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(University of Kent) Research from the University of Kent has led to the development of the MeshCODE theory, a revolutionary new theory for understanding brain and memory function. This discovery may be the beginning of ...

(Wiley) A new review published by Wiley in the journal Advanced Genetics analyzes disparities in experience and treatment of sickle cell disease.

(University of Southern California - Health Sciences) Alcohol and tobacco sales nationwide rose in the early months of COVID-19, according to a study appearing in the Annals of Internal Medicine today.

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) Three studies - one each in Science, Science Translational Medicine, and Science Immunology - reveal the promise of newly engineered bispecific antibodies, including ...

(NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)) Assessing a drug compound by its activity, not simply its structure, is a new approach that could speed the search for COVID-19 therapies and reveal more...

(BfR Federal Institute for Risk Assessment) Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC or Δ-THC) is a psychoactive cannabinoid that can be found in hemp-containing foods. Above a certain intake, the substance can have undesirable health...

(Rockefeller University Press) By analyzing blood samples from individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2, researchers in Singapore have begun to unpack the different responses by the body's T cells that determine whether or n...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Scientists who study capuchin monkeys on a nature reserve in Brazil found that stone tools are used for digging, seed pounding, and stone-on-stone percussion. The m...

(RAND Corporation) Black Americans are often skeptical about the nation's health care system, a result of systemic racism. A new survey finds that Black Americans have a high level of vaccine hesitancy and mistrust of CO...

(Earlham Institute) Respiratory viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 (causing COVID-19) can often catalyse an overactive immune response that leads to a life-threatening cycle, known as a cytokine storm. Analysing cytokine respons...

(Dartmouth College) This new tool uses an artificial intelligence system to generate fake documents that foil IP theft by fooling adversaries

(Université de Genève) By analysing the genome of tens of thousand people, a team led by UNIGE and King's College London have discovering similarities between the genetic bases of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa or b...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) In a new study, researchers at the Penn Medicine evaluated the efficacy of the Opioid Hospital Quality Improvement Program, pioneered by Pennsylvania in 2019, revealing tha...

(University of Texas at Arlington) In a new commentary for the journal Science, an associate vice president for research at The University of Texas at Arlington argues that emerging protein-based immunotherapies could le...

(University of Leeds) Scientists have discovered DNA variations which could provide clues in the search for the origin of progressive eye disease keratoconus, which causes sight loss and can lead to corneal transplant.

(Duke University Medical Center) Duke researchers describe a new vaccination strategy that they think could re-program the body to fight off the bacteria that cause urinary tract infections.

(University of Queensland) Just 15 plant crops provide 90 per cent of the world's food calories. A review of genome editing technologies published in Theoretical and Applied Genetics states gene editing technology could ...

(National University of Ireland Galway) Researchers at CÚRAM, the SFI Research Centre for Medical Devices based at National University of Ireland Galway, and BIOFORGE Lab, at the University of Valladolid in Spain, have ...

(Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago) While managed care has become the predominant form of Medicaid coverage for youth, researchers found only a modest increase in the receipt of preventive care service...

(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) In a new article published in Clinical Cancer Research, Moffitt Cancer Center researchers show that various subtypes of lung cancer cells activate different signaling p...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) A novel targeted immunotherapy approach developed by researchers at the Ludwig Center, the Lustgarten Laboratory, and Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at the Johns Hopkins Kimm...