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(La Jolla Institute for Immunology) A big question on people's minds these days: how long does immunity to SARS-CoV-2 last following infection? Now a research team from La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI), The Univer...

(Flinders University) Even at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, people around the world became more fearful of what could happen to them or their family. A new Flinders University study of 1040 online partici...

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(American Association for Cancer Research) Three grants for research that could transform cancer therapies have been awarded by the AACR-MPM Oncology Charitable Foundation Transformative Cancer Research Grants Program, a...

(American College of Cardiology) The American College of Cardiology will host the annual Advancing the Cardiovascular Care of the Oncology Patient Virtual course with live sessions on Feb. 5-6, 2021 and on demand content...

(University of Montreal) A research team led by UdeM psychology and neuroscience professor Sylvie Belleville has just targeted an early biomarker of the disease.

(National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) The National Academy of Sciences will honor 20 individuals with awards in recognition of their extraordinary scientific achievements in a wide range of fields s...

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vaccinating people over 60 is the most effective way to mitigate mortality from COVID-19, a new age-based modeling study suggests.

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) Under FDA emergency-use authorization, doctors successfully resolved COVID-19 in a seriously ill, immunodeficient woman using a very high-neutralizing antibody-titer convalescent pla...

(Weill Cornell Medicine) Doctors may be able to predict their patients' risks of fatal coronary heart disease more accurately by taking into account the number of adverse social factors affecting them, according to a new...

(Children's Hospital Los Angeles) Scientists modify CAR T-Cell therapy, making it more effective and less toxic, for possible use in solid tumors such as neuroblastoma.

(ETH Zurich) As part of a clinical study involving patients from the University Hospitals in Zurich and Basel, researchers are conducting a thorough and highly precise investigation into the molecular and functional prop...

(Wiley) Where people die can affect the quality of their deaths and the end-of-life care that they receive. A study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society found that satisfaction with end-of-life car...

(Flinders University) Marine microalgae-based cellular agriculture is a promising new way to sustainably produce plant-based 'meat' and healthy 'superfoods' for the future.Researchers at Flinders University's Centre for ...

(University of Chicago Medical Center) Medicated drops may help close small macular holes over a two- to eight-week period, allowing some people to avoid surgery to fix the vision problem, a new study suggests.

(University of Guam) Collective research to date regarding nutrients found in the leaves of contemporary cycad species has been inconsistent as far as data collection and narrow in scope, according to a University of Gua...

(University of Minnesota) Mayo and U of M teams will initiate the two-year projects aimed at improving the treatment of diseases that affect Minnesotans.

(University of Southern California) A new study of Type 2 diabetes (T2D) in Japanese populations has uncovered a previously uncharacterized genetic variant that puts male carriers at greater risk for the disease, as well...

(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) A pain management regimen comprised mostly of over-the-counter medication reduced opioid exposure in trauma patients while achieving equal levels of pain control, ac...

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) The SARS-CoV-2 virus may enter and replicate in human cells by exploiting newly-identified sequences within cell receptors, according to work from two teams of scient...

(Coyne PR) A new peer-reviewed study reveals that the vast majority of US infants may be suffering from a substantial deficiency in an important bacterium key to breast milk utilization and immune system development, as ...

(Flinders University) Scientists have for the first time established a sensory neuron model able to mass-reproduce two key sensory neuron types involved in pain sensation, enabling the easy generation of large numbers of...