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(University of California - Santa Barbara) Fossil fuel burning accounts for the majority of global greenhouse gas emissions, and to the world's credit, several countries are working to reduce their use and the heat-trapp...

(Norwegian University of Science and Technology) A Norwegian-Israeli team of neuroscientists has been awarded an ERC Synergy Grant to explore the biological basis of spatial operations in the brain.

The so-called Asian glow, or alcohol flush reaction, results from a genetic intolerance to alcohol. A pill that can prevent facial redness and other effects while drinking has long been a dream for sufferers.

(University of Cincinnati) University of Cincinnati clinician-scientist Soma Sengupta, MD, PhD, says that new findings from her and Daniel Pomeranz Krummel's, PhD, team might have identified a treatment-boosting drug to ...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Studies using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), a noninvasive technique, to help veterans and active-duty service members living with depression, post-traumatic stress disorder ...

(University College London) People who experience strokes while infected with COVID-19 appear to be left with greater disability after the stroke, according a study led by UCL and UCLH researchers.

(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) An enzyme that helps COVID-19 (coronavirus) infect the body also plays a role in inflammation and patient outcomes in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a new study led by Cedars...

(Columbia University Irving Medical Center) Compared with adults, children produce a very different antibody response after infection with the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, suggesting they clear the virus easily.

(University of Cincinnati) A University of Cincinnati cardiologist wins a National Institutes of Health Director's Innovator Award for research. His study aimed at deciphering crosstalk between the heart and the brain co...

(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) CSHL Professor Bo Li's team explores the brain circuits that underlie fear. The researchers have mapped critical connections and teased out how specific components contribute to learning f...

(Columbia University Irving Medical Center) Immunotherapy, often ineffective against stomach cancer, was more effective when combined with chemotherapy and given earlier, finds a new study in mice.

(Cleveland Clinic) Cleveland Clinic has been awarded a $2.6 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to develop and validate two automated tools - a risk calculator to identify patients at high risk of cognitiv...

(NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) National Institutes of Health researchers have discovered a gene in mice that controls the craving for fatty and sugary foods and the ...

(University of Huddersfield) Footballers may be fitter than ever before but congested fixture lists are forcing players to pace themselves while team managers are forced to increasingly juggle their resources, according ...

(University of Bristol) A new approach of treating life-threatening snake bites responsible for around 100,000 deaths globally each year is being pioneered by an international research consortium led by University of Bri...

(Boston Children's Hospital) Pancreatic cancer is highly lethal: according to the National Cancer Institute, only about 10 percent of patients remain alive five years after diagnosis. Now, a preclinical study from the la...

(Penn State) Strength training is an important part of any exercise routine, but some women may not be getting the recommended hours. New Penn State research discovered some of the barriers preventing women from strength...

(Washington State University) Healthcare providers should talk to patients about their cannabis use the same way they talk about other habits like smoking and drinking: routinely and without judgment. Marian Wilson, lead...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Three waves of the disease swept the state between 2016 and 2018. An international group of researchers described how the virus spread in a study based on the seque...

(The University of Hong Kong) A research team led by Professor Hongzhe SUN, Chair Professor from the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, in collaboration with Dr Pak-Leung HO, Director of the HKU Carol Yu Centre...

(University of Cambridge) Scientists at the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with Justus-Liebig University, Germany, have uncovered how the genome of SARS-CoV-2 - the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 - uses geno...

(Oregon State University) Small shifts in ocean temperature can have significant effects on the eating habits of blackfin tuna during the larval stage of development, when finding food and growing quickly are critical to...