New MaskCountTM app allows citizen scientists to contribute to effort to contain COVID-19
Mask usage has been difficult to measure; new app available in 15 languagesCredit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS -- A new app ...
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Team develops wearable sensor to help people with inflammatory bowel disease
Researchers' device tracks biomarkers in sweat, may indicate flare-upsCredit: University of Texas at Dallas University of Texas at Dallas researchers ...
COVID-19: Saliva tests could detect silent carriers
Credit: Isao Yokota et al., Clinical Infectious Diseases, September 25, 2020 Testing self-collected saliva samples could offer an easy and ...
1 in 3 parents plan to skip flu shots for their kids during COVID-19 pandemic
National poll: COVID-19 may not influence parents' beliefs about the flu vaccine, with just 1/3 believing it's more important for ...
US hospital admissions for non-COVID-19 have only partially rebounded from initial decline
Admissions still low among Hispanic neighborhoods and for respiratory diseasesCredit: J. Skinner et al. While declines in U.S. hospital admissions ...
A new twist on public health tick surveillance
UMass Amherst scientists to capture the outdoor locations of people with tick-borne diseasesCredit: UMass Amherst A University of Massachusetts Amherst ...
Hypercoagulability in patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
Because COVID-19 may present with medium to large arterial and venous abdominal and extremity macrothrombi, radiologists should raise concern for ...
Navy lab develops long range fever detector
Available via royalty-free license agreementCredit: Courtesy NSWC-Crane A federal research facility in Crane, Indiana, has developed a temperature scanning sensor ...
BIOCAD will produce the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Gamalei Institute
BIOCAD becomes an industrial partner of the scientific center and will ensure the mass-scale production of the «Sputnik V» vaccineCredit: ...
Hodder, WVU team to lead $1.5 million, multi-state data project to examine COVID-19 outcomes
Credit: West Virginia University The power of data, often an underappreciated catalyst to fixing the world's pressing problems, was recognized ...
Some severe COVID-19 cases linked to genetic mutations or antibodies that attack the body
Credit: NIAID People infected by the novel coronavirus can have symptoms that range from mild to deadly. Now, two new ...
Scientists trace severe COVID-19 to faulty genes and an autoimmune condition
Credit: The Rockefeller University More than 10 percent of young and healthy people who develop severe COVID-19 have misguided antibodies ...
Donor-conceived adults have higher incidence of immunology diseases
Adults conceived through sperm donation reported higher frequencies of allergies, type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune conditions in a world-first ...
Genetic variation unlikely to influence COVID-19 morbidity and mortality
Credit: Ji-Won Lee A comprehensive search of genetic variation databases has revealed no significant differences across populations and ethnic groups ...