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(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Inspired by a parasitic worm that digs its sharp teeth into its host's intestines, Johns Hopkins researchers have designed tiny, star-shaped microdevices that can latch onto intestinal mucosa and...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) The virus that causes COVID-19 was present in New York City long before the city's first case of the disease was confirmed on March 1.

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers with UC San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center say active surveillance is safe for African American men with low-risk prostate cancer.

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(University of Exeter) Young people across Europe aged 16 - 22 are being recruited to use an app designed to prevent anxiety and depression and improve wellbeing.Researchers at the University of Exeter are leading a pan-...

(IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute)) A joint study by physicians at Hospital del Mar, researchers from the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Pompeu Fabra University and the Pere Virgili Health ...

(ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies) A world-first study on the Great Barrier Reef shows crown-of-thorns starfish have the ability to find their own way home -- a behavior previously undocumented--but only i...

(Entomological Society of America) Your next great science story could be just a few mouse-clicks away at Entomology 2020, the Entomological Society of America's Virtual Annual Meeting. Interested media are invited to pa...

(Boston College) With a new grant from the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation, Boston College Assistant Professor of Biology Emrah Altindis and his team will explore the role of gut microbes and serum metabolites ...

(University of Barcelona) The oil from wild olive trees has excellent sensorial, physicochemical and stability characteristics from a nutritional point of view, according to an article published in the journal Antioxidan...

(Rutgers University) The COVID-19 outbreak has significantly impacted the delivery of behavioral health services, which had to modify rapidly from in-person to remote, according to a Rutgers study published in the Commun...

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) recommends vaccinating key populations, such as people at risk of severe illness or death, those at risk of transmitting ...

(Uppsala University) In Alzheimer's disease, a protein (peptide) forms clumps in the brain and causes sufferers to lose their memory. In a recently published article, a research group at Uppsala University described a ne...

(Impact Journals LLC) SG could provide better clinical benefit than irinotecan in patients with HRR-proficient tumors expressing high levels of Trop-2, as well as to patients with HRR-deficient tumors expressing low/mode...

(King's College London) Investigations of deceased COVID-19 patients have shed light on possible lung damage caused by the virus.

(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) Almost one in five patients with COVID-19 may only show gastrointestinal symptoms, according to a review of academic studies published in the journal Abdominal Radi...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Military and law enforcement personnel with extensive occupational blast exposure had statistically significant differences in brain imaging measures compared to nonexpos...

(Florida Atlantic University) A study of the relationships between cognition and the gut microbiome of captive zebra finches showed that their gut microbiome characteristics were related to performance on a cognitive ass...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) Brigham investigators examined blood samples and cells from patients who had recovered from mild to moderate COVID-19 and found that while antibodies against the virus declined in most indi...

(Innovation Center of NanoMedicine) Friday, December 4, hold the 7th COINS Symposium ONLINE?Keynote Sessions based on the latest trends under the theme of "Future Medicines"?The latest information of the research on infe...

(University of Connecticut) Justin Cotney, assistant professor of genetics and genome sciences in the UConn School of Medicine, has identified a suite of genes and regulatory elements critical to normal heart development...

(University of Tsukuba) Researchers from the University of Tsukuba have shown that the single-nucleotide variants of TERT and DSP, which promote risk for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), are significantly associated ...