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Health has become the dominant topic worldwide. Research and development to protect the physical well-being of each individual, as well as the entire population, have an unprecedented significance. More than ever, labora...

Given the radio technology’s power efficiency, cost savings, reliability, and global reach, Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) promises to a standout for IoT applications. With an estimated 3.2 billion cellular IoT connections in...

Due to immune variations -- some genetic, some acquired -- the virus hits some people much harder than others.

Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing has become the standard modulation format for 5G New Radio. Lean how OFDM works and how it's used. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is an efficient modulation f...

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) A small survey conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that more than half of respondents who reported having att...

(Houston Methodist) COVID-19 patients in a clinical trial at Houston Methodist Hospital are responding quickly to the antiviral drug Remdesivir. The trial's criteria allows for the treatment of patients early in their cl...

(Baylor College of Medicine) Researchers discovered that, in the lab worm C. elegans, certain scents dynamically regulate fat mobilization by interacting with specific olfactory neurons through specific receptors.

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) A blood test may be able to detect the most common form of pancreatic cancer while it is still in its early stages while also helping doctors accurately stage a patient's d...

(University of Würzburg) 'Distance keeping' is not exactly the motto of the glutamate receptors: Using super-resolution microscopy, it now was discovered that the receptors usually appear in small groups at the synapses...

(Translational Research Institute) In an international preclinical study, researchers found they could overcome chemotherapy resistance in clear cell ovarian cancer cell models using low doses of the drug 2-deoxy-D-gluco...

(University of California - Davis) New research from entomologists at UC Davis clears a potential obstacle to using CRISPR-Cas9 'gene drive' technology to control mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, ye...

(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) Global COVID-19 Observatory and Resource Center for Childhood Cancer to serve as hub for sharing information on treating pediatric cancer patients infected by the virus.Oncologists...

(Murdoch Childrens Research Institute) A better framework for the reanalysis of genetic data, a game-changing process which could improve diagnostic rates by up to 32 per cent, was needed, a new study has found.

(National Research University Higher School of Economics) Most Russians would like to have two children: a boy and a girl. The others fall between the two extremes of either wanting no children (at least for now) or plan...

(Florida Atlantic University) Early reports suggest the case fatality rate for those over 80, which constitutes nearly half of nursing home residents, is more than 15 percent. In areas where there is a shortage of ICU be...

(American Roentgen Ray Society) To date, the radiology literature on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pneumonia has consisted of limited retrospective studies that do not substantiate the use of CT as a diagnostic test for...

(International Vaccine Institute) The International Vaccine (IVI) announced today that the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) has granted $6.9 million funding to INOVIO (NASDAQ:INO) to work with IVI a...

(Queensland University of Technology) The time research aerosolisation of virus droplets and airborne transmission is now. Airborne spread of COVID-19 through the ventilation is most likely responsible for cruise ship ou...

(University of Melbourne) Researchers have shown that a new antiviral drug for influenza can treat the infection at the same time as reducing the risk of transmission to others, offering powerful potential to change the ...

(University of Basel) Sporting activities can bring about a long-term improvement in cognitive performance across all age groups. However, the effects differ between men and women, and not all sports provide the same imp...

(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) In the urgent battle to treat COVID-19 patients, a group of eleven international medical research organizations is investigating whether overactive immune cells that produce neutrophil ext...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) A new trial will evaluate whether the use of medications to treat high blood pressure affect outcomes among patients who are prescribed the medication and hospitalized with...