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(University of Oldenburg ) The subsurface of beaches with high waves and strong tides is a largely unknown habitat. The German Research Foundation is funding a new research group at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, ...

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) Meier-Gorlin syndrome, or MGS, is a rare genetic developmental disorder that causes dwarfism, small ears, a small brain, missing patella and other skeletal abnormalities. One mutatio...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing) National efforts to develop a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine at 'warp speed' will likely yield a safe and effective vaccine by early 2021. However, this importa...

(Huntsman Cancer Institute) Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah has been awarded a five-year, $3 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to improve Utah's colorectal cancer scree...

(Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS)) A variety of measures are necessary to prevent the spread of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in hospitals and nursing homes. It is particularly important to develop an ap...

(RUDN University) Chemists from RUDN University discovered previously unknown derivatives of chitin, a biopolymer that forms the exoskeletons of insects and carapaces of crayfish and other arthropods. The new compounds a...

(Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) A team of researchers led by MIPT's Allan Kalueff has studied chronic stress in zebrafish and determined that the animal can serve as a valuable model species for research int...

(The Translational Genomics Research Institute) The results of a pre-clinical study led by researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, suggest how a compound derived...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Recently published UT Southwestern research reveals new insights about risk factors for depression based on data from a landmark longitudinal study focused on heart disease.

(Drexel University) Research from the Center for Weight, Eating and Lifestyle Science (WELL Center) in the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University suggests that health counselors having access to self-monitored...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy researchers identified a correlation between multisystem immune-related adverse events and improved rate...

(University of Maryland) For the first time, researchers at the University of Maryland have measured the physical evidence of diminished neural processing within the brain after a stroke.

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) In the first months after their COVID-19 hospital stay, patients face a high risk of ongoing health problems, hospital readmission and death, a growing number of studies shows...

(Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) 33 projects on particularly urgent questions of immunity, host susceptibility and pathomechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 infection selected; Funding of €3.6 million for a maximum of one year.

(University Health Network) University Health Network (UHN) today gave the first COVID-19 vaccine in Canada. This landmark event signals a potential turning point in the pandemic and underlines the value of science and w...

(The Gerontological Society of America) The Gerontological Society of America's highly cited, peer-reviewed journals are continuing to publish scientific articles on COVID-19. The following were published between Novembe...

(American Heart Association) Memory, concentration and other cognitive functions decline faster among middle-aged and older adults who have high blood pressure than those who do not. Even seemingly slight blood pressure ...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) The availability of COVID-19 will not necessarily result in people getting fully vaccinated, because the first vaccines to reach public use require two doses for full protecti...

(Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center) In a recent clinical trial from Wake Forest Baptist Health, researchers showed that mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) may provide benefit to people with migraine.

(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) Because they spend most of their time in their labs, basic science researchers rarely get to meet the patients who benefit most from their work. A group at Moffitt Canc...

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) UCLA scientists describe a new combination therapy that suppresses the MAPK pathway by holding cancer-driving proteins in a death grip. This combination of two sma...