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(Deep Longevity Ltd) The international team of artificial intelligence experts and medical doctors propose a framework for the application of next-generation AI to extend human longevity

(Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) Got milk? The 1990s ad campaign highlighted the importance of milk for health and wellbeing, but when did we start drinking the milk of other animals? And how did t...

(University of California - Irvine) A new University of California, Irvine-led study finds a new method for identifying biomarkers may aid in early cancer diagnosis. The study focused on lung cancer, however the Cell Het...

(University of Washington Health Sciences/UW Medicine) The study followed 240 pregnant women between March and June 2020 and found that the COVID-19 mortality rate in the pregnant women was significantly higher when comp...

(Leopoldina) Vaccinations are considered a promising way out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although several vaccines are already in use, there are still enormous challenges ahead. For example, because vaccines are not immedi...

(Cleveland Clinic) The National Institute of Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) awarded five-year grants of $3.2 million and $1.4 million, r...

(Center for BrainHealth ) People believe that they can't change their brains, or their brain health will decline as they age. But the SMART training protocol, created by researchers and clinicians at the Center for Brain...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) As surgeons balance the need to control their patients' post-surgery pain with the risk that a routine operation could become the gateway to long-term opioid use or addiction,...

(George Mason University) Alison Cuellar, Professor of Health Administration and Policy and Director of the Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics, has been awarded a grant from the National Institute for Health Ca...

(BBVA Foundation) The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biology and Biomedicine has gone in this thirteenth edition to David Julius, from the University of California, San Francisco, and Ardem Patapoutian, ...

(Goethe University Frankfurt) The course for organ health is set in the early embryo. This year's laureate has shown that specialized immune cells from the yolk sac accompany organ development and contribute to maintaini...

(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston have discovered what may be the Achilles' heel of the coron...

(University of Pennsylvania) To start the process of unpacking tightly bundled genetic material, plants depend on the LEAFY pioneer protein, according to work led by University of Pennsylvania biologist Doris Wagner.

(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) With cities around the globe locking down yet again amid soaring COVID-19 numbers, could seasonality be partially to blame? New resear...

(American Heart Association) Heart disease remains the #1 cause of death worldwide in the latest annual Statistical Update from the American Heart AssociationExperts say the effects of COVID-19 are likely to influence ca...

(American Chemical Society) A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, normal life has been upended and the world has endured staggering loss. Despite the myriad challenges, science has stepped up to find solutions to combat the...

(German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ)) A characteristic feature of all stem cells is their ability to self-renew. But how is this potential maintained throughout life? Scientists at the ...

(University of Würzburg) Climate change may challenge organismal responses through not only extreme cues. An uncommon combination of benign cues - warm and short days - can also trigger reactions such as misregulations ...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) For many of us, as we get older the skin on our face begins to sag and we seem to lose volume around our eyes, cheeks and chin. Is gravity taking its toll in our later years or do we lose fat over...

(Indiana University School of Medicine) Researchers at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified how breast cancer cells hide from immune cells to stay alive. The discovery ...

(SWOG) Investigators leading the Lung Cancer Master Protocol, or Lung-MAP trial, will present findings from three translational medicine studies at the 2020 World Conference on Lung Cancer, to be held online January 28-3...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) The hormone acts as a barrier against SARS-CoV-2, blocking the expression of genes that encode proteins in cells serving as viral entry points, according to a study...