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When animals are displaced by deforestation and global warming, that often puts them and the diseases they carry in proximity to humans.

(University Health Network) Results of a world-first Canadian pilot study on patients treated with gene therapy for Fabry disease show that the treatment is working and safe.

(University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Science) The leopard stands out as an elusive, versatile, and adaptable animal. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have just published the first genomic data for the Afri...

(German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig) Global change is expected to increase the diversity of bacteria at the local level, while their composition will become more uniform globall...

(Copenhagen Business School) Our deep-rooted survival instinct for disease avoidance could make us less willing to embrace strangers and take foreign travel risks.

(Murdoch Childrens Research Institute) Changes to food allergy guidelines has led to a 16 per cent decrease in peanut allergy among infants, according to new study.

(Henry Ford Health System) Researchers at Henry Ford Health System, as part of a national asthma collaborative, have identified a gene variant associated with childhood asthma that underscores the importance of including...

(National University of Ireland Galway) A study carried out by the J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics at NUI Galway has examined how the different gratifications sought from mobile gambling explain problematic...

(American College of Surgeons) A prescribing guideline tailored to patients' specific needs reduced the number of opioid pills prescribed after major surgery.

(Aarhus University) Research scientists at Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital have investigated the mechanisms by which hypertension leads to arterial damage and atherosclerosis. The results may facilitate ...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) . Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital uncovered a means to study the complexity of this disease beyond the identification of individual genes. This new approach offers a path to...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) A Johns Hopkins Medicine research team reports that pregnant mice fed a diet rich in a molecule found abundantly in cruciferous vegetables -- such as broccoli, Brussels sprouts and cauliflower --...

(Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) Recently, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (ET&C) published a special issue dedicated to PFAS with 32 articles, providing a valuable summarization of risk assessm...

(Cornell University) Famous for their uncanny ability to imitate other birds and even mechanical devices, researchers find that Australia's Superb Lyrebird also uses that skill in a totally unexpected way. Lyrebirds imit...

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) Although the value of vaccines for COVID-19 may seem obvious, government action and investment in vaccines have not been commensurate with the enormous scale of benef...

(University of California - San Diego) UC San Diego was awarded five COVID-19 Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) projects by the National Institutes of Health totaling nearly $33 million, which will fund efforts th...

(West Virginia University) West Virginia University scientists used MRI scans to show what happens when ultrasound waves target a specific area of Alzheimer's patient's brains. They concluded that this treatment may indu...

(University of Würzburg) A new signaling pathway has been identified that can prevent the overproduction of certain RNA-protein complexes in neurons. These complexes play an important role in neurodegenerative diseases.

(Medical University of South Carolina) In a recent paper in Drug and Alcohol Dependence, researchers at MUSC evaluated two different strategies for relieving pain with TMS: applying TMS to the motor cortex and the DLPFC....

(Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) Novel approach to pooled testing could help identify up to 20 times more COVID-19 infections per day than individual testing. Simple pooled designs could be implemented with mi...

(The Endocrine Society) Puberty looks different, in terms of both reproductive hormones and breast maturation, in girls with excess total body fat, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of...

(American Psychological Association) Black men and women, as well as adolescent boys and girls, may react differently to perceived racial discrimination, with Black women and girls engaging in more exercise and better ea...