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(University of Missouri-Columbia) As the coronavirus pandemic continues to put a strain on health care systems, nursing homes have become overburdened with the challenge of keeping both patients and staff safe and health...

(Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH)) Professor Kimoon Kim's research group at POSTECH has developed a highly pure and efficient technique for purifying antiviral and anti-cancer protein therapeutics usin...

(JAMA Network) Recent advancements across disciplines relevant to early child development can be used to understand the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and to develop and scale empirically supported interventions f...

(European Molecular Biology Laboratory - European Bioinformatics Institute) Scientists gathered and published over 200 000 genomes from the human gut microbiome. The catalogue reveals that more than 70% of bacterial spec...

(CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change) Phosphorus is critical to food security, ecosystem functioning and human activities. Urbanization and dietary changes, and in particular industrial use of P...

(Morgridge Institute for Research) A new imaging method developed by the Skala lab uses the natural autofluorescence within cells to assess T cell activity. The technique could help assess T cell involvement in immunothe...

(JAMA Network) The characteristics and expected strength of evidence of COVID-19 studies registered on ClinicalTrials.gov are evaluated in this observational study.

(Hebrew SeniorLife Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research) In a paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine today, researchers showed how analysis of data from the m...

(International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics) Today, the word probiotic is used to describe all kinds of 'good' microorganisms in foods and supplements. Already, scientists have come up with a spec...

(Osaka University) Researchers at Osaka University have demonstrated that precipitation of a salt crystal occurs even at concentrations much lower than its solubility due to local density fluctuation and this repeated pr...

(University of California - Irvine) In a new study, researchers found that night- versus day-biting species of mosquitoes are behaviorally attracted and repelled by different colors of light at different times of day. Mo...

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that inhibiting a key enzyme caused human cancer cells associate...

(Institut national de la recherche scientifique - INRS) Using data from a study conducted in Montreal between 2005 and 2012, a research team led by Professor Marie-Élise Parent of Institut national de la recherche scien...

(JAMA Network) Viral aerosol emissions from simulated individuals with asymptomatic to moderate COVID-19 are estimated in this mathematical modeling study.

(American College of Physicians) 1. Opinion: During the COVID-10 pandemic, the public must be protected from research without consent ; 2. Occupational Health: A Key to the Control of COVID-19 in Correctional Facilities

(Duke-NUS Medical School) Researchers in Japan and Singapore have discovered a molecular mechanism that explains how Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection alters a host's epigenome to promote tumorigenesis (the transformati...

(George Washington University) A hospital workforce estimator developed by the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity (Mullan Institute) at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Publi...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) DALLAS - June 22, 2020 - For decades, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol has been dubbed "good cholesterol" because of its role in moving fats and other cholesterol molecules out ...

(CG Life) AI Therapeutics announced the start of Phase II clinical trial forthe treatment of newly diagnosed COVID-19 patients in collaboration with Yale University.

(Yale University) The differing immune system responses of patients with COVID-19 can help predict who will experience moderate and severe consequences of disease, according to a new study by Yale researchers published J...

(JAMA Network) Changes over 25 years in how common spanking of children was by parents in the United States are examined in this study.

(University of Bath) Animal patterns are a source of endless fascination, and now researchers at the University Bath have worked out how zebrafish develop their stripes.