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(Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center) WFIRM researchers have developed an optimized cellular platform for delivering Factor 8 to better treat patients with hemophilia A.

(University of New South Wales) Climate change in eastern Australia will shift when hazard reduction burning occurs but for most areas the number of suitable days remains unchanged. In some places, there will even be inc...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Two doses of an experimental vaccine to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) induced robust immune responses and rapidly controlled the coronavirus in th...

(University of Massachusetts Amherst) Evolutionary and developmental biologist Craig Albertson and colleagues at UMass Amherst report that they have identified a molecular mechanism that allows an organism to change the ...

(Rutgers University) Even short, single antibiotic courses given to young animals can predispose them to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) when they are older, according to Rutgers researchers. The study, published in Gen...

(University of Warwick) Antibiotic resistance is an increasing battle for scientists to overcome, as more antimicrobials are urgently needed to treat biofilm-associated infections. However scientists from the School of L...

(Universität Leipzig) The COVID-19 pandemic has also affected many people's subjective well-being. This is the result of a long-term study involving 979 people from Germany conducted by psychologists from Leipzig Univer...

(University of Ottawa) Millions of women have been taking oral contraceptives, but little is known about whether the synthetic hormones found in the oral contraceptives have behavioural and neurophysiological effects, es...

(Consortium of MS Centers) The Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (CMSC) announces a Virtual Summer Celebration on August 3rd to commemorate the successful conclusion of its virtual Annual Meeting. The program, ope...

(Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute ) A study published in the journal Nature Communications has pinpointed a number of areas of the human genome that may help explain the neonatal origins of chronic immune and inflammat...

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) Children in low-income neighborhoods in Baltimore tended to have more asthma symptoms when levels of the synthetic chemical BPA (Bisphenol A) in their urine we...

(University of Göttingen) Coronavirus tracing applications for the detection of infection chains are currently being developed and made available. Contact-tracing apps are a central component of national strategies for ...

(Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy) Researchers at CDDEP, Johns Hopkins University, St. George's University of London, and Washington University School of Medicine analyzed global trends of antibiotic consu...

(American College of Emergency Physicians) The signs of physical abuse among elderly people can be challenging for health care professionals to recognize, resulting in as few as one in 24 cases being reported to authorit...

(University of Otago) Media coverage of the March 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings contributed to an increase in public support for gun control, a study by researchers at the University of Otago, Wellington has found.

(Boston University School of Medicine) Giving birth in the United States is a radically different experience based on race and income, illustrated most brutally by the Black and Indigenous maternal mortality crisis.

(The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo) A research group at The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo (IMSUT) using HIV-1-infected cells performed "multiomics" analyses, which are tech...

(National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a program to help laboratories accurately measure key chemical compounds in marijuana, hemp a...

(Lund University) A new blood test demonstrated remarkable promise in discriminating between persons with and without Alzheimer's disease and in persons at known genetic risk may be able to detect the disease as early as...

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) Researchers led by James Bibb, Ph.D., professor of surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, suggest using a broader lens of post-translational modification analysis to ide...

(University of Pittsburgh) A team of University of Pittsburgh, Michigan Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina and Stanford Medicine. researchers were recently awarded funds from the National Heart, Lung, and Blo...