COVID-19 deaths among black essential workers linked to racial disparities
Credit: Charlie Ehlert Racial disparities among essential workers could be a key reason that Black Americans are more likely than ...
Tag: Medicine/Health
Research unravels what makes memories so detailed and enduring
Credit: Matt Udakis In years to come, our personal memories of the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to be etched in ...
‘One size fits all’ medication approach doesn’t work in pregnancy
Credit: UniSA New research led by the University of South Australia shows that a blanket approach to prescribing medication during ...
Scientists develop low-cost chip to detect presence and quantity of COVID-19 antibodies
Light-sensing technology promises to make COVID-19 antibody testing cheaper, easier, faster and more accurateCredit: OIST Robust and widespread antibody testing ...
American Heart Association honors UVA endocrinologist for high blood pressure work
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Robert M. Carey, MD, Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia School of ...
Lockdown did not reduce “most harmful” type of air pollution in Scotland
Credit: University of Stirling The significant reduction in vehicle journeys during the COVID-19 lockdown did not reduce the level of ...
Cholesterol’s effects on cellular membranes
Credit: Virginia Tech For more than a decade, scientists have accepted that cholesterol - a key component of cell membranes ...
Temporal-spatial order property of hollow multishelled structures enables sequential drug release
Credit: YANG Nailiang Hollow multishelled structures (HoMSs), with relatively isolated cavities and hierarchal pores in the shells, are structurally similar ...
Insilico announces the launch of AI-powered COVIDomic to support COVID-19 research worldwide
Insilico Medicine announces artificial intelligent (AI) system powered by Intel architecture to help researchers and clinicians engage in COVID-19 researchCredit: ...
Cellular-level interactions that lead to the cytokine storm in COVID-19
Credit: Ryo Otsuka, Ken-ichiro Seino. Inflammation and Regeneration. August 6, 2020. Scientists review macrophage activation syndrome -- a feature of ...
Recharging N95 masks for continued usage
Restoring the filtration efficiency of N95 masks after they have been cleaned -- opening the door for smart masks.Credit: Tata ...
Brain’s immune cells promising cellular target for therapeutics
Microglia brain cells can be targeted with nanomedicines to tamp down uncontrolled inflammation activation, which causes neurodegenerative diseasesCredit: Nanxia Zhao ...
Robotic muscles could turn back body clock by 2050
Credit: Jonathan Rossiter, University of Bristol Loss of strength and muscle wastage is currently an unavoidable part of getting older ...
Researchers show how mutations in DNA packaging machines cause cancer
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - Sept. 7, 2020 - Like wrenches made of Legos, SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes ...
Dropping it in the mail: Best practices detailed for mail-in colon cancer screenings
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - Sept. 8, 2020 - A program that asks patients to mail in stool ...
New research in JNCCN sheds light on multi-organ adverse events from immunotherapy
Researchers find 27% of immune check point inhibitor recipients experienced irAEs, with 5% developing multi-organ irAEs either simultaneously or sequentially. ...
Method to derive blood vessel cells from skin cells suggests ways to slow aging
Salk study is the first to reveal ways cells from the human circulatory system change with age and age-related diseasesCredit: ...
MIT press first reads series continues with ‘Viruses, pandemics, and immunity’
From MIT's Arup K. Chakraborty and immunologist Andrey ShawCredit: The MIT PRESS, 2020. Throughout history, humans have contended with pandemics. ...
Innovative, minimally invasive treatment can help maintain prostate cancer patients’ quality of life
New study suggests that high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation is effective against prostate cancer with decreased side effects and improved recovery ...
Glasgow Coma Scale: A simple tool to use when verbal component scores are missing
Credit: Copyright 2020 AANS. Charlottesville, VA (September 8, 2020). The University of Glasgow's Sir Graham Teasdale, co-creator of the Glasgow ...
