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(Rice University) Indian women past childbearing age are dying at a higher rate than those in other countries because of poverty and limited access to resources such as food and health care, according to a study from Ric...

(The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo) A research team led by Professor Yasushi Kawaguchi of the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, developed a new decoding method for viral genes...

(Deutsches Primatenzentrum (DPZ)/German Primate Center) Neurobiologists at the German Primate Center developed a model that for the first time can completely represent the neuronal processes from seeing to grasping an ob...

(Compuscript Ltd) BIO Integration Journal, Volume 1, Issue Number 3, Publishes. Integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Medicine and Biomedicine.Guangzhou, December 5, 2020: New journal BIO Integration (BIOI) publ...

(Boston University School of Medicine) Karol Serafin, a fourth-year medical student from Boston University School of Medicine, has received a 2021 STFM Foundation Student Scholarship from the Society of Teachers of Famil...

(Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) Is it possible to predict the course of a viral respiratory tract infection - for instance one caused by a coronavirus - based on individual patient characteristics? This question...

(Wiley) A new study published in The Career Development Quarterly looked for potential links between negative or dysfunctional career thoughts and the quality of parental relationships in high school students with attent...

(International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) While many people are now enjoying longer, healthier lives, current retirement ages are posing challenges for both policymakers and retirees. A new study looked into...

(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) How well women with cervical cancer respond to treatment and survive correlates with the level of 10 proteins in their blood that also are associated with a "zombie" cel...

(University of South Australia) A new project led by the University of South Australia will develop a virtual assistant tool to support around two million dementia carers in the Asia Pacific.

(Henry Ford Health System) Henry Ford Health System today announced a $16 million gift to its Henry Ford Pancreatic Cancer Center (HFPCC), which was launched in 2018 by an initial $20 million gift from the same donor, wh...

(University of Illinois at Chicago) New research shows that the antiviral activity of the drug -- called phenylbutyrate, or PBA -- was even better when used along with acyclovir, a common HSV-1 treatment. When used in co...

(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have identified genetic variants in African American childhood cancer survivors that have implications for up-front care and lon...

(Dartmouth College) Nurses and other long-term care workers in nursing homes who hold multiple jobs, may be one of the factors contributing to the spread of COVID-19 in these facilities, according to a new study publishe...

(Washington University in St. Louis) By publishing their method in the journal Nature Protocols, chemists have opened doors for fellow scientists to better address research questions related to Alzheimer's disease, the C...

(Henry Ford Health System) Henry Ford Cancer Institute and United Outstanding Physicians (UOP), a physician organization comprising nearly 1,000 independent private practice physicians across Southeast Michigan, have com...

(Georgia Institute of Technology) Researchers have developed a potential new treatment for the eye disease glaucoma that could replace daily eye drops and surgery with a twice-a-year injection to control the buildup of p...

(University of California - San Diego) What do honey bees and deadly hornets have to do with issues surrounding "fake news?" UC San Diego-led research is providing new details about honey bees and their defenses against ...

(Kessler Foundation) "We are pleased to be among the grantees to receive emergency funding," said Dr. Jeanne Zanca of Kessler Foundation. "The Neilsen Foundation recognizes the pressing need to maintain programs that sup...

(Leopoldina) Which type of research can help us to address the challenges of an extended lifespan and demographic change? This question is the focus of the Report on Tomorrow's Science 'Ageing and the Life Course. Resear...

(University of Washington) A University of Washington study provides the first look at how much noise pollution is impacting the Olympic Peninsula. The paper found that aircraft were audible across a large swath of the p...

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) A new 5-month longitudinal analysis of 254 COVID-19 patients who displayed a wide range of disease severity - from asymptomatic to deadly illness - suggests that IgA ...