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(Louisiana State University) Louisiana oysters from the Gulf of Mexico may experience some of the lowest salinity in the world due to the influx of fresh water from the Mississippi River. In addition, increased rainfall ...

(Arizona State University) In spite of decades of research, cancer remains an enigma. Conventional wisdom holds that cancer is driven by random mutations that create aberrant cells that run amok in the body. In a new pap...

(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers are presenting at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). Toni K. Choueiri, MD, will present results from the r...

(Max Planck Institute for Chemistry) New study shows how face masks reduce the effective reproduction number of COVID-19, and why their efficacy varies between different environments under virus-limited and virus-rich co...

(University of Kent) New research led by the University of Kent's School of Psychology has found that some brain activity methods used to detect incriminating memories do not work accurately in older adults.

(AlphaMed Press) A study released in STEM CELLS indicates that blocking transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGFβ1) could improve hematopoiesis in patients with acute myeloid leukemia.

(International Food Policy Research Institute) A new study shows that population and climate change will exacerbate the challenge of meeting nutrition and food needs over the next 30 years, especially in Africa south of ...

(Ruhr-University Bochum) Damage to nerve fibers in the central nervous system -- brain, spinal cord, or optic nerve -- often results in lifelong and severe disabilities, such as paraplegia or blindness. Although we are a...

(Fujita Health University) By meta-analysis, experimentally determined COVID-19 virus T cell epitopes were compared with sequences of common cold coronaviruses (CCCoVs). Only one CCCoV-matching epitope was repeatedly ide...

(West Health Institute) A new analysis conducted by the West Health Policy Center and released by its Council for Informed Drug Spending Analysis (CIDSA) estimates that the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act (H....

(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) The COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted delivery of key health services for children and adolescents, including HPV vaccination for cancer prevention.

(University of Nottingham) Scientists have discovered that the way in which neurons are connected within regions of the brain, can be a better indicator of disease progression and treatment outcomes for people with brain...

(Duke University Medical Center) A newly identified group of antibodies that binds to a coating of sugars on the outer shell of HIV is effective in neutralizing the virus and points to a novel vaccine approach that could...

(Okayama University) In a study reported in the Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology researchers from Okayama University show that long hours in front of the television in children under 3 years of age lead to increased eye...

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that functional impairments among adults aged 50 and older are associated with a higher risk of medical ca...

(The Polish Association of Social Psychology) In a recent study, conducted in Poland in 2020 and published in the peer-reviewed journal Social Psychological Bulletin, scientists concluded it was the government and the sy...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) A five-year community outreach and engagement effort by the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania to increase enrollment of Black patients into cancer cl...

(University of Chicago Medical Center) New research in flies indicates that prediction may be a universal principle among animal nervous systems to enable rapid behavioral changes.

(University of Illinois at Chicago) Environmental quality is associated with advanced-stage prostate cancer at diagnosis, according to a new study by University of Illinois Chicago researchers.

(Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute) Sanford Burnham Prebys has joined doctors and scientists across America at National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer centers and other organizations to issue a...

(Pennington Biomedical Research Center) A diet that improves the biomarkers of metabolic health, and that could potentially slow the aging process, has moved a step closer to reality.

(Scripps Research Institute) Fast-spreading variants of the COVID-19-causing coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, carry mutations that enable the virus to escape some of the immune response created naturally or by vaccination. A new...