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(University of California - Santa Barbara) As we get older, many of our body's processes start slowing down. For instance, a cut on the hand will take longer to heal after middle age than in youth. That said, it still he...

The same chronic illnesses associated with exposure to endocrine-disrupting compounds also increase risk of developing severe COVID-19.

(Bentham Science Publishers) This signature could be useful in clinical practice, especially for colorectal cancer diagnosis and therapy. Future studies should determine the effectiveness of integration in cancer surviva...

(University of Toronto) A team led by researchers at the University of Toronto and The Hospital for Sick Children has found that mothers of preterm babies have highly individual breast milk microbiomes, and that even sho...

(University of Toronto) Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been empirical and anecdotal reports of declines in both emergency and ambulatory medical visits. However, little research has been conducted to...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) A new technology that allows researchers to peer inside malignant tumors shows that two experimental drugs can normalize aberrant blood vessels, oxygenation, and other aspects of the tumo...

(Children's National Hospital) With many questions remaining around how children spread COVID-19, Children's National Hospital researchers set out to improve the understanding of how long it takes pediatric patients with...

(Deep Longevity Ltd) Regent Pacific acquires Deep Longevity with the intention to develop the largest integrated platform for longevity biotechnology and aging research.

(University of Arizona) University of Arizona researchers studied the evolution of the body sizes of frogs and their tadpoles. They found that the two life stages do not evolve completely independently of each other as p...

(Medical University of Vienna) Studies have indicated that people who dye their hair regularly may have a higher risk of cancer, especially bladder cancer and breast cancer. Hair dyes contain certain chemicals that have ...

(University of Illinois at Chicago) With six mutations in genes associated with hearing, naked mole-rats can barely hear the constant squeaking they use to communicate with one another. This hearing loss, which is strang...

(University of California - Berkeley) UC Berkeley neuroscientists have found a way to estimate, with some degree of accuracy, a time frame for when Alzheimer's is most likely to strike in a person's lifetime, based on th...

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau) Ghassan Moussawi, a University of Illinois professor of gender and women's studies and of sociology, examines the daily survival strategies of Beirut's LGBTQ resi...

(Estonian Research Council) Penicillin, a life-saving medicine, is the most common cause of drug allergy, with clinical manifestations ranging from temporary skin reactions to life-threatening systemic syndromes. Thus fa...

(Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) In new research published in Nature Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center immunologist Dan H. Barouch, MD, PhD, and colleagues demonstrated that the optimal vaccine elicite...

(Shinshu University) An IoT system that allows geneticists, nutritionists, clinicians and exercise physiologists to work together remotely encourages middle-aged and elderly people to train using Interval Walking Trainin...

(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) A team of LSU Health New Orleans radiologists investigated the usefulness of chest x-rays in COVID-19 and found they could aid in a rapid diagnosis of the disease, espe...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Xencor, Inc. today announced a strategic collaboration to study investigational treatments for patients with a vari...

(IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca) A researcher at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Giulio Bernardi, has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting grant, a competitive source of financing att...

(Dowling & Dennis PR) The Ellipsys Vascular Access System reduces the time before patients with kidney failure can start lifesaving dialysis treatments, while requiring fewer secondary procedures, according to a new stud...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Helmholtz Zentrum München is awarded four ERC Starting Grants in the latest funding round of the European Research Council (ERC). All shortl...

(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) EPFL scientists propose that periods of unconscious processing--during which the brain integrates information--precede brief moments of consciousness