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(University of California - Davis) Discovering how infections during pregnancy, such as COVID-19 and influenza, can lead to psychiatric illness and developmental disorders in offspring years later, and how to detect, pre...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) In a paper published in the journal PNAS last month, CU Cancer Center members detail their work on NLRP3, an intracellular complex that has been found to participate in me...

(University of Waterloo) AI-powered symptom checkers can potentially reduce the number of people going to in-person clinics during the pandemic, but first, researchers say, people need to know they exist.

(Wiley) New research published in the British Journal of Pharmacology indicates that two currently available medications--an antifungal drug and an antidepressant--can effectively inhibit the virus that causes COVID-19 i...

(Wiley) Symptoms of cerebral palsy, a neurological disorder that affects a person's ability to move and maintain balance and posture, appear early during childhood. A new analysis published in published in Developmental ...

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) A new analysis of lung epithelial cells from COVID-19 patients reveals how the protective complement branch of the immune system, which usually plays roles in both in...

(Penn State) Social distancing and lockdowns may have reduced the spread of COVID-19, but researchers from Penn State College of Medicine also report those actions may have affected clinical researchers' ability to finis...

(American Heart Association) A new study finds comfort care, including palliative care and hospice care, can improve quality of life in hospitalized stroke patients.Although comfort care for stroke patients is increasing...

(University of Gothenburg) Sweden's acclaimed research on uterine transplants has taken a new step forward: into the field of health economics. Now, for the first time, there is a scientifically based estimate of how muc...

(JAMA Network) Questionnaire responses were compared to examine whether transgender children and teens experience significantly higher levels of anxiety and depression than their cisgender peers.

(Wiley) The COVID-19 pandemic and the global response to it have changed many of the interactions that humans have with nature, in both positive and negative ways. A perspective article published in People and Nature con...

(Rubenstein Associates, Inc.) The International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) 2021 Annual Meeting - the organization's 20th - will virtually bring together a global, multidisciplinary group of researchers, clinicia...

(University of Münster) A team headed by developmental biologist Prof Dr Stefan Luschnig from the University of Münster has discovered that during egg development in fruit flies, intercellular gaps open between epithel...

(University of Toronto) Daniel Drucker of the University of Toronto has been jointly awarded a 2021 Gairdner International Award for research that has helped revolutionize treatments for type 2 diabetes, obesity and inte...

(National Institutes of Natural Sciences) Researchers at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Japan reveal the mechanism of hyperkinetic movements called L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia, which is a major side e...

(Boston University School of Medicine) While the ability to diagnose CTE prior to death has remained elusive, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) for the first time have shown that progressive me...

(University of Tsukuba) University of Tsukuba researchers discovered a causative mechanism for dermatomyositis, an autoimmune myositis. Immunization with transcriptional intermediary factor 1γ (TIF1γ), a dermatomyositi...

(JAMA Network) Researchers report on the observation of a newly associated mucocutaneous eruption in a pediatric patient with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection.

(Wiley) A new study published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research has examined the effects of type 1 diabetes and diabetic neuropathy on the skeleton.

(Case Western Reserve University) Spread of Candida auris on skin--a source of deadly infections--can be effectively stopped, according to new Case Western Reserve University research

(Wiley) On the first day of the UK campaign for COVID-19 vaccination, there were reports of two cases of anaphylaxis--a severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction--within minutes of administration of the Pfiz...