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(Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)) According to the Breakfast Food Advertisements in Mediterranean Countries: Products' Sugar Content in Adverts from 2015 to 2019 report produced by UOC Faculty of Information and Co...

(University of Chicago Medical Center) A new study out of the University of Chicago has found that during the initial wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in New York City, only 1 in 5 to 1 in 7 cases of the virus was symptomat...

(National Research University Higher School of Economics) A team of researchers from Russia and Israel applied a new algorithm to classify the severity of autistic personality traits by studying subjects' brain activity....

(University of California - San Diego) In an effort to help schools reduce the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks as they resume in-person instruction, UC San Diego and the County of San Diego are testing the Safer at School Ear...

(University of Virginia Health System) The finding could lead to new ways to prevent cold sores and herpes-related eye disease from reoccurring, the researchers report.

(Universität Leipzig) A portable suitcase could aid quick diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 cases in Africa. In cooperation with several African universities, scientists at Leipzig University have found that a mini-laboratory pro...

(University of Ottawa) Ebola is so pernicious because it pulls a fast one on the body, disguising itself as a dying cell. A study published in the journal PLOS Pathogens, identifies a pathway that all filoviruses use to ...

(Inselspital, Bern University Hospital ) An international research team led by Thomas Pilgrim of the Department of Cardiology at Inselspital has published a much-noticed study on early detection of rheumatic heart diseas...

(University of Exeter) The strange social structure of tiny fish called emerald coral gobies may be explained by family loyalty, new research shows.

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) A commercially available genomic test may help oncologists better determine which patients with recurrent prostate cancer may benefit from hormone therapy, according to new research from the John...

(Rutgers University) Among firearm-owning individuals who died by suicide, handgun ownership was associated with greater odds of having died by self-inflicted gunshot wound rather than by another method, according to a R...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) DALLAS - Feb. 11, 2021 - Fusing the neck's top two vertebrae can prevent repeat strokes in children with bow hunter syndrome, a rare condition that affects a handful of U.S. pediatric pat...

(University of California - Santa Barbara) For some 15,000 years, dogs have been our hunting partners, workmates, helpers and companions. Could they also be our next allies in the fight against COVID-19?

(IOS Press) DNA repair is an important factor that determines how early or late Huntington's disease (HD) occurs in individuals who carry the expanded CAG repeat in the HTT gene that causes HD. This special issue of the ...

(Mayo Clinic) A Mayo Clinic team, led by Rahmi Oklu, M.D., Ph.D., a vascular and interventional radiologist at Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with Samir Mitragotri, Ph.D., of Harvard University, report the development of ...

(Lund University) A study led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden showed a connection between lifestyle intervention in pregnant women with obesity and epigenetic alterations in the baby. The study is published i...

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) Low-income middle-aged African-American women with high blood pressure very commonly suffer from depression and should be better screened for this serious ment...

(University of Southern California - Health Sciences) Keck Medicine of USC study shows that semen can accurately be tested up to 52 hours after being collected, offering men greater flexibility in how they provide sperm ...

(University of Maryland School of Medicine) Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine now have preliminary but striking evidence that suggests that such exposure can cause long-lasting impairment in th...

(Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research) A team of Wayne State University School of Medicine researchers led by Charles Chung, Ph.D., assistant professor of physiology, recently received a $1,...

(American Heart Association) Scientific research on racial and ethnic disparities must shift to reflect the significant role and impact of structural racism.Clearly defined parameters in research publishing are recommend...

(University of Exeter) A new largescale genetic analysis has found biological mechanisms that contribute to making people more susceptible to muscle weakness in later life, finding that diseases such as osteoarthritis an...