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Cancer generally cannot be passed from one person to another. But among certain animals, a few rare types of cancer can spread like bacteria or viruses do.

(University of South Australia) Orthopaedic researchers are one step closer to preventing life-long arm and leg deformities from childhood fractures that do not heal properly.

(Wolters Kluwer Health) For premature infants who can't breastfeed on their own, "mother's own milk" (MOM) is by far the best nutrition. There's an urgent need for effective ways to increase the relatively low rates of M...

(Texas Children's Hospital) Researchers at Baylor College and Texas Children's Hospital have discovered BASP-1, a novel biomarker of adult human neural stem cells. With this newly discovered biomarker, scientists can bet...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) A new study suggests that Sargramostim, a medication often used to boost white blood cells after cancer treatments, is also effective in treating and improving memory in p...

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) A study of 49 patients reveals that toxins from the bacterial pathogen Staphylococcus aureus can destroy the body's blood-clotting platelets, raising the risk of deat...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) When clinical trials were conducted to determine the immunogenicity -- the ability to elicit an immune response -- for the first two vaccines marshaled against SARS-CoV-2the virus that causes COV...

(University of California - Davis) A new study from researchers at the University of California, Davis, finds that in breast milk-fed babies given the probiotic B. infantis, the probiotic will persist in the baby's gut f...

(University of Missouri-Columbia) To help environmental agencies battle the toxic threats posed by landfills, researchers at the University of Missouri -- in partnership with the USDA Forest Service -- have developed a s...

(Aarhus University) It appears that the weight of newborn babies decreases if even small amounts of nitrates are present in the drinking water that mothers drink before and during pregnancy. This is shown by a major new ...

(University of Tsukuba) University of Tsukuba researchers have found that 60 minutes of vigorous exercise improved objective measures of sleep, particularly by reducing the amount of time it takes to fall asleep and by e...

(University of Chicago) Researchers have developed a new therapeutic vaccine that uses a patient's own tumor cells to train their immune system to find and kill cancer.

(Syracuse University) A study by researchers from Syracuse University and Pennsylvania State University shows that unmarried young adults who do not have children are mostly likely to misuse opioids, and the growing numb...

(Yale School of the Environment) Fossil fuel producers in the U.S. are directly benefiting from implicit subsidies on the order of $62 billion a year because of inefficient pricing that doesn't properly account for the c...

(The Gerontological Society of America) The Gerontological Society of America's highly cited, peer-reviewed journals are continuing to publish scientific articles on COVID-19. The following were published between January...

(University of Toronto) A genetic variation that regulates iron metabolism may enhance athletes' endurance performance, researchers at the University of Toronto have shown.

(National Research University Higher School of Economics) Researchers Mario Guarracino from the HSE Laboratory of Algorithms and Technologies for Networks Analysis in Nizhny Novgorod and Julius ?ilinskas and Algirdas Lan...

(International Osteoporosis Foundation) This new study by the IFCC-IOF Committee for Bone Metabolism investigates harmonization of assays for the bone marker ß-CTX. It shows large within- and between-assay variation for...

(Boston University School of Medicine) Being persistently lonely during midlife (ages 45-64) appears to make people more likely to develop dementia and Alzheimer's Disease (AD) later in life. However, people who recover ...

(University of Southern Denmark) There are no drugs that can cure people who are infected. But researchers at SDU have now developed a substance that can form the basis for the development of drugs against COVID-19.

(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) COVID-19 has been shown to sp

(NIH/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities) The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities has published a new textbook titled, The Science of Health Disparities Research.Building...