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(Shinshu University) Silkworms (Bombyx mori) were found to lay diapause eggs at 25°C and non-diapause eggs at 15°C. Females were observed to determine whether to lay diapause eggs or not according to thermal informatio...

(American College of Physicians) As COVID-19 vaccines are becoming available, physicians and other health care professionals must do the hard work of making sure sufficient numbers of people are vaccinated to end the pan...

(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) A drug typically prescribed for rheumatoid arthritis may also be effective in treating a rare but potentially deadly heart complication some cancer patients experience after taking ...

(University of Zurich) For the first time, scientists at the University of Zurich have been able to observe the way stem cells in the adult brains of mice divide over the course of months to create new nerve cells. Their...

(Technical University of Munich (TUM)) Conditions causing arrhythmia are among the most common cardiac conditions. A study headed by Prof. Georg Schmidt of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has demonstrated for th...

(American College of Physicians) 1. Modeling Study Suggests That Mitigation Efforts Can Prevent Most COVID-19 Cases on College Campuses ; 2. Patient-physician race concordance may modestly increase COVID-19 knowledge and...

(University of California - San Francisco) Nearly 20,000 more Californians died in the first six months of the pandemic than would have been expected to die in a normal year, with a disproportionate number of those death...

(Case Western Reserve University) Child care programs can be safe within the context of low community transmission of COVID-19, according to research from Case Western Reserve University, based on data from child care pr...

(Children's National Hospital) Results from community-based COVID-19 testing site found that one in four kids tested positive, with minorities impacted at higher rate

(University of Würzburg) Scientists from Würzburg and the US have charted the first global atlas of direct interactions between SARS-CoV-2 RNA and human host cells. This may provide a starting point for novel treatment...

(Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Topics ranging from multiple competition in the higher education system to gender-specific differences in immune responses. A total of approximately €25 million for the first funding p...

(University of Exeter) Robust evidence from a large international study confirms that a difference in blood pressure readings between arms is linked to greater risk of heart attack, stroke and death.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) A UT Southwestern research team has catalogued gene activity in the skeletal muscle of mice, comparing healthy animals to those carrying a genetic mutation that causes Duchenne muscular d...

(American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) The researchers found that the success rate of identifying someone wearing a mask was reduced by 15%. "This could lead to many errors in correctly recognizing peo...

(University of Exeter) Doctors can better help patients with mental health concerns by adopting a different questioning style around self-harm and suicide, experts have said.

(Rutgers University) Exposure to metals such as nickel, arsenic, cobalt and lead may disrupt a woman's hormones during pregnancy, according to a Rutgers study.

(Henry Ford Health System) Study findings of ACL injuries in WNBA athletes sets return to sport expectations for all female athletes

(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) The first patient has enrolled in a Phase II clinical trial evaluating a stem cell therapy for the potential early treatment of traumatic injuries and their subseque...

(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) Using human-induced pluripotent stem cells engineered from a single family's blood samples, a gene signaling pathway linked to a higher risk for developing schizophr...

(Oregon State University) Poop samples are an effective, non-invasive tool for monitoring gray whale reproduction, stress and other physiological responses.

(Penn State) The absence of a protein that works to prevent tumor formation may explain why some patients are resistant to a common cancer therapy, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. They said that ...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) As colleges and universities consider strategies for the spring semester to keep COVID-19 cases down, a study in epidemic modeling, led by a team of Brigham and Women's Hospital investigato...