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(University of Maryland) Researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) partnered with Indonesian experts to explore the motivations and challenges of Indonesian women pursuing a career in conservation sciences. Indones...

(Dartmouth College) Research urges a more comprehensive approach to cyanobacteria studies in order to manage the dangerous blooms during a time of global climate change.

(University of California - Santa Barbara) A year ago scientists everywhere were scrambling to get their minds around the SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus that caused the pandemic from which we are only now beginning to e...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Mount Sinai researchers have found that a widely available and inexpensive drug targeting inflammatory genes has reduced morbidity and mortality in mice infecte...

(Virginia Commonwealth University) Preclinical research from VCU Massey Cancer Center published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the combination of two existing drugs can exploit...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) Some hospitalized patients with COVID-19 experience "nonconvulsive" seizures detected through electrode tests. Among hospitalized patients with COVID-19, those who had seizures were more ...

(University of Exeter) Drinking beetroot juice promotes a mix of mouth bacteria associated with healthier blood vessels and brain function, according to a new study of people aged 70-80.

(Columbia University Irving Medical Center) With a $16 million gift from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation, Columbia will open a center for Lyme and other tick-borne diseases this summer, offering patients speciali...

(Columbia University Irving Medical Center) In people with dementia, delirium due to COVID-19 is more common but deaths from COVID-19 are not disproportionately higher, finds a new study.

(Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association) Those who need to change their eating habits to normalise their blood pressure should start with a fast. In the journal "Nature Communications", ...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) As cancer survival rates improve, more people are living with the aftereffects of cancer treatment. For some patients, these issues include chronic radiation-induced skin injury - which can lead t...

(The Gerontological Society of America) The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) has released a new edition of its KAER toolkit, which is intended to support primary care teams in implementing a comprehensive approach...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) DALLAS - March 30, 2021 - UT Southwestern researchers have identified factors that put patients with childhood-onset lupus at elevated risk for poor outcomes, such as end-stage renal dise...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) In vitro treatment of cells with these molecules reduced the expression of a gene that plays a key role in viral cell entry and a cytokine receptor.

(Joslin Diabetes Center) Many previous studies have linked increased maternal body weight and unhealthy diets to poorer metabolic outcomes in offspring, often many years later. Understanding the mechanisms of how materna...

(Concordia University) Elizabeth Fast, an associate professor of applied human sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Science, wanted to help Indigenous youth reconnect with their cultures in safe and accessible ways. Along...

(University of Virginia Health System) Through his role on the US Preventive Services Task Force, UVA Health's Li Li, MD, Ph.D., MPH, has helped develop new lung cancer screening guidelines that expand screenings to more...

(University of Edinburgh) Scientists have discovered that tracking malaria as it develops in humans is a powerful way to detect how the malaria parasite causes a range of infection outcomes in its host.The study, found s...

(Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center) Cincinnati Children's develops model to help identify risk factors for reading difficulties in children before kindergarten

(Penn State) A reproducibility crisis is ongoing in scientific research, where many studies may be difficult or impossible to replicate and thereby validate, especially when the study involves a very large sample size. N...

(Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) In a randomized clinical trial published in the journal PAIN, researchers found participants with moderate to severe irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) who were knowingly treated with a...

(Penn State) Stress, increased free time and feelings of boredom may have contributed to an increase in the number of cigarettes smoked per day during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic by nearly a third of survey...