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(American Roentgen Ray Society) This latest installment in the open-access AJR Collection regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) explains how a tertiary hospital in Singapore responded to the 2003 outbreak of sever...

Pandemic does not equal panic. Here's the science behind the term as the novel coronavirus starts spreading more widely in the United States.

(University of Copenhagen The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences) A novel structure of a so-called 'neurotransmitter: sodium symporter' has been mapped at the University of Copenhagen. The discovery adds to the resea...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Gut bacteria can penetrate tumor cells and boost the effectiveness of an experimental immunotherapy that targets the CD47 protein.

(Penn State) Two factors that control the expression of a key gene required by luminescent bacteria to kill competing bacterial cells have been identified.

(University of California - Irvine) New discovery in breast cancer could lead to better strategies for preventing the spread of cancer cells to other organs in the body, effectively reducing mortality in breast cancer pa...

(Florida State University) Florida State University researchers working in an international collaboration have identified new genetic variants that cause heart disease in infants, and their research has led to novel insi...

(Boston University School of Medicine) While there is an association between liver fibrosis and heart failure, the mechanisms for this association are currently unclear but may be of particular importance for people livi...

(Yale School of Public Health) Over 30 percent of injury survivors who are treated in hospital emergency departments will have moderate-to-severe symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at some point in the firs...

(NOAA Fisheries West Coast Region) Fishermen from California to Washington caught almost all the available legal-size male Dungeness crab each year in the last few decades. However, the crab population has either remaine...

(University of Göttingen) Earlier research purported to show links between a woman's cycle and how attracted she was to men's behavior. Research at the University of Göttingen questions this. It showed shifts in women'...

(Ohio State University) A relatively new theory that identifies universal concerns underlying human judgment could be key to helping people with opposing views on an issue coax each other to a different way of thinking, ...

(University of Exeter) Older parents are less flexible when it comes to raising their offspring, according to a new study of beetles.

(Association for Psychological Science) Thousands of scientists, educators, and students will gather in Chicago, May 21-24, to share the latest discoveries in the science of psychology during the Association for Psycholo...

(University of Saskatchewan) A University of Saskatchewan research team and collaborating scientists from across Canada have been awarded almost $1 million over two years to develop animal models and test vaccine candida...

(University of Texas at Dallas) University of Texas System researchers have pinpointed a molecule that the tuberculosis bacterium manufactures to induce the coughing that spreads the disease by triggering a pain-receptor...

(Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care) Biomarker tests for decision-making on chemotherapy for breast cancer: No evidence of transferability27.02.2020 The tests assign different women to the group 'low ris...

(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) St. Jude Children's Research Hospital pediatrician and researcher is honored for significant contributions to the advancement and impact of global collective efforts to save more l...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Digital technologies, especially smartphone apps, have great promise for increasing access to care for patients with serious mental illness such as schizophrenia. A new training program, called DO...

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau) When 119 young adults consumed a meal while playing a simple computer game for 15 minutes, they ate significantly less than when they ate the same meal without di...

(University of Chicago Medical Center) University of Chicago scientists have discovered that signals in the motor cortex act like a series of clutches when it comes to moving, and that these signals can be disrupted to s...

(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) The intriguing discovery, reported in the journal BMC Medical Genetics, supports ongoing efforts to identify biomarkers associated with the emergence of childhood obesity before bod...