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IAR Systems and The Qt Company, a provider of tools for creating graphical user interfaces, announced that they have established a partnership. The partnership will enable the companies' joint customers to more easily cr...

(Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf) Synthetic chains of molecules containing different sugars can inhibit viruses effectively. The extent to which such molecules could be used as antiviral drugs is illustrated by a t...

Amplitude distortion is the unintended modification of a signal, typically while undergoing amplification. Amplitude modulation, in contrast, is the intended modification of a carrier wave in response to a varying audio,...

Sectigo announced a partnership with Infineon Technologies AG to provide automated certificate provisioning for Infineon's OPTIGA Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 using Sectigo IoT Identity Manager. The integration prov...

The Non-IP Networking group within ETSI seeks to reduce the packet overhead of Internet Protocol because it's become a bottleneck in today's high-speed mobile networks. Internet Protocol (IP) is one of the technologies t...

(European Molecular Biology Laboratory) Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg and from the University of Padua School of Medicine have created the first complete description of e...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) After a yearlong study of people with opioid dependence, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report evidence that adding $8 an hour to their paychecks may help those in recovery stay drug free lon...

(Bentham Science Publishers) Coumarin derivatives (coumarins) are a class of compounds with a wide range of biological activities, which have found their application in medicine, pharmacology, cosmetics and food industry...

(Cell Press) An exploratory randomized, controlled study on the safety and efficacy of either lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) or Arbidol as treatments for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, sug...

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) A new tool that predicts risk of death and admission to a long-term care facility for patients with dementia may help conversations between health care providers, patients and their...

(Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) Prof. Dr. Christian Drosten, Director of Charité's Institute of Virology, has been awarded the 'Special Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scientific Communication during the ...

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center used CRISPR technology to identify key regulators of aggressive chronic myeloid leukemi...

(American Thoracic Society) New guidance is available for physicians who must go through a number of steps to provide a probable diagnosis of sarcoidosis -- an inflammatory disease that affects the lungs, lymph glands, a...

(University of Gothenburg) Wind turbine noise (WTN) influences people's perception of the restorative effects of sleep, and also has a small but significant effect on dream sleep, otherwise known as REM (rapid eye moveme...

(American Chemical Society) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control is recommending that the general public wear cloth face masks to help decrease everyone's chances of getting COVID-19. So how does the new coronavirus spre...

(Tohoku University) It is no secret that genetic factors play a role in determining whether children have neurodevelopmental disorders. Maternal exposure to drugs and viral or bacterial illnesses can be detrimental too.

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A group of researchers with experience in treating high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) have written to correct the misconception in medical social media forums and elsew...

(Medical University of South Carolina) To diagnose swallowing problems, speech-language pathologists rely on a 'gold-standard' test that has the drawback of exposing children to ionizing radiation. Because the risks of e...

((AZCERT) Arizona Center Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics) AZCERT is making MedSafety Scan®, a web-based decision support system, available free to medical professionals around the world treating COVID-...

(New York University) Researchers interviewed 17-year-olds in California foster care. The adolescents' use of mental health services is elevated, but not necessarily their confidence level.

(American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) The researchers determined that the key is to divide the samples into different pools. The planning and constructing of the pools and the way they mix the individ...

(Aalto University) The efficient allocation of medical resources can be modelled mathematically, as shown by Finnish researchers. The study, which started a few years before coronavirus appeared, offers timely insights f...