Medical News
COVID-19 provides rare opportunities for studying natural and human systems
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(Stanford University) Researchers at Stanford and other institutions hypothesize outcomes of the pandemic's unprecedented socioeconomic disruption and outline research priorities for advancing our understanding of humans...
RNA sequences involved in regulating gene expression identified
Science Daily - 29 Jul 2020 17:48
By studying RNA-binding proteins, a research consortium has identified genomic sites that appear to code for RNA molecules that influence gene expression.
New maps of chemical marks on DNA pinpoint regions relevant to many developmental diseases
Science Daily - 29 Jul 2020 17:47
In research that aims to illuminate the causes of human developmental disorders, scientists have generated 168 new maps of chemical marks on strands of DNA -- called methylation -- in developing mice. The data can help n...
Mood homeostasis before, during COVID-19 lockdown
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(JAMA Network) Mood homeostasis (the ability to stabilize your mood with mood-modifying activities) before and during the COVID-19 lockdown among Dutch students was investigated in this observational study.
New blood test shows great promise in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
Science Daily - 29 Jul 2020 17:44
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 20 years before t...
Peering into the secrets of phages to see how they kill bacterial superbugs
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(Monash University) A research collaboration involving Monash University has made an exciting discovery that may eventually lead to targeted treatments to combat drug-resistant bacterial infections, one of the greatest t...
Americans are consuming less sugar but more nonnutritive sweeteners
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(Elsevier) A new study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, published by Elsevier, found that between 2002 and 2018 purchases by US households of foods and beverages containing caloric sweetener (CS,...
Indigenous people vital for understanding environmental change
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(Rutgers University) Grassroots knowledge from indigenous people can help to map and monitor ecological changes and improve scientific studies, according to Rutgers-led research. The study, published in the Journal of Ap...
Stand Up To Cancer awards $1.1 million in grants to research teams
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(Stand Up To Cancer) Stand Up To Cancer announced today five new awards that will cut across institutional and national lines to foster collaborative research and explore new paths to improve cancer treatment. The projec...
Clinical trial tests oral cancer drug to combat respiratory symptoms of COVID-19
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center) Researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center -- Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute and The Ohio State University...
Berlin and Oxford establish the Centre for Advanced Studies
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) The Berlin University Alliance and the University of Oxford are taking forward their research partnership with the establishment of a Centre for Advanced Studies.
Pregnant Black and Hispanic women five times more likely to be exposed to coronavirus
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Black and Hispanic pregnant women in Philadelphia are five times as likely as white and Asian women to have been exposed to the novel coronavirus, according to a new study ...
COVID-19 may cause deadly blood clots
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(The Endocrine Society) COVID-19 may increase the risk of blot cots in women who are pregnant or taking estrogen with birth control or hormone replacement therapy, according to a new manuscript published in the Endocrine...
UC San Diego scientists part of special package of studies describing human genome
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine are among the contributors to a package of 10 studies in the journal Nature, describing the latest results from the ongoing Encycloped...
ENCODE3: Interpreting the human and mouse genomes
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) An international consortium of approximately 500 scientists, led in part by researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, reports on the completion of Phase 3 of the ENCODE project, provid...
US should consider 'stay-at-home' cooling options during pandemic
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(University of Sydney) A new study from Australian scientists at the forefront of climate and health modelling suggests electric fans and water dousing could be a viable stay-at-home cooling strategy as the United States...
COVID-19 risk model uses hospital data to guide decisions on social distancing
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(University of Texas at Austin) With communities throughout the United States combating surges in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Northwestern University have cre...
Whale 'snot' reveals likely poor health during migration
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(University of New South Wales) UNSW researchers have linked the burden of humpback whales' annual migration to depleted microbial diversity in their airways - an indicator of overall health.
Association between statewide school closure, COVID-19 incidence, mortality in US
EurekAlert! - 29 Jul 2020 06:00
(JAMA Network) This population epidemiology study estimates associations of school closures in the U.S. and the timing of those closures in March with change in daily COVID-19 incidence and mortality through the first we...
Pregnant Black and Hispanic women five times more likely to be exposed to coronavirus
Science Daily - 29 Jul 2020 21:16
Researchers found the rate of virus exposure among Black and Hispanic women to be five times higher than among White and Asian women.
Cholesterol-lowering drug improved function of heart's arteries
Science Daily - 29 Jul 2020 18:44
In a pilot study of people living with HIV or high levels of cholesterol, researchers found that a six-week course of a cholesterol-lowering medication improved the function of the coronary arteries that provide oxygen t...
New insights into wound healing
Science Daily - 29 Jul 2020 18:43
Research may provide new insights into wound healing, scarring and how cancer spreads.