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(University of Seville) Our cells have DNA repair systems to defend themselves against this sort of damage. One of these systems is based on a protein, photolysis, which uses blue light to repair DNA damage before it lea...

(Technical University of Munich (TUM)) Researchers of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have cultured so-called intestinal organoids from human intestinal tissue, which is a common byproduct when performing bowel ...

(University of Southampton) Southampton researchers have identified a blood profile that could help identify COVID-19 patients at greatest risk of deterioration and direct them towards trials of specific treatments that ...

(West Virginia University) Dr. Judith Feinberg and Dr. Gordon Smith, both from WVU, will collaborate with Lisa Jones from the Southern Highlands Community Mental Health Center to administer a $1.35 million grant with the...

(Parsemus Foundation) A report supporting the concept of trained immunity for protection from severe COVID-19 was published in Allergy. COVID-19 patients recently vaccinated with the mumps-measles-rubella (MMR) vaccine h...

(University of Utah) Anyone with a smartphone can download the app ViDok, which lets users pick from a library of molecules that might bind to key proteins on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, and then can twe...

(Florida Atlantic University) The NIH grant will enable FAU scientists to identify the gene regulation pathways activated to program immature stem-like cells of the eye lens to attain their mature form and transparent fu...

(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) Dr. Guangyu Wu is dissecting the molecular homing that enables a nascent protein to ultimately find its way to the surface of a cell as a mature receptor type that helps...

(The University of Bergen) Persons with critical corona-disease may have antibodies blocking the body´s most important defence mechanisms.

(The Gerontological Society of America) The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) invites all journalists to attend its 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting Online -- the country's largest interdisciplinary conference in the...

(American Heart Association) Results of a retrospective analysis suggest that people born with a heart defect who developed COVID-19 symptoms had a low risk of moderate or severe COVID-19 infection, according to a new ar...

(Allina Health ) A new US study of waterbirths found that hospital-based births involving water immersion had no higher risk of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) or special care nursery admission than comparable delive...

(University of Georgia) New research by a University of Georgia scientist reveals that girls who are maltreated show higher levels of inflammation at an early age than boys who are maltreated or children who have not exp...

(Michigan State University) Understanding sounds in language is a critical building block for child literacy, yet this skill is often overlooked. Researchers from Michigan State University have developed a new software t...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Conclusion presented by Brazilian researchers in Obesity Research & Clinical Practice is based on analysis of nine clinical studies involving 6,577 patients infecte...

(Impact Journals LLC) The cover for Issue 41 of Oncotarget features Figure 7, "IPA ATM-signaling pathway in (A) EFV treated MRC-5 and (B) A549 cells," recently published in "Efavirenz induces DNA damage response pathway ...

(Taylor & Francis Group) US schools in poor districts with large non-white student populations are less likely to reopen fully this academic year, according to a major new study published in the peer-reviewed Journal of ...

(NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Translational Research Centre ) A pharmacist-led, new digital intervention that improves patient safety when prescribing medication in general practice reduced rates of hazardous p...

(Washington State University) Regular cannabis exposure in rats during pregnancy may cause their offspring to have long-term cognitive deficiencies, asocial behavior, and anxiety later in adulthood.

(University of California - San Diego) Treatment with a peptide that mimics the naturally occurring protein GIV prevents immune overreaction and supports a mechanism critical for survival in mouse models of sepsis and co...

(American Society for Radiation Oncology) The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) announced today the press program for its 2020 Annual Meeting, which will feature studies on cancer treatment advances and dis...

(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists lead genome analysis to better understand one of the most common childhood solid tumors.