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(University of California - Berkeley Haas School of Business) From Catholics performing the sign of the cross to Americans reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, group rituals have strikingly consistent features over time. B...

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau) An unusual study that involved bar coding and tracking the behavior of thousands of individual honey bees in six queenless bee hives and analyzing gene expression...

(Monash University) Australian researchers have revealed -- for the first time -- that people who have been infected with the COVID-19 virus have immune memory to protect against reinfection for at least eight months.The...

(Compuscript Ltd) The journal Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (CVIA) has just published the second issue of Volume 5. This issue brings together important research from authors in the USA and China, and inclu...

(American Society of Nephrology) An estimated 375 adult kidney transplant recipients lose their transplant every year due to a lack of coverage of immunosuppressive medications after the prior 36-month Medicare coverage ...

(Columbia University Irving Medical Center) In children with certain autism mutations, the diversity and severity of symptoms are often related to the identity and properties of gene units, called exons, targeted by the ...

(European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) ) Following the European Medicines Agency recommendation for authorization of the vaccine Comirnaty, developed by BioNTech and Pfizer, the European Centre for Di...

(Scripps Research Institute) Most living things need oxygen to grow and thrive. Even cancerous tumors. That's why tumors will readily sprout new blood vessels if their oxygen is starved, creating new lifelines for surviv...

(University of Cincinnati) An important new finding by University of Cincinnati researchers could help slow the transmission of HIV/AIDS and reduce pregnancies among adolescent girls in rural South Africa.

(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) The roundworm C. elegans matches its development to the amount of food in its environment. It uses a protein called BLMP-1 to open up a large set of developmental genes, priming them to tu...

(University of Rochester) Black children are removed from their families at much greater rates than any other race or ethnicity in this country. At the same time the sheer number of all child abuse investigations in the ...

(University of California - Berkeley) The more chaotic things get, the harder it is for people with clinical anxiety and/or depression to make sound decisions and to learn from their mistakes. On a positive note, overly ...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Substances present in cooked meats are associated with increased wheezing in children, Mount Sinai researchers report.

(Massachusetts General Hospital) A paint-on, transparent bandage containing phosphorescent materials reads the amount of oxygen reaching transplanted tissue -- a critical component of a transplant's success. Existing oxi...

(Mayo Clinic) Patients with COVID-19 who received care at Mayo Clinic, whether in the hospital or at home, had outcomes that compared favorably to those reported nationally and internationally. These results demonstrate ...

(eLife ) Scientists have shown that adding an experimental cancer drug to a widely used diabetes treatment improves blood glucose control and weight loss in mice, according to a study published today in eLife.

(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) Blocking gene expression in mitochondria in mice stops cancer cells from growing

(University of Washington Health Sciences/UW Medicine) New epidemiological and neuroscientific evidence suggests that the relationship between chronic pain and emotional distress is bidirectional. Pain experts at Univers...

(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) In what has the potential to significantly change how Corona patients are being treated and the severity of the disease, research spearheaded at Jerusalem's Hebrew University gathered...

(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) A gene-regulating snippet of RNA may contribute to the spread of many breast cancers. A molecule designed to destroy that RNA prevented metastases in animal models. The same strategy could...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Research story ideas from Johns Hopkins Medicine.

(Penn State) A self-administered 'scratch-and-sniff' test for COVID-19 may be around the corner, according to researchers at Penn State, the University of Florida and Arizona State University. The team, which received $9...