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(Aarhus University) Thousands of Danes use ACE inhibitors or angiotensin II receptor blockers against elevated blood pressure or heart problems, and they may have an improved chance of surviving severe influenza or pneum...

Nutrigenomics companies that use genetic data to create personalized eating plans are becoming more popular. But does matching diet to genes really improve one's health?

(Radboud University Medical Center) A patient who could not move and talk spontaneously for eight years started to do so again after being administered a sleeping pill. The spectacular but temporary effect was visualized...

(University of Cambridge) While common cuckoos mimic their host's eggs, new research has revealed that a group of parasitic finch species in Africa have evolved to mimic their host's chicks - and with astonishing accurac...

(University of Chicago Medical Center) The Chicago Center for HIV Elimination, housed at the University of Chicago, has been awarded $5 million over two years through the National Institute of Health's (NIH) RADx Underse...

(University of East Anglia) Poo transplants could one day be used to restore cognitive decline among the elderly - according to new research.A new study published today shows how faecal transplants from older to younger ...

(American Roentgen Ray Society) According to an open-access article in ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), dual-energy CT (DECT) added value to routine interpretation of emergency department (ED) imaging studi...

(Pennington Biomedical Research Center) Controlling blood sugar levels improved the ability to clearly think, learn and remember among people with type 2 diabetes who were overweight, a new study shows. But losing weight...

(American Thoracic Society) New research findings contradict statements linking wearing face masks to carbon dioxide poisoning by trapping CO2. During the COVID-19 pandemic the wearing of face masks has become a highly p...

(Gladstone Institutes) A team of Gladstone researchers has received a grant of more than $3.2 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study how cells regulate their energy levels and how targeting energy ...

(Columbia University Irving Medical Center) Columbia awards the 2020 Horwitz Prize to Robert Fettiplace, James Hudspeth, and Christine Petit have made invaluable discoveries about how the ear converts sound waves into el...

(International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer) A pilot study comparing the effects of a liquid biopsy with tissue-based test showed that liquid biopsy turn-around time for results was approximately 10 days fast...

(Aarhus University) A drug which has already been approved for the treatment of multiple sclerosis patients effectively inhibits the coronavirus when tested on human lung cells. This is shown by a newly published study f...

(University of Vermont) Scientists at the University of Vermont and the University of Washington have developed an accurate COVID-19 test doesn't use scarce reagents, paving the way for wide testing in both developing co...

(Karolinska Institutet) Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a protein in the brain that is important both for the function of the mood-regulating substance serotonin and for the release of stre...

(Medical University of South Carolina) Innova Therapeutics Inc. recently announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted rare pediatric disease designation for IVT-8086 for the treatment of osteosarcoma....

(University of Gothenburg) In general, surgeons who perform numerous cataract operations every year encounter relatively few severe cases, and this probably contributes to their lower complication rate, as shown by a stu...

(University of Copenhagen The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences) New tool developed at University of Copenhagen enables researchers to explore disease patterns from 7.2 million patients spanning 25 years. The tool i...

(Uppsala University) Researchers at Uppsala University have found that an effective way of treating the coronavirus behind the 2003 SARS epidemic also works on the closely related SARS-CoV-2 virus, the culprit in the ong...

(University of California - San Diego) Patients receiving care for advanced cancer at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health were more likely to survive or experience a longer period without their disease progressin...

(Virginia Tech) Funded by a $500,000 award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Jacob Lahne, assistant professor of food science at Virginia Tech, and Clinton Neill, assistant professor of population...

(Compuscript Ltd) a new article publication for BIO Integration journal. In this article the authors Xin Yang, Haoming Li, Li Liu, and Dong Ni from Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China and Chinese University of Hong Kon...