Can resilience be learned? Study finds that prior stressful events can help build resilience
Faced with climate change, a pandemic, and political unrest around the globe, it can feel all too easy to succumb to a sense of hopelessness....
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RedHill’s oral broad-acting antiviral, Opaganib, granted new COVID-19 treatment patent
TEL AVIV, Israel and RALEIGH, NC, October 19, 2022, RedHill Biopharma Ltd. (Nasdaq: RDHL) (“RedHill” or the “Company”), a specialty biopharmaceutical company, today announced the...
New research rewrites the evolutionary story of gills
Gills are best known for helping most fish species breathe underwater. But less well known is the fact gills regulate the salt and pH balance...
The Black Death shaped the evolution of immunity genes, setting the course for how we respond to disease today, researchers find
Attention editors: Embargoed by the journal Nature until Wednesday, October 19th at 11 a.m. easternCredit: Matt Clarke/McMaster University Attention editors: Embargoed by the journal Nature until Wednesday, October 19th at 11...
Bay Area Lyme Foundation offers $150,000 grant for emerging leaders in Lyme disease research
PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif., October 19, 2022- Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a leading sponsor of Lyme disease research in the US, is announcing a call for...
Meet the first Neandertal family
The first Neandertal draft genome was published in 2010. Since then, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have sequenced a further 18...
Selection of human immune-related genes was driven by the Black Death
The Black Death was the single greatest mortality event in recorded history, killing up to 50% of the European population in less than five years....
APS fellowship awarded to Maia G. Vergniory
Maia G. Vergniory, a researcher in our department of Solid State Chemistry/at the Max Planck for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, has recently been...
New stop along the cellular journey of recycling organelles in plants
A “hub and spoke” system enables plant cells to efficiently coordinate cellular trafficking, particularly for cellular recycling, the so-called autophagy process. Specialized vesicles, the autophagosomes,...
UTSW researchers examine impact of pandemic on children’s mental health
DALLAS – Oct. 19, 2022 – New research from pediatricians at UT Southwestern and Children's Health reveals the impact of COVID-19 on mental health in children....
Ancient ocean methane not an immediate climate change threat
Deep below the ocean’s surface, the seafloor contains large quantities of naturally occurring, ice-like deposits made up of water and concentrated methane gas. For decades,...
Yellow pigment keeps social amoebae together
The multicellular stage of the amoeba Dicyostelium discoideum is partially regulated by an intensely yellow natural substance, as researchers of the Leibniz Institute for Natural...
The most precise accounting yet of dark energy and dark matter
Cambridge, Mass. – Astrophysicists have performed a powerful new analysis that places the most precise limits yet on the composition and evolution of the universe....
McLean Hospital receives $1 million gift from Karen and Rob Hale toward child & adolescent programs
McLean Hospital, a member of Mass General Brigham, has received a $1 million gift from Karen and Rob Hale through their family foundation, Fox Rock...
No heart damage despite hypertension
For decades, scientists in Berlin have been researching a strange hereditary condition that results in half the members of certain families having unusually short fingers...
