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Despite a long history of therapeutic use, the research on elderberry's benefits in fighting the flu comes up short.

(Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center) The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC - James) and the Ohio State College o...

(Aetion) Aetion co-authored a study published today in Science, which examined lethal coronaviruses SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-1, and MERS-CoV to identify molecular characteristics of potential treatments. The study, which was...

(University of Birmingham) The processes our brains use to avoid harming other people are automatic and reflexive - and quite different from those used when avoiding harm to ourselves, according to new research.

(Rice University) Education has long been linked to health -- the more schooling people have, the healthier they are likely to be. But a new study from Rice University sociologists found that the health benefits of a goo...

(Research Organization of Information and Systems) By exposing larval zebrafish to a well-known optical illusion, researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology and National Institute of Genetics have found a cl...

(Children's Hospital Colorado) Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) is the most common birth defect in the United States, occurring in approximately one in every 100 babies. However, hospital data regarding outcomes for patien...

(Durham University) E-cigarettes might not be a safer alternative to smoking during pregnancy, according to the first known study into the effects of prenatal nicotine exposure on babies.

(University of Zurich) A study by the Brain Research Institute at UZH reveals that early trauma leads to changes in blood metabolites - similarly in mice and humans. Experiments with mice have show that these potentially...

(Gladstone Institutes) The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has granted a 4D Nucleome award to support research by a group of scientists at Gladstone Institutes led by Benoit Bruneau, PhD, and Katie Pollard, PhD. This...

(Georgia State University) There are common vulnerabilities among three lethal coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-1 and MERS-CoV, such as frequently hijacked cellular pathways, that could lead to promising targets for b...

(Baylor College of Medicine) Supplementation of precursors of glutathione, a major antioxidant produced by the body, improves multiple deficits associated with premature aging in people with HIV.

(New Harvest) Scientists exploit carotenoid pathway used in golden rice to grow nutritionally enhanced, cell-cultured meat.

(Institut national de la recherche scientifique - INRS) Quebec is particularly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. For more than 50 years, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has placed research at the s...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) MD Anderson and Allogene today announced a strategic five-year collaboration for preclinical and clinical investigation of allogeneic CAR T cell therapies.

(George Mason University) While sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are at record highs in the United States, STI testing among college students remains low. A new George Mason University study led by Dr. Lisa Lindley...

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) Seeking to inform development of drugs effective against multiple pathogenic human coronaviruses, David E. Gordon and colleagues compared host interactions of MERS-Co...

(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) In a new article published in the journal Nature Communications, Moffitt Cancer Center researchers describe how the protein TAp63 controls levels of RNA molecules, whic...

(Princeton University) Asif Ghazanfar led a team of scientists who determined that changing an infant monkey's verbal development also changed a physical marker of domesticity: a patch of white fur on its forehead. This ...

(Cardiovascular Research Foundation) In a randomized clinical trial, SCOPE II, a new self-expanding bioprosthetic valve used in transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) failed to demonstrate non-inferiority compared...

(The University of Hong Kong) A research team led by Professor Hongzhe SUN, Norman & Cecilia Yip Professor in Bioinorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, and Professor Kwok Yung YUEN, Henry Fok P...

(The Obesity Society ) Scientists from across the globe will present the latest research in obesity science and medicine and related topics at the 38th Annual Meeting of The Obesity Society (TOS) at ObesityWeek® Interac...