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(DZNE - German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases) Heart problems cause disturbed gene activity in the brain's memory center, from which cognitive deficits arise. Researchers at the DZNE come to this conclusion based ...

(University of Missouri-Columbia) Marilyn Rantz still remembers the day she got the call that her mother, whose health had been declining, had fallen and fractured her shoulder.

(Umea University) A number of brain areas change their activity before we execute a planned voluntary movement. A new study by Umeå University identifies a novel function of this preparatory neural activity, highlightin...

(Bentham Science Publishers) Bentham Science is pleased to announce the launch of a new subscription-based journal, Current Cosmetic Science. The first issue of the journal will be available online by the start of the ye...

(RUDN University) Biologists from RUDN University confirmed that a well-known spasmolytic drug called hymecromone can suppress the inflammatory response in astrocytes, important glial cells of the central nervous system....

(Yale University) When patients with COVID-19 arrive in emergency rooms, there are relatively few ways for doctors to predict which ones are more likely to become critically ill and require intensive care and which ones ...

(Critical Path Institute (C-Path)) Critical Path Institute today announced the launch of the Critical Path to Therapeutics for the Ataxias Consortium, a public-private partnership focused on optimizing clinical trials fo...

(Rice University) Rice University scientists have developed a greatly simplified method to make fluoroketones, a precursor for drug design and manufacture that typically requires an expensive silver catalyst.

(Shinshu University) Curcumin is a polyphenol compound produced by plants of the Curcuma longa species and has been reported to have many physiological activities, including anti-oxidation, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer...

(McGill University) Researchers at the Lady Davis Institute have identified a genetic remnant of our Neanderthal forebears that could be targeted to reduce the severity of COVID-19

(Le Bonheur Children's Hospital) Extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants with moderate to large patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) may benefit from transcatheter PDA closure (TCPC) in the first four weeks of life, accordin...

(University of Missouri-Columbia) When Patrick Rottinghaus began college, he had no idea what he wanted to do with his career.

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) The pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing educational disparities. "'ducation: COVID-19 and social inequalities' will be the theme of the next FAPESP COVID-19 Webin...

(University of Chicago Medical Center) The National Cancer Institute's Genomic Data Commons (GDC), launched in 2016 by then-Vice President Joseph Biden and hosted at the University of Chicago, has become one of the large...

(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) Economists and urban planners generally agree that local pollution sources disproportionally impact racial minorities in the U.S. The ...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Molecules called microRNAs (miRNAs) that are measurable in urine have been identified by researchers at Mount Sinai as predictors of both heart and kidney healt...

(Bentham Science Publishers) Bentham Science is pleased to announce the launch of new subscription-based journal, The International Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Diseases. The first issue of the journal will...

(King's College London) An open-source platform, OpenEP co-developed by researchers from the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences at King's College London has been made available to advance research on atr...

(IOS Press) Promising new research shows aerobic exercise may help slow memory loss for older adults living with Alzheimer's dementia.

(Massachusetts General Hospital) By inputting clinical and laboratory factors at the time of admission into a novel online calculator, physicians can determine with high accuracy which COVID-19 patients will require the ...

(IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute)) A study led by IMIM examines whether all so-called good cholesterol (HDL) particles have a cardiovascular protective effect. Traditionally, HDL cholesterol has been as...

(University of Hawaii at Manoa) Marine protected areas around O?ahu do not adequately protect populations of herbivorous reef fishes that eat algae on coral reefs. That is the primary conclusion of a study published in C...