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(National Research Council of Science & Technology) The Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM) under the Ministry of Science and ICT developed a remote specimen collection robot that eliminates direct contact be...

In the early 1900s, Mary Mallon worked as a cook -- and spread typhoid fever to the families she worked for.

(Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute) Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute is pleased to announce that the American Cancer Society (ACS) has awarded Brooke Emerling, Ph.D., a Research Scholar...

(Karolinska Institutet) Repeated measurements of the biomarker FIB-4 in the blood every few years can predict the risk of developing severe liver disease, according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden pub...

(Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO)) Stem cells have been holding great promise for regenerative medicine for years. However, one of the main limitations in the application of these therapies is the q...

(American College of Physicians) 1. How to Safely Reopen Colleges and Universities During COVID-19: Experiences From Taiwan ; 2. Urgent Issues Facing Immigrant Physicians in the U.S. in the COVID-19 Era

(Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care) Ceftolozane/tazobactam: new treatment option for severe infections, but no proof of superiority New antibiotic broadens the treatment options for severe infections an...

(Center for BrainHealth ) Center for BrainHealth® recently examined underlying brain networks in long-term cannabis users to identify patterns of brain connectivity when the users crave or have a desire to consume canna...

(Cleveland Clinic) At a time when the national conversation is focused on narrowing the gap of racial equity, two of Cleveland's anchor institutions have been awarded grant funding that will help them turn words into act...

(University of Queensland) New research from The University of Queensland has found that women who have hot flushes and night sweats after menopause are 70 per cent more likely to have heart attacks, angina and strokes.

(La Jolla Institute for Immunology) Two variants of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), called G614 and D614, were circulating in mid-March. A new study shows that the G version of the virus has come to dominate cases ar...

(University of California - San Diego) By mapping molecular changes in the genome over time, UC San Diego researchers developed a formula to more accurately compare dog age to human age -- a tool that could also help the...

(Rutgers University) Incarceration and police discrimination may contribute to HIV, depression and anxiety among Black gay, bisexual and other sexual minority men, according to a Rutgers led study.

(ETH Zurich) Some people are better protected than others against urinary tract infections. This may be because their bodies produce more of a protein called uromodulin. An interdisciplinary research team has now found o...

(Ohio State University) In a study done with mice and published earlier this month in the journal Nutrients, researchers found that a diet high in black raspberries reduced inflammation from contact hypersensitivity -- a...

(University of Colorado at Boulder) As many as 7% of moms-to-be use marijuana while pregnant, and that number is rising fast as more use it to quell morning sickness. But new research suggests such use could have a lasti...

(University of California - Riverside) A University of California, Riverside, study that sought to determine barriers to health care among Spanish-speaking Latino farmworkers in rural communities has devised an innovativ...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Response to the recent report of the deaths of two children receiving high doses of a gene therapy vector (AAV8) in a Phase I trial for X-linked myotubular myopathy (MTM)...

(Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) ) Cyanobacteria hardly need any nutrients and use the energy of sunlight. Bathers are familiar with these microorganisms as they often occur in waters. A group of researchers a...

(Chalmers University of Technology) In sufferers of Parkinson's disease, clumps of α-synuclein (alpha-synuclein), sometimes known as the 'Parkinson's protein', are found in the brain. These destroy cell membranes, event...

(AlphaMed Press) A study released today in STEM CELLS outlines a new platform researchers designed that allowed them to investigate the potentially harmful effects of microplastics and nanoplastics.

(Menzies Institute for Medical Research ) Researchers at the University of Tasmania's Menzies Institute for Medical Research and the School of Medicine have added an arsenal of new tools (video link) to their repertoire ...