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(University of Rochester Medical Center) While the broad architecture and organization of the human brain is universal, new research shows how the differences between how people reimagine common scenarios can be observed...

One company is making a vaccine that is given to cats and stops them from producing allergens. Another is trying to create CRISPR kitties.

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Preliminary results of patient tissue analysis show that the virus infects adipocytes and alters the quantity of signaling molecules released by these cells into th...

(Penn State) A genetic modification in the 'coat' of a brain infection-causing virus may allow it to escape antibodies, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. They say testing people for this and other ...

(Fujita Health University) Interleukin-15-like (IL-15L) is found in both fish and mammals and may be the last remaining cytokine shared between those species for which the function had not been determined yet. Scientists...

(Boston University School of Medicine) David T. Felson, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and epidemiology at Boston University's Schools of Medicine and Public Health (BUSM, BUSPH), has been honored with the Lee C. Howley,...

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have resolved a severe lymphatic disorder in a girl with Noonan Syndrome that had led to upper gastrointestinal bleeding, fl...

(American College of Physicians) Ethical and Scientific Considerations Regarding the Early Approval and Deployment of a COVID-19 Vaccine.

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Resuscitation and survival rates of hospitalized COVID-19 patients who've had cardiac arrest are much higher than earlier reports of near-zero; variation at the individual ...

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) A basic science discovery by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health reveals a fundamental way cells interpret signals from their en...

(Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona) This is the question studied by researchers at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, led by Marcelo Bertalmío together with Jesús Malo, a researcher at the...

(European Society of Cardiology) Expanding the boundaries of cardiovascular medicine - find out how the latest science will impact clinical practice in the Asia Pacific region. ESC Asia with APSC & AFC - held online duri...

(Goethe University Frankfurt) For the first time, an international research alliance has observed the RNA folding structures of the SARS-CoV2 genome with which the virus controls the infection process. Since these struct...

(University of Colorado at Boulder) When it comes to curbing the spread of COVID-19, test frequency and test turnaround-time are far more important than test sensitivity, according to a new study published in the journal...

(Duke-NUS Medical School) Cancer is a disease driven by mutations that alter the way biochemical signals control cell growth, division and migration. Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School found out that, like Goldilocks,...

(University of South Florida (USF Health)) A University of South Florida Health-led survey of resident physicians in Florida indicates they are interested in treating opioid addiction but face barriers to offering patien...

(American Society for Microbiology) The measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine has been theorized to provide protection against COVID-19. In a new study published in mBio, an open-access journal of the American Society for ...

(City University London) Glaucoma is a chronic condition that affects cells at the back of the eye. It is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. People with glaucoma, or at risk of developing glaucoma, re...

(RMIT University) In a promising advance for affordable, personalised medicine, researchers have used metal-organic frameworks to successfully deliver the genetic snipping tool CRISPR/Cas9 into human cancer cells.

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine have been awarded a five-year, $8.3 million grant from the National Institutes of H...

(Kaiser Permanente) A study published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine this month reports on an assessment tool developed by Kaiser Permanente researchers and physicians that helps ensure patients get the ri...

(Regenstrief Institute) Nursing home residents with medical order forms indicating their treatment preferences were three times more likely to have their current preferences documented in their medical record than reside...