Sewage-handling robots help predict COVID-19 outbreaks in San Diego
Automated process helps test city sewage for SARS-CoV-2, allowing researchers to forecast the region's caseload one to two weeks ahead ...
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Researchers explore relationship between maternal microbiota and neonatal antibody response
Credit: Andrew Mann, Virginia Tech. A healthy system of gut bacteria, or microbiota, is crucial to health: Gut bacteria not ...
Evolution drives autism and other conditions to occur much more frequently in boys
Genetic researchers see greater role in health researchCredit: McMaster University HAMILTON, ON, March 3, 2021 -- Evolutionary forces drive a ...
UNF professor awarded US patent to fight cancer tumors using synthetic curcumin analogs
Credit: University of North Florida Dr. Kenneth Laali, University of North Florida Presidential Professor of Chemistry, has recently been awarded ...
Researchers discover SARS-CoV-2 inhibitors
Pharmacists at the University of Bonn: Substances block key step in coronavirus replicationCredit: © V. Namasivayam/Pharmazeutisches Institut/Uni Bonn A research ...
How to choose low glycaemic index (GI) foods? A GI “glossary” of Asian foods released
Singapore research team's comprehensive study provides the glycaemic index values for a variety of foods that are consumed in non-Western ...
Drug found effective for weight loss in patients with obesity and diabetes, international study show
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center Semaglutide, an injectable medication taken once a week, offers a nonsurgical way to reduce weight ...
Drug target could fight Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: The University of Queensland Neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease are in the firing line after researchers ...
uOttawa in studies investigating why COVID-19 devastation of long-term care residents
Government of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force funds $3.5 million University of Ottawa, Bruyère collaboration to research the immune response ...
Researchers receive $1.9 million to study possible dementia causes
Credit: UTHSC Memphis, Tenn. (March 2, 2021) - The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke has awarded two UTHSC ...
Vaccine shows signs of protection against dozen-plus flu strains
Candidate outperforms commercial vaccine, bolsters promise of universal vaccine for humansCredit: Craig Chandler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Ask Eric Weaver about ...
First detailed insight into newborn babies’ lungs at birth
Credit: Tim Bish Researchers have captured the first detailed images of newborn babies' lungs as they take their first breaths. ...
Funding the future of cancer research
PICI awards nearly $3 million to six early career researchersCredit: Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy SAN FRANCISCO - From improving ...
Automated next generation sequencing platform can accurately screen thousands for COVID-19
Credit: Sinai Health A robotics platform designed by Toronto researchers to screen thousands of COVID-19 samples at once has the ...
A new effect of red ginseng: suppression of lung cancer metastasis
Development of KIST-maximized ginsenoside (KMxG) using a microwave processing method for ginseng that increase the trace amounts of Rk1 and ...
New long-term study affirms contact lens wear as healthy option for children
Six-year research of physiological response to daily disposable soft contact lenses published in contact lens and anterior eyeCredit: Centre for ...
Opioid overdose reduced in patients taking buprenorphine
Study indicates the drug is effective in opioid users who also take benzodiazepines for anxiety, other conditionsCredit: Washington University Even ...
Sesaminol: Parkinson’s disease’s surprise medicine
Osaka City University shows that sesaminol, purified from industrial sesame seed by-product, can help prevent Parkinson's disease.Credit: Akiko Kojima-Yuasa Sesame ...
Researchers identify brain ion channel as new approach to treating depression
Credit: Mount Sinai Health System Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified a drug that ...
The social and economic cost of eating disorders in the United States
Credit: J Streatfeild et al., International Journal of Eating Disorders (2021) The impact of eating disorders in the United States ...
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