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(University of Hawaii at Manoa) A team of scientists from NOAA's Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Arizona State University and elsewhere have discovered that a diverse array ...

(Case Western Reserve University) Until recently, researchers and oncologists had placed these lung cancer patients into two broad categories: those who would benefit from immunotherapy, and those who likely would not. N...

(American Cancer Society) Cancer ranks as a leading cause of death in every country in the world, and, for the first time, female breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer, overtaking lung cancer, according to ...

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) Join us on Tuesday, Feb. 9., for the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards ceremony, to be held in conjunction with the virtual 2021 AAAS Annual Meeting.

The popular dieting app Noom works at an intersection of weight-loss, psychology and tech, but some experts are wary of its effects.

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) A pilot program to offer mental health services offered resident physicians at the University of Colorado School of Medicine provides a model for confidential and affordab...

(University of Bristol) The researchers found that over a ten-year period (2010-19), sex between female sex workers and their paying clients contributed 6.9 per cent of new HIV infections, while sex between clients with ...

(Oregon State University) Researchers can now determine the age and sex of living beluga whales in Alaska's Cook Inlet thanks to a new DNA-based technique that uses information from small samples of skin tissue.

(The Gerontological Society of America) A new white paper from The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) highlights the variety of challenges that persons with dementia-related psychosis and their caregivers have encou...

(Baylor College of Medicine) Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine found that while most individuals responded to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) natural reinfection with a typical sustained antibody response assoc...

(Emory Health Sciences) Yerkes NPRC/Emory University researchers have developed a COVID-19 vaccine that has proven safe and effective in mice and monkeys. The Emory MVA COVID-19 vaccine uses modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA...

(Scripps Research Institute) As the opioid epidemic raged on with an even greater force during COVID-19, the Scripps Research laboratory of chemist Kim Janda, PhD, has been working on new therapeutic interventions that m...

(Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago) Black children have significantly higher rates of shellfish and fish allergies than White children, in addition to having higher odds of wheat allergy, suggesting th...

(Marine Biological Laboratory) Egg cells start out as round blobs. After fertilization, they begin transforming into people, dogs, fish, or other animals by orienting head to tail, back to belly, and left to right. Exact...

(Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg) A team of scientists at the Institute for Molecular and Clinical Immunology at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg unravels a crucial mechanism of cell-cell-communication...

(German Center for Infection Research) Around 260 million people, more than three percent of the global population, are chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV); in the long term, this often leads to complic...

(Swansea University) Cardiac patients who also have diabetes will be able to do their rehabilitation exercises more safely, thanks to the world's first guidance on the subject, which has been published by international e...

(Kaizo) New report reviews latest research into coffee's effect on sleep. Suggests that while drinking coffee early in the day can help support alertness and concentration levels, especially when sleep patterns are distu...

(Oregon Health & Science University) A study published in The Lancet HIV marks one of the first scientifically robust assessments of a new model of treating HIV in lower or middle income countries where injection drug us...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) In a new perspective piece published in the Feb. 5 issue of Science, Johns Hopkins pharmacologist Namandje Bumpus, Ph.D., outlines the molecular origins for differences in how well certain drugs ...

(University of Texas at Austin) Getting children to eat their vegetables can seem like an insurmountable task, but nutrition researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have found one way: school gardens and lessons...

(US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases) Army scientists evaluated three nonhuman primate species as potential models of SARS-CoV-2 airborne infection, according to results published online this week i...