a shattering

warning after an acne drug

Until about 8.30pm on the evening of Wednesday,

May 1, last year, Annabel Wright appeared to be a

typical teenage girl, popular...

Coronavirus US: NIH to track spread

among 2,000 families

NIH researchers will track the spread of coronavirus

among 2,000 families as students head back to

school The National Institute...

MICK MAY describes in an inspiring book,

his determination to survive for his family

When facing treatment for a fatal form of cancer,

even the strongest among us may allow themselves

a wobble. If only everyone...

Can you really beat pain without drugs?

Globally, only half of women get

treatment for preventable killer of

Taking painkillers too often may be doing more harm

than good. That was the advice last week from the

National Institute...

newborns

A previous study estimated that complications of the

disease may be linked to the deaths of at least

50,000 fetuses and 114,000...

Personal connections key to climate

adaptation

The research found people are more empowered to

respond when they see others doing the same.

Scientists analysed how an island...

Detailed molecular workings of a key

system in learning and memory formation

One such scientist is biochemist Margaret Stratton

at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, whose

lab reports how they...

Individual differences in the brain

Young zebrafish are just five millimeters long and

almost transparent. Nevertheless, the tiny fish

display a spectrum of...

Quality of care at rural hospitals may not

differ as much as reported

Prior research studies comparing the quality of care

provided by CAHs and non-CAHs have found that

risk-adjusted mortality...

HPV strains may impact cervical cancer

prognosis

The study — recently published in Nature Genetics

— was led by a team of researchers, including

scientists at...

Non-fasting blood test can help screen

youth for prediabetes and diabetes

The results suggest that the simple blood test,

hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), should be used more

frequently to screen youth for...

Schooling is critical for cognitive health

throughout life

A new analysis published in the journal

Psychological Science in the Public Interest (PSPI),

however, reveals that even though...

Gene therapy targets inner retina to

combat blindness

IMAGE: journal in the field and provides all-inclusive

access to the critical pillars of human gene therapy:

research,...

Electronic components join forces to take

up 10 times less space on computer

chips

IMAGE: Mark Kraman, right, professor Xiuling Li,

center, and Mike Yang led a study that integrates the

multiple elements...

Youth’s risks from first-time opioid

prescriptions may not be as high as once

thought

IMAGE: Patrick Quinn view more Credit: Indiana

University Young adults and adolescents who are

prescribed...

New machine learning tool predicts

devastating intestinal disease in

premature infants

IMAGE: A 34-week premature baby in an isolette

incubator with oxygen. view more Credit: Sharon

McCutcheon/Unsplash New...

Study: Increased presence of law

enforcement officers in schools does not

improve safety

Concern over the safety of students, teachers, and

administrators in U.S. schools continues to grow, in

part as a result...

Analysis of Ugandan cervical

carcinomas, an aid for understudied sub-

Saharan women

IMAGE: Akinyemi Ojesina view more Credit: UAB

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Cervical cancer kills more

than 300,000...

Nursing apprenticeship funding gets

£172m boost

Funding of up to £172m for thousands more

apprentice nurses in England has been unveiled by

the government. The Department...

How boundaries become bridges in

evolution

There’s a paradox within the theory of evolution: The

life forms that exist today are here because they

were able to...

New model shows how voting behavior

can drive political parties apart

Over the last few decades, the divide between the

two major political parties in the United States has

deepened. Studies...

Coronavirus in Scotland: Care home

residents to be allowed more visitors

Visiting rules at care homes are to be relaxed from

Monday, the Scottish government has announced.

Health Secretary Jeane...

Coronavirus: Little evidence of Covid

transmission in schools, says Williamson

There is little evidence of coronavirus being

transmitted in schools, Education Secretary Gavin

Williamson has said. Mr Williamson...

Coronavirus: Is the world winning the

pandemic fight?

It is little more than six months since the World

Health Organization (WHO) declared the arrival of a

new virus a global...

New approach to treating osteoarthritis

advances

The study results revolve around the longestablished

idea that machines within animal and

human cells turn the sugars, fats,...

Math shows how brain stays stable amid

internal noise and a widely varying world

Whether you are playing Go in a park amid chirping

birds, a gentle breeze and kids playing catch nearby

or you are playing...

Restaurant customers frown on

automatic gratuities, particularly after

good service

PULLMAN, Wash. – Automatic gratuities leave

restaurant patrons with a bad taste, even when the

meal and the service...

Tel Aviv University scientists reduce

metastatic spread following tumor

removal surgery

A research group from Tel Aviv University (TAU)

successfully reduced metastatic spread following

tumor removal surgery in...

Successful school instruction is digital

Secondary school students perform better in natural

sciences and mathematics and are more motivated

when digital tools are...

New tools in the fight against lethal citrus

disease

IMAGE: Simplified metabolic model and its striking

similarity to a road map. view more Credit:

MetalloVander...

Fragmented forests: Tree cover, urban

sprawl both increased in Southeast

Michigan over the past 30 years

The extent of Southeast Michigan’s tree canopy and

its urban sprawl both increased between 1985 and

2015, according...

How maths modelling helps efforts to

eradicate banana bunchy top virus, QUT

study

Modelling the predicted movements of pervasive

sap-sucking tiny insects before they infest banana

crops has the potential...

Gulf war illness, chronic fatigue

syndrome distinct illnesses, Georgetown

study suggests

WASHINGTON – A brain imaging study of veterans

with Gulf War illness (GWI) and patients with chronic

fatigue syndrome...

How fish stocks will change in warming

seas

IMAGE: Fishing boat view more Credit: Katherine

Maltby New research out today highlights the future

effects...

UT southwestern levels the playing field

for testicular cancer patients

IMAGE: Aditya Bagrodia, M.D. view more Credit:

UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – Aug.

10, 2020...

Study finds ATV-related head and neck

injuries among youth continue to remain

high

This summer, children and teens will be spending

more time outside. For some, this will include riding

all-terrain vehicles...

How to boost tips and donations with the

dueling preference approach

Researchers from University of Missouri-Kansas

City, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and

University of Pennsylvania published...

KIST finds clue to improve artificial vision

for patients with retinitis pigmentosa

IMAGE: (A) Schematic illustration of retinal

prosthesis showing perception of the word ‘KIST’.

Electric...

New treatment targets found for blinding

retinal disease

IMAGE: Drs. Ruth Caldwell, Yuqing Huo and Zhiping

Liu. view more Credit: Phil Jones, Senior

Photographer,...

Berkeley Lab science snapshots

IMAGE: Berkeley Lab researcher Bin Wang view

more Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab Scientists

Say: Expect...

"Ample evidence" that Cape Hatteras

beach closures benefit birds

The barrier islands of North Carolina’s Cape

Hatteras National Seashore are among the most

popular recreational destinations...

Coronavirus: Moral duty to get all

children back in school

There is a “moral duty” to get all children back into

schools in England next month, Boris Johnson has

said. Writing...

New studies highlight racial disparities

among stroke patients with COVID-19

FAIRFAX, Va. — Two new studies indicate that

racial disparities related to outcomes exist among

stroke patients, including...

Study finds benefit in more frequent HIV

screenings for young men who have sex

with men

A new study has found that HIV screening every

three months compared to annually will improve

clinical outcomes and be cost-effective...

Unveiled: A channel SARS-CoV-2 may

use to proceed with viral replication in

the host cell

By visualizing coronavirus replication in an infected

host cell, researchers may have answered a longstanding

question about...

Chemotherapy is used to treat less than

25% of people with localized sarcoma

FINDINGS UCLA researchers have found that

chemotherapy is not commonly used when treating

Credible assumptions replace missing

data in COVID analysis

ITHACA, N.Y. – How contagious is COVID-19, and

how severe is the virus for those who’ve caught it?

adults with localized sarcoma,...

Everyone wants...

Arecibo Observatory returns from

tropical storm Isaias lockdown to track

asteroid for NASA

IMAGE: Radar range-Doppler image of 2020 NK1

reveals an elongated asteroid approximately 1 km

(0.6 mi) along the longest...

Study shows variation in hospital visitor

& ICU communication policies due to

COVID-19

Four months ago, Michigan glowed red on COVID-

19 maps. Hundreds of patients packed hospital

intensive care units in the southern...

Scientists use CRISPR to knock down

gene messages early in development

IMAGE: The development of mRNA knock-down

technologies for use in vertebrate organisms such

as zebrafish has been limited....

Why do so many refugees move after

arrival? Opportunity and community

What do you think of when you hear the word

“refugee”? For many people, what comes to mind is

vulnerability–you...

Scientists develop principles for the

creation of an "acoustic diode"

In research published in Science Advances, a group

led by scientists from the RIKEN Center for

Emergent Matter Science (CEMS)...

Transgender and gender-diverse

individuals more likely to be autistic

Transgender and gender-diverse adults are three to

six times more likely as cisgender adults (individuals

whose gender identity...

New Zealand’s Southern Alps glacier melt

has doubled

IMAGE: Rob Roy glacier in the Matukituki valley in

December 2018; this glacier on steep hillslopes is

now disconnected...

Does physician burnout, depression,

career satisfaction differ by

race/ethnicity?

What The Study Did: This survey study of U.S.

physicians examined whether there were differences

by race/ethnicity in burnout,...

Heart attack case rates, treatment

approaches, outcomes during COVID-19

pandemic

What The Study Did: The increases and decreases

in patient volume and associated changes in

treatment experienced by individuals...

Intranasal vaccine platform has potential

for more effective vaccines, fewer side

effects

IMAGE: An image of self-assembled peptide

nanofibers, which are currently under investigation

for engineered vaccines. ...

Coronavirus: Moral duty to get all

children back in school

There is a “moral duty” to get all children back into

schools in England next month, Prime Minister Boris

Johnson...

Potentially predictive humoral immune

response markers in COVID-19 patients

Galit Alter, PhD, Group Leader at the Ragon

Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard and Professor of

Medicine at Harvard Medical...

Study finds parents can help kids eat

healthier by knowing their own sense of

self-control

EUGENE, Ore. – Aug. 7, 2020 – Young children

naturally like sugar and salt in food and develop

food preferences...

Hubble makes the first observation of a

total lunar eclipse by a space telescope

IMAGE: Taking advantage of a total lunar eclipse in

January 2019, astronomers using the NASA/ESA

Hubble Space Telescope...

Researchers discover how plants

distinguish beneficial from harmful

microbes

IMAGE: Scientists have discovered that legumes

use small, well-defined motifs in LysM receptors to

read signals produced...

Huge ring-like structure on Ganymede’s

surface may have been caused by violent

impact

IMAGE: The Dark Terrain and Bright Terrain areas

can be recognized, with concurrent furrows present

in these Dark Terrains. ...

Scientists introduce FlowRACS for highthroughput

discovery of enzymes

IMAGE: Schematic illustration of the FlowRACS

platform and instrument view more Credit: WANG

Xixian Enzymes...

Epirubicin-loaded nanomedicines beat

immune checkpoint blockade resistance

in glioblastoma

Summary: A nanomedicine-based strategy for

chemo-immunotherapy (CIT) of glioblastoma (GBM),

which has the worst prognosis...

Machine learning research may help find

new tungsten deposits in SW England

IMAGE: Quartz vein containing wolframite (black) –

this is the most important tungsten-bearing mineral

in SW...

Is it ethical to infect volunteers with

Covid-19 to test a vaccine?

A crumpled blue shirt and cords, beaten-up brown

lace-ups and five-day stubble – it’s the classic,

bookish Oxford student...

EVE SIMMONS: Why putting calories on

restaurant menus fills me with fear

DR ELLIE CANNON: It is time to give

young people back their freedom

Britain is officially on a diet. After three years of

debates and discussions, the Government has

finally committed to a...

Among the many suggestions floated about how to

curb the rising number of corona cases, one has

sparked particular outrage...

HEALTH NOTES: Covid-proof clip makes

cancer check-ups safe

HEALTH NOTES: Covid-proof clip makes cancer

check-ups safe By Mail on Sunday Reporter

Published: 17:00 EDT, 8 August 2020...

The ‘Epipen’ that stops migraines before

they start

Severe migraine sufferers could soon be given an

Epipen-style DIY jab containing a powerful drug that

stops attacks before...

Did we go into lockdown for no reason

and are the mask rebels putting us at risk

of a second wave?

Local lockdowns, new travel restrictions and

outbreaks across the country; in France, almost

2,000 new cases in 24 hours;...

New test better predicts which babies will

develop type 1 diabetes

Scientists at seven international sites have followed

7,798 children at high risk of developing type 1

diabetes from birth,...

Authors’ ‘invisible’ words reveal blueprint

for storytelling

When telling a story, common but invisible words —

a, the, it — are used in certain ways and at certain

moments....

Chemist’s new process fast-tracks drug

treatments for viral infections and cancer

For the past 50 years, scientists have used

humanmade, synthetic and nucleoside analogues to

create drug therapies for diseases...

New-generation CO2 gas separation

system using gate-type adsorbents

IMAGE: Scientists in Japan designed a gate-type

adsorbent tower system that captures and separates

mixed gases, CO2,...

Genetic cause of congenital malformation

discovered

IMAGE: (from left) Prof. Dr. Heiko Reutter, Prof. Dr.

Benjamin Odermatt and Magdalena Rieke from the

University of...

COVID-19 crisis exposes imbalance in EU

state aid for aviation sector

Dr Steven Truxal, a Reader in The City Law School,

says the COVID-19 crisis has exposed an

imbalance in EU state aid for...

Subpolar marginal seas play a key role in

making the subarctic Pacific nutrient-rich

IMAGE: The research vessels Professor

Multanovskiy of Russia and Hakuho Maru of Japan

traveled to the marginal seas...

Oldest enzyme in cellular respiration

isolated

IMAGE: Ph.D. student Dragan Trifunovic with a big

bottle and a small test tube containing cultured

Thermotoga maritima...

Novel approach reduces SCA1 symptoms

in animal model

Research has shown that a mutation in the ATAXIN-

1 gene leads to accumulation of Ataxin-1 (ATXN1)

protein in brain cells...

Updating Turing’s model of pattern

formation

In 1952, Alan Turing published a study which

described mathematically how systems composed

of many living organisms can form...

Florida current is weaker now than at any

point in the past century

A key component of the Gulf Stream has markedly

slowed over the past century–that’s the conclusion

of a new research...

Hydroxychloroquine being ‘discarded

prematurely’, say scientists

A trial investigating the drug hydroxychloroquine as

a preventative treatment against Covid-19 may

never find out if it’s...

NHS protest by nurses and health staff

over pay rise ‘snub’

Hundreds of nurses and NHS staff in Wales are

protesting at being excluded from a recent pay rise

announcement. Grassroot...

Coronavirus: Face covering use

expanded in England and Scotland

Face coverings have become mandatory in more

indoor settings in England and Scotland following a

recent spike in coronavirus...

Coronavirus: Randox recalls up to

750,000 test kits over safety concerns

Up to 750,000 unused coronavirus testing kits are

being recalled due to safety concerns. The UK’s

medicines and healthcare...

Taste bud cells might not be a target of

SARS-CoV-2

Viruses cause infection by invading specific cells in

the body and reproducing, often damaging or killing

those cells in...

New findings on enzymes with important

role in SARS-CoV-2 infection

The article presents a large-scale, systematic

evaluation of angiotensin I converting enzyme 2

(ACE2) expression in more...

Three-quarters of migrants traveling to

US through Mexico experience food

Making N-C bond directly from N2:

summary and perspective

insecurity

This study by researchers at Columbia University

Mailman School of Public Health, School of Public

Health of Mexico, and...

Researchers find link between Atlantic

hurricanes and weather system in East

Asia

IMAGE: Climate researchers led by the University of

Iowa have found a link between hurricanes that form

in the Atlantic...

IMAGE: The relationship between coordination

modes of dinitrogen complexes and the reaction

types of N-C bond formation....

Treatment option improves chances of

survival for babies with rare

cerebrovascular disorder

FAIRFAX, Va. — Endovascular treatment of vein of

Galen aneurysmal malformation (VGAM) in babies

with severe pulmonary...

NASA sounding rocket finds helium

structures in sun’s atmosphere

IMAGE: A composite image of the Sun showing the

hydrogen (left) and helium (center and right) in the

low corona. The...

Highly sensitive dopamine detector uses

2D materials

IMAGE: Schematic of a highly selective dopamine

detector using two-dimensional material. view more

Credit:...

checkmate 743 shows that dual

immunotherapy, nivolumab + ipilimumab

Denver–(Embargoed for 7 a.m. EST August 8,

2020) The combination of first-line nivolumab and

ipilimumab demonstrated...

Phase 3 eXalt3 study shows significantly

longer progression-free survival


2020)–Patients with non-small cell lung cancer

(NSCLC) carrying anaplastic...

Addition of sintilimab to pemetrexed and

platinum improved progression-free

survival


2020)–The interim analysis of ORIENT-11, a phase

III double-blind...

More than 100 Americans have died after

taking hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19

More than 100 Americans have died after taking

hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 despite Donald

Trump insisting people had...

4 killed in Arizona and New Mexico

drinking toxic hand sanitizer

Eleven people were hospitalized in Arizona and New

Mexico, and four died, after drinking toxic hand

sanitizer, a new report...

Body weight has surprising, alarming

impact on brain function

One of the largest studies linking obesity with brain

dysfunction, scientists analyzed over 35,000

functional neuroimaging...

COVID-19 should be treated as an acute

inflammatory disease, scientist suggests

In a critical literature review, among the 20 mostread

articles published in the Journal of Immunology

in May 2020, Manjili...

New CT scanning method may improve

heart massage

A research collaboration between the Department of

Forensic Medicine at Aarhus University, Denmark,

and the East Midlands...

COVID-19: The long road to recovery

They include fatigue, breathlessness, psychological

distress — including problems with concentration

and memory —...

New reporter mouse strain offers

powerful genetic tool to identify P2X2-

expressing cells

In an eNeuro paper published July 15, University of

South Florida Health Morsani College of Medicine

researchers describe...

COVID recovery choices shape future

climate

This is despite the sudden reduction of greenhouse

gas emissions and air pollutants during lockdown

having a negligible impact...

Modifying BACTRAC protocol provides

first chance to study local leukocyte

populations during stroke

FAIRFAX, Va. — Expanding standard techniques

during mechanical thrombectomy — a procedure

that removes a clot...

Smartwatch tracks medication levels to

personalize treatments

A study detailing the research was published in

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In general, medications...

Experts urge evaluation of diet at routine

check-ups

“Dietary patterns and quality are not sufficiently

prioritized when addressing modifiable risk factors

during regular...

Skoltech supercomputer helps scientists

reveal most influential parameters for

crop

IMAGE: A heatmap of the impact of key soil

parameters on yield view more Credit: Pavel

Odinev / Skoltech Nowadays,...

Layer of nanoparticles could improve

LED performance and lifetime

Adding a layer of nanoparticles to LED designs

could help them produce more light for the same

energy, and also increase...

Materials science researchers develop

first electrically injected laser

IMAGE: Fisher Yu, University of Arkansas view

more Credit: University of Arkansas Materials

science researchers,...

Russian developers created a platform

for self-testing of AI medical services

IMAGE: The first working prototype of the platform is

hosted on the popular GitHub service, and

developers from all...

Sugar-based signature identifies T cells

where HIV hides despite antiretroviral

therapy

IMAGE: Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen view more

Credit: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA —

(August 4, 2020)...

Integration of gene regulatory networks

in understanding animal behavior

IMAGE: Saurabh Sinha, Director of Computational

Genomics and computer science professor at

University of Illinois ...

Inexpensive, accessible device provides

visual proof that masks block droplets

DURHAM, N.C. – Duke physician Eric Westman

was one of the first champions of masking as a

means to curtail the spread...

Separated twins’ parents thank

Colchester nurses for pictures

The parents of twin boys treated in hospitals 60

miles (97km) apart thanked staff for sending them

video updates. Jane and...

Coronavirus: Cancer survivor calls

mammogram refusal ‘ageist’

A breast cancer survivor refused a mammogram

because she is over 70 said it was an “ageist” policy.

Janet Wilkie,...

Coronavirus: NHS England scales back

private sector deal

NHS England has announced it is to end the deal

that gave it access to more than 90% of private

hospitals’ beds, staff...

Virus cases ‘may be levelling off’ in

England, figures suggest

The number of people in England testing positive for

coronavirus may be levelling off, according to a

household survey by...

How your diet could be affecting your hair

and scalp

Is there a dandruff diet? Top trichologist Stephanie

Sey explains how what you eat could affect your hair

and scalp By Emily...

Pfizer Inc signs multi-year deal to

manufacture Gilead’s coronavirus

antiviral remdesivir

Pfizer Inc signs multi-year deal to manufacture

Gilead’s coronavirus antiviral remdesivir to boost

production of the...

Woman shares terrifying postpartum

psychosis experience

A London mother is sharing the details of her

terrifying experience with postpartum psychosis in a

new memoir, revealing...

Feeling dizzy after standing up may

indicate dementia risk

Feeling dizzy after you stand up may be a predictor

of dementia in later life, a study has claimed. The

complaint is caused...

Tory MPs write to Matt Hancock over

Manchester mayor lockdown claims

Tory MPs have clashed with Manchester mayor

Andy Burnham over his claims that it would be

‘impossible’ to lift...

UK’s coronavirus death toll could have

topped 100,000 if we didn’t stay at home,

study suggests

More than 100,000 people could have died from

coronavirus in Britain if ministers didn’t tell people to

stay at home,...

Coronavirus England: 3,700 infected

every day

The coronavirus reproduction rate could now be as

high as one right across the UK after rising slightly in

the last week,...

Coronavirus UK: 871 more cases and 98

deaths

Coronavirus cases in Britain have been on the up for

three weeks – with 835 Britons now getting

diagnosed each day,...

A titanate nanowire mask that can

eliminate pathogens

Researchers in Forró’s lab are working on a

promising solution to this problem: a membrane

made of titanium oxide...

COVID-19: The virus and the vasculature

The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 infects the

respiratory tract and in severe cases, the infection

can result in lung failure,...

Heavier smoking linked to skyrocketing

health risks

The Australian Centre for Precision Health based at

the University of South Australia led the study, which

links heavier...

Lead poisoning could reduce gene

expression in humans

Lead poisoning is a well-documented disease, the

incidence of which has drastically reduced since the

use of lead has been...

Pinpointing the cells that keep the body’s

master circadian clock ticking

“This is a really important technical resource for

advancing the study of circadian rhythms,” says

study leader...

Measuring electron emission from

irradiated biomolecules

Newly discovered mutation could point to

heart disease therapeutic target

When fast-moving ions cross paths with large

biomolecules, the resulting collisions produce many

low-energy electrons which...

“Cardiovascular disease occurs when lipids from the

blood plasma are deposited in the walls of blood

vessels, ultimately...

Strong link found between abnormal liver

tests and poor COVID-19 outcomes

The study appeared online on July 29 in Hepatology.

Previous studies in China found that approximately

15% of patients with...

COVID-19 may have a longer incubation

period, suggests probability analysis of

Wuhan cases

By applying the renewal theory in probability to

reduce recall bias in initial case reports, scientists

have come up with...

Decline in plant breeding programs could

impact food security

IMAGE: A team of scientists led by Kate Evans, a

Washington State University horticulture professor

who leads WSU’s...

Deep-sea misconceptions cause

underestimation of seabed-mining

impacts

IMAGE: A diverse, dense coral community was

present throughout the dive at Debussy Seamount.

Several colonies were...

Scientists discover curious clues in the

war between cf bacteria

IMAGE: Fluorescent Burkholderia. view more

Credit: Cotter lab, UNC School of Medicine Several

different...

Simple approach tested in small group

visually evaluates mask effectiveness

against viral droplets

Using inexpensive and widely available tools,

scientists have developed a simple approach to

visually evaluate how effectively...

Advance in programmable synthetic

materials

IMAGE: Rods of multivariate MOFs (left) can be

programmed with different metal atoms (colored

balls) to do a series...

SFU chemist’s new process fast-tracks

drug treatments for viral infections and

cancer

Discovering antiviral and anticancer drugs will soon

be faster and cheaper thanks to new research from

Simon Fraser University...

Predicting drought in the American West

just got more difficult

People hoping to get a handle on future droughts in

the American West are in for a disappointment, as

new USC-led research...

Koala Babycare Koala Hugs Nursing V

Pillow Review Amazon

‘A must-have for mums-to-be’: Expecting mums are

praising this KHugs maternity pillow for a better

nights sleep...

Eating too much rice increases your risk

of dying from heart disease

Eating too much rice could be fatal as low levels of

arsenic in the grains can increase your risk of dying

from heart disease,...

Coronavirus: Vaccine may be less

effective in obese adults

It’s already well-known that being overweight is a

major risk factor for contracting the novel

coronavirus. But some...

‘Physical stress’ at work linked to signs

of brain aging and memory loss

Scientists have linked on-the-job stress to brain

aging and memory loss for the first time, according

to new research from...

Two thirds of NHS staff ‘lost their sense

of taste or smell during coronavirus peak’

Two thirds of staff at one NHS hospital trust lost their

sense of taste or smell during the peak of the

coronavirus epidemic,...

Dominic Cummings’ 260mile trip to

County Durham eroded public trust,

study shows

Dominic Cummings faced the media on May 25 to

give a day-by-day account of his battle against

coronavirus and his controversial...

Fashion model, 27, claims CBD has

helped her ditch medication for crippling

Lyme disease

A former fashion model who’s spent a decade

battling a crippling medical condition that left her

unable to get out...

Thousands could die if normal care is

shut down during second wave, leading

medics warn

Tens of thousands of patients may die if the NHS

shuts down normal care during a second

coronavirus wave, leading medics...

Move over Akita: Introducing ‘Kuma

mutant’ mice for islet transplantation

research

Autism: How a gene alteration modifies

social behavior

Autism occurs in about one percent of the

population and is characterized by alterations in

communication, repetitive behavior...

Implanted neural stem cell grafts show

functionality in spinal cord injuries

Diabetes seldom occurs in newborns — a condition

known as neonatal diabetes. But when it does, it’s

mostly due...

In a new study, published August 5, 2020 in Cell

Stem Cell, researchers at University of California

San Diego School of Medicine...

Education may be protective for people

with gene for familial early onset

Alzheimer’s

About 1-6% of people with Alzheimer’s disease have

rare genes that cause the disease in everyone who

has them. This...

Vitamin D twice a day may keep vertigo

away

“Our study suggests that for people with benign

paroxysmal positional vertigo, taking a supplement

of vitamin D and...

Tasmanian devil research offers new

insights for tackling cancer in humans

The study, published in Genetics on Aug. 1, found a

single genetic mutation that leads to reduced growth

of a transmissible...

Drivers respond to pre-crash warnings

with levels of attentive ‘gaze’

A team of engineers at the University of Missouri

conducted open road testing of three collision

avoidance systems and demonstrated...

Genes related to Down syndrome

abnormalities may protect against solid

tumors

“Our promising preliminary data carries strong

potential for ultimately developing gene-targeted

therapies to inhibit...

Renewables in Europe: Land

requirements can be reduced at low cost

Transitioning our energy supply from coal, oil and

gas to wind and solar power is feasible. However,

renewables require more...

COVID-19

In severe cases of COVID-19, the infection can lead

to obstruction of the blood vessels in the lung, heart

and kidneys. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet...

Stellar egg hunt with ALMA

IMAGE: Wide-field far-infrared image of the Taurus

Molecular Cloud obtained by the Herschel Space

Observatory and stellar...

Success in promoting plant growth for

biodiesel

IMAGE: Fig 1: In the plant cell, actin filaments,

which are cytoskeletal proteins, are stretched

around. Plant myosin...

NSD2 enzyme appears to prevent cellular

senescence

IMAGE: The human body and the cells that make it

up have a “program ” for aging. It is thought that

there...

Origins of life: Chemical evolution in a

tiny Gulf Stream

Chemical reactions driven by the geological

conditions on the early Earth might have led to the

prebiotic evolution of self-replicating...

Alport syndrome: Research highlights

link between genotype and treatment

effectiveness

IMAGE: Genotype-phenotype correlation for renal

survival in Alport syndrome view more Credit: Kobe

University A...

Adding another dimension to a cell

culture model for pulmonary arterial

hypertension

IMAGE: Pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells

derived from patients with pulmonary arterial

hypertension were cultured...

Malaria in Africa: Parasite ‘resistant to

artemisinin’

A drug-resistant strain of the parasite that causes

malaria has been identified by scientists in Rwanda.

The study, published...

Coronavirus: England’s contact-tracing

app readies for launch

A second attempt at a Covid-19 contact-tracing app

for England will soon be tested by members of the

public. Officials hope...

Coronavirus: Asymptomatic cases ‘carry

same amount of virus’

People with symptomless Covid-19 can carry as

much of the virus as those with symptoms, a South

Korean study has suggested. South...

Chemotherapy in cancer patients with

Covid-19 ‘not a risk’

Continuing chemotherapy and immunotherapy

treatment in cancer patients with Covid-19 is not a

risk to their survival, a study...

Coronavirus US: Meat plant outbreak

infected 929 in five weeks

Coronavirus outbreak infected more than 900

workers at a South Dakota meat plant in just FIVE

WEEKS, CDC report reveals CDC...

Gilead says it has ramped up production

of remdesivir by 50-fold

Gilead Sciences Inc says it has ramped up

production of its antiviral remdesivir and expects to

produce millions of vials...

UK pharmacies could be BANNED from

selling codeine

Pharmacies across the UK could be BANNED from

selling codeine over the counter amid growing fears

about painkiller addiction Codeine,...

Freezing embryos after IVF does NOT

boost the chances of becoming pregnant

Hospitalised Covid-19 survivors make the

most antibodies

In-vitro fertilisation, known as IVF, is a medical

procedure in which a woman has an alreadyfertilised

egg inserted into...

Convalescent plasma has been used to treat

infections for at least a century, dating back to the

1918 Spanish flu pandemic. It...

Second wave strikes Europe? Spain

reintroduces lockdown, Greece sees a

worrying rise in cases

A second wave of Covid-19 appears to be striking

Europe, forcing Spain to reimpose lockdowns and

cases spiking to a three-month...

More than 700,000 patients could be left

without access to face-to-face GP

appointments

Hundreds of thousands of patients living in the

poorest areas of the UK could miss out on face-toface

GP appointments due...

COVID-19: Immune system derails

Most patients infected with the coronavirus SARS-

CoV-2 show mild or even no symptoms. However,

10 to 20 percent of those...

Blood test may point to patients at higher

risk for COVID-19 deterioration, death

“When we first started treating COVID-19 patients,

we watched them get better or get worse, but we

didn’t know...

Coronavirus UK: Up to 135k may get

infected A DAY in winter

Up to 135,000 Britons may catch the coronavirus

every day during the peak of the second wave this

December, scientists have...

Peptide makes drug-resistant bacteria

sensitive to antibiotics again

On its own, the synthetic antimicrobial peptide can

also kill bacteria that have grown resistant to

antibiotics. Every year,...

Chemists build natural anti-cancer

compound with lean new process

Through this, they were able to understand how the

bacterial secretion is able to block a piece of

molecular machinery known...

A new tool for modeling the human gut

microbiome

This difficulty is especially pronounced for species

that cannot live in oxygen-rich environments.

However, MIT biological...

DNA from an ancient, unidentified

ancestor was passed down to humans

living today

Roughly 50,000 years ago, a group of humans

migrated out of Africa and interbred with

Neanderthals in Eurasia. But that’s...

Training neural circuits early in

development improves response

Techniques for training engineered neural circuits

usually involve training them after the cells have fully

matured. Using...

Study finds dedicated clinics can reduce

impact of flu pandemic

“Dedicated clinics would have less of an impact than

interventions such as vaccination, but at the

statewide level,...

NASA’s Maven observes martian night

sky pulsing in ultraviolet light

IMAGE: This is an image of the ultraviolet “nightglow

” in the Martian atmosphere. Green and white

false...

Few changes seen in ‘Big Five’

personality traits during early days of

COVID-19 pandemic

A new study suggests that adults experienced few

changes in “Big Five” personality traits as a result of

the...

Study: Most Americans don’t have

enough assets to withstand 3 months

without income

CORVALLIS, Ore. — A new study from Oregon

State University found that 77% of low- to moderateincome

American households...

Study finds high levels of toxic pollutants

in stranded dolphins and whales

IMAGE: Gervais’ beaked whale that stranded in St.

Lucie County in Florida in 2019. (The FAU Harbor

Branch rescue...

Test accurately IDs people whose

gonorrhea can be cured with simple oral

antibiotic

A test designed by UCLA researchers can pinpoint

which people with gonorrhea will respond

successfully to the inexpensive...

The costs and benefits of addressing

customer complaints

Researchers from Michigan State University,

University of South Florida, St. John’s University,

and American Customer...

Chemotherapy for rare cancer fine-tuned

with organoids

WINSTON-SALEM, NC – Aug. 10, 2020, – A

patient-specific tumor organoid model is being used

to identify the most...

The Last unknown

IMAGE: University of Vermont fern expert Michael

Sundue collected this Selaginella on the tropical

island of New Guinea–and...

Couple engaged for 10 years finally marry

at hospital bedside after husband’s

cancer diagnosis

Emotional moment couple engaged for 10 years

finally tie the knot at hospital bedside after husband,

68, was told he has...

Erectile dysfunction drug aviptadil may

also beat Covid-19, experts believe

A drug used for erectile dysfunction has the potential

to treat critically ill Covid-19 patients, scientists say.

Aviptadil...

Coronavirus: Could gum disease make

infection more deadly?

Scientist have discovered a link between lifethreatening

coronavirus infection and gum disease

in new research published...

Coronavirus: Asymptomatic patients

shed just as much of virus

COVID-19 patients with and without symptoms are

equally contagious: Asymptomatic people have just

as much virus in their...

Fears for holidays as travel experts warn

France ‘is highly likely’ to be added to

quarantine list

Thousands of holidays could be at risk as France is

‘highly likely’ to be added to the 14-day quarantine

list...

Menopausal women may be denied entry

to airports using temperature scanners

for Covid-19

Menopausal women may be unfairly denied entry to

airports, pubs and restaurants if they have their

temperature checked, it...

Coronavirus US: Families east of

Portland’s 82nd Avenue at risk

Portland has become a tale of two cities with blacks

and Hispanics living east of 82nd Avenue, also

known as Cascade Highway,...

Coronavirus UK: 950 new cases and 49

deaths in official toll

Coronavirus cases rose to a six-week high in the UK

today as officials announced another 950 people

had tested positive for...

Why the ‘wimpy’ Y chromosome hasn’t

evolved out of existence

“The Y chromosome is generally thought to be

protected from extinction by having important

functions in sex determination...

REM sleep tunes eating behavior

While we are asleep, we transition between different

phases of sleep each of which may contribute

differently to us feeling...

Scientists discover cells that filter and

sharpen spatial signals

Identifying the correct cells IST Austria Professor

Peter Jonas, Xiaomin Zhang, and Alois Schlögl

started to examine neuronal...

Completing the set: ‘Coupon-collection

behavior’ reduces sex-ratio variation

among families

The practice, which the two University of Michigan

biologists who conducted the study dubbed

“coupon-collection behavior”...

Algorithm created by deep learning finds

potential therapeutic targets throughout

genome

The paper was published online this week by the

journal Nature Machine Intelligence. DNA

methylation is involved in many...

Placebos prove powerful even when

people know they’re taking one

A team of researchers from Michigan State

University, University of Michigan and Dartmouth

College is the first to demonstrate...

Provider access to chronic opioid

prescribing resources improves guideline

adherance

Boston – Results of a new study find that providers

participating in an intervention with education and

resources to...

New science behind algae-based flipflops

IMAGE: Commerical-quality biodegradable flip-flops.

view more Credit: Photo courtesy of Stephen

Mayfield,...

Brain waves can be used to predict future

pain sensitivity

The living brain is constantly producing regular

rhythmic patterns of activity, which can be compared

to musical notes. Scientists...

Key to dialogue between brain cells to

protect against stroke

Brain cells talk to one another. This synchronized

cell-to-cell crosstalk regulates neuroinflammation

and the immune system,...

Training neural circuits early in

development improves response, study

finds

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When it comes to training

neural circuits for tissue engineering or biomedical

applications, a new...

A new look at Mars’ eerie, ultraviolet

nighttime glow

IMAGE: Mars’ nightglow as seen above the planet’s

polar ice cap. view more Credit: LASP Every...

Electric cooker an easy, efficient way to

sanitize N95 masks, study finds

IMAGE: One 50-minute, 212 F cooking cycle in a

dry electric multicooker decontaminates an N95

respirator without chemicals...

Brain noise contains unique signature of

dream sleep

Are we medically intervening in maternity

care when we don’t need to?

When we dream, our brains are filled with noisy

electrical activity that looks nearly identical to that of

the awake brain. But...

Are we medically intervening in maternity care when

we don’t need to? Researchers from the School of

Nursing and Midwifery...

People who feel dizzy when they stand up

may have higher risk of dementia

MINNEAPOLIS – Some people who feel dizzy or

lightheaded when they stand up may have an

increased risk of developing...

Coronavirus: How does test-and-trace

work?

Angry Beirut residents demand answers after blast

People in Lebanon call for justice after a blast that

left at least 137...

Coronavirus: University life may ‘pose

further risk’ to young shielders

Angry Beirut residents demand answers after blast

People in Lebanon call for justice after a blast that

left at least 137...

Coronavirus: Safety concerns halt use of

50 million NHS masks

Fifty million face masks bought by the government in

April will not be used in the NHS because of safety

concerns. The government...

Up to half a million Britons are suffering

the effects of ‘long Covid’, MPs told

Up to 500,000 Brits are suffering from psychosis,

fatigue and loss of eyesight after recovering from

coronavirus, MPs have...

Cases of gout are spiralling at an

‘astonishing’ rate across the world

Cases of gout are spiralling at an ‘astonishing’ rate

across the world with 41million people now living

with...

Fauci says US has the worst COVID-19

outbreak in the world

Dr Anthony Fauci says the ‘numbers don’t lie’ when

it comes to coronavirus in the United States and

acknowledged...

Thousands of Covid-19 deaths ‘to be

wiped off the government’s official toll’

after counting fiasco

Thousands of coronavirus deaths are set to be

wiped from the government’s official count, it was

claimed today. Health...

Coronavirus cases continued to fall after

some lockdown measures were eased in

June

Coronavirus cases continued to fall after some

lockdown measures were eased, a major study

revealed today. Some 123...

Cannabis is bad for your HEART: Doctors

warn using the drug can trigger heart

attacks and strokes

Cannabis is bad for the heart and may trigger heart

attacks and strokes, doctors have warned. The

American Heart Association...

Hydroxychloroquine could save tens of

thousands of lives from Covid-19 but it’s

been politicised

Hydroxychloroquine could prevent tens of thousands

of people from dying from coronavirus but the drug

has been too...

Scientists behind trial of coronavirussniffing

dogs issue plea for worn T-shirts

and socks

Scientists behind a trial of coronavirus-sniffing dogs

have issued a plea for worn T-shirts and socks from

patients with...

New study on development of

Parkinson’s disease is ‘on the nose’

In the central nervous system, the sensory neurons

that line the nasal epithelium are particularly

susceptible to neuroinflammatory...

Language may undermine women in

science and tech

Molly Lewis, special faculty at CMU and her

research partner, Gary Lupyan, associate professor

at University of Wisconsin-Madison,...

How climate change affects allergies,

immune response and autism

IMAGE: Xue Ming, professor of neurology at

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School view more

Credit: Rutgers University Climate...

Warming climate may trigger more West

Nile outbreaks in Southern California

IMAGE: A new study by researchers at the

University of California, Berkeley, finds that infection

rates of mosquitos...

Influenza A virus directly modulates

eosinophil responses

Eosinophils residing in the airways of mice respond

to influenza A virus (IAV) infection through

alterations in surface expression...

Herbivores, not predators, most at risk of

extinction

IMAGE: An African Elephant walks through the

drying streambed of Chitake Springs as the drought

season descends on...

Turning carbon dioxide into liquid fuel

IMAGE: Artistic rendering of electrocatalytic process

for conversion of carbon dioxide and water into

ethanol. ...

New study may refine predicted survival

outcomes and treatment in younger

adults with acute leukemia

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The findings of a new study led

by researchers at The Ohio State University

Comprehensive Cancer Center...

Non-invasive nerve stimulation boosts

learning of foreign language sounds

IMAGE: Illustration of the vagus nerve view more

Credit: Kenneth Probst/UCSF PITTSBURGH, Aug.

6, 2020 –...

Coronavirs US: Only 42% plan on getting

vaccine

Only 42% of Americans now plan on getting a

coronavirus vaccine – down from 55% who wanted

the shot in May with one-third...

Genes related to down syndrome

abnormalities may protect against solid

tumors

Scientists from Stanley Manne Children’s Research

Institute at Ann Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital

of Chicago...

Baby boomers’ cognitive functions 3.5%

WORSE than parents’

From the ‘greatest generation’ to the war babies,

Americans’ cognitive functions – mental skills...

This heated Shiatsu Neck and Shoulder

Massager is now on sale on Amazon

‘Like having your own personal masseuse’: This

heated Shiatsu Neck and Shoulder Massager is now

on sale on Amazon...

Experimental MS drug prevents relapses

in nine out of 10 patients

A life-changing treatment for the devastating

autoimmune condition, multiple sclerosis (MS), may

be on the horizon after...

Social distancing may be GOOD for the

economy as it makes people more

comfortable to go out

Social distancing measures to control the spread of

coronavirus ‘make people feel safer spending

money and working’...

Cannabinoids may affect activity of other

pharmaceuticals

Kent Vrana, professor and chair of pharmacology at

the College of Medicine, and Paul Kocis, a

pharmacist at Penn State Health...

Two doses of Moderna’s coronavirus

vaccine protected mice from infection for

13 WEEKS

Two doses of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine

protected mice from infection for 13 WEEKS – and a

single shot blocked...

Younger Covid-19 patients ‘more likely to

lose sense of smell and taste’ than older

patients

Younger people with COVID-19 are more likely to

lose their sense of smell and taste than older

patients, a new study has...

Coronavirus: Professor, 52, volunteers to

take Moderna vaccine

It was no routine shot in the arm. Last week

university professor Gary Stradiotto became one of

30,000 volunteers helping...

Energy demands limit our brains’

information processing capacity

The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience,

found that paying attention can change how the

brain allocates its limited...

‘Deepfakes’ ranked as most serious AI

crime threat

The study, published in Crime Science and funded

by the Dawes Centre for Future Crime at UCL (and

available as a policy briefing),...

How thoughts could one day control

electronic prostheses, wirelessly

The team has been focusing on improving a braincomputer

interface, a device implanted beneath the

skull on the surface of...

Molecular forces: The surprising

stretching behavior of DNA

Experiments with DNA molecules show that their

mechanical properties are completely different from

what those of macroscopic...

Scientists discover the switch that makes

human brown fat burn energy

Brown fat burns energy and generates heat — a

process called thermogenesis — after being

activated by cold temperature...

The yin and yang of inflammation

controlled by a single molecule

“Our work shows that HDAC3 is key to the innate

immune response due to the yin and yang of its

responsibilities —...

Land use changes may increase disease

outbreak risks

The findings, published in Nature, may have

implications for future spillovers of diseases

originating in animal hosts. The...

Organoids help bridge gap between

laboratory study and animal modeling of

disease

WINSTON-SALEM, NC — Aug. 6, 2020 —

Scientists at the Wake Forest Institute for

Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM)...

Promising new research identifies novel

approach for controlling defects in 3D

printing

With its ability to yield parts with complex shapes

and minimal waste, additive manufacturing has the

potential to revolutionize...

A ‘Devonian’ aquarium: Modern mutant

fishes replicate creatures of ancient

oceans

Citizen scientists help geologists to

identify earthquakes and tectonic tremors

AUDIO: Audio file of an earthquake, sped up 800

times view more Credit: The authors It is not yet

IMAGE: Skeleton of a mutant (top) and normal

zebrafish, showing the structural differences with the

jaw. view...

possible...

Childhood connection to nature has many

benefits but is not universally positive,

finds review

The review, published in the British Ecological

Society Journal People and Nature, is the first to

focus on nature connection...

Make the best of bad reviews by

leveraging consumer empathy

Researchers from Nanyang Technical University,

University of Washington, and University of British

Columbia published a new...

Children’s pester power a future target for

interventions

AUDIO: Lead investigator Taren Swindle, PhD,

discusses a new study that highlights how children’s

pester power...

First food-grade intermediate wheatgrass

released

IMAGE: UMN Kernza researcher Prabin Bajgain

evaluating intermediate wheatgrass in selection

nursery at St. Paul, MN...

Coronavirus: What are the risks of

opening schools?

The current plan is to have most children back in

school across the UK by September. But, with winter

and fears of a resurgence...

Obesity not defined by weight, says new

Canada guideline

Obesity should be defined by a person’s health – not

just their weight, says a new Canadian clinical

guideline. It...

Autism in children: ‘Many families face

council discrimination’

More than a quarter of English councils are acting

unlawfully by discriminating against children with

autism, according to...

Two-thirds shielding happy to return to

work, ONS figures suggest

Two-thirds of people who have been shielding from

the coronavirus in England say they are comfortable

going back to work...

Coronavirus: US ‘must drop below 10k

daily cases next month’

The United States needs to drive new COVID-19

cases downwards to under 10,000 per day by next

month or risk a catastrophic...

‘Stay at Home’ messaging ‘may have led

to a spike in heart attack deaths’

Ministers were praised for their simple and effective

slogan, ‘Stay at Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives’

Deaths...

Doctors warn of a devastating toll on nonvirus

patients who face delays in

diagnosis and care

Lockdown has taken a huge toll on Britain’s wider

health, doctors warn, with two-thirds saying nonvirus

patients have...

Coronavirus UK: Preston set to be next

city in local lockdown

Preston could be forced back into lockdown within

days amid a spike in coronavirus cases, according

to local public health...

Britain records 892 more coronavirus

cases and 65 deaths

Britain’s coronavirus outbreak is still growing as

officials recorded another 892 cases today —

causing the average...

Unborn babies could be at risk of

catching COVID-19 in the womb

Unborn babies could be at risk of catching COVID-

19 in the womb at just two weeks old if their mother

becomes infected, study...

Charity warns of an ‘alarming’ drop in

number of over-65s getting diagnosed

with dementia

The number of people being diagnosed with

Alzheimer’s has dropped during the coronavirus

pandemic, figures show. Just...

Coronavirus UK: 68% of ‘shielded’ happy

to return to workplace

Two thirds of vulnerable workers who were shielding

to avoid getting Covid-19 are happy to go back to

offices and factories,...

New strategy against osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is caused by excessive activity of

bone resorbing cells, while activity of bone-forming

cells is reduced. In...

How tumor cells evade the immune

defense

Cancer cells differ from healthy body cells — in their

appearance, their behavior and the genes that are

active in...

To bond with nature, kids need solitary

activities outdoors

COVID-19 vaccine shows promise in

mouse studies

Scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and

Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National

Institutes of Health,...

Researchers discover predictor of laser

treatment success in patients with

glaucoma

“There’s been a lack of evidence about how well

SLT works, how safe it is and the ideal candidate,”

said...

Discovery shows promise for treating

Huntington’s Disease

In addition to these independent activities,

researchers led by an investigator from North

Carolina State University reported...

Huntington disease is a progressive and

aggressively debilitating brain disorder that causes

uncontrolled movements, psychological...

New light on how ovarian cancer grows

and evolves

The paper, “Multi-omic analysis of subtype evolution

and heterogeneity in high-grade serous ovarian

carcinoma”...

Gut microbes shape our antibodies

before we are infected by pathogens

In a research article published in the journal Nature,

Dr. Hai Li, Dr. Julien Limenitakis, Prof. Stephanie

Ganal-Vonarburg...

Joint ASU-Hawaii state study reveals

long-term human impacts on reef fish

IMAGE: A school of fish swim amongst healthy coral

reefs in South Kona, Hawaii Island. view more

Credit: Greg...

Career-readiness through crossdisciplinary

project-based learning

WSU Everett faculty members from the Edward R.

Murrow College of Communication, the Voiland

College of Engineering Architecture...

Quality suffers for audit offices with

clients from different industries, study

shows

IMAGE: Erik Beardsley, assistant professor of

accountancy at Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of

Business. ...

Online ‘booster’ improves attitudes

toward hearing health among farm youths

Researchers at the University of Michigan are

interested in changing the behavior of some 2

million farm youths affected...

How cells keep growing even when under

attack

IMAGE: Biochemist Peter Chien, reports on recent

experiments and discovery about how bacteria

switch gears to respond...

Will automated vehicles cut parking

revenue?

IMAGE: This figure shows the non-linear nature of

the association between parking occupancy and

TNC trips: The positive...

Waning attention to climate change amid

pandemic could have lasting effects

On Sept. 23, 2019, then-16-year-old climate activist

Greta Thunberg stood before a sea of news

cameras at the United Nations...

Dementia risk falls for millions as chance

of developing the disease is now 13%

lower than 2010

Dementia rates among men are falling three times

quicker than they are in women, according to a

major study. Harvard University...

Why DID we let millions into Britain

unchecked, MPs ask as a major report is

published

No 10’s ‘inexplicable’ decision to lift quarantine at

height of pandemic: MPs’ damning report

condemns...

HDAC6 can control tumor growth and halt

metastasis in triple-negative breast

cancer

WASHINGTON (Aug. 5, 2020) — Genetic modifier

HDAC6 was found to control tumor growth and halt

metastasis in triple-negative...

Keir Starmer warns PM has a MONTH to

fix the NHS test and trace system

Keir Starmer warns Boris Johnson has a MONTH to

fix the NHS test and trace system or the UK will face

a ‘long bleak...

Schools must stay open ahead of pubs

and shops, Children’s Commissioner

says

‘Shut pubs, not schools’: Children’s Commissioner

demands classrooms stay open with increased

testing even...

Banning all travel is better at controlling a

pandemic than reopening with quarantine

International travel bans can be three times as

effective at controlling the spread of coronavirus

than quarantining incoming...

GPs cannot refuse to treat patients who

refuse to wear a face covering

GPs aren’t allowed to refuse to treat patients who

won’t cover their face, according to controversial

new NHS...

How deadly is Covid-19? Italian study

finds mortality rate is 7.4% while Qatari

study says 0.01%

Scientists still cannot agree on how deadly Covid-19

is — with fresh data from Italy suggesting it may kill

up to 7.4 per...

Doctors warn of spike in shortsightedness

caused by staring at screens

to relieve boredom

Coronavirus lockdowns could have damaged the

eyesight of thousands of people, scientists have

warned. Another study has discovered...

Hydrogel paves way for biomedical

breakthrough

To function optimally in the body, a manufactured

implant — whether it be an artificial hip, a fabricated

spinal disc...

Your hair knows what you eat and how

much your haircut costs

A study led by University of Utah researchers finds

that this record reveals a divergence in diet

according to socioeconomic...

An averted glance gives a glimpse of the

mind behind the eyes

Doubt cast on wisdom of targeting ‘bad’

cholesterol to curb heart disease risk

Psychologists at Yale and Harvard have now found

a new way to study this mystery by examining the

universal and embarrassing...

If anything, it is failing to identify many of those at

high risk while most likely including those at low risk,

who don’t...

Some asthma drug can boost sprint and

strength performance in athletes

The performance-enhancing qualities of ß2-agonists

seem to be greater when taken by mouth rather than

when inhaled, the...

Strong relationships in adulthood won’t

‘fix’ effects of early childhood adversity

Published in the Proceedings of the National

Academy of Sciences, the research sheds light on

the long-term effects of experiences...

Researcher seeks safer, more effective

leukemia treatment

The procedure is known as a haploidentical (halfmatched)

bone marrow transplantation, or “haplo-

BMT,” providng...

Antibiotics linked to higher heart disease

risk in individuals with type 1 diabetes

Results from a study published in the Journal of

Internal Medicine suggest that bacterial infections

may elevate the risk...

Are vultures spreaders of microbes that

put human health at risk?

IMAGE: A new analysis published in IBIS examines

whether bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms

that are present...

Study suggests pregnancy and ovarian

function are risk factors for coronary

artery disease

CLEVELAND, Ohio (August 5, 2020)–Coronary

artery disease (CAD) is a leading cause of death in

both men and women. Women...

COVID-19 rates higher among minority,

socioeconomically disadvantaged

children

Minority and socioeconomically disadvantaged

children have significantly higher rates of COVID-19

infection, a new study...

Chronic pain: Antidepressants not

painkillers recommended

Doctors are being advised not to prescribe common

painkillers, including paracetamol and ibuprofen, for

patients with chronic...

Exposure to common cold coronaviruses

can teach the immune system to

recognize SARS-CoV-2

Now, a new study led by scientists at La Jolla

Institute for Immunology (LJI) shows that memory

helper T cells that recognize...

Neuroendocrine markers of grief

Researchers have examined what’s currently known

about the neuroendocrine effects of grief and

whether biological factors...

Did the election of Donald Trump affect

Europeans’ support for US trade

agreement?

A survey conducted immediately before and after

the 2016 US presidential election reveals that the

election of Donald Trump...

Increase in immigration has little impact

on the wages of US citizens

A new study in Review of Economic Studies

suggests that a large increase in the stock of

immigrants to the United States...

Smartphones prove to be time-saving

analytical tools

IMAGE: Experimental set up showing soil sample on

a 3D-printed turntable with cell phone. A light

provides consistent...

NHS: MPs pilot system to measure

delivery of key pledges

MPs are to launch a new system for evaluating

whether key health targets are being met in

England. A panel of experts reporting...

Schools ‘must come before pubs and

restaurants in future’

Schools should only close after pubs, restaurants

and non-essential shops in any future lockdown, the

children’s commissioner...

Coronavirus: Ethnic minorities ‘overexposed’

to Covid-19

People from ethnic minority backgrounds in Britain

“face greater barriers” when trying to protect

themselves...

Large study debunks myth that Vitamin D

reduces risk of mood disorders

Vitamin D will not protect you from depression:

Large study debunks myth that the ‘sunshine

supplement’ reduces...

Coronavirus US: 33 states where over 5%

tests are positive

At least 33 US states have more than five percent of

all coronavirus tests coming back positive, a new

report reveals. These...

Prisoner turnover at one jail linked to 15%

of Chicago covid cases

Prisons and jails number among the top hotspots for

coronavirus outbreaks in the US – and new Harvard

University research...

More than 60% of Americans are waiting

more than three days for their COVID-19

test results

Five percent of Americans are waiting TWO WEEKS

for their COVID-19 test results and it takes more

than 60 percent of patients...

Coronavirus: Droplets can travel further

than thought through air

More evidence coronavirus can spread through the

air: Scientists find droplets of all sizes can scatter

the virus in unpredictable...

COVID-19 study in Australia confirms low

transmission in educational settings

Researchers from the National Centre for

Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS)

and the University of Sydney released...

Assembly within the tumor center

Immune cells significantly influence the course of

tumors. Depending on the cell type, they can both

promote and inhibit...

Green energy and better crops: Tinted

solar panels on greenhouses

By allowing farmers to diversify their portfolio, this

novel system could offer financial protection from

fluctuations in...

Scientists develop new way to deliver

more drugs through the skin

In a paper published in Science Advances, the

researchers showed that bringing together two

magnets so that they pinch and...

An easier way to go veggie: Vitamin B12

can be produced during dough

fermentation

“In situ fortification of B12 via fermentation could be

a more cost-effective alternative. And as a

commonly consumed...

Rethink needed for treatment of Severe

and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa

Researchers from Flinders University and the

University of Adelaide studied a group of women in

South Australia who have...

Consumers don’t fully trust smart home

technologies

The ‘smart home’ can be defined as the integration

of Internet-enabled, digital devices with sensors and

machine...

New study shows how infrared lasers

destroy harmful protein aggregates in

Alzheimer’s

In recent years, instead of going down the chemical

route using drugs, some scientists have turned to

alternative approaches,...

A normal DNA repair process can

become a major source of mutations in

cancer

Researchers from IRB Barcelona’s Genome Data

Science Lab, led by the ICREA researcher Fran

Supek, have discovered a...

The three strategic priorities of marketing

excellence

Researchers from University of Mannheim and

University of Texas – Austin published a new paper

in the Journal of Marketing...

Carbon footprinting and pricing under

climate concerns

Researchers from Esade, University of St. Gallen,

HEC Paris, and Columbia University published a

new paper in the Journal...

Understanding why some children enjoy

TV more than others

IMAGE: Children’s own temperament could be

driving the amount of TV they watch – according to

new research...

Consumption of a blueberry enriched diet

by women for six weeks alters

determinants of human muscle

progenitor cell function

IMAGE: A new study investigated how serum from

subjects consuming a diet enriched with blueberries

would affect the...

Though concerned about COVID-19, cigar

smokers are smoking more, survey finds

IMAGE: A survey of cigar smokers by UNC

Lineberger’s Sarah Kowitt PhD, MPH, and her

colleagues found that although...

Building dementia friendly churches

A project to help church communities become more

‘dementia friendly’ has had a significant impact

across the...

Real-time imaging can help prevent

deadly dust explosions

IMAGE: Researchers at Purdue University have

developed an image- and video-based application

using OpenCV algorithms...

CDC warns of outbreak of childparalyzing

disease this fall

CDC warns American parents to brace for another

outbreak of mysterious child-paralyzing disease this

fall amid COVID-19 pandemic...

Acid attack survivor gets reconstructive

surgery in California

The survivor of a brutal attack is finally on the road

to recovery and undergoing reconstructive surgery

in California. Atsede...

Coronavirus: Tocilizumab doesn’t work

on infection, say studies

Nearly half of COVID-19 patients at a New

York City developed severe kidney

damage

More evidence has emerged that the novel

coronavirus attacks and severely damages the

kidneys. Nearly half of patients...

Number of NHS patients waiting more

than a year for treatment in London has

Tocilizumab doesn’t keep Covid-19 patients alive,

researchers have claimed in a blow to the goal of

discovering more...

skyrocketed

The number of NHS patients forced to wait longer

than a year for routine treatment in London is now

20 times the figure for...

Ministers admit struggling Covid contact

tracing system MUST improve

Ministers today admitted the struggling coronavirus

contact tracing system must improve – but insisted

schools will...

Coronavirus England: Interactive map

shows worst-hit areas

An interactive map that breaks down new

coronavirus cases by postcode has revealed a

neighbourhood near a university in...

Coronavirus: Post-menopausal women

may be at higher risk

Post-menopausal women may be more likely to get

severely ill with coronavirus, according to research.

Researchers from...

The wrong track: How papillomaviruses

trick the immune system

The human immune system has a wide variety of

defense strategies to protect the body against

pathogens, one of which involves...

Cell diversity in the embryo

A fertilized egg cell develops into a complete

organism with a multitude of different tissues and

organs, although the genetic...

Artificial organelles created to control

cellular behavior

The results appear online on August 3 in the journal

Nature Chemistry. Proteins function by folding into

specific 3-D shapes...

AI may offer a better way to ID drugresistant

superbugs

The results appear online on August 3 in the

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

For most of the history of...

Can sleep protect us from forgetting old

memories?

Writing in the August 4, 2020 online issue of eLife,

researchers used computational models capable of

simulating different...

Key brain region was ‘recycled’ as

humans developed the ability to read

To account for the development of this skill, some

scientists have hypothesized that parts of the brain

that originally evolved...

Increased global mortality linked to

arsenic exposure in rice-based diets

Arsenic is well known acute poison, but it can also

contribute to health problems, including cancers and

cardiovascular diseases,...

New molecule reverses Alzheimer’s-like

memory decline

“This was a more rigorous test of how well this

compound would work in a therapeutic setting than

our previous studies...

NASA’s Aqua satellite shows two views of

the apple fire

IMAGE: True Color image of Apple Fire Seen by

Aqua view more Credit: NASA NASA’s Aqua

satellite took...

Ultrafast lasers probe elusive chemistry

at the liquid-liquid interface

IMAGE: Researchers at Oak Ridge National

Laboratory shed new light on elusive chemical

processes at the liquid-liquid...

FSU geologists publish new findings on

carbonate melts in Earth’s mantle

Geologists from Florida State University’s

Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric

Science have discovered how carbon-rich...

Tool could improve success in translating

drugs from animal studies to humans

IMAGE: Doug Brubaker, a Purdue assistant

professor of biomedical engineering, uses

computational and experimental approaches...

Study: Enzyme could prove effective in

treating tumors and inflammatory

diseases in lung

IMAGE: From left to right: Yi Yao, Ph.D., Li Zhou,

M.D.; and Qing-Sheng Mi, M.D., Ph.D. view more

Credit:...

Better outcomes in severe COVID-19

patients administered interleukin-6

inhibitors early

New research from Boston Medical Center found

that patients experiencing severe COVID-19

symptoms had improved outcomes when...

Experts issue back-to-school guidelines

for pediatric solid organ transplant

recipients

Philadelphia, August 4, 2020 – As school districts

look ahead to a very different school year, pediatric

infectious...

NASA’s cloudsat takes a slice from

tropical storm Isaias

IMAGE: This visible image of Tropical Storm Isaias

was taken from NOAA’s GOES-East satellite on

Aug. 3 at 3.p.m....

Testing and tracing ‘key to schools

returning’, scientists say

Current testing and contact tracing is inadequate to

prevent a second wave of coronavirus after schools

in the UK reopen,...

Statins are not effective at cutting risk of

dying from heart disease

Coca-Cola’s work with scientists was a

‘low point in history of public health’

Statins are not particularly effective at reducing the

risk of dying from heart disease, a study claims.

Scientists analysed...

Coca-Cola ‘paid scientists to downplay how sugary

beverages fueled the obesity crisis between 2013-

2015,’ medical...

Channel 4 boss Dorothy Byrne: Why I’m

going back to the office even though I’m

68 and ‘vulnerable’

Aged 68, I am, like millions of people in their 60s,

still working. And, also like millions in this age group,

I have an...

Reopening schools WILL cause a second

Covid-19 wave unless test and trace

improves

Children returning to school in September will trigger

a devastating second wave of Covid-19 that could

infect twice as many...

How the two professors leading Oxford

University’s coronavirus trial and Huawei

could profit

Two scientists behind Oxford University’s

coronavirus vaccine could pocket a hefty sum of

money if the jab proves successful,...

Covid-19 survivors should be exempt

from having to self-isolate, government

scientific advisers say

Scientists still do not know for sure whether people

can catch Covid-19 more than once or if they

become immune after their...

80% of new Covid-19 cases in part of

Greater Manchester are among white

people

Eighty per cent of new Covid-19 cases in one badlyhit

part of Greater Manchester are among white

people, according to a...

US health chiefs approve antidepressant

nasal spray derived from ‘party’ drug

ketamine

An antidepressant nasal spray derived from the

illegal ‘party’ drug ketamine has been approved by

US health...

COVID-19: Lower incidence at high

altitudes?

IMAGE: Journal dedicated exclusively to the latest

advances in high altitude life sciences. The Journal

presents findings...

New obesity guideline: Address root

causes as foundation of obesity

management

Obesity management should focus on outcomes

that patients consider to be important, not weight

loss alone, and include a...

Artificial intelligence-enhanced ECGs

may speed heart failure diagnosis and

treatment

DALLAS, August 4, 2020 — When people seek

emergency care for shortness of breath, a routine

electrocardiogram (ECG...

Blood-thinner with no bleeding sideeffects

is here

Patients who suffer from thrombosis, pulmonary

embolism or stroke are usually put on drugs that

help their blood flow more...

Can a high-tech headband really help you

beat the heat?

As much as we might welcome the hotter weather

forecast for this weekend, sweltering, sticky days —

and nights — can...

Radiotherapy to fix a dodgy heartbeat?

We meet the first man in Britain to have

had the treatment

Radiotherapy, normally used to treat cancer, is now

being used to slow racing hearts. Ray Brown, 70, a

retired wood turner...

Food menu fit for pandemic times

IMAGE: Lead researcher Associate Professor

Mehta, from the Caring Futures Institute at Flinders

University, South Australia. ...

African American BMi associated with

severe COVID-19 and ICU admission

SILVER SPRING, Md.–Body mass index (BMI) is

associated with the development of severe

coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)...

Blood test could diagnose baby brain

damage just hours after birth

An early blood test could detect which babies

deprived of oxygen at birth are at risk of serious

neurodisabilities like cerebral...

Greater connectedness in remote areas:

A Ka-band transceiver for satellite

communications

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology and

Socionext Inc. have developed a novel transceiver

for enabling seamless communication...

How a ‘Lego’ implant that is put together

like hollow ‘bricks’ could help surgeons

mend broken bones

Revolutionary new implants that are put together like

pieces of Lego could help broken bones heal faster

Revolutionary...

DR MARTIN SCURR answers your health

questions: I have tried everything and

still can’t sleep!

I sleep only two to three hours a night and often

wake up in between. I have tried relaxation

exercises, reading, walking...

‘We started chemo on the same day’:

Nolan sisters Linda and Anne face the

same struggle

Uncorking the truth about moderate

drinking… as virus crisis sees many of us

reaching for the bottle

Diagnosed with breast cancer exactly 20 years after

her last bout of it, Anne Nolan is both devastated

and scared. Her...

Moderate drinking — is it a curse or a cure?

Tippling’s reputation for helping or harming our

health flips so frequently...

Nominate a health hero: Meet the mental

health nurse battling her own demons

Do you know a Health Hero? The Daily Mail, in

partnership with eBay and NHS Charities Together,

wants you to nominate special...

COVID-19 research: Anti-viral strategy

with double effect

In the case of an infection, the SARS-CoV-2 virus

must overcome various defense mechanisms of the

human body, including its...

Fauci: Rising positive test rates are a

‘good predictor’ states should pause

reopenings

As coronavirus cases continue to rise across much

of the US, top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony

Fauci warned that states...

COVID-19 provides rare opportunities for

studying natural and human systems

“Without distracting from the most important priority

— which is clearly the health and well-being of

people...

COVID-19 may cause deadly blood clots

One of the many complications of COVID-19 is the

formation of blood clots in previously healthy people.

Estrogen increases...

Promises found to reduce cheating in

large study of adolescents

The team of researchers included two newly

appointed members of the School of Psychology at

the University of Plymouth, and...

Drug discovery: First rational strategy to

find molecular glue degraders

In this study, CeMM researchers turned their focus

to a subset of degraders called “molecular glue

degraders.”...

Experiencing childhood trauma makes

body and brain age faster

“Exposure to adversity in childhood is a powerful

predictor of health outcomes later in life — not only

mental...

The six strains of SARS-CoV-2

The virus causing the COVID-19 pandemic, SARS-

CoV-2, presents at least six strains. Despite its

mutations, the virus shows...

Evaluating the effectiveness of travel

bans

The current COVID-19 pandemic has prompted

countries around the world to institute travel bans

restricting the influx of...

Penis microbiota predicts if a man’s

female partner will develop bacterial

vaginosis

Bacterial Vaginosis (BV) is an infection affecting

more than 20% of women worldwide. Caused by a

change in the natural balance...

How animation speed affects consumers’

perception of product size

Researchers from University of Hong Kong, Yonsei

University, and Chinese University of Hong Kong

published a new paper in...

Finding toxic carcinogenic metals faster

in foods and water

Finding out if the food and water we consume are

safe from toxic and carcinogenic metals can now be

much faster and simpler....

Grooming behavior between dairy cows

reveals complex social network

IMAGE: The experimental herd. view more Credit:

Gustavo E. Monti Like humans, cattle are social

creatures...

A targeted treatment for emphysema?

IMAGE: When researchers at Boston Children’s

Hospital tested PR1P in lung cells and mouse

models of emphysema,...

Surface clean-up technology won’t solve

ocean plastic problem

IMAGE: Plastic bag in the ocean view more Credit:

Making Oceans Plastic Free Clean-up devices that

collect...

Implantable transmitter provides wireless

option for biomedical devices

IMAGE: A Purdue University team developed a fully

implantable transmitter chip for wireless sensor

nodes and biomedical...

Lockdown study reports surge in health

anxieties

New research into people’s coping strategies faced

with COVID-19 highlights the mental health toll for

those shielding Coronavirus...

Coronavirus: Is risk from Covid-19 higher

during pregnancy?

As a precaution, pregnant women have been told to

be particularly strict about avoiding social contact,

so they reduce their...

Coronavirus: Do people still have to

shield?

From 1 August, people who have been shielding

against coronavirus in most of England, Scotland

and Northern Ireland no longer...

NHS test hope for children with

suspected genetic illness

Coronavirus: New 90-minute tests for

Covid-19 and flu ‘hugely beneficial’

Media captionDoctors found two-year-old Dafydd

had a rare condition after genetic tests When

Dafydd became “floppy”...

New 90-minute tests that can detect coronavirus

and flu will be rolled out in hospitals and care homes

from next week. The...

Less than 1% of people under 50 treated

for COVID-19 in Philadelphia suffered

strokes, study finds

Is the Covid-stroke link weaker than doctors

thought? Just 2% of Philadelphia coronavirus

patients suffered the devastating...

New ‘lifesaving’ tests for coronavirus will

be rolled out next week

Two new game-changing tests will be offered to

millions of Britons in a major advance in the war on

coronavirus. Hailed as...

US women more likely to skip

medications due to cost

American women are more likely to skip their

medications than those in other wealthy countries

and one-quarter say it’s...

Coronavirus: WHO says 0.6% of all

patients die from infection

There may never be a ‘silver bullet’ for treating

Covid-19, according to the head of the World Health

Organization...

Coronavirus UK: Scientist says case

rises NOT second wave

Professor Tim Spector, an epidemiologist at King’s

College London, said the UK’s mini coronavirus

outbreaks...

Painkillers ‘should not be prescribed for

chronic pain’

Painkillers such as paracetamol and ibuprofen can

do ‘more harm than good’ and should not be

prescribed to treat...

Sadiq Khan furious at ‘plans to

quarantine London inside M25’

No10 today refused to rule out effectively sealing off

London if coronavirus cases spike as Sadiq Khan

accused Boris Johnson...

UK records just five Covid-19 deaths in

preliminary toll

Britain today recorded its highest number of

coronavirus infections in almost six weeks, after

nearly a thousand people were...

Transferrin identified as potential

contributor to COVID-19 severity

SARS-CoV-2 is the coronavirus that causes COVID-

19. It is currently not known why some individuals

develop only mild or no...

New genetic cause of a form of inherited

neuropathy

The findings, thanks to siblings treated at Penn

since the late 1980s, present a clearer picture of the

disease’s genetic...

Why is stroke so deadly for people of

African descent?

A large international team of scientists has

completed the largest analysis of stroke-risk genes

ever undertaken in individuals...

AI and single-cell genomics

Single-cell velocity Researchers from the Institute of

Computational Biology at Helmholtz Zentrum

München and the Department...

Strategy for sustainable aquaculture, the

world’s fastest growing food sector

Up to now most of this was caught in the world’s

freshwaters and oceans. But things are changing,

and today half of...

Chlamydia: Greedy for glutamine

What is the decisive step that initiates the

reproduction of the bacteria? It has not been known

so far. Researchers from...

Child sleep problems associated with

impaired academic and psychosocial

functioning

“Our study shows that although those with persistent

sleep problems have the greatest impairments when

it comes to...

Virologists identify potential COVID-19

treatment

Pathogenic coronaviruses are a major threat to

global public health, as shown by severe acute

respiratory syndrome coronavirus,...

Identifying the blind spots of soil

biodiversity

Soils harbour a substantial part of the world’s

biodiversity, yet data on the patterns and processes

taking place below...

Bargaining and the three-way transaction

defines the daily deal market

Underdog platforms help merchants by providing an

alternative outlet in price negotiation.

CATONSVILLE, MD, August 3, 2020...

Broad antivirals kill SARS-CoV-2, the

MERS virus, and other coronaviruses in

cells and mice

A team of scientists has engineered antiviral

compounds that can kill several types of

coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2,...

Monkeying around: Study finds older

primates father far fewer babies

IMAGE: One of the free-ranging rhesus macaques

on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico. view more Credit:

Photo courtesy...

How COVID-19 changed the way patients

responded to a heart attack

Tackling the bioethics challenges raised

by COVID-19

IMAGE: The graph shows the 7-day moving average

for the number of people admitted to hospital for two

types of heart...

IMAGE: Connie Ulrich, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Lillian

S. Brunner Chair in Medical and Surgical Nursing

and Professor of...

Humans and flies employ very similar

mechanisms for brain development and

function

With these new findings scientists can potentially

better understand the subtle changes that can occur

in genes and brain...

Scientists say public transport may not

be a major source of coronavirus spread

Catching coronavirus on public transport is far less

likely than once feared, fresh data suggests. Trains,

buses and planes...

Do Matt Hancock’s new coronavirus tests

even work? Scientists urge government

to release data

Ministers were today asked to prove that two new

rapid coronavirus tests bought to bolster Britain’s

war on coronavirus...

Properly-equipped laypersons can

potentially reverse opioid overdose

mortality

Without timely reversal, opioid overdose causes

respiratory depression that may deteriorate into

apnea, leading to brain...

Ancient part of immune system may

underpin severe COVID

NEW YORK, NY (Aug. 3, 2020) — One of the

immune system’s oldest branches, called

complement, may be influencing...

Baby boomers show concerning decline

in cognitive functioning

COLUMBUS, Ohio – In a reversal of trends,

American baby boomers scored lower on a test of

cognitive functioning than...

Fatty liver disease despite a normal

weight

Tsukuba, Japan – Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

(NAFLD) had long been thought to be a liver

disease afflicting obese...

Unequal neutron-star mergers create

unique "bang" in simulations

IMAGE: Through a series of simulations, an

international team of researchers has determined

that some mergers of neutron...

Putting North West under new lockdown

measures was a ‘rash’ decision, top

expert claims

Putting 4.5million people in the North West under

tough new lockdown measures because of a rise in

coronavirus cases was...

LSU health pathologists publish first

report on likely MIS involving the heart

New Orleans, LA – A team of LSU Health New

Orleans pathologists published what is believed to

be the first case report...

Speech processing hierarchy in the dog

brain

IMAGE: A dog and researchers (Márta Gácsi (left),

Attila Andics, Anna Gábor (right)) at the scanner.

view...

A simpler, high-accuracy method to

detect rare circulating tumor cells in

blood samples

Metastasis – the development of tumor growth at a

secondary site – is responsible for the majority of

cancer-related...

Challenges in diagnosing

hypersensitivity pneumonitis addressed

in latest guidelines

IMAGE: ATS, JRS and ALAT release new clinical

practice guidelines for the difficult to diagnose

condition, hypersensitivity...

Coronavirus in the UK: How many

confirmed cases are there in your area?

There have been more than 300,000 confirmed

cases of coronavirus so far in the UK and around

46,000 people have died, government...

Covid-19: Why Hong Kong’s ‘third wave’

is a warning

Until recently, Hong Kong was considered a poster

child in its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Despite sharing a border...

Coronavirus: The shielders turning the

word ‘vulnerable’ on its head

Nasa astronauts make landmark splashdown The

SpaceX capsule touches down off Florida, in the first

crewed US water landing...

Coronavirus doctor’s diary: How

gardening could help in the fight against

obesity

Being overweight puts you at greater risk of serious

illness or death from Covid-19, experts say – and

now new anti-obesity...

How creating an ’empathy lens’ makes

P2P marketing communications more

effective

The study, forthcoming in the the Journal of

Marketing, is titled “Providers vs. Platforms:

Marketing Communications...

Young women with polycystic ovary

syndrome have raised risk of heart

Arrhythmia-free survival is indeed

survival of the fittest

disease

Sophia Antipolis, 3 August 2020: Women in their 30s

and 40s with a common condition affecting how the

ovaries work are more...

Survey finds Americans social media

habits changing as national tensions rise

COLUMBUS, Ohio – As national tensions rise, a

new national survey of 2,000 people commissioned

by The Ohio State University...

IMAGE: Kaplan-Meier curve for freedom from

recurrent arrhythmia by baseline cardiorespiratory

fitness group, pview...

Children’s National Hospital case report

sounds the alarm for antibiotic resistance

WASHINGTON-(August, 3, 2020)- A recent

meningitis case at Children’s National Hospital

raises serious concerns about...

PLOS Special Collection: Successful

approaches to HIV care

On July 27 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and

Human Services’ (HHS) Health Resources and

Services Administration...

Boycotts or buycotts? The role of

corporate activism

Researchers from Texas Christian University,

University of Arizona, University of Oregon, and

Portland State University published...

Is less more? How consumers view

sustainability claims

Researchers from City University of Hong Kong,

Hong Kong Baptist University, and The Chinese

University of Hong Kong published...

Older Americans receive cancer

screenings past recommended age

Older Americans may be receiving cancer

screenings not recommended by the U.S.

Preventive Services Task Force, according...

Re-engineering antibodies for COVID-19

IMAGE: Structural model of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

This structural model was built with UCSF Chimera

using high-performance...

Texas cave sediment upends meteorite

explanation for global cooling

IMAGE: Archaeologic excavations at Hall’s Cave

exposed sediments for geochemical analysis that

span from circa...

The art of making tiny holes

IMAGE: The projectile penetrates all layers, but only

in the top layer, a big hole is created. The graphene

below remains...

Origami microbots: Centuries-old artform

guides cutting-edge advances in tiny

machines

Origami principles can unlock the potential of the

smallest robots, enhancing speed, agility and control

in machines no more...

Nanoreactor strategy generates superior

supported bimetallic catalysts

Supported bimetallic catalysts are an important

class of catalysts in heterogeneous catalysis. They

can be applied in various...

New guidelines say breastfeeding is safe

after anaesthesia

New guidelines published by the Association of

Anaesthetists in the journal Anaesthesia, to coincide

with the start of World...

High COVID-19 risk among health care

workers, especially those from minority

backgrounds

BOSTON – New research indicates that at the peak

of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. and the U.K.,

frontline healthcare...

Coronavirus: Hong Kong on verge of

‘large-scale’ outbreak, says Carrie Lam

Hong Kong’s hospital system could face “collapse”

as it grapples with a sharp rise in coronavirus

cases,...

SARS-CoV-2 screening strategies for safe

reopening of college campuses

What The Study Did: This study defines the

screening performance standards for SARS-CoV-2

tests that would permit the safe...

Coronavirus: Camera firm Kodak turns to

drugs to fight virus

Better known for making cameras, Kodak has

moved into drug making and has just secured a

$765m (£592m) loan from the US...

Unhealthy diets are ‘slow-motion

disaster’

Free school meals should be extended to another

1.5 million children in England, says a governmentcommissioned

review into...

Coronavirus: Hydroxychloroquine

ineffective says Fauci

Media captionUS President Trump on Dr Fauci’s

approval rating: “Nobody likes me” US President...

Targetable biological mechanisms

implicated in emergent psychiatric

conditions associated with SARS-CoV-2

What The Viewpoint Says: Targetable biological

mechanisms implicated in emergent psychiatric

conditions associated with...

Machine learning finds a surprising early

galaxy

New results achieved by combining big data

captured by the Subaru Telescope and the power of

machine learning have discovered...

Frontline healthcare workers more likely

to test positive for COVID despite PPE

A new study published today in Lancet Public Health

has found that front-line healthcare workers with

adequate personal protective...

A new synthesis method for threedimensional

nanocarbons

A team of scientists led by Kenichiro Itami,

Professor and Director of the Institute of

Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM),...

Policies to mitigate wildfire impacts have

public health implications, amplified amid

COVID

[Oakland, CA] As the western United States enters

the 2020 wildfire season with anticipated above

normal significant fire...

Short wind turns with strong cooling

effect

IMAGE: Microstructure probe at the stern of the

Meteor when launching with the instrument’s own

winch. The fast...

When Dirac meets frustrated magnetism

IMAGE: Schematic of the triangular vanadium net

(purple balls) with magnetic moments (turqouise

arrows) and the anomalous...

Using games to study law of motions in

mind

IMAGE: The link between GR theory and Flow

theory. The force is normalized over various mass

with momentum and potential...

The behavior of coral reefs is simulated

in order to optimize space in industrial

plants

Many factors must be kept in mind when designing a

hospital, a factory, a shopping center or any

industrial plant, and many...

Reducing corticosteroid use in

rheumatoid arthritis

Is the long-term use of glucocorticoids essential in

people with chronic inflammatory diseases such as

rheumatoid arthritis,...

Quantum machines learn "quantum data"

Skoltech scientists have shown that quantum

enhanced machine learning can be used on

quantum (as opposed to classical) data,...

Inbreeding detrimental for survival

IMAGE: Researchers have studied house sparrows

off the Norwegian coast for more than two decades.

Their most recent...

Tiny plants crucial for sustaining

dwindling water supplies: Global analysis

IMAGE: A diverse biocrust community in western

New South Wales. view more Credit: David Eldridge

A global...

Sharing a secret…the quantum way

IMAGE: An artistic impression sharing a secret using

structured light. view more Credit: Wits University

Researchers...

Low-cost moist heat treatment of N95

masks eliminates SARS-CoV-2, bacteria

A new study shows that moist heat treatment of N95

masks eliminates severe acute respiratory

syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)...

Young people ‘feel anxiety and terror’

using fitness apps

Young people’s use of phone apps to monitor and

improve their health has led to “obsessive

behaviour, anxiety...

The Lancet Public Health: UK and US

healthcare workers report higher rates of

COVID-19 compared to general

population in early pandemic period

The authors say that health-care systems should

ensure adequate availability of PPE and develop

additional strategies to...

Coronavirus: Cardiff scientists helping

crack virus genetic code

Scientists in Wales are leading global efforts to

decipher and track changes to the genetic code of

coronavirus. Little variations...

Australia’s Victoria records huge

coronavirus case jump

Australia’s virus-hit state of Victoria has reported its

worst death toll and case rise, prompting fears that a

six-week...

Beat type 2 diabetes in middle age

Not for nothing has type 2 diabetes been dubbed ‘a

21st Century epidemic’. Year after year, numbers

continue to spiral...

Don’t buy into the superfood hype… but

eating right CAN reduce your risk of

dementia

As a nutritionist, perhaps I’m more acutely aware

than most of the often overblown claims made for

Coronavirus: Shielding ends for two

million in England, Scotland and Northern

Ireland

More than two million people shielding against

coronavirus in most of England, Scotland and

Northern Ireland can now leave...

Pioneering treatment for dementia could

be available in the UK in two years

For millions living with dementia – and for their loved

ones – the future may appear bleak. Thanks to

medical breakthroughs,...

The simple tweaks that can prevent

dementia (plus delicious recipes to help

beat it)

Today, and every day, roughly 190 Britons will die

from dementia – about 1,350 every week – and

‘brain boosting’...

numbers are steadily...

DR ELLIE CANNON: Dementia ISN’T just

part of old age

Nobody wants to develop dementia and for good

reason: it’s the most feared condition among people

over 50, according to...

Want to slash your risk of dementia by a

third? Sort out your hearing!

We all know someone who shrugs off their hearing

loss as just another inevitability of older age. But

really, according to...

Sweat science: Engineers detect health

markers in thread-based, wearable sweat

sensors

Typical consumer health monitors can track heart

rate, temperature, glucose, walking distance and

other gross measurements....

Peering into the secrets of phages to see

how they kill bacterial superbugs

The study, led by Monash Biomedicine Discovery

Institute’s Associate Professor Fasséli Coulibaly and

Professor Trevor...

Aerobic exercise could have the final say

on fatty livers

Metabolic associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) is

a condition characterised by a build up of fat in the

liver. The liver...

Gut feelings help promote positive body

image

The study, led by Jennifer Todd of Anglia Ruskin

University (ARU) and published in the journal Body

Image, focused on gastric...

Study reveals COVID-19 transmission

rate on trains

IMAGE: Attack rate of COVID-19 per different seats

and co-travel time on a high-speed train view more

Credit:...

Portable, injectable clotting agent could

treat trauma victims on the front lines

When it comes to traumatic injuries, it’s a race

against time. A person with major hemorrhage can

die from blood loss...

Pandemic leads to higher depression,

anxiety and fear, studies show

IMAGE: Using an internet survey distributed in the

last week of March that sampled 10,368 adults from

across the country,...

Way, shape and form: Synthesis

conditions define the nanostructure of

manganese dioxide

IMAGE: -Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology

explore a novel and simplistic method to synthesize

manganese dioxide...

A new chemical analysis upends

conventional explanation for global

cooling

IMAGE: Researchers relied upon isotope analysis of

sediments collected from Hall’s Cave, located in the

Texas...

Youth more likely to stick with CGM if

they are part of decision to start

Philadelphia, July 31, 2020–Continuous glucose

monitoring (CGM) tracks glucose levels of people

with type I or type...

Insight on novel genetic approaches to

metabolic liver diseases

DETROIT – Diabetes, obesity and nonalcoholic fatty

liver disease (NAFLD) are all common diseases that

can lead to serious...

New studies show how to save parasites

and why it’s important

IMAGE: Chelsea Wood, right, and the team prepare

to collect trail cameras, which were deployed to

quantify bird biodiversity...

HudsonAlpha scientists help identify

important parts of the human genome

July 31, 2020 (Huntsville, Ala.) – Although the

Human Genome Project sequenced a nearlycomplete

human genome almost...

NASA examines water vapor and

structure in Hurricane Isaias

IMAGE: On July 31 at 3:20 a.m. EDT (0720 UTC),

NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over Hurricane Isaias

as it departed...

Differences between discs of active and

non-active galaxies detected for the first

time

IMAGE: Image illustrating the comparison between

an active spiral galaxy (orange box) and its nonactive

twin (blue...

Huntsman Cancer Institute illuminates

potential new treatment in acute myeloid

leukemia

IMAGE: In a study published in the journal

Leukemia, lead author Ami Patel, MD, Huntsman

Cancer Institute researcher...

Epilepsy: International researchers

propose better seizure classification

NASA sun data helps new model predict

big solar flares

IMAGE: An X-class solar flare flashes on the edge of

the Sun on March 7, 2012. This image was captured

by NASA’s...

Satellite survey shows California’s

sinking coastal hotspots

IMAGE: Coastal elevation in California. Coastal

zones, which are defined to be those with elevations

less than 10 m,...

To improve students’ mental health, Yale

study finds, teach them to breathe

Epilepsy is a wide-spread neurological disorder that

affects around 50 million people worldwide. It is

characterized by recurrent...

New Haven, Conn. — When college students learn

specific techniques for managing stress and anxiety,

their wellbeing...

Covid-19: Tracing app is released for NI

Northern Ireland has become the first part of the UK

to launch an app for tracking and tracing

coronavirus. Named StopCOVID...

First England case diagnosed of tickborne

babesiosis

People are being urged to be on alert for tick bites,

following the diagnosis for the first time in England

of a rare illness. Public...

Creeper guitarist: ‘I worked on the album

from a psychiatric ward’

Last year Ian Miles went into a psychotic episode

and was committed to a psychiatric hospital. Now,

he’s promoting...

Coronavirus: Lockdown easing on hold

as shielding ends

People shielding against coronavirus can now leave

their home and return to work, as a further easing of

lockdown restrictions...

DR MAX THE MIND DOCTOR: It’s not a

tall story

Whenever I’m doing a routine physical examination

and check a patient’s height, I’m always bemused by

how interested...

Coronavirus US: NIH gives $250m to

seven firms making tests

The US government is investing a cumulative

$248.7 million in seven biotech companies making

next-generation coronavirus...

Colleges CAN reopen

As the fall semester fast approaches, schools, public

health officials and President Donald Trump are

scrambling to work...

Memory loss reversed or abated in those

with cognitive decline

Affirmativ Health sought to determine whether a

comprehensive and personalized program, designed

to mitigate risk factors...

One-size does not fit all for post-disaster

recovery

“Recovery is a dynamic process with multiple

dimensions which means that government and

outside aid programs cannot...

To improve students’ mental health, study

finds, teach them to breathe

The research team evaluated three classroombased

wellness training programs that incorporate

breathing and emotional intelligence...

How human sperm really swim: New

research challenges centuries-old

assumption

More than three hundred years after Antonie van

Leeuwenhoek used one of the earliest microscopes

to describe human sperm...

Mandatory country-wide BCG vaccination

found to correlate with slower growth

rates of COVID-19 cases

Scientists have found that countries with mandatory

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination until at

least the year 2000...

Physicists find misaligned carbon sheets

yield unparalleled properties

A material composed of two one-atom-thick layers of

carbon has grabbed the attention of physicists

worldwide for its intriguing...

A simple screening process may enhance

monoclonal antibody-based drug

development

By screening potential monoclonal antibody (mAb)-

based drugs solely based on a measure of their

colloidal stability, scientists...

DNA metabarcoding detects ecological

stress within freshwater species

IMAGE: Sample sites at river A) Emscher, B)

Ennepe and C) Sieg. view more Credit: Vera Zizka

DNA or eDNA),...

The need for progressive national

narratives

The recent rise of authoritarian nationalist

movements has reinforced the tendency of many on

the left, and some on the right,...

A rebranding of ‘freedom’?

According to recent Gallup polls, socialism is now

more popular than capitalism among Democrats and

young people, and support...

Adjustable lordotic expandable vs static

lateral lumbar interbody fusion devices

The background of this research is based on the use

of large interbody spacers in minimally invasive

(MIS) lateral lumbar...

How creating an "empathy lens" makes

P2P marketing communications more

effective

Researchers from The Ohio State University

published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing

that examines whether to focus...

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