Long-term stress linked to increased risk of heart attack
Credit: Emma Busk Winquist/Linköping University Can long-term stress lead to heart attacks? Most people would probably answer in the affirmative, but the scientific evidence of...
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Endovascular aneurysm repair linked to higher readmission rates
Chances of readmission were 1.5 times higher with less-invasive techniqueCredit: Justin Kelley, MU Health Care Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms (rAAA) are responsible for nearly 2%...
Lung ultrasound helps predict COVID-19 patient outcomes
Brazilian researchers applied an examination protocol based on an analysis of 12 lung regions to 180 severe patients and found that the higher the lung...
Russian scientists significantly improved coal-burning efficiency
Credit: Sergey Gnuskov/NUST MISIS A team of Russian scientists from NUST MISIS, Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) and Boreskov Institute of Catalysis has suggested a new...
RUDN University veterinarians tested a new drug against pneumonia in calves
Credit: RUDN University Respiratory tract diseases in young animals of the cattle are a big issue for world agriculture and food safety because a bacterium...
Preventing COVID-19 and aging: geroprotector to enhance resilience and vaccine response
Clinical trial to explore the potential of rapalogs to enhance resilience against SARS-CoV-2 infection and reduce the severity of COVID-19 in biologically aged individuals.Credit: Deep...
Study reveals platinum’s role in clean fuel conversion
Identifying specific platinum atoms activated in a water gas shift reaction catalyst could guide the design of less costly efficient catalystsCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON,...
On the origin of our species
Credit: Chris Stringer Experts from the Natural History Museum, The Francis Crick Institute and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Jena...
COVID-19 telemonitoring program helps reduce hospital admissions and ER visits
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, February 9, 2021--The rapid upscaling of a telemonitoring program in which health care providers performed daily...
Oncotarget: Evaluation of cancer-derived myocardial impairments using a mouse model
'The established mouse cachexia model can therefore be considered useful for analyzing cancer-derived myocardial damage'Credit: Correspondence to - Yi Luo - [email protected] and Hiroki Kuniyasu...
Adult neurogenesis may hold clues for more effective treatment of alcoholism
New research and analysis examine how alcohol exposure impacts many aspects of neuroplasticity in a special issue of Brain PlasticityCredit: Steven P. Guerin Amsterdam, NL,...
Anti-cancer drug’s mode of operation deciphered
Credit: Illustration: Julia Jullesova Rituximab, an anti-cancer drug targeting the membrane protein CD20, was the first approved therapeutic antibody against B tumor cells. Immunologists at...
A recipe for regenerating bioengineered hair
Next stop: clinical hair regenerationCredit: RIKEN Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Japan have discovered a recipe for continuous cyclical regeneration...
Oncotarget: Melatonin increases overall survival of prostate cancer patients
'The results of the use of melatonin drugs in palliative treatment of patients with end-stage prostate cancer are shown'Credit: Correspondence to - Vladimir N. Anisimov...
Really random networks
New mathematical method for generating random connected networksCredit: Szabolcs Horvat et al. 2020 / MPI-CBG / CSBD Many natural and human-made networks, such as computer,...
