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Animals can give people diseases like rabies, plague, Lyme Disease and COVID-19. Researchers are working on vaccinating wildlife so they don't have to vaccinate us.

(Massachusetts General Hospital) A team led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital has developed a novel, inexpensive and portable device that can quickly and accurately measure the ability of blood to proper...

(University of Kentucky) The long-running study on aging and brain health at the University of Kentucky's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Alzheimer's Disease Center has once again resulted in important new findings -- high...

(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) St. Jude Children's Research Hospital develops the Childhood Solid Tumor Network data portal to speed discoveries and novel therapies for treatment of childhood solid tumors.

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Penn Medicine researchers found the drugs were prescribed disproportionately to older adults, often concurrently with opioids, despite warnings against this dangerous combi...

(George Mason University) Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, is developing a scalable and connectivity-aware solution that he hopes will help confine the COVID-19 pa...

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) Patients suffering from severe respiratory symptoms as a result of SARS-CoV-2 infection can rapidly generate virus-attacking T cells, and can increase this production...

(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Many think they're doing good by texting with others to stay connected while physically distancing during the pandemic, but a national survey by the University of North Carol...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) And as lawmakers and educators reimagine the K-12 model for fall, a new survey assessed parents' plans for in-person school and support for 15 potential measures to reduce the...

(Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association) Apolipoprotein E4 is considered the most important genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. A group of researchers, led by MDC scientist Thom...

(Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)) Researchers led by Nat lia Carulla find that specific amyloid-beta (Aβ) protein ensembles have the capacity to disrupt the membrane of neurons, causing their death...

(Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) Strengthening U.S. air quality standards for fine particulate pollution to be in compliance with current World Health Association (WHO) guidelines could save more than 140,000 ...

(Aarhus University) Go dancing! A new study conduted at Center for Music in the Brain at Aarhus University, Denmark, suggest that then moving together with music, synchronous movements between individuals increase social...

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) A new analysis of 16 years of publicly accessible health data on 68.5 million Medicare enrollees provides broad evidence that long-term exposure to fine particles in ...

(Umea University) A research team has provided the mechanistic insight into protein co-aggregation in Alzheimer's disease. The templating mechanism of S100A9 amyloids on Aβ fibrillar surfaces during co-aggregation proce...

(Le Bonheur Children's Hospital) Jeffrey A. Towbin, MD, of Le Bonheur Children's Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center was awarded a Research Project Grant (R01) from the National Institutes of H...

(Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS)) Traffic density is the most important factor for much the air pollutant nitrogen dioxide (NO2). However, weather also has an influence, according to a study by TROPO...

(Compuscript Ltd) Announcing a new article publication for BIO Integration journal. In this research article the authors Vered Aharonson, Nabeel Seedat, Simon Israeli-Korn, Sharon Hassin-Baer, Michiel Postema and Gilad Y...

(University of Birmingham) Measuring air quality across London could help fight COVID-19 by providing a rapid means of deciding whether to reduce public transport movement -- given strong links between exposure to air po...

(American College of Physicians) Incidence and Severity of COVID-19 in HIV-Positive Persons Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy

(University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) Most children with COVID-19 fared better than adults during the first four months of the pandemic, according to a systematic review of 131 studies worldwide. Res...

(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) A paper published by LSU Health New Orleans and Tulane University School of Medicine researchers suggests that live attenuated vaccines such as MMR (measles, mumps and ...