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ATS publishes new guidance on safely restoring elective pulmonary and sleep services
Credit: ATS July 16, 2020-- An American Thoracic Society-led international task force has released a guidance document to help guide...
New antiplatelet drug shows promise for treating heart attack
Peptide-derived nanoparticle shows promise in labCredit: Joshua Clark/University of Illinois at Chicago Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago...
Social distancing and COVID-19: A law of diminishing returns
Research finds distancing helps ease the burden on hospitals -- but only to a pointCredit: Chakrabarty Lab The first case...
Reprogramming of immune cells enhances effects of radiotherapy in preclinical models of brain cancer
Credit: Ludwig Cancer Research JULY 15, 2020, NEW YORK-- A Ludwig Cancer Research study has dissected how radiotherapy alters the...
Researcher gets $2.94 million federal grant to study unique features of Ebola and marburg viruses
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Dr. Christopher Basler, professor and director of the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis in the Institute for...
How long should you fast for weight loss?
UIC study shows fasting diets workCredit: UIC Two daily fasting diets, also known as time-restricted feeding diets, are effective for...
Research brief: Researchers 3D print a working heart pump with real human cells
Discovery could open new doors for heart researchCredit: Kupfer, Lin, et al., University of Minnesota In a groundbreaking new study,...
Four winners of the Schmidt Marine Costal Pollution Challenge are named
Credit: Mark Schrope Nutrient pollution is a costly and challenging environmental problem caused by excess nitrogen in the water. The...
Flavored cigarette ban significantly reduced youth smoking, new study finds
George Mason University study finds 2009 US Food and Drug Administration flavored cigarette ban reduced smoking by underage youth by...
Children exposed to Deepwater Horizon oil spill suffered physical, mental health effects
Impacts persisted years after disasterCredit: Photo: U.S. Coast Guard/Patrick Kelley On April 20, 2010, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon...
Common FDA-approved drug may effectively neutralize virus that causes COVID-19
Heparin could be used as a decoy to prevent SARS-CoV-2 from infecting human cellsCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. --...
Designed a new model to predict the life expectancy of a severe neurodegenerative disease
Credit: Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a serious minority neurodegenerative disease, with an annual rate of...
Kiwis stockpile paracetamol, the basis of most calls to National Poisons Centre
Credit: Dr Eeva-Katri Kumpula While paracetamol was the most common substance of enquiry for calls to the National Poisons Centre...
SNMMI Image of the Year: Super-agers show resistance to tau and amyloid accumulation
Credit: Merle C. Hoenig, Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine II - Molecular Organization of the Brain, Research Center Juelich, Juelich,...
Making balanced decisions
Neuronal circuits in the brain 'sense' our inner stateCredit: Nicolas Gompel Animals have an innate preference for certain scents and...
Spread of flu virus in hospital environment common
Credit: Photo by Alana da Silva One in four inpatients with influenza in a given season showed signs of having...
High-fat diet with antibiotic use linked to gut inflammation
UC Davis study found that combining Western diet and antibiotic use is a pre- IBD risk factorCredit: UC Davis Health...
St18 is a negative regulator of VEGF
Credit: Kenta Maruyama Various pro-inflammatory cytokines and pathogen-associated molecular patterns such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS) are known to activate NF-kB. NF-kB...
Learning the wiring diagram for autism spectrum disorders
New study uncovers brain circuit involved in dysfunctional social, repetitive, and inflexible behaviors characteristic of ASDCredit: UT Southwestern Medical Center...
Boosting immune memory could reduce cancer recurrence
Credit: University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, July 15, 2020 - Blocking a newly identified "immune memory checkpoint" in immune cells could...
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