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(Washington State University) Following habitat-destroying wildfires, researchers found many male red-backed fairywrens failed to molt into their ornamental plumage, making them less attractive to potential mates. They a...

(Queensland University of Technology) Workshops with university students and academics from Australia, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan have demonstrated the study of aging should integrate a broad range of discipl...

(University of Arizona Health Sciences) As the pharmacy profession evolves to providing more patient care services, there is a continued need for pharmacy curricula to maintain pace. A recent study suggests Objective Str...

(University of Arizona Health Sciences) Real-world data from the AZ HEROES study show COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective in preventing SARS-CoV-2 infections, and when breakthrough infections do occur, the level of in...

(University of Turku) A new Finnish study shows that 180 health care workers who had received two doses of the Pfizer and Biontech vaccine have very good antibody responses against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The immune respon...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) A relative decline in wealth during midlife increases the likelihood of a cardiac event or heart disease after age 65 while an increase in wealth between ages 50 and 64 is associated with...

(University of California - Los Angeles) Researchers have long documented a link between threat sensitivity and social conservatism. However, a new UCLA study found Republicans' and independents' inclinations to embrace ...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) For most patients, the reasons for having a facelift are simple: to "turn back the clock" for a younger and more attractive appearance. Even during the pandemic year 2020, more than 234,000 patien...

(Institut national de la recherche scientifique - INRS) Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, attacks nerve cells known as motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord, gradually leading to paralysis. The loss of function...

(The Endocrine Society) Endocrine Society Journals experienced large Impact Factor increases, led by Endocrine Reviews, according to Clarivate's recently released annual Journal Citation Report (JCR) for 2020.

(European Society of Endocrinology) The European Society of Endocrinology's (ESE) Journal the European Journal of Endocrinology (EJE) has reached its highest ever Journal Impact FactorTM (JIF) in the 2020 Journal Citatio...

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau) The chance of detecting the virus that causes COVID-19 increases with more frequent testing, no matter the type of test, a new study found. Both polymerase chain ...

(Emory Health Sciences) The study finds that higher polygenetic scores for schizophrenia, depression, neuroticism, self-reported risk-taking, a high body mass index, alcohol use disorder, along with a higher number of ci...

(Penn State) A Penn State-led international collaboration has developed a modeling tool to project how COVID-19 may spread in African countries.

(Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology) An interdisciplinary team at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology determined that older adult women converse more effectively with strangers th...

(Bentham Science Publishers) The aim of this qualitative study is to explore the experiences, perceptions, and beliefs of nurses in the hemodialysis unit regarding pain management practices and identify nurses' education...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Tests performed by Brazilian researchers after the first 16 weeks of COVID-19-induced confinement showed loss of muscle strength and diminished aerobic capacity, as...

(University of Melbourne) Melbourne researchers have found that liquid chalk, commonly used in gyms to improve grip, acts as an antiseptic against highly infectious human viruses, completely killing both SARS-CoV-2 (the ...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center's Research Highlights provides a glimpse into recently published studies in basic, translational and clinical cancer re...

(Eindhoven University of Technology) Cancer cells can put the body's immune cells into sleep mode. Immunotherapy can reverse this, but it doesn't work for all patients and all cancer types. Researchers at TU/e have devel...

(Society for Neuroscience) SfN enthusiastically announces that Neuroscience 2021 will be held in an inclusive hybrid format. Neuroscience 2021 is one annual meeting with two experiences: for the first time, a four-day fu...

(Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research) Wayne State University and Henry Ford Health System announced today the launch of a basic and translational research initiative in Cardiometabolic Heal...