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pandemic
Covid: PM calls for ‘unity’ as he agrees to UK regulators are also reviewing data on the Pfizer Covid-19: How will the pandemic affect global health in
publish data behind new tiers vaccine, as well as another type of Covid vaccine 2021?
from AstraZenca and... Is it wise to carry on shielding in the 12 weeks between your
He said the best thing for the industry would be to first and second jabs?
“keep the virus under control, use mass testing, roll Coronavirus lockdown England: 17m in Thousands at risk of blindness set to benefit from a new eye
that out... Tiers 2 and 3 though cases fell drug
HEALTH NOTES: Surge in patients admitted to hospital for
Tory rebels demand Boris Johnson Around 17million people living in parts of England alcohol-related liver disease
rethink Covid tiers system as daily cases that have seen their coronavirus outbreaks shrink for I caught Covid from a hospital, we must give all NHS
drop AGAIN to 16,022 at least two weeks... workers the jab
My chest pains are terrifying
Boris Johnson was under mounting pressure to Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds’s How many have to die before Britain tackles its black and
change course on his coronavirus lockdown plans DOG Dilyn ‘had Covid’ Asian organ donor crisis?
tonight after another sharp... A couch potato took part in experiment on boosting immunity
It is ‘rare’ for an animal to contract the coronavirus, ‘Covid loves a crowd… so stay at home this New Year’s Eve’
Mum with cancer, 44, catches according to DEFRA, the Department for says NHS boss
coronavirus after working during Environment, Food... Professor Hugh Montgomery says hospitals are facing a
lockdown "tsunami" of Covid cases.
Coronavirus: Moderna to submit vaccine Face masks: How to wear one correctly
A 44-year-old mother living with incurable cancer for emergency approval ‘We filmed our dad’s final months to help people’
caught coronavirus this month which she fears was JOANNA HALL’S 30-day exercise plan to kickstart your New
because she kept working... Moderna will today submit its Covid vaccine for Year
emergency approval in the US and Europe, after the New mutant coronavirus strain IS more contagious by nearly
Elderly care home residents ‘will be final analysis of its... 50%
allowed to visit families over Christmas’ DR MICHAEL MOSLEY launches a new series to make
Coronavirus UK: Minister suggests bars 2021 your healthiest year yet
Elderly care home residents may be allowed to visit could BAN the unvaccinated Allergists offer reassurance regarding potential allergic
their families during England’s Christmas reactions to COVID-19 vaccines
lockdown break, the... Bars, cinemas and football stadiums could turn Putty-like composites of gallium metal with potential for real-
away Britons who have not been vaccinated against world application
Boris Johnson warns Tory MPs to back coronavirus, the UK’s... Nanoparticle drug-delivery system developed to treat brain
him or they risk a lockdown 3 disorders
Why spending a long time on your phone
Ministers today warned it could be summer before isn’t bad for mental health
the UK gets back to normal as Boris Johnson faces
a growing Tory rebellion... The study published in Technology, Mind, and
Behavior was led by Heather Shaw and Kristoffer
More than one-third of children with Geyer from Lancaster University...
COVID-19 show no symptoms: study
Researchers find how stress and the
“The concern from a public health perspective is that circadian clock affect sleep
there is probably a lot of COVID-19 circulating in the
community... Living organisms exhibit a 24-hour oscillation called
the circadian rhythm. In mammals, the central
Gut microbes: a key to normal sleep circadian clock, located...
The experiment itself was fairly simple. The Researchers unlock the door to tumor
researchers gave a group of mice a powerful microenvironment for CAR T cells
cocktail of antibiotics for four...
The researchers discovered in laboratory
Forest fires, cars, power plants join list of experiments that vascularization in solid tumors is
risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease driven by the genetic reprogramming...
In the study, which appears in JAMA Neurology on How lockdown may lead to ‘avoidable
Nov.30, 2020, the researchers looked at the PET harm’ for the health of under 16s
scans of more than 18,000...
Research led by Dr Rachel Isba from Lancaster
Rethink COVID-19 infection control to University, Dr Rachel Jenner from Royal Manchester
keep primary schools open this winter,
governments urged
The blanket policy currently deployed for children of Children’s Hospital,...
all ages is not evidence based and is too restrictive
and inflexible,... Area burned by severe fire increased 8-
fold in western US over past four decades
Ultrathin spray-applied MXene antennas
are ready for 5G WASHINGTON–The number of wildfires and the
amount of land they consume in the western U.S.
IMAGE: Drexel University researchers have has substantially increased...
produced flexible, spray-applied antennas made
from a two-dimensional material... Linking medically complex children’s
outpatient team with hospitalists
HIV-like virus edited out of primate improved care
genome
When medically complex children are hospitalized,
IMAGE: Dr. Kamel Khalili and Dr. Tricia Burdo at the linking hospitalists to their regular outpatient
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University providers through an inpatient...
view...
Preschool children can’t see the
Worst-case emissions projections are mountains for the cat
already off-track
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Imagine seeing an image of a
IMAGE: A plenary at the 25th Conference of the cat in front of a wide scene of mountains and being
Parties, held by the United Nations Framework told just to remember...
Convention on Climate...
New method identifies adaptive
Computer-aided creativity in robot design mutations in complex evolving
populations
IMAGE: MIT researchers have automated and
optimized robot design with a system called RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A team co-led by a scientist at
RoboGrammar. The system creates... the University of California, Riverside, has
developed a method...
Measuring broken hearts: divorce has
negative effects on physical and mental COVID-19 studies should also focus on
health mucosal immunity, researchers argue
Going through a divorce is extremely challenging BUFFALO, N.Y. — Anyone who has undergone a
and previous research has highlighted the adverse nasal swab or saliva test for COVID-19 knows that
effects that it can have... the virus is most easily...
Fast-moving gas flowing away from Coronavirus: How do you vaccinate 7.7
young star caused by icy comet billion people?
vaporisation
What happens once a coronavirus vaccine is
IMAGE: Artist’s impression of the system, with the approved? Kalipso Chalkidou, director of global
star at the center, and the inner dust belt from which health policy at the Center for...
gas...
Covid: Researchers fear cancer advances
Covid-19: Don’t ‘take brakes off’ Covid delay due to pandemic
measures, says leading scientist
There have also been concerns about the effect the
England’s lockdown is ending this week, when it will pandemic could have had on cancer more widely.
enter a three-tier system of restrictions. Prime The NHS’s former...
Minister Boris...
Coronavirus: When can I get the Covid-19
Covid infections in England fall by 30% vaccine?
over lockdown
When can I get the Covid-19 vaccine? Video,
Its researchers estimated the virus’s reproduction 00:03:57When can I get the Covid-19 vaccine?
(R) rate had fallen to 0.88. That means on average
every infection... Covid: What are the new tiers and
lockdown rules in England, Scotland,
Your coronavirus vaccine questions Wales and Northern Ireland?
answered
Across the UK, some restrictions will be relaxed
Your coronavirus vaccine questions answered. over Christmas, to allow three households to form a
Video, 00:04:13Your coronavirus vaccine questions “Christmas bubble”.
answered
Which online workout is best for you?
Covid: When does England’s lockdown
actually end? And other questions It’s 7am on a Tuesday and I’m in the kitchen.
Nineties fitness guru Mr Motivator is bellowing
When England’s lockdown ends on 2 December, ‘WORK IT!’...
only the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and the Isles of
Scilly will move into tier...
HEALTH NOTES: Student creates fruity Hesitant about the Covid vaccine?
jelly sweets that help dementia patients
beat dehydration Covid vaccines are like buses. You wait all year for
one, and then three come along at once. OK, so
HEALTH NOTES: Student creates brand of fruity Christmas cracker jokes...
jelly sweets that help dementia patients beat
dehydration By Mail on Sunday... Pioneering drug that hits prostate
cancer’s weak spot
Dizzy spells could be a warning sign that
your brain is being damaged by eating Men with incurable prostate cancer have been
BREAD offered hope of a longer life thanks to a drug that
targets the disease’s...
Dizzy spells, clumsiness, loss of balance and falls.
All worrying and strikingly common symptoms that How you CAN have a Covid-safe
affect millions of... Christmas
Why are GPs STILL refusing to see It’s official: Christmas is saved. The festive period
patients face-to-face? won’t be lonely and miserable, after all, thanks to
the...
The shutters are down, doors firmly locked.
Laminated signs warn patients not to enter without Tracking COVID-19 trends in hard-hit
an appointment. In some... states
Face masks slow spread of COVID-19; This research compiles the data for each state in the
types of masks, length of use matter U.S. and calculates the change in the infection rate
before and after...
In Physics of Fluids, by AIP Publishing, investigators
looked at research on face masks and their use and Barley pan-genome: IPK scientists reach
summarized what... milestone on the way to ‘transparent’
barley
Spinal/epidural anesthesia associated
with increased survival in leg artery IMAGE: The photo shows a spectrum of diversity in
bypass surgery wheat and barley. view more Credit: Photo: IPK
Leibniz Institute/...
IMAGE: Associate scientist and anesthesiologist at
The Ottawa Hospital, associate professor at the Fruit flies reveal new insights into space
University of Ottawa,... travel’s effect on the heart
Scientists call for decade of concerted IMAGE: Karen Ocorr, Ph.D., assistant professor in
effort to enhance understanding of the Sanford Burnham Prebys’ Development, Aging and
deep seas Regeneration...
The deep seas – vast expanses of water and From fins to limbs and water to land
seabed hidden more than 200 metres below the
ocean surface to depths up... IMAGE: The aerial scene depicts two Late Devonian
early tetrapods – Ichthyostega and Acanthostega –
Evidence of the interconnectedness of coming...
global climate
Prof Sarah Gilbert: The woman who
IMAGE: An iceberg in the central Scotia Sea in designed the Oxford vaccine
2019. view more Credit: Thomas Ronge To see how
deeply interconnected... “There are some scientists who will happily work
more or less on their own on one subject for a very
Research creates hydrogen-producing long time… That’s...
living droplets, paving way for alternative
future energy source Covid: Hospitals could be overwhelmed
without new tiers, says Gove
IMAGE: Electron microscopy image of a densely
packed droplet of hydrogen-producing algal cells. But writing in the Times, Mr Gove said MPs – who
Scale bar, 10 micrometres. ... will vote on the measures next week – need to “take
responsibility...
Coronavirus: Losing a baby during the
pandemic Mapping out the mystery of blood stem
cells
If you’re affected by the issues in this video, then
help and support or wider information is available via IMAGE: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Senior
BBC Action... Scientist Dr. Mathieu Lupien and team used state-of-
the-art 3D mapping...
Covid: Nadhim Zahawi appointed as
vaccine rollout minister Air-sea coupling improves the simulation
of the western North Pacific summer
In a tweet, Mr Zahawi welcomed his new post but monsoon in the WRF4 model at a
said the rollout would be a “big responsibility and a synoptic scale resolving resolution
big operational...
Survival protein may prevent collateral
damage during cancer therapy
IMAGE: The cell survival protein BCL-XL may
protect kidneys from damage caused by cancer
therapies. view more Credit:... Regional air-sea coupling plays a crucial role in
modulating the climatology and variability of the
Fiji’s vaccine program reduces childhood Asian summer monsoon....
death and illness: study
Psychological factors contributing to
Fiji’s national vaccine program against pneumonia, a language learning
serious lung condition, and rotavirus, a common
disease which... The problem of language acquisition is one of the
complicated psychological topics. Teacher education
Towards 6G wireless communication experts are always...
networks: vision, enabling technologies,
and new paradigm shifts New discovery by SMART allows early
detection of shade avoidance syndrome
IMAGE: An overview of 6G wireless communication in plants
networks view more Credit: ©Science China Press
The fifth... IMAGE: Raman spectroscopy and the carotenoid
Raman peak allows for early detection of Shade
Grabbing viruses out of thin air Avoidance Syndrome (SAS)...
IMAGE: A proposed future society. view more Signaling switch in pancreatic β-cells
Credit: Tohoku University The future could hold determines anti-diabetic drug
portable and... effectiveness
Sheep show the contamination by IMAGE: cAMP (cyclic AMP): An intracellular
microplastics in the agricultural soils of signaling molecule that regulates a variety of cellular
Murcia functions such as...
IMAGE: Sheeps during the study view more Credit: RUDN University research team of
Nicolas Beriot (Diverfarming project) In recent mathematicians suggested a new
times,... decision making algorithm
Using a soft crystal to visualize how IMAGE: A research team from RUDN University
absorbed carbon dioxide behaves in developed an algorithm to help large groups of
liquid people make optimal decisions...
IMAGE: The CO2-absorbing soft crystal developed CsPbBrI2 perovskites with low energy
for this study (Photo: Shin-ichiro Noro). view more loss for high-performance indoor and
Credit:... outdoor photovoltaics
Age not just a number: Causes of joint IMAGE: Schematic diagram of device structure and
stiffness differ between older and secondary grain growth with (NH4)2C2O4* H2O
younger adults treatment. view...
IMAGE: Probes 1 and 5 measured deep fascia, Iron infusion proves effective to treat
probe 2 measured the sciatic nerve, and probes 3-4 anaemia in Rural Africa
measured various calf...
IMAGE: Iron infusions help reduce iron-deficiency
Bank-affiliated funds contribute to anaemia in low-income settings. view more Credit:
funding their parent banks in times of Danielle...
crisis
Covid Christmas: ‘Avoid board games
A study published recently in the journal Review of and sleepovers’
Financial Studies by the researchers Javier Gil-
Bazo, Sergio Mayordomo... Earlier this week, the government announced up to
three households will be allowed to form a
R number for UK below 1 for first time “Christmas bubble”...
since August
Covid: Free Vitamin D pills for 2.5 million
‘R’ is calculated by the government’s scientific vulnerable in England
advisers, and represents how many extra people
each infected... Top Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated Iran’s
foreign minister has condemned the killing of
Covid-19: Mass testing a ‘distraction’ Mohsen Fakhrizadeh...
from vaccine rollout
DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: How to diet
The PM has said mass community testing, as seen without even noticing? Don’t eat after
in Liverpool, will be offered to all areas in tier three 7.30pm
after lockdown ends.
When our kids were young my wife Clare and I were
SARS-CoV-2 mutations do not appear to often so busy in the early evening — feeding them,
increase transmissibility putting them to bed...
The analysis of virus genomes from over 46,000 Scientists design model to predict
people with COVID-19 from 99 countries is cellular drug targets against COVID-19
published today in Nature Communications. First...
Viruses rely on their host to survive, a crucial step of
lifecycle is the synthesis of the virus particles within
the host...
Exploring links between infant New breakthrough in the treatment of
vocabulary size and vocal interactions rheumatoid arthritis
with caregivers
People with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) could soon
Previous research has shown that, in the home, benefit from a new drug treatment that not only
one-on-one vocal interactions with caregivers who suppresses inflammation...
engage in infant-directed...
UB study identifies new functions in the
Transcultural literacies and meaning- Machado-Joseph genetic disease
making through fanfiction
IMAGE: Rods (type of photoreceptor) isolated from
Digital technology has made intercultural contacts a the retina of a control mouse (Atxn3 +/+) and a
daily activity for many people in the world. As a mouse with the silenced...
result, the globalization...
Minimal waste production is a
Warwick scientists design model to fundamental law for animal locomotion
predict cellular drug targets against
COVID-19 Is there a unifying principle underpinning animal
locomotion in its rich diversity? A thermodynamic
IMAGE: Schematic representation of the integrated analysis performed by...
host-virus metabolic modelling approach used in the
article. The... Mine ponds amplify mercury risks in
Peru’s Amazon
Electronic skin has a strong future
stretching ahead IMAGE: Thousands of artificial ponds like this one,
created when rainwater filled in an abandoned gold
IMAGE: KAUST researchers have developed a mining pit,...
durable “electronic skin ” that can mimic natural
functions... This highly-rated eufy digital bathroom
scale is reduced to less than £24 on
Scientists reveal regions of the brain Amazon
where serotonin promotes patience
This popular digital bathroom scale gives you a full-
We’ve all been there. Whether we’re stuck in traffic body insight and is currently reduced to less than
at the end of a long day, or eagerly anticipating the £24 on Amazon By...
release...
New insights on health effects of long-
New plant-based gel to fast-track ‘mini- duration space flight
organs’ growth, improve cancer
treatment Colorado State University Professor Susan Bailey
was one of more than 80 scientists across 12
Nanocellulose gels cost a fraction of the price universities who conducted...
compared to the current gold standard. These
hydrogels are plant-based and... Early birth linked to greater risk of
hospital visits during childhood
Obesity is not only the individual’s
responsibility Although the risk declined as the children grew up,
particularly after age 2, an excess risk remained up
Conventionally, there is a tendency to perceive to age 10, even...
individuals who are overweight as lacking the
willpower to improve their... World’s largest inventory of known plant
species
Aim to exceed weekly recommended
physical activity level to offset health “In my daily work at the Botanical Garden, I regularly
harms of prolonged sitting come across species names that are not clear,
where existing...
The health harms associated with prolonged sitting
can be offset by exceeding weekly recommended Scientists determine the structure of
physical activity levels,... glass-shaping protein in sponges
Radboud university medical center IMAGE: Skeleton of a Glass Sponge view more
research: Most lungs recover well after Credit: Ronald Seidel/Igor Zlotnikov Glass sponges
COVID-19 – as...
Lung tissue of patients who suffered severely from RUDN University mathematicians applied
COVID-19 shows good recovery in most cases. This 19th century ideas to modern
was revealed by a study... computerized algebra systems
New modified wheat could help tackle IMAGE: A team of mathematicians from RUDN
global food shortage University added new symbolic integration
functionality to the Sage computerized...
Researchers at the University of York have created
a new modified wheat variety that increases grain New insights into how the CRISPR
production by up to... immune system evolved
High achievement cultures may kill
students’ interest in math — especially
for girls IMAGE: The new results show in great detail how
two anti-CRISPR proteins (pink) lock two CRISPR-
A new study in Frontiers in Psychology suggests Cas proteins (beige)...
that high national math achievement combined with
societal pressures may... Russian scientists improve 3D printing
technology for aerospace composites
New immunotherapy shows promise using oil waste
against rare childhood cancer
IMAGE: Aviation parts printed on a 3D printer from
A novel CAR T-cell therapy developed by new metal powders view more Credit: Sergey
researchers at UCL and designed to target Gnuskov/NUST...
cancerous tumours, has shown promising...
Controversial ‘virginity tests’ sold by UK
Covid: Woman left blind after treatment clinics
delayed in pandemic
Women are being offered controversial “virginity
NHS Wales: Ten-fold increase in patients waiting for tests” at British medical clinics, an investigation by
treatment BBC Newsbeat...
Cancer: Blood test for 50 types to be Oxford Covid vaccine: Regulator asked to
trialled by NHS assess jab
Trump signals he is prepared to leave White House It follows news that the jab was “highly effective” in
The president has refused to admit defeat but says advanced trials.
he will go if Joe Biden’s...
Almost 250,000 women are overdue
Britain’s daily coronavirus cases cervical smear tests this year due to
continue to fall with 17,555 new infections Covid-19
Britain’s second wave of coronavirus is continuing to Almost quarter of a million women are overdue their
shrink, official figures confirmed today after another cervical smear tests as a result of the coronavirus
17,555... pandemic, official...
Coronavrius lockdown England: Fury in Coronavirus UK: Chris Whitty cagey on
rural Kent as county in Tier 3 Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine
Towns and villages across Britain were furious Chris Whitty, England’s Chief Medical
tonight after Boris Johnson confirmed all but three Officer, refused to back Oxford’s vaccine The Chief
places in England will... Medical Officer...
Europe coronavirus: Second wave began Gene donors at high risk for cancer
in Spain before spreading via tourists, received feedback
study suggests
Researchers at the Estonian Genome Center at the
Europe’s coronavirus second wave may have begun University of Tartu studied how people at high risk
among fruit pickers in northern Spain before being for breast, ovarian...
spread across the...
Chia, goji & co. — BfR consumer monitor
Effect of climate change on infectious special superfoods
diseases unknown to half of the
population The term “superfood” is not legally regulated.
Superfoods, however, are often referred to as foods
The transmission of specific infectious diseases whose ingredients...
have been altered by processes linked to climatic
and environmental anomalies.... Phytoplankton disturbed by
nanoparticles
The invasive species that Europe needs
to erradicate most urgently are identified IMAGE: This nanoparticle disrupts the metabolism of
algae. view more Credit: UNIGE/ Wei Liu Products
IMAGE: Research team view more Credit: derived...
University of Cordoba Species such as the golden
apple snail are... The keys to the squirrel’s evolutionary
success in the face of climate change
A new strategy for the greener use of have been identified
calcium carbide
Their degree of ecological specialisation –the
IMAGE: Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics of capacity to inhabit many or few environments– is the
an acetylide molecule HO-Ca-CCH solvated in most important...
DMSO view more Credit:...
Ohio man, 23, needed to have his hand
Irreversible hotter and drier climate over REATTACHED after a lawnmower
inner East Asia accident
IMAGE: Tree-ring data from Siberian larch and other Luke Brittain reached for the cell phone in his
tree species show that heatwaves and soil drying of pocket. He wasn’t going to be able to get his
the Mongolian...
Could COVID-19 cause teeth to fall out? lawnmower out of the...
Some coronavirus survivors are reporting a bizarre Big data powers design of ‘smart’ cell
symptom in the aftermath of the infection: Their therapies for cancer
teeth have fallen out. Farah...
Finding medicines that can kill cancer cells while
Tree rings capture an abrupt irreversible leaving normal tissue unscathed is a Holy Grail of
shift in east Asia’s climate oncology research....
The abrupt shift to hotter and drier conditions over High genomic variability predicts success
inner East Asia is unprecedented and may herald an in desert tortoise refugees; could inform
irreversible shift... conservation
In temperate trees, climate-driven Tortoise refugees with the highest genetic variation
increase in carbon capture causes are far more likely to survive conservation
autumn leaves to fall sooner translocation than tortoises...
For decades, scientists have expected that the A multidisciplinary policy design to
shedding of leaves from temperate trees will get protect consumers from AI collusion
later and later under ongoing...
Legal scholars, computer scientists and economists
Study revealing the secret behind a key must work together to prevent unlawful price-surging
cellular process refutes biology behaviors from artificial...
textbooks
A route for avoiding defects during
COLUMBUS, Ohio – New research has identified additive manufacturing
and described a cellular process that, despite what
textbooks say, has... Laser powder bed fusion is a dominant additive
manufacturing technology that has yet to reach its
UCLA study of threatened desert potential. The problem...
tortoises offers new conservation
strategy Social care funding falls ‘alarmingly
short’
In Nevada’s dry Ivanpah Valley, just southeast of
Las Vegas, a massive unintended experiment in Councils will get £300m in new money for adult and
animal conservation... children’s services and be allowed to raise more in
tax.
Covid-19 tiers: Almost all of England
facing tough virus rules Coronavirus infections levelling during
England lockdown
Lancashire, Leicester, Lincolnshire, Slough, Bristol,
Kent and Medway will also be in tier three. Coronavirus infection rates in England are
continuing to show signs of levelling off – but the
Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine ‘dose picture across the UK...
error’ explained
‘Celtic gene’ may increase liver cancer
Covid-19: Oxford University vaccine is highly risk in men of UK heritage
effective
Men who have at least two copies of ‘the Celtic
Seven Americans have damaged their gene’ are 11 times more likely to be diagnosed with
eyes using germicidal UV lamps liver cancer,...
At least seven Americans have damaged their eyes Covid vaccine trials did not monitor
trying to use UV lamps to sanitize their homes and whether participants wore masks,
offices amid the coronavirus... socially distanced
Is December 9 the day Britain starts its Coronavirus vaccine makers tightly controlled who
Covid vaccination drive? was enrolled to their trials, their vaccine dosages,
the timing of those...
People in the UK could start actually receiving
vaccines against coronavirus from December 9, Coronavirus UK: Exeter Nightingale
according to a local health... reopens as local hospitals ‘busy’
Number of people with coronavirus in Exeter Nightingale reopens because Devon hospital
England DROPS for the first time in three is ‘very busy’ – even though it was only 88% full
months last...
The number of people infected with coronavirus in Lockdown Tiers for England are finally
England has fallen for the first time in three months, revealed
official data revealed...
London has today been placed in Tier 2 of Boris
Covid Vaccine Research: Expert sceptical Johnson’s controversial Covid-19 restrictions – but
on Oxford AstraZeneca trial Matt Hancock...
High blood pressure in midlife is linked to
increased brain damage in later life
They are the lab-coat wearing virus-fighting team In particular, the study found that there was a strong
who may have landed the killer blow in the battle association between diastolic blood pressure (the
against Covid-19. Oxford... blood pressure between...
Are we the same person throughout our Pitt researchers create nanoscale slalom
lives? In essence, yes course for electrons
A psychobiological study led by the Complutense IMAGE: Illustration of sketched serpentine
University of Madrid (UCM) on personal identity and nanowires created from lanthanum aluminate and
its modification over... strontium titanate. The...
Understanding the power of our Sun German researchers compile world’s
largest inventory of known plant species
IMAGE: The Borexino detector in combination with
the Sun. view more Credit: Copyright: Borexino IMAGE: Leipzig is host to the oldest botanical
Collaboration/Maxim... garden in Germany. On an area of only three
hectares, around 6500 of...
Archaeology: Neanderthal thumbs better
adapted to holding tools with handles A cold-health watch and warning system
for cold waves in Quebec
Neanderthal thumbs were better adapted to holding
tools in the same way that we hold a hammer, IMAGE: INRS Professor Fateh Chebana specializes
according to a paper published... in Hydrogeological modelling. His team also
developed a heat health...
Keyhole wasps may threaten aviation
safety ECDC and WHO call for improved HIV
testing in Europe
IMAGE: Pachodynerus nasidens on 3D-printed De
Haviland Dash-8 pitot probe view more Credit: IMAGE: Sex between men remains the predominant
House et al (2020)... mode of HIV transmission reported in the EU/EEA,
accounting for 39%...
How moving slower allows groups of
bacteria to spread across surfaces Anxiety associated with faster
Alzheimer’s disease onset
Researchers from the University of Sheffield and the
University of Oxford studied Pseudomonas Alzheimer’s disease represents a major public
aeruginosa, a species of bacteria... health crisis worldwide. The number of deaths from
the disease has more...
Popular weight-loss surgery in teenagers
weakens bones Cooking with wood may cause lung
damage
In a sleeve gastrectomy, approximately 75% of the
stomach is removed to restrict food intake and Approximately 3 billion people around the world
induce weight loss. It results... cook with biomass, such as wood or dried brush.
Pollutants from cooking with...
New mechanism of pain control revealed
What makes a happy couple, a happy
While neurons may be the most well-known cells of family?
the central nervous system, an assortment of non-
neuronal cells first discovered... “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is
unhappy in its own way,” Leo Tolstoy wrote famously
Solar CNO neutrinos observed for the in...
first time
Doctors use existing treatment earlier to
Scientists who are members of the Borexino save the lives of Covid-19 patients
Collaboration have provided the first experimental
proof of the occurrence of... IMAGE: CPAP treatment, which is often used at
home to help people with sleep problems, helps to
Quantum nanodiamonds may help detect keep the lungs open...
disease earlier
Almost like on Venus
IMAGE: An artist’s conception of nanodiamonds
used for in vitro diagnostics. view more Credit: Four-and-a-half billion years ago, Earth would have
Ella... been hard to recognise. Instead of the forests,
mountains and oceans...
Understanding traditional Chinese
medicine can help protect species Scientists develop new gene therapy for
eye disease
Demystifying traditional Chinese medicine for
conservationists could be the key to better IMAGE: A fluorescent microscope image with
protecting endangered species like... mitochondria highlighted in gold. This healthy cell
shows a highly elaborate...
Satellite images confirm uneven impact
of climate change Covid vaccines: Who decides if they are
safe?
University of Copenhagen researchers have been
following vegetation trends across the planet’s driest Trump pardons ex-National Security Adviser Flynn
areas using satellite... Michael Flynn was among former aides convicted in
an investigation into...
Brain imaging technology designed for Covid Christmas rules: Caution urged
babies over household mixing
Tech making it easier to see inside babies’ brains. Meanwhile, it is expected most areas of England will
Video, 00:01:31Tech making it easier to see inside be placed in the middle tier of a toughened three-tier
babies’... system.
Meghan: Duchess of Sussex tells of At least seven Americans have damaged
miscarriage ‘pain and grief’ their eyes trying to use UV lamps to clean
during pandemic
“I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was
losing my second,” Meghan said in a piece for the At least seven Americans have damaged their eyes
New York... trying to use UV lamps to sanitize their homes and
offices amid the coronavirus...
Antibody testing likely undercounts past
Covid infections by 28% ‘Celtic gene’ may raise liver cancer risk
by 11-fold for 500K US men
Antibody testing likely undercounts the number of
people who have had COVID-19: More than 25% of Men who have at least two copies of ‘the Celtic
infected health care workers... gene’ are 11 times more likely to be diagnosed with
liver cancer,...
Coronavirus: Doctors in South West
England were sent ‘clearly used’ gloves Could UK employers force staff to get a
in PPE blunder coronavirus vaccine?
Doctors in the South West of England were sent It is ‘highly unlikely’ private employers could force
disposable gloves that had ‘clearly been used’ and staff to get a Covid jab when one finally becomes
have been warned... available,...
Britain’s daily Covid cases drop again Coronavirus UK: Manchester braces for
week-on-week to 18,213 return to tier three after England’s
lockdown ends
Britain’s today recorded the most
daily coronavirus deaths since May after health Manchester braces for return to tough new Tier
chiefs confirmed another 696 victims... Three: Mayor Andy Burnham predicts government
will plunge region back under...
Coronavirus England: Lockdown tiers
may be ‘unjustified’ A growth mindset of interest can spark
innovative thinking
Just 9,854 new infections were recorded in England
yesterday, almost half of the number of diagnoses Asst Prof O’Keefe, who also holds a courtesy
last Tuesday... appointment with the National University of
Singapore (NUS) Business School,...
Everyday activities enhance personal
well-being Breaking the skill limit, pianists attain
more delicate touch
Exercise enhances physical well-being and mental
health. However, impacts of everyday activities, Experts such as pianists, athletes and surgeons
such as climbing stairs,... acquire advanced skills through tremendous
amounts of practice. It is difficult...
Gut hormones’ regulation of fat
production abnormal in obesity, fatty liver Basketball on the brain: Neuroscientists
disease use sports to study surprise
The study, led by molecular and integrative The most exciting moments in sports are often
physiology professor Jongsook Kim Kemper and linked to surprise, an unexpected change of
research scientist Young-Chae Kim,... circumstances that abruptly shifts...
Genetic study shows that the risk of pre- Space travel can adversely impact energy
eclampsia is related to blood pressure production in a cell
and BMI
The findings appeared November 25, 2020, in Cell
In the InterPregGen study, researchers from the UK, and are part of a larger compendium of research
Iceland, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Kazakhstan and into health aspects of space...
Uzbekistan studied...
Community conservation reserves
Specific bacterium in the gut linked to protect fish diversity in tropical rivers
irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
ITHACA, N.Y. – Prohibiting fishing in conservation
The pathogenic bacterial genus, Brachyspira, is not reserves is a common strategy for protecting ocean
usually present in human gut flora. A new study links ecosystems and...
the bacterium to...
Ancient blanket made with 11,500 turkey
Study shows minimal impact of APPs on feathers
ED productivity, flow, safety, patient
experience PULLMAN, Wash. — The ancient inhabitants of the
American Southwest used around 11,500 feathers to
IMAGE: US national emergency medicine group: make a turkey feather...
13,024,216 visits, 105,863 emergency department
days, 94 general emergency... Princeton scientists discover a motif that
guides assembly of the algal pyrenoid
Neutrinos yield first experimental
evidence of catalyzed fusion dominant in IMAGE: Princeton researchers led by Moritz Meyer
many stars and Martin Jonikas have discovered that the algal
pyrenoid, which...
AMHERST, Mass. – An international team of about
100 scientists of the Borexino Collaboration, The smell of cooperation
including particle physicist...
Despite their reputation, rats are surprisingly
Princeton scientists solve the mystery sociable and actually regularly help each other out
behind an enigmatic organelle, the with tasks. Researchers...
pyrenoid
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comets observations are consistent
Nearly one-third of all US nurses who
IMAGE: Image of 41P/T-G-K obtained with the 70- have died of coronavirus are Filipino
cm AZT-8 telescope on observation station Lisnyky
of the Astronomical... The coronavirus pandemic has taken a toll on all
healthcare workers, but perhaps none more so than
Men with ‘the Celtic gene’ are 11 times those in the Filipino...
more likely to develop liver cancer, study
finds Heading the ball in soccer: Blindfolded
players
Men who have at least two copies of ‘the Celtic
gene’ are 11 times more likely to be diagnosed with Blind soccer is a sport that can be enjoyed by
liver cancer,... anyone, regardless of visual ability. Except for the
goalkeepers, players...
FDA authorizes test that measures the
exact number of coronavirus antibody Understanding the utility of plasmas for
somebody has medical applications
FDA gives emergency approval a new test that can To help with this understanding, researchers from
measure a patient’s levels of antibodies thought to the Russian Academy of Sciences conducted
‘neutralize’... computer simulations of the interaction...
How the brain ‘re-wires’ after disease Team uses copper to image Alzheimer’s
aggregates in the brain
The paper is published in the journal Clinical
Neurophysiology. Up to now, scientific knowledge Several types of isotopes give off positively charged
has told us that the polio... particles called positrons that are detectable by
positron emission...
Channeling the immune system for head
and neck cancer New study explains important cause of
fatal influenza
Findings published in the Journal for
ImmunoTherapy of Cancer show that it could all It is largely unknown why influenza infections lead to
come down to “channeling”... an increased risk of bacterial pneumonia.
Researchers at Karolinska...
Cutting edge technology to bioprint mini-
kidneys A microscope for everyone: Jena
researchers develop open-source optical
The study, led by the Murdoch Children’s Research toolbox
Institute (MCRI) and biotech company Organovo
and published in Nature... IMAGE: The open-source 3D-printed cube can host
self-designed inserts, electrical and optical
Forming beliefs in a world of filter components. The resulting...
bubbles
Study in Thailand identifies benefits of
Why do so many Republicans still believe that the community-based freshwater fish
recent US presidential election was fraudulent? Is it reserves
possible to reach...
IMAGE: Fieldwork in communities often results in
Global collaboration is unlocking wheat’s curious onlookers, presenting a great opportunity for
genetic potential inclusion and...
IMAGE: At left, a chromosome segment from
Aegilops ventricosa, highlighted by the white arrow,
is found in the Kansas...
BIDMC researchers reveal how genetic Novel haplotype-led approach to increase
variations are linked to COVID-19 disease the precision of wheat breeding
severity
IMAGE: Novel haplotype-led approach will increase
Boston, Mass. – Even as tens of thousands of the precision of wheat breeding view more Credit:
Americans test positive for COVID-19 each day, John Innes...
physicians still aren’t...
Covid: How to keep the virus at bay this
Researchers uncover the unique way Christmas
stem cells protect their chromosome
ends Covid: Seven things that may be different this
Christmas
Telomeres are specialised structures at the end of
chromosomes which protect our DNA and ensure Covid Christmas rules: UK leaders urge
healthy division of cells.... caution over household mixing
Coronavirus: French lockdown to ease Christmas Covid rules: Who are you allowed to see?
after second peak passes
Doctors urge the CDC to warn Americans
He later tweeted to say that all businesses forced to about coronavirus vaccine side effects
remain closed during the restrictions, such as
restaurants, bars and... U.S. doctors are worried that their patients won’t
return to get a second dose of coronavirus vaccine if
Covid: PPE price rises cost taxpayers the Centers...
£10bn, report says
Britain records 11,299 Covid-19 cases in
The National Audit Office said there had been a lowest daily figure for almost eight weeks
particular shortage of gloves and aprons.
Britain today recorded the fewest daily Covid-19
Coronavirus survives on surfaces for cases in almost eight weeks in yet another sign that
hours by turning into a pancake-like film England’s lockdown...
Coronavirus can remain infectious on surfaces for Understanding ion channel inhibition to
DAYS by transforming into a microscopic pancake- open doors in drug discovery
like film, study finds More...
A major mechanism by which cells communicate
Why is Kent’s coronavirus outbreak with their environment is the movement of metal
spiking? ions through channels located...
Kent has suddenly become England’s Covid hotspot Brain waves guide us in spotlighting
and cases are rising in East Sussex, as the country surprises
prepares to emerge...
By measuring thousands of neurons along the
Measuring risk-taking surface, or cortex, of the brain in animals as they
reacted to predictable and...
Researchers found that people whose mouse drifted
toward the safe option on the computer screen — Experimental evolution reveals how
even when they ended... bacteria gain drug resistance
Potential treatment against antibiotic- Counteracting multidrug-resistant bacteria is
resistant bacteria causing gonorrhea and becoming a critical global challenge. It seems that
meningitis every time we develop new...
Antibiotic Resistance In recent years, rising rates of AI helps scientists understand brain
antibiotic resistance have been of concern to the activity behind thoughts
World Health Organization...
“For centuries, neuroscientists have studied how the
Mother’s touch lingers in her child’s brain works by relating brain activity to inputs and
genes outputs....
SMCHD1 switches certain genes off, altering how a Tel Aviv University researchers go
cell behaves. The new research has revealed that underwater to study how sponge species
when an egg cell (or oocyte)... vanished
Novel chemical process a first step to Researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU)
making nuclear fuel with fire embarked on an underwater journey to solve a
mystery: Why did sponges of the Agelas...
IMAGE: Combustion synthesis of LnBTA compound.
view more Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory. To push or to pull? How many-limbed
LOS ALAMOS,... marine organisms swim
Sestrin makes fruit flies live longer WOODS HOLE, Mass. — When you think of
swimming, you probably imagine pushing through
IMAGE: Fruit flies in a vial in front of amino acids. the water–creating backwards...
view more Credit: MPI f. Biology of Ageing/
Sebastian...
In fire-prone West, plants need their Immune checkpoint inhibitor efficacy
pollinators — and vice versa against glioblastoma may decrease with
dexamethasone
IMAGE: Fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium)
blooms in Yellowstone National Park, Montana. New Bottom Line: Among patients with glioblastoma
research highlights the... receiving an immune checkpoint inhibitor, those who
received the corticosteroid...
Waste fishing gear threatens Ganges
wildlife When consumers trust AI
recommendations–or resist them
IMAGE: Fishing on the Ganges view more Credit:
Heather Koldewey Waste fishing gear in the River Researchers from Boston University and University
Ganges poses... of Virginia published a new paper in the Journal of
Marketing that examines...
US Surgeon General says he will get
coronavirus jab when told it is safe Coronavirus cases fell by 6% in Kansas
after the state’s mask mandate
US Surgeon General Dr Jerome Adams has
pledged he will get the first coronavirus vaccine Counties in Kansas that followed the state’s mask
approved for emergency use when... mandate earlier this year saw coronavirus cases fall,
but those that...
Former FDA Commissioner urges people
to ‘buy better masks’ amid surging cases Coronavirus ‘could be STOPPED if 70%
and hospitalizations wore surgical face masks’
Now you SHOULD buy an N95: Former FDA Coronavirus could be ‘eradicated’ if 70% of people
commissioner urges Americans to ‘buy better wore surgical or N95 masks in public – but cloth
masks’ to protect themselves... masks...
Moderna’s Covid vaccine may NOT stop Covid-19 US: 85% of seniors plan to take
spread of infection vaccine but 15% NEVER will
Moderna’s chief scientist says its vaccine prevents Survey reveals 85% of seniors plan to get COVID-
coronavirus from making people sick – but the shot 19 vaccines – but 15% say they will NEVER get the
may NOT... shot because they...
Coronavirus US: CDC plans to shorten 1950s depression pill could be used to
quarantine period to 7-10 days treat prostate cancer
CDC plans to shorten recommended coronavirus An antidepressant from the Fifties could treat
quarantine period from 14 days to between 7 and 10 prostate cancer and reduce side-effects of other
days Currently, the CDC... treatments. Results of a...
World’s first: Drug guides stem cells to Stress in pregnancy may influence baby
desired location, improving their ability to brain development
heal
Stress levels in mothers — measured by a hormone
Toxic cells (green) disappeared when mice with a linked to anxiety and other health problems — is
neurodegenerative condition received both related to...
therapeutic stem cells (red) and...
Stronger memories can help us make
Why experiences are better gifts for older sense of future changes
children
Whether experiencing something new, or something
The research, published in the International Journal we’ve experienced a hundred times, people use
of Research in Marketing, compared the level of memories of the past...
happiness children derive...
Memories of past events retain
CRISPRi screens reveal sources of remarkable fidelity even as we age
metabolic robustness in E. coli
“These results are surprising to many, given the
In their natural habitat, bacteria like E. coli are general pessimism about memory accuracy among
confronted with constant changes in the composition scientists and the prevalent...
of nutrients. But...
Can we harness a plant’s ability to
Commonly used antibiotic shows synthesize medicinal compounds?
promise for combating Zika infections
New work from an international team of scientists
“Around the world, the Zika outbreak produced including Carnegie’s Sue Rhee reveals a gene
devastating, long-term neurological problems for responsible for anthraquinone...
many children and their...
‘Crisis decision making at the speed of
Pesticide deadly to bees now easily COVID-19’ – Bay Area public health
detected in honey officials share their experience with
shelter-in
IMAGE: Professor Janusz Pawliszyn transformed
his lawn into a wildflower meadow to attract bees. November 24, 2020 – In mid-March, public health
view more Credit:... officials across the San Francisco area issued the
Closing the racial disparity gap in first U.S. regional...
survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest
Simple new testing method aims to
PHILADELPHIA (November 24, 2020) – In-hospital improve time-release drugs
cardiac arrests (IHCA) represent catastrophic and
often terminal events.... IMAGE: A piece of glass bent like a tuning fork
measures dissolution of time-release drugs. view
Microbes help unlock phosphorus for more Credit:...
plant growth
COVID’s collateral damage: Germicidal
IMAGE: Poplar trees such as these along the lamps may damage corneas
Snoqualmie River able to thrive on rocky riverbanks,
despite low availability... IMAGE: Injected conjunctiva (redness) of the right
and left eye (top row) Diffuse staining of the cornea
Research shows bariatric surgery may with green...
reduce severity of COVID-19 in patients
with obesity For people with diabetes, medicaid
expansion helps, but can’t do it all: BU
A Cleveland Clinic study shows that among patients study
who have obesity and who tested positive for
COVID-19, a past history... Medicaid expansion through the Affordable Care Act
has insured millions of low-income people in the
Covid-19: England arrivals to be able to United States, improving...
cut quarantine with private test
Covid: How will I get a coronavirus
It follows Boris Johnson’s announcement that vaccine?
England will come under “toughened” three-tiered
regional... The UK government is confident that some of the
most at-risk groups will be vaccinated before
Don’t go to work when sick, ‘peculiar’ Christmas, and most over-50s...
Brits told
Deaths in UK ‘a fifth higher than normal
“If you have, in future, flu-like symptoms, you should levels’
get a test for it and find out what’s wrong with you,...
Biden to present team as Trump allows transition
Coronavirus could be STOPPED if 70% of The US president-elect will formally introduce
the public wore face masks, study cabinet picks, as the transfer...
suggests
Coronavirus cases increase by nearly
Coronavirus could be ‘eradicated’ if 70% of people ONE THIRD over the last two weeks,
wore surgical or N95 masks in public – but cloth report warns
masks...
Coronavirus infections among American children are
Coronavirus England: Deaths rise 28% in continuing to spike across the country, a report finds.
one week to 2,466 As of November...
Covid deaths in England continued to rise in mid- How viruses like Covid trick us into
November to 2,274 in the second week of the spending more time socialising
month, meaning deaths from...
Can viruses such as the one that causes Covid-19
Coronavirus-induced ‘cytokine storm’ attack our brains and change our behaviour —
which can be fatal is caused by TWO thereby prolonging an outbreak? That’s...
proteins
Number 10 used apocalyptic Covid-19
Severe cases of Covid-19 have been known to lead graphs to ‘frighten’ public into lockdown,
to a mysterious condition whereby the body’s top statistician
immune system goes haywire...
Eminent statistician Sir David Spiegelhalter
Matt Hancock claims Tier Three suggested Number 10 ‘frightened’ the public into
restrictions before lockdown weren’t complying...
tough enough
Coronavirus UK: Sussex and
People should stay off work with the sniffles even Herefordshire cases soar as Tiers
after the Covid pandemic ends to protect their decided
colleagues from getting...
An interactive module has today revealed how
Scientists’ atomic resolution protein quickly coronavirus outbreaks are growing in every
models reveal new details about protein local authority in England...
binding
Proteins in motion
That’s one result of a new study by Rice University
scientists looking for the mechanisms that stabilize “Dendritic arborization of neurons is one of the
or destabilize... fascinating features that evolved to increase the
complexity of the...
Helicates meet Rotaxanes to create
promise for future disease treatment One in three who are aware of deepfakes
say they have inadvertently shared them
on social media
Called rotaxanes, the molecules are tiny nanoscale Deepfakes, a portmanteau of ‘deep learning’ and
structures that resemble a dumbbell with a ring ‘fake’, are ultrarealistic fake videos made with...
trapped around the central...
Lung-on-chip provides new insight on
Cocoa flavanols boost brain oxygenation, body’s response to early tuberculosis
cognition in healthy adults infection
Previous studies have shown that eating foods rich IMAGE: A close-up image of the lung-on-chip model
in flavanols can benefit vascular function, but this is used in the study. The endothelial or vascular
the first to find... channel is highlighted...
Study: gut hormones’ regulation of fat Predi-COVID preliminary results
production abnormal in obesity, fatty liver
disease IMAGE: Predi-COVID nurse team view more Credit:
@LIH The study goals Predi-COVID was launched
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Gut hormones play an with the...
important role in regulating fat production in the
body. One key hormone, released... Researchers develop low-cost, portable
brain imaging scanner
Hormone found to switch off hunger
could help tackle obesity BOSTON – When it comes to brain scans for
assessing head trauma, detecting brain cancer, and
A hormone that can suppress food intake and performing numerous other...
increase the feeling of fullness in mice has shown
similar results in humans... Treatment shows reduction in heart
failure after myocardial infarction
For African American men with prostate
cancer, decision regret linked to medical While there are therapies to aid in overall heart
mistrust health, there are very few preventative therapies for
heart failure after...
November 24, 2020 – Medical mistrust is one
reason why African American patients are more At least 140 children were killed by cops
likely to have regrets about... in the US between 2003 and 2018
Study shows protective role sex steroids At least 140 American children died as a result of
play in COVID-19 police-involved incidents between 2003 and 2018, a
grim new study shows. And...
A new paper from a UIC researcher shows evidence
that suggests sex steroids may play a role in Coronavirus testing to be scaled up in
protecting against COVID-19... care homes to allow physical contact
during visits
Health volunteers who signed up in
coronavirus crisis could be kept in ‘NHS Care homes to get more coronavirus tests so
Reserve’ residents can scrap social distancing with up to two
visitors who each get swabbed...
NHS volunteers who signed up during the
coronavirus crisis could be kept on the books and Steve Ojomoh was an England rugby
‘called up’ during... star… so why DID he have a stroke at
48?
Children are willing to sacrifice in order
to punish the bad action of others As a former England rugby player and aged just 48,
Steve Ojomoh might have seemed an unlikely
Children are more willing to sacrifice their own candidate for a stroke....
happiness to punish others for bad behaviour if they
know they will be ‘taught... Grandparents in care homes could be
allowed home for Christmas
What can be done about a ‘clicky’ ear?
DR MARTIN SCURR answers your health Care home residents will finally be allowed to hug
questions their loved ones again – and some may even be
able to join their families...
Twice a day for a few hours my husband’s right ear
‘clicks’, affecting his hearing and his voice. When he Concussion risk in stunt performers
lies down,...
Russell’s new paper highlights the risk of concussion
So which tier WILL London be in? for dance, circus, theater and film and television
stunt performers,...
Hull, the North West and other parts of England
badly hit by Covid are expected to be placed under Breakthrough in studying the enzyme that
Tier Three when the national... ultimately produces fish odor syndrome
The drug aprotinin inhibits entry of SARS- Currently there is no cure for fish odour syndrome, a
CoV2 in host cells, study finds condition which causes an unpleasant fishy smell
that can affect breath,...
The surface of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is studded
with spike proteins. The virus needs these in order
to dock onto proteins...
Boosting stem cell activity can enhance Children more willing to punish if the
immunotherapy benefits wrongdoer is ‘taught a lesson’
The reprogramming involves a novel approach the Philosophers and psychologists have long argued
researchers developed that inhibits the activity of whether the main reason people punish others for
proteins known as MEK1/2.... bad behavior is to enact...
Identifying compound classes through Algorithm accurately predicts COVID-19
machine learning patient outcomes
Bioinformaticians at Friedrich Schiller University In research recently published online in Medical
Jena, Germany together with colleagues from Image Analysis, a team of engineers demonstrated
Finland and the USA, have... how a new algorithm they...
COVID-19 infection combined with blood Researchers identify genetics behind
clots worsens patient outcomes, study deadly oat blight
finds
ITHACA, N.Y. – A multi-institution team co-led by a
Led by Mahmoud Malas, MD, division chief of Cornell University researcher has identified the
Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at UC San genetic mechanisms...
Diego Health, researchers reviewed...
Black, Hispanic adolescents significantly
How dolphins avoid "the bends" more likely to die by police intervention
than whites
Dolphins actively slow down their hearts before
diving, and can even adjust their heart rate A recent study evaluating the use of force by police
depending on how long they plan... against children found that Black and Hispanic
adolescents are significantly...
New therapy for flu may help in fight
against COVID-19 Artificial intelligence technology helps
Parkinson’s patients during COVID-19
IMAGE: Philip S. Low, the Ralph C. Corley pandemic
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, is developing
a new therapy for flu... IMAGE: Andrew Exner, a graduate research
assistant in Purdue University’s Motor Speech Lab,
COVID-19 second wave in Myanmar is working to help...
causes dramatic increases in poverty
Historical bias overlooks genes related to
Yangon, Myanmar: In September 2020, 59 percent COVID-19
of 1000 households surveyed in urban Yangon and
66 percent of 1000 households... Based on genome-wide experiments, the human
body has 2,064 genes relevant to COVID-19. So
Which speaker are you listening to? why are researchers only studying...
Hearing aid of the future uses brainwaves
to find out Covid: Can I choose which vaccine I get?
And other questions
In a noisy room with many speakers, hearing aids
can suppress background noise, but they have If you’re in England, and you’re a single
difficulties isolating one... grandparent, you have the right to form a “support
bubble” with...
Trans teen in legal action over gender
clinic wait Covid-19: Daily coronavirus test plan to
cut contacts’ 14-day self-isolation
It announced the independent review into gender
identity services for young people in September. An Coronavirus: How to get a Covid test
NHS England spokesperson...
Are vegans REALLY any healthier than
Covid-19: Oxford University vaccine is their carnivore counterparts?
highly effective
For some it’s a lifestyle choice, for others an ethical
Trump accepts transition to Biden must begin The one. But for whichever reason, the number of people
president says a key federal agency should “do what who choose...
needs to be done”,...
A depression pill from 70 years ago could
Pharmacist GEMMA FROMAGE reveals be used to treat prostate cancer, research
how to save £200-a-year on everyday suggests
essentials
An antidepressant from the Fifties could treat
For every condition, there is often a branded over- prostate cancer and reduce side-effects of other
the-counter remedy we instinctively reach for. And treatments. Results of a...
yet there will be...
How viruses from colds to Covid-19 trick
Would you go under the surgeon’s knife us into spending more time socialising
WIDE AWAKE if it cut your waiting time
for an operation? Can viruses such as the one that causes Covid-19
attack our brains and change our behaviour —
When Guy Levy was told he needed hernia surgery thereby prolonging an outbreak? That’s...
earlier this month, his first question was not about
the safety of the operation... Danger for families with secret high
cholesterol
US COVID-19 cases could nearly double
by Inauguration Day, study predicts Katie Cronin’s sudden death from a heart attack
aged just 21 left her shocked family asking one
The number of U.S. coronavirus cases are set to question: why?...
nearly double, bringing the total number of infections
to about 20 million... Scientists identify brain cells that help
drive bodily reaction to fear, anxiety
How tumeric is the latest weapon in the
fight against disease The scientists, whose study is published in Cell
Reports, found that artificially forcing the activity of
The race to produce a Covid vaccine is hotting up, these brain cells...
but there is still some way to go until a jab is
available to everyone.... Snorkeling gear, animal noses inspire
better personal protective equipment
PEDSnet report details how COVID-19
pandemic has affected children First, he saw that the global supply chain for
disposable N95 masks had broken down, and many
Findings from the PEDSnet organization — which hospitals lacked adequate personal...
includes Cincinnati Children’s — were published
Nov. 23,... How to protect healthcare workers from
COVID-19
Nature’s toolkit for killing viruses and
bacteria A shortage of life-saving ventilators, which typically
cost around $30,000 each, hit hospitals particularly
“Bacterial contamination of common surfaces and of hard. “By...
drinking water have been traditionally the main
infection routes... Unique Schwann cells: the eyes have it
Early, late stages of degenerative Learning more about the cellular environment in the
diseases are distinct cornea, including what are known as glial cells that
wrap around the...
In a study published this month in Molecular
Psychiatry, McNew and Stern propose that The science of windy cities
degeneration, at the cellular level,...
IMAGE: A team from Oklahoma State University
New connection between Alzheimer’s attached sensors to robotic aircraft to take more
dementia and Dlgap2 cohesive measurements...
Catherine Kaczorowski, associate professor and Tracing the flow of cerebrospinal fluid
Evnin family chair in Alzheimer’s research at The
Jackson Laboratory... VIRTUAL MEETING (CST), November 22, 2020 —
Swelling is one of the most dangerous and
Ancient people relied on coastal immediate consequences of a brain...
environments to survive the Last Glacial
Maximum Enriching research in ecology and
evolution through nine ‘flavors’ of history
Humans have a longstanding relationship with the
sea that spans nearly 200,000 years. Researchers In a recent article in The Quarterly Review of
have long hypothesized... Biology, “Beyond Equilibria: The Neglected Role of
History in Ecology...
Tracking and fighting fires on earth and
beyond Understanding dangerous droplet
dynamics
Mechanical engineer Michael Gollner and his
graduate student, Sriram Bharath Hariharan, from VIRTUAL MEETING (CST), November 22, 2020 —
the University of California,... Researchers who study the physics of fluids are
learning why certain situations...
Antimicrobial soap additive worsens fatty
liver disease in mice New insight into the effect of
hydroxychloroquine undermines its use
University of California San Diego School of in COVID-19
Medicine researchers found evidence that triclosan
— an antimicrobial... Researchers at Radboud university medical center
have discovered an as yet unknown effect of
To evade humans, this medicinal plant hydroxychloroquine. It inhibits...
has evolved to hide in plain sight
Tarantula toxin attacks with molecular
Bulbs of the plant known as Lu Bei (Fritallaria stinger
delavayi) have been used in Chinese medicine for
more than two thousand years.... IMAGE: New studies of the molecular action of
tarantula venom on sodium channels may suggest
Shift in atmospheric rivers could affect
Antarctic sea ice, glaciers
WASHINGTON–Weather systems responsible for
transporting moisture from the tropics to temperate
regions in the Southern... ideas for the structural...
One-third of parents say family Therapeutic PD-1 cancer vaccine shown
gatherings for Thanksgiving is worth risk to be safe and effective in animal study
of contracting COVID-19
Columbus, Ohio – A study led by researchers at The
One in three parents believe the benefits of Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer
gathering family for Thanksgiving is worth the risk of Center – Arthur...
contracting or spreading...
UCF researcher zeroes in on critical point
A hunger for social contact for improving superconductors
CAMBRIDGE, MA — Since the coronavirus ORLANDO, Nov. 23, 2020 – The search for a
pandemic began in the spring, many people have superconductor that can work under less extreme
only seen their close friends... conditions than hundreds...
Magnetic brain waves to detect injury and Rensselaer-developed algorithm
disease accurately predicts COVID-19 patient
outcomes
Magnetic signals in the brain are measured by
magnetoencephalography (MEG). They are easier TROY, N.Y. – With communities across the nation
to localise than the electrical... experiencing a wave of COVID-19 infections,
clinicians need effective...
Newfound ability to change baby brain
activity could lead to rehabilitation for What do slight arm movements reveal
injured brains about our breathing and health?
Published recently in Cerebral Cortex, the Breathing tells a lot about a patient’s health. Several
researcher builds on the fact that learning studies have shown that deviations from a normal
associations is a very important part... respiratory...
Study: Opioid overdose deaths involving Matt Hancock: Life back to normal ‘after
other substances more common in youth Easter’
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Covid-19: Oxford University vaccine Sexual health warning for middle-aged:
shows 70% protection Infections ‘are on the rise among those in
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Sexual health warning for middle-aged: Infections
MMR vaccine could protect against are on the rise among those in their 40s and 50s…
COVID-19 because they are...
Washington, DC – November 20, 2020 – The Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy guideline
measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine has been encourages shared decision-making
theorized to provide protection...
The American Heart Association and the American
A long distance connection: polar climate College of Cardiology today released an updated
affects trade wind strength in tropics guideline for managing patients...
IMAGE: The blue ice covering Lake Fryxell in the Risk of death high among those with
Transantarctic Mountains comes from melted glacier alcohol-related visits to ED: CMAJ study
water. view...
The risk of death is high for people who visit the
Some parents prioritize Thanksgiving emergency department (ED) for alcohol use, and the
traditions over reducing COVID-19 risks risk increases with...
IMAGE: How parents plan to reduce COVID-19 risks Social needs linked to low health-related
at Thanksgiving. view more Credit: C.S. Mott quality of life among African American
Children’s... cancer survivors
Growing risks of STIs in over-45s Social needs–such as food and economic insecurity,
poor housing and neighborhood conditions, and lack
of access to...
Identical evolution of isolated organisms
IMAGE: SHIFT project revealed negative attitudes Palaeontologists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
and limited knowledge towards the over-45s sexual Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the University of
health needs. ... Calgary in Canada have...
Plant evolves to become less visible to New non-invasive technology could spot
humans early signs of motor disorders in babies
IMAGE: Fritillaria delavayi in a population with low The research, carried out using a wearable cuff,
harvest pressure view more Credit: Yang Niu A provides a new method for monitoring movements in
plant... babies, and new insights...
Gut immune cells may help send MS into Minuscule migrations
remission
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Cells move constantly
An international research team led by UCSF throughout our bodies, performing myriad operations
scientists has shown, for the first time, that gut critical to tissue...
immune cells travel to the...
NHS Breast Screening Programme still
Dormant threat: Abnormal proteins effective in reducing deaths in England
unleash latent toxicity in
neurodegenerative diseases An England-wide case-control study led by Queen
Mary University of London has shown that, despite
Thanks to modern medicine, humans tend to live major improvements in diagnostic...
much longer than before. Unfortunately, this also
opens a wider window to... Early signs of Alzheimer’s disease in
people with Down’s syndrome
Vegans, vegetarians and pescetarians
may be at higher risk of bone fractures Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have
studied the incidence and regional distribution of
Compared with people who ate meat, vegans with Alzheimer’s...
lower calcium and protein intakes on average, had a
43% higher risk of fractures... Covid: How do we know if a vaccine is
safe? And other questions
Covid: Nine ways England’s lockdown is
different from last time If you’re in England, and you’re a single
grandparent, you have the right to form a “support
Covid: The new lockdown rules for England, Wales, bubble” with...
Scotland and Northern Ireland
Coronavirus: £3bn for NHS but Sunak
Coronavirus: What are the EU warns of ‘economic shock’ to come
coronavirus schemes?
Borrowing in October hit £22.3bn, with public sector
It has ordered 40 million doses of the vaccine by debt over £2 trillion.
Pfizer and German-based BioNTech, which trials
suggested could prevent... U.S. should look at how other high-
income countries regulate health care
MMR vaccine could protect against costs, experts urge
COVID-19, study shows
The study, published in the journal Health Affairs,
“We found a statistically significant inverse examined how other high-income countries that use
correlation between mumps titer levels and COVID- a fee-for-service model...
19 severity in people...
Improving quantum dot interactions, one
Scientists propose to make a laser layer at a time
scalpel with a ‘curved’ blade
IMAGE: Low quantum dot concentrations during
Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University and superlattice fabrication suppresses quantum
Saratov State University teamed up with colleagues resonance between dots in...
from Taiwan and proposed...
Emergency imaging trends in pediatric
WSU scientists discover new, simple way vs. adult patients for abdominal pain
to classify marine biomes
IMAGE: Chart shows trends among pediatric
Washington State University scientists have patients in use of imaging in emergency department
developed a new way to classify the ocean’s diverse visits for abdominal pain. Read...
environments, shedding...
Breast cancer discovery could help stop
Staying ahead of the curve with 3D disease’s deadly spread
curved graphene
IMAGE: UVA’s Sanchita Bhatnagar, PhD, found that
IMAGE: An Electrical transport of 3D graphene with the breast cancer oncogene TRIM37 not only
various curvature radii view more Credit: Tohoku causes triple negative...
University A...
Breaking the ice on melting and freezing
Airflow studies reveal strategies to
reduce indoor transmission of COVID-19 IMAGE: Visualization of the coupling dynamics of
the ice layer and the turbulent convective motions in
IMAGE: Simulation of pedestrian counterflow (red the water layer....
and pink particles) confined within a hallway (blue
boundary), under... Risk of mental disorders later in life
potentially higher in kids of low-income
Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 are detected families
up to 3 months after infection
Researchers at the University of Helsinki, Aarhus
A new study in health care workers led by the University and the University of Manchester have
Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), an investigated the link...
institution supported...
Getting it just right
T-cell abnormalities in severe COVID-19
cases SINGAPORE, 20 November 2020 – Sometimes, too
much of a good thing can turn out to be bad. This is
IMAGE: A major difference between mild and severe certainly the case...
cases of COVID-19 may be the extreme activation
of T cells as they... Plant research seals importance of
microbes for survival and growth
New type of ultrahigh piezoelectricity in
hydrogen-bonded ferroelectrics Scientists have revealed that plants have a ‘sealing’
mechanism supported by microbes in the root that
IMAGE: The change of polarization upon a strain in are vital...
(a) perovskite ferroelectrics and (b) HP
ferroelectrics, where the... U.S. should look at how other high-
income countries regulate health care
Highly efficient, long-lasting costs
electrocatalyst to boost hydrogen fuel
production Structuring negotiations between insurers and
providers, standardizing fee-for-service payments
IMAGE: Crystal structure of surface oxygen-rich and negotiating prices can...
metal alloy (top left). Oxygen and hydrogen are
generated during a... Coronavirus: Christmas socialising
poses ‘substantial risks’
Was the scientific advice for lockdown
flawed? Coronavirus: NI to face new lockdown measures
from next Friday
“It’s easy to say if only we’d done this a week earlier
we’d have saved 5,000, 10,000, 15,000, 20,000... Spending Review: Chancellor to
announce £500m for mental health
Home-testing kit for breast cancer wins
Dyson prize Rishi Sunak to reform anti-Northern spending bias
Urban wind turbine wins UK James Dyson award DR ELLIE CANNON: Don’t rely on cider
vinegar to cure your lumps… or anything
DAN HYDE: Are hundreds of old people
being turfed out of care homes just like After noticing a couple of smallish soft bumps under
my grandmother? the skin on my arms and stomach, I consulted a
doctor, who gave me an...
If one moment could sum up the gut-wrenching
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How to do a full workout in just 24
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exercise session changed this year. Back in February, I was happily
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Repeat the following sequence of eight exercises
three times. Do each exercise for 30 seconds, Thousands of leukaemia sufferers could
aiming for maximum effort,... be spared chemotherapy thanks to a new
two-in-one treatment
How GPs running out of flu jabs makes
you fear what might happen with the Thousands of leukaemia sufferers could be spared
Covid-19 vaccine chemotherapy thanks to a new two-in-one treatment
that’s been found to...
It’s been billed as the biggest flu vaccination
programme in history – the Government’s plan for Middle Stone Age populations repeatedly
everyone over... occupied West African coast
Cure hope for patients suffering same IMAGE: A Levallois core recovered from
genetic illness that blighted life of Keir excavations at Tiémassas, part of a common,
Starmer’s mother persistent suite of stone tool...
Patients suffering the same genetic illness that Dogmatic people seek less information
blighted the life of Sir Keir Starmer’s mother now even when uncertain
have hope of a cure,...
People who are dogmatic about their views seek
Do neural networks dream visual less information and make less accurate judgements
illusions?
IMAGE: In all three cases, the Sagrada Familia is
the same colour but looks different due to the
surrounding colours.... as a result, even on simple...
Age is no barrier to successful weight A biochemical random number
loss, new study finds
True random numbers are required in fields as
Study of patients attending a hospital-based obesity diverse as slot machines and data encryption.
service shows no difference in weight loss between These numbers need to be truly...
those under 60...
Light-controlled nanomachine controls
Ancient interleukins 2, 15, and 15-like catalysis
exhibited distinct functions but all bound
IL-15Ra The vision of the future of miniaturisation has
produced a series of synthetic molecular motors that
IMAGE: The related cytokines IL-15, IL-15L, and IL- are driven by a range...
2 bind to receptor chain IL-15R? or, in the case of
mammalian IL-2,... Racial attitudes in a community affect
COVID-19 numbers
One-way street for electrons
There is a growing body of evidence showing that
IMAGE: With the help of ultra-short laser pulses racial and ethnic minorities are more affected by
physicists at the University of Oldenburg study the severe illness, and more...
ultra-fast processes...
More children and youth drowning as
Novel magnetic spray transforms objects warming temperatures create unstable
into millirobots for biomedical lake ice
applications
A new study, which looked at 4,000 drownings in 10
The research team is led by Dr Shen Yajing, countries, including Canada, Russia, Finland,
Associate Professor of the Department of Germany, Sweden, and the...
Biomedical Engineering (BME) at CityU...
Revolutionary CRISPR-based genome
Smartphone screen time linked to editing system treatment destroys cancer
preference for quicker but smaller cells
rewards
The revolutionary work was conducted in the
Previous research has suggested behavioral laboratory of Prof. Dan Peer, VP for RD and Head of
similarities between excessive smartphone use and the Laboratory of Precision...
maladaptive behaviors such as...
Does air pollution increase women’s risk
Ovarian cancer cells cooperate to of dementia?
metastasize
Fine particle pollution consists of microscopic
Now, a new study by Harvard Medical School particles of chemicals, smoke, dust and other
scientists shows that such cell diversity can also pollutants suspended in the...
play a critical role in a cancer’s...
New guide on using drones for
New insights into memristive devices by conservation
combining incipient ferroelectrics and
graphene IMAGE: A drone view more Credit: Karen Anderson
Drones are a powerful tool for conservation – but...
IMAGE: This illustration shows how strontium
titanium oxide is combined with graphene strips. The Rare species of small cats inadequately
combination opens... protected
Nursing home residents with POLST IMAGE: André P. Silva has been studying
forms three times more likely to have mammalian carnivores in the field and developing
preferences known distribution models to understand...
IMAGE: “Advance care planning conversations can New tool helps predict outcomes for
be difficult. We need to provide support to nursing COVID-19
home residents...
A new assessment tool developed by Kaiser
Sexual minorities, especially women, who Permanente researchers and physicians helps guide
misuse substances more likely to have clinical decisions in emergency...
psychiatric disorders
Ribosome assembly
Audio More than half of lesbian, gay and bisexual
individuals who misuse alcohol or tobacco also have Ribosomes synthesize all the proteins in cells.
a co-occurring psychiatric... Studies mainly done on yeast have revealed much
about how ribosomes are put...
Biophysics
Covid: Jab for people who cannot be
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich vaccinated trialled
physicists have introduced a new method that allows
biological pattern-forming...
Should I get a flu jab this winter?
Should I get a flu jab? The World Health Nine UK trial sites have been identified so far, in
Organisation and the NHS say getting a flu shot Manchester, London, Plymouth, Southampton, West
could help health services fight... Yorkshire, Enfield, Rochdale...
Covid-19: UK setting up vaccine centres Covid antibodies ‘last at least six months’
ready for rollout
T-cell response ‘lasts six months after Covid
It comes as another 20,252 confirmed Covid cases infection’
were announced by the government on Friday, as
well as a further 511 deaths. DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: Why won’t the
NHS tell you the secret to treating
Arthritis drug and remdesivir combo get diabetes?
emergency FDA approval
Eight years ago I managed to beat type 2 diabetes
FDA gives emergency approval to Eli Lilly’s arthritis by going on my 5:2 diet (cutting my calories two
drug paired with remdesivir for treating hospitalized days a week) and losing...
coronavirus...
Social isolation during COVID-19
Early treatment with lorlatinib improves pandemic linked with high blood
survival in some lung cancer patients pressure
Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for SAC 2020 is a virtual meeting during 19 to 21
87% of all cases of lung cancer. Some 5% of November. Faculty from the European Society of
NSCLC cases are ALK-positive,... Cardiology (ESC) will participate...
Stem cell transplantation: Undesirable Potential new target to combat
rejection mechanism identified inflammatory diseases
However, the MedUni Vienna dermatologists have WEHI’s Associate Professor Seth Masters and his
now found that there are so-called skin-resident and research team discovered the compound could
inactive T cells in the... prevent up-regulation of...
Meeting a 100-year-old challenge could Taking out the trash is essential for brain
lead the way to digital aromas health
“The challenge of plotting smells in an organized Reporting their findings in Nature Communications,
and logical manner was first proposed by Alexander the researchers describe how defects in a cellular
Graham Bell over... waste disposal mechanism,...
Bed dust microorganisms may boost Scientists discover roles for a cellular
children’s health, study suggests motor in cancer
To get a better grasp of this relationship, Genes are segments of cellular DNA, and gene
researchers at the University of Copenhagen’s packaging is called chromatin. Genes are tightly
Department of Biology and... packaged when they are not...
New report projects severe coral Potential cellular target for eliminating
bleaching globally in this century bone breakdown in osteoporosis found
IMAGE: Annual severe bleaching (ASB) is projected New research has discovered a cell type that
to occur within this century for 100% of the world’s governs the way bones form and maintain
coral... themselves, opening up a potential target...
Frequent, rapid testing could cripple Study: Countering hate on social media
COVID within weeks, study shows
IMAGE: Figure 1 from the paper: Examples of
Testing half the population weekly with inexpensive, Twitter conversations (reply trees) with labeled hate
rapid-turnaround COVID-19 tests would drive the (red), counter (blue),...
virus toward elimination...
For COVID-19 surveillance, test frequency
SFU researchers examine which and turnaround time are paramount,
approaches are most effective at modeling suggests
reducing COVID-19 spread
For COVID-19 Surveillance, Test Frequency and
Simon Fraser University professors Paul Tupper and Turnaround Time Are Paramount, Modeling
Caroline Colijn have found that physical distancing Suggests Speed of test results and...
is universally effective...
From lab to industry? Ideally ordered
Adipose tissue may be the source of porous titania films, made at scale
inflammatory factors that aggravate
COVID-19 IMAGE: (upper) Illustration of new high-throughput
process for making ordered through-hole
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samples. Preliminary results show that the virus
infects adipocytes and... Natural coronavirus immunity could be
TWICE as common as experts thought,
US HIV death rate fell over 48% from 2010
to 2018, CDC data reveals
HIV was nearly 50 percent less fattal in 2018 than it PHE says
had been a decade prior in 2010, new Centers for
Disease Control and... Natural immunity to the coronavirus could be twice
as common as experts believed, according to a
Coronavirus UK: ALL should be tested Public Health England study. Researchers...
monthly, says Jeremy Hunt
Pfizer sends full results on breakthrough
Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt All Britons Covid vaccine to drugs watchdogs in UK,
should be tested for coronavirus once a month and US and Europe
those who get...
Pfizer has sent the full results of its final Covid-19
MMR vaccine may protect against Covid- vaccine trial to the drugs watchdog in the US as the
19, study claims world inches...
The MMR vaccine may protect some people against Coronavirus vaccinations could be under
severe Covid-19, a study has claimed. Scientists way for ALL adults by the end of January
from the University of Georgia...
Coronavirus vaccinations could be under way for
Matt Hancock says Covid vaccines WILL everyone over the age of 18 in the UK by the end of
roll out in UK from next month January, leaked NHS plans...
Coronavirus vaccines will start to roll out next month New nasal spray protects against Covid-
if one is approved by the British drug regulator, Matt 19 for up to 48 hours
Hancock confirmed...
Anti-COVID-19 nasal spray that protects against
Age is no barrier to successful weight coronavirus infection for up to 48 hours is ‘ready for
loss use in humans’...
The researchers hope that their findings will help to Altered ‘coat’ disguises fatal brain virus
correct prevailing societal misconceptions about the from neutralizing antibodies
effectiveness...
Dr. Aron Lukacher, professor and chair of the
Biofriendly protocells pump up blood Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the
vessels College of Medicine, and Susan...
In a new study published today in Nature Chemistry, COVID-19 patients survive in-hospital
Professor Stephen Mann and Dr Mei Li from Bristol’s cardiac arrest at pre-pandemic rates
School of Chemistry,...
“Early studies showed extremely low rates of
Ribosome assembly: The final trimming COVID-19 patients who were resuscitated
step successfully and went on to survive...
In every cell, hundreds of thousands of intricate Frequent, rapid testing could cripple
molecular machines called ribosomes fabricate new COVID-19 within weeks, study shows
proteins, extending each...
Such a strategy could lead to “personalized stay-at-
Researchers examine which approaches home orders” without shutting down restaurants,
are most effective at reducing COVID-19 bars, retail...
spread
Hyperbaric oxygen treatment: Clinical
The researchers developed a model to test the trial reverses two biological processes
effectiveness of measures such as physical associated with aging in human cells
distancing, masks or social bubbles...
The researchers found that a unique protocol of
After more than a decade, ChIP-seq may treatments with high-pressure oxygen in a pressure
be quantitative after all chamber can reverse two...
IMAGE: For more than a decade, scientists studying Supramolecular chemistry – Self
epigenetics have used a powerful method called
ChIP-seq to map changes... Molecules that are made up of multiple repeating
subunits, known as monomers, which may vary or
COVID-19 News from Annals of Internal not in their chemical structure,...
Medicine
States unfairly burdening incarcerated
Below please find a summary and link(s) of new people with ‘pay-to-stay’ fees
coronavirus-related content published today in
Annals of Internal Medicine.... Pay-to-stay, the practice of charging people to pay
for their own jail or prison confinement, is being
Science reveals secrets of a mummy’s enforced unfairly...
portrait
Zebra finches amazing at unmasking the
IMAGE: (A) “Portrait of a Bearded Man ” (Walters Art bird behind the song
Museum #32.6), dated c. 170-180 CE from Roman
Imperial... IMAGE: Study finds that zebra finches possess
superior auditory memory view more Credit: Image
Monitoring glaucoma at home courtesy of...
Folding of SARS-CoV2 genome reveals
drug targets — and preparation for
IMAGE: Dr Peter Campbell (left) with study ‘SARS-CoV3’
participant, Graham Maynard (centre), holding the
EyeCatcher glaucoma monitoring... The genetic code of the SARS-CoV2 virus is exactly
29,902 characters long, strung through a long RNA
Covid-19: Flu jab push as Covid vaccine molecule. It contains...
roll-out planned
Covid vaccine: Pfizer applies for first
Covid symptoms: Is it a cold, flu or coronavirus? approval in US
Covid: Infection rates levelling off in Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90%
England and Scotland protection
Coronavirus infection rates are levelling off in Inside test-and-trace
England and Scotland and decreasing in Wales and
Northern Ireland, latest... Overall, performance has fallen short of what was
hoped for. To be effective, government advisers say
Schools are some of ‘the safest places 80% of people who test...
places’ children can be, CDC director
says Rare gene mutation hints at ‘fountain of
youth’
Schools are among ‘the safest places’ that American
children can be amid surging cases of coronavirus Called PCSK9Q152H, the mutation of the PCSK9
across... gene was initially thought to protect against
cardiovascular diseases. Recent...
Vibrations of coronavirus proteins may
play a role in infection Scientists discover new, simple way to
classify marine biomes
Studies of how spike proteins, which give
coronaviruses their distinct crown-like appearance, Newly published in Global Ecology and
interact with human cells typically... Biogeography, research by Alli Cramer, a 2020
doctoral graduate of WSU’s School...
Spill-over effects show prioritizing
education of very poorest improves How tissue geometry influences the
attainment of all movement of cells through the body
The newly-reported study, by academics at the To better understand this phenomenon, a team of
University of Cambridge, is one of the first to biologists and physicists, led by UC Santa Barbara’s
measure the complete value... Distinguished...
Glyphosate may affect human gut Getting it just right, the Goldilocks model
microbiota of cancer
“Glyphosate targets an enzyme called EPSPS in the Inhibiting Wnt signalling with ETC-159 reactivates
shikimate pathway. This enzyme is crucial to the hyperactive RAS-MAPK pathway, causing cells
synthesizing three essential... to led undergo senescence....
New findings speed progress towards Field geology at Mars’ equator points to
affordable gene therapy ancient megaflood
The new method for deploying the genetic snipping ITHACA, N.Y. – Floods of unimaginable magnitude
tool directly into target cells is a big step towards once washed through Gale Crater on Mars’ equator
more effective, safer... around 4 billion...
SARS-CoV-2 transmission model offers A sulfur molecule to block the
decision-making pathways for safe coronavirus
school opening
IMAGE: In thiol-mediated uptake, dynamic covalent
Can schools safely remain open or reopen during exchange with thiols on the cell surface precedes
periods of significant community spread of COVID- entry through different...
19? According to predictions...
Discovery illuminates how cell growth
NRL researchers catch supermassive pathway responds to signals
black holes launching newborn radio jets
A basic science discovery by researchers at the
IMAGE: Illustration of a young radio jet launching Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
from a supermassive black hole in the center of a reveals a fundamental way...
distant galaxy. ...
Memories create ‘fingerprints’ that reveal
Study: TB vaccine linked to lower risk of how the brain is organized
contracting COVID-19
While the broad architecture and organization of the
LOS ANGELES (Nov. 20, 2020) — A widely used human brain is universal, new research shows how
tuberculosis vaccine is associated with reduced the differences between...
likelihood of contracting...
Swab tests reveal high levels of
TTUHSC scientist takes next step in coronavirus on gym door handles and
search for bone disease treatment
IMAGE: A TTUHSC research team led by Hiranmoy self check-out stations
Das, Ph.D., attempted to determine if inducing KLF2
levels in dental... Why you MUST wash your hands after working out
or shopping: Gym door handles and self check-out
Coronavirus lockdown UK: Tier Three DID stations are covered in coronavirus...
reduce hospital admissions
Understanding lung infections in patients
Tier Three was doing its job of driving down with cystic fibrosis
coronavirus hospital admissions in the UK, senior
Government medical advisers... S. aureus is commonly found on the skin of healthy
people, it can cause lung infection and abscess, and
A pressure sensor at your fingertips is often present...
There are many reasons why researchers wish to New effective and safe antifungal isolated
record motion and other physical details associated from sea squirt microbiome
with hands and fingers....
The new molecule was discovered in the
CLCN6 identified as disease gene for a microbiome of a sea squirt from the Florida Keys as
severe form of lysosomal part of an effort to identify...
neurodegenerative disease
Researchers identify features that could
The term “lysosomal storage disease” summarizes a make someone a virus super-spreader
number of genetically determined metabolic
diseases that are... In a study appearing this month in the journal
Physics of Fluids, researchers in UCF’s Department
Long-acting antipsychotic therapy plus of Mechanical and...
cognitive training show promise for
schizophrenia Artificial intelligence-based tool may help
diagnose opioid addiction earlier
Researchers say patients using a combination of
long-acting antipsychotic medication and a The model was generated from information in a
multipronged cognitive remediation... commercial claim database from 2006 through 2018
of 10 million medical insurance...
How rotavirus causes severe
gastrointestinal disease Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
conducts largest pediatric genomic
In the current study published in the journal Science, COVID-19 study to date
a team led by researchers at Baylor College of
Medicine discovered... When it comes to children, it is becoming clear that
COVID-19 impacts them more than was initially
Study evaluates new World Health realized. Yet there is...
Organization Labor Care Guide for
maternity care providers The microbiome of Da Vinci’s drawings
The World Health Organization developed the new IMAGE: Da Vinci’s “Uomo della Bitta ” view more
Labour Care Guide to support clinicians in providing Credit: The authors The work of Leonardo...
good quality, women-centred...
Coaching sales agents? Use AI and
CHOP researchers reverse severe human coaches
lymphatic disorder in patient with Noonan
syndrome Researchers from Temple University, Sichuan
University, and Fudan University published a new
Philadelphia, November 20, 2020–Researchers at paper in the Journal of Marketing...
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have
resolved a severe... Simple, no-cost ways to help the public
care for the commons
Near-infrared probe decodes telomere
dynamics Researchers from University of Wisconsin-Madison,
New York Institute of Technology, University of Iowa,
IMAGE: A fluorescent compound was attached to and Cornell University...
the PIP that targets the DNA repeating sequence
found in telomeres. This... Tocilizumab: Arthritis drug may treat
severe Covid
Limited access to buprenorphine restricts
resident physicians treating opioid Steroids, including dexamethasone, are the only
abusers drugs proven to be save lives from Covid-19 and
they tend to calm the whole...
IMAGE: Bryant Shuey, MD, a third-year resident in
the Department of Internal Medicine at the Covid-19 carriers ‘most infectious earlier
University of South Florida,... on’
Covid-19: Free flu jabs offered to all over The work appears in the Lancet Microbe.
50s in ‘winter like no other’
Covid symptoms: Is it a cold, flu or coronavirus?
Coronavirus: Inside test-and-trace More than one in five COVID-19 patients
at assisted living facilities die of the virus
Overall, performance has fallen short of what was
hoped for. To be effective, government advisers say Contracting the novel coronavirus in an assisted
80% of people who test... living facility may raise the risk of death, a new
report finds. At least...
Covid-19 was third biggest killer in
England in October, ONS Social isolation during lockdown causes
blood pressure to soar
Coronavirus was the third biggest killer in England in
October, official figures show — but the total number Stress caused by lockdown is being blamed for a
of deaths... rise in the number of people suffering from high
blood pressure. At one...
Mutated strain of Covid found in mink
‘has been eradicated’, Denmark claims Arthritis drug tocilizumab can help
critically-ill Covid patients recover, trial
Mutated strain of Covid found in mink ‘has most finds
likely been eradicated’, Denmark claims after culling
millions... The arthritis drug tocilizumab can help critically-ill
Covid-19 patients recover, a large British trial has
One in three elderly Covid-19 patients are found. Patients...
delirious, study finds
WHO’s Europe chief says mask use could
Delirium is a common symptom of coronavirus in avoid lockdowns
elderly patients, found in around one in three
infected over-65s. Researchers... Europe is seeing one coronavirus death every 17
seconds, with 29,000 fatalities last week – an 18
Masks DON’T stop the spread of Covid: percent increase...
Top experts criticise ‘troubling lack of
evidence’ Breathing problems in teens: COVID-19
or lung injury due to vaping?
Top scientists have warned there is a ‘troubling lack
of evidence’ that face masks prevent Covid-19 “EVALI and COVID-19 share many symptoms but
infection,... have very different treatment plans,” said Kiran
Nandalike, associate...
Study finds low risk of pregnancy
complications from COVID-19 How the flu virus spreads within cities
The study, published today in JAMA Network Open, As shown with the current severe acute respiratory
shows that 95 percent of women who tested positive syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic,
for COVID-19 during pregnancy... respiratory diseases can...
Cesarean section-born children may face Insights in the search for new antibiotics
higher risk of infection-related
hospitalization “The rapid spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in
clinics challenges our modern medicine and the
The global proportion of cesarean section births has traditional approaches...
nearly doubled since 2000, yet the relationship
between mode of birth... Three reasons why COVID-19 can cause
silent hypoxia
Engineered immune cells elicit broad
response to HIV in mice, offering hope for Despite experiencing dangerously low levels of
vaccine oxygen, many people infected with severe cases of
COVID-19 sometimes show...
This week, scientists at Scripps Research moved
closer to attaining that holy grail of HIV research College students are less food insecure
with a new vaccine approach... than non-students
Predicting preterm births IMAGE: College students in a University of Illinois
dining hall. view more Credit: L. Brian Stauffer,
“This is a retrospective study of prospective data,” University...
said Dr. Kjersti Aagaard, professor of obstetrics and
gynecology... A meta-analysis of major complications
between traditional pacemakers and
Risk of target organ damage in patients leadless pacemakers
with masked hypertension versus
sustained hypertension In a new publication from Cardiovascular
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by anomalous origin of the left coronary
Implantation of an S-ICD in a patient with artery from the pulmonary artery
a DDD pacemaker and congenitally
corrected transposition
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Transposition of the Great Arteries In... https://doi.org/10.15212/CVIA.2019.0585, Lei
Zhang,...
In-stent thrombosis after antiplatelet
therapy conversion while awaiting Importance of mitochondrial-related
coronary bypass genes in dilated cardiomyopathy
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Mediastinal tuberculoma mimicking Matt Hancock warns that whole
malignant cardiac tumor population is at risk of ‘long Covid’
In a new publication from Cardiovascular Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned the
Innovations and Applications; DOI ‘many thousands of people suffering from long
https://doi.org/10.15212/CVIA.2019.0587, Yiqian... Covid’ highlights...
Covid-19 lockdown UK: ‘Normal’ For neural research, wireless chip shines
Christmas would cause ‘cases spike’ light on the brain
Britain’s coronavirus Christmas drama descended “Our goal was to create a research tool that can be
into a row today after top scientists warned relaxing used to help us better understand the behavior of
measures to enjoy... different regions...
Motorized sensors aim to improve and Web searches for insomnia surged at
speed up early-stage disease diagnosis height of COVID-19 stay-at-home orders
Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering Results show there were 2.77 million Google
want to make it easier to catch diseases earlier in searches for insomnia in the U.S. for the first five
the process, improving... months of 2020, an increase...
Parental restrictions on tech use have A DNA-based nanogel for targeted
little lasting effect into adulthood chemotherapy
Kids growing up in the mobile internet era have Once ingested or injected, chemotherapy
heard them all, often uttered by well-meaning medications move throughout the body,
parents fearing long-term problems... indiscriminately affecting healthy cells along...
The single X chromosome of male fruit Coinfection: More than the sum of its
flies can be just as active as the two X parts
chromosomes of females thanks to two
sticky molecules When viruses and fungi join forces A team of
scientists from several German research institutions
“One aspect that had always baffled researchers is and clinics has now developed...
how the MSL complex knows which of the 8
chromosomes carried by... Loneliness in youth could impact mental
health over the long term
In the lab, scientists identify possible
COVID-19 treatment Washington, DC, November 19, 2020 – The COVID-
19 pandemic has necessitated widespread social
The scientists identified the drugs after discovering isolation, affecting all...
that the hyperinflammatory immune response
associated with COVID-19... Confirming simulated calculations with
experiment results
Incretin hormone levels linked to
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measurement of quantum magnet TMGO reveals
Diabetes is currently treated using incretin the topological KT phase...
hormones to reduce the risk of cardiovascular
disease and other medical issues... Mystery solved: a ‘New Kind of Electrons’
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How do people experience time alone and time with Army, MIT explore materials for
others? Findings from a new Bar-Ilan University transforming robots made of robots
study reveal the intricacies...
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — Scientists
Giant aquatic bacterium is a master of from the U.S. Army and MIT’s Center for Bits and
adaptation Atoms created a new...
The largest freshwater bacterium, Achromatium
oxaliferum, is highly flexible in its requirements, as
researchers led by the...
Inclusion is key for all to thrive Private baby scans show ‘incredibly poor
throughout life, report says practice’
When it comes to optimizing “longevity fitness” The NHS says bleeding during pregnancy is
through attention to social, health, and wealth relatively common but advises women to contact
aspects of life,... their midwife or GP if bleeding...
Covid-19: Family Christmas get-togethers Quarter of UK home care operators face
being considered going bust
It comes after the Sun reported that families may be People sent to care homes days after positive test
able to mix indoors for five days from Christmas
Eve. Fury over £18bn PPE scandal
Covid: Oxford vaccine shows Boris Johnson today refused to apologise after a
‘encouraging’ immune response in older devastating report laid bare the Government’s
adults £18billion rush to...
Researchers say the Lancet phase two findings, Tier Three WAS working, Goverenment
based on 560 healthy adult volunteers, are hospital Covid data shows
“encouraging”.
Tier Three was doing its job of driving down
Covid-19 patients with high blood coronavirus hospital admissions in the UK, senior
pressure or diabetes at risk of fatal brain Government medical advisers...
complications
Normal Christmas would ‘throw fuel on
People with high blood pressure or diabetes who the fire’ and trigger spike in Covid-19
catch Covid-19 are more likely to develop potentially cases, says scientist
fatal brain complications,...
A near-normal Christmas would only ‘throw fuel on
SAGE used WIKIPEDIA data to model the fire’ and put older generations in harms way, a
Covid crisis, says documentary top scientist...
No10’s scientific advisers relied on dubious data Permanent night shift workers at
from Wikipedia to help steer Britain through the heightened risk of moderate to severe
spring’s coronavirus... asthma
Parasite infection discovery could assist Given the prevalence of both shift work and asthma
mental health treatments in industrialised nations, the public health
implications of these findings...
Scientists say behaviour changes in those infected
with T. gondii, which currently infects 2.5 billion Teaching and complex tools ‘evolved
people worldwide and... together’
Could key gene system discovery be The improvement of technologies across
suffocating corals’ last gasp? generations, known as “cumulative cultural
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A unique deoxygenation-reoxygenation stress
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Does air pollution affect mental health Total diet replacements, nutritionally complete
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When looking at individual air pollutants, a team led
by investigators from of the University of Southern Certain CBD oils no better than pure CBD
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CTCs are tumor cells that are shed from a primary
tumor into the bloodstream, where they can travel to Machine learning uncovers missing info
other sites and possibly... about ethnicity in population health data:
Study
Surprises in ‘active’ aging
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Many materials, like plastics and glasses, also age – public health data, which...
ie...
Synthesis study demonstrates
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severe alcohol withdrawal sea ice
New Haven, Conn. — A drug once used to treat
high blood pressure can help alcoholics with
withdrawal symptoms reduce... IMAGE: Optical measurement of a melt pond view
more Credit: Pierre Coupel Small photosynthetic
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COVID-19 vaccine in healthy older adults
finds it is safe and provokes immune Commentary: Want to understand health
response disparities? Get your antiracist goggles
on
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An INRS research team pushes back the
boundaries of high-energy laser pulses Study of hope and optimism: New paper
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Daily vitamin D may reduce advanced
cancer risk by 17% FDA’s vaccine advisory meeting is
planning to meet in early December to
People who take vitamin D supplements may be discuss coronavirus jabs
less at-risk for developing late stage and even fatal
cancer, new research suggests. A... FDA’s vaccine advisory committee ‘plans meeting in
three weeks’ in key step towards emergency
Rate of suicidal thoughts among approval...
pregnant women and new mothers has
TRIPLED in the last decade Four BILLION people worldwide will be
overweight by 2050, report predicts
Rate of suicidal thoughts among pregnant women
and new mothers has TRIPLED and the rate of self- Global eating habits have set the world on course to
harm has doubled in the last... have more than four billion overweight people by
2050, new research...
More than 3 MILLION Americans likely
have contagious coronavirus Killing cancer naturally: New process to
produce compounds with anti-cancer
More than three million people in the U.S. are likely properties
contagious with coronavirus right now, new
estimates suggests. If... A group of scientists from the Tokyo University of
Science, led by Prof Kouji Kuramochi, has also been
System can sterilize medical tools using dedicated to this...
solar heat
Which particulate air pollution poses the
Now, a team of researchers at MIT and the Indian greatest health risk?
Institute of Technology has come up with a way to
generate the needed steam... Particulate matter is one of the greatest health risks
stemming from air pollution and, according to
Pandemic has surprising impacts on several studies, it...
public transit demand
Technology lets clinicians objectively
While demand for public transit dropped about 73% detect tinnitus for first time
across the country after the pandemic hit, the
reduction didn’t impact... Tinnitus, the perception of a high-pitched ringing or
buzzing in the ears, affects up to 20% of adults and,
Studies focus on SARS-CoV-2 when severe,...
transmission in domestic cats, pigs
Gut microbiome manipulation could
“Other research has shown that COVID-19-infected result from virus discovery
human patients are transmitting SARS-CoV-2 to
cats; this includes... The Rutgers co-authored research, which could aid
efforts to engineer beneficial bacteria that produce
Researchers identify three drugs as medicines and fuels...
possible therapeutics for COVID-19
Controversy continues over ’13 Reasons
Based on virtual and in vitro antiviral screening that Why’ and adolescent suicide
began in the earlier months of the COVID-19
pandemic, the researchers... PHILADELPHIA – After its release in 2017, the
Netflix series “13 Reasons Why” spurred
Air pollution costs Utahns billions controversy over...
annually and shortens life expectancy by
two years In the lab, St. Jude scientists identify
possible COVID-19 treatment
Air pollution has been a problem in Utah since
before the territory was officially recognized as a IMAGE: (L-R) Bhesh Sharma, Ph.D., Thirumala-
state. The mountain valleys... Devi Kanneganti, Ph.D., Rajendra Karki Ph.D., of
the Kanneganti Lab at...
Cellular pathway of genetic heart disease Missing the radiological forest for the
similar to neurodegenerative disease trees
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Research on a genetic There’s a classic video demonstrating how our
heart disease has uncovered a new and unexpected brains process information and allocate attention in
mechanism for heart failure.... which people bounce...
Tau protein changes in Alzheimer’s Solving a mystery: How the TB bacterium
disease correlate with dementia stage develops rapid resistance to antibiotics
Research into Alzheimer’s disease has long focused IMAGE: DNA methylation in the epigenetic domain
on understanding the role of two key proteins, beta holds the key to why the TB bacterium develops
amyloid and... fairly rapid antibiotic...
New understanding of mobility paves way Lord Feldman: Department of Health
for tomorrow’s transport systems adviser’s firm took work from Covid
company
In recent years, big data sets from mobile phones
have been used to provide increasingly accurate Go-between paid £21m in taxpayer funds for NHS
analyses of how we all... PPE
Lockdown loneliness reaches record Coronavirus: Head of NHS Test and Trace
levels Dido Harding self-isolating
Pfizer vaccine is ‘94% effective in over-65s’ The jab Pfizer vaccine is ‘94% effective in over-65s’ The jab
works equally well in people of all ages and works equally well in people of all ages and
ethnicities,... ethnicities,...
Covid vaccine: Pfizer says ‘94% effective New AI voice test could help detect
in over-65s’ whether or not someone has the
coronavirus –
Last week, Pfizer and BioNTech published
preliminary data suggesting the vaccine offered 90% New AI voice test could soon detect COVID-19 by
protection against Covid-19... scanning the sound of someone counting for ‘vocal
biomarkers’...
How a man’s testicle pain turned out to
be a sign of Covid-19 Coronavirus England: Rules may be
loosened for 5 DAYS over Christmas
Testicular pain could be a rare sign of Covid, doctors
have claimed after a 49-year-old tested positive with Millions of Britons have today been given a major
no other symptoms. The... boost that their number one Christmas wish – to be
with their family...
Builder, 51, who died after falling from
10ft ladder was killed by coronavirus Smoking causes THREE times as many
cells to be infected with the coronavirus
A builder who died after falling from a 10ft ladder
was actually killed by Covid-19, scientists have Smoking cigarettes increases the risk of severe
claimed. The man, who... coronavirus infection by dampening the immune
response of the body, a new...
Britons vaccinated against Covid ‘may
get QR codes on their mobile phones’ Christmas CAN be saved from Covid but
New Year lockdown advisable
Britons could be required to show QR codes on their
phones to attend football matches, the theatre and Hopes for a lockdown-free Christmas were given a
other events, it was... major boost today as the daily number of
coronavirus infections and deaths...
New drug can improve fertility in women
with reproductive health problems New SARS-CoV-2 test is a simple, cost-
effective, and efficient alternative for
Twenty-four women were injected with a drug called SARS-CoV-2 testing
MVT-602 which targets the kisspeptin system to
stimulate reproductive... “The COVID-19 pandemic has led to many
constraints on testing availability, so we hope that
Study reveals how smoking worsens providing another testing...
COVID-19 infection in the airways
Kids mount a COVID-19 immune
The study, led by scientists at the Eli and Edythe response without detection of the
Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem SARSCoV-2 virus, case study finds
Cell Research at UCLA and...
The research, led by the Murdoch Children’s
Aggressive COVID testing and Research Institute (MCRI) and published in Nature
surveillance minimized infections Communications, showed...
The successful Duke campaign was launched Diabetes, hypertension may increase risk
before the start of the semester. Ahead of arriving of COVID-19 brain complications
on campus, all enrolled students...
The virus that causes COVID-19 first attacks cells in
the respiratory system, often leading to an
inflammation of the lungs...
New studies find financially exploited 3D bioprinted heart provides new tool for
seniors show brain differences and are surgeons
more frail
Professor of Biomedical Engineering Adam Feinberg
IMAGE: S. Duke Han, PhD, Keck School of and his team have created the first full-size 3D
Medicine of USC view more Credit: Richard bioprinted human heart...
Carrasco Scams and fraud...
3D-printed, lifelike heart models could
Early details of brain damage in COVID-19 help train tomorrow’s surgeons (video)
patients
IMAGE: Researchers have developed a way to 3D
BOSTON – One of the first spectroscopic imaging- print a full-size model of a patient’s own heart. view
based studies of neurological injury in COVID-19 more Credit:...
patients has been...
Can memory manipulation help treat
Single-cell technique could provide ‘egg alcohol addiction?
health’ indicators
IMAGE: In all of the images above, blue represents
Using the power of single-cell analysis, researchers all cells, green represents cells that were active and
at the Babraham Institute have assessed the effects tagged during...
of age on egg cells...
Can facial recognition help identify
16-year-old cosmic mystery solved, congenital adrenal hyperplasia?
revealing stellar missing link
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is a disorder
Maunakea, Hawaii – In 2004, scientists with NASA’s that affects the adrenal gland’s ability to release
space-based Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) hormones that...
spotted an object...
UK ‘may have paid TWICE as much as the
Saving tropical swamps could help US’ for Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine
prevent future pandemics
The UK could end up paying more than twice as
Saving tropical swamps could help prevent future much as the US for Moderna’s
pandemics by reducing the likelihood of diseases breakthrough coronavirus vaccine after...
jumping from animals to...
Doctors and nurses were not prepared to
Movement of people from big cities for see ‘so much illness and death’ during
the countryside during a pandemic Covid pandemic
REDUCES cases
The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a toll on the
The coronavirus lockdown saw many city dwellers mental health of doctors and nurses because they
flee their concrete metropolises for the countryside, were not prepared to ‘see...
whether to go and stay...
Coronavirus UK: Summer figures
Fitness coach Sophie Allen, 30, reveals underestimated, over 5m infected
the reasons why you’re not building lean
muscle The true scale of the coronavirus outbreak is vastly
underestimated and more than five million Britons
A Sydney fitness coach has revealed the real have already been...
reason why you’re not building lean muscle, and
what you can do about... One in eight Covid-19 cases were
recorded in the WRONG location due to
Open your windows every 10 minutes this Test & Trace blunder
winter to keep Covid-safe, Government
says One in eight coronavirus cases were placed in the
wrong areas between September and November
The Government is urging people to open their because students’ test...
windows every 10 minutes this winter to curb the
spread of the coronavirus. Experts... COVID-19 survival among elderly patients
could be improved by arthritis drug,
Shutting down COVID-19 virus’ study finds
destructive proteins with aerosolized
molecules In the early-stage study, 83 patients, with a median
age of 81 and all suffering from moderate to severe
A key to the Georgetown research efforts was the COVID-19 infection,...
use of either microRNA (miRNA) or silencing RNA
(siRNA, also known as small... Cardiovascular factors: Effects on
COVID-19 risk
Measles outbreaks likely in wake of
COVID-19 pandemic Several observational studies have reported the link
between cardiovascular risk factors (such as obesity,
The Lancet article has called for urgent international high blood pressure,...
action to prevent potentially devastating measles
epidemics in the... Health care workers most at risk for
COVID-19
‘Alarming’ COVID-19 study shows 80
percent of respondents report significant The study, published in the journal BMC Infectious
symptoms of depression Diseases, found that in early spring, the participants
Over 1,000 Americans aged 18-35 took part in the most likely to...
online anonymous questionnaire, which also asked
the subjects to report... In a pandemic, migration away from
dense cities more effective than closing
Show rates for asthma visits during borders
COVID-19 increased thanks to
telemedicine According to common sense, being in less crowded
areas during a pandemic is safer. But small town
“It would be normal to expect parents to be hesitant mayors want to keep people...
to bring kids into an asthma checkup during a
pandemic,”... Review examines sexual aggression in
mammals
How fishermen have adapted to change
over the past 35+ years A recent review of published studies in non-human
mammals examines “sexual disturbance,” or male
IMAGE: An analysis published in Fish and Fisheries behavior towards...
notes that marine fisheries are increasingly exposed
to external... AI may predict response to immune
checkpoint blockade in patients with
A regular dose of nature may improve metastatic melanoma
mental health during the COVID-19
pandemic Bottom Line: A computational method that combines
clinicodemographic variables with deep learning of
IMAGE: A study published in Ecological Applications pre-treatment histology...
suggests that nature around one’s home may help
mitigate... New electronic chip delivers smarter,
light-powered AI
Tackling food allergies at the source
IMAGE: The light-powered AI chip – prototype
IMAGE: An array of soybeans from the U.S. National technology that brings together imaging, processing,
Soybean Collection in Urbana, Illinois. view more machine learning...
Credit:...
Machine learning innovation to develop
Surgeons’ expectations more accurate in chemical library
predicting outcomes after lumbar spine
surgery IMAGE: Purdue University scientists are using
machine learning models to create new options for
Surgeons’ preoperative expectations were more drug discovery pipelines. ...
accurate than patients’ expectations in predicting
patient-reported... More than 70,000 excess deaths during
the pandemic
Covid: Thousands of cases relocated in
England in data change Alarm as Trump cuts troops in Iraq and Afghanistan
The Republican leader in the Senate, Mitch
Many universities around the UK have reported McConnell, calls the planned...
coronavirus cases, which caused thousands of
students to self-isolate as the... Coronavirus: Doctors spell out how to
exit England’s lockdown
Covid in Scotland: Level 4 lockdown to
be imposed in 11 council areas But Public Health England medical director and NHS
Test and Trace chief medical adviser Susan Hopkins
Alarm as Trump cuts troops in Iraq and Afghanistan said government would...
The Republican leader in the Senate, Mitch
McConnell, calls the planned... Deadly Ebola-like Chapare virus CAN
spread between people, CDC finds
People who bought firearms during the
coronavirus pandemic nearly TWICE as A deadly Ebola-like disease found in Bolivia can
likely to be suicidal spread from person to person, the US Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention...
Seven in 10 Americans who bought firearms during
the coronavirus pandemic have been suicidal at Study suggests coronavirus immunity
some point in their lives... could last for months to years
Pfizer CEO says coronavirus vaccine will Could coronavirus immunity last YEARS? Study
ship overnight to most places in the US finds even survivors who had mild COVID-19 are
protected for at least 8 months...
Pfizer CEO says the first Americans to get his firm’s
COVID-19 vaccine will be injected within ‘hours not Researcher examines benefits of
days’... supportive communities for older adults
Coronavirus England and Wales: Deaths One strategy for aging in place is an emerging idea
rose 40% at start of November known as aging in community, in which older adults
depend on a community...
The number of people dying with Covid-19 rose by
40 per cent in the first week of November, when the Learning a new language changes the
virus was to blame for... brain’s division of labor
NASA model reveals how much COVID-
related pollution levels deviated from the
norm The two sides of the brain don’t evenly split labor for
every function. In most people, language relies on
Using computer models to generate a COVID-free the left...
2020 for comparison, NASA researchers found that
since February, pandemic... More than half of in-hospital deaths from
COVID-19 among Black, Hispanic
Study of non-COVID-19 deaths shows patients, study finds
2020 increase in several demographics
The researchers did not find any racial or ethnic
When deaths attributed to COVID-19 were removed differences in mortality rates among people
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hospitalized with the disease....
totals, the death rate...
Retinas: New potential clues in
COVID-19 highlights risks of wildlife trade diagnosing, treating Alzheimer’s
An infectious disease caused by a pathogen — such “These clues can occur very early on in the
as a bacterium, virus or parasite — that has jumped progression of Alzheimer’s disease — several
from an... decades before...
Algorithm-driven digital program helped NREL advanced manufacturing research
lower patients’ cholesterol, blood moves wind turbine blades toward
pressure recyclability
Failure to appropriately treat hypercholesterolemia A new material for wind blades that can be recycled
(high cholesterol) and hypertension (high blood could transform the wind industry, rendering
pressure) remains an... renewable energy more sustainable...
Birds of a feather do flock together Small differences, big impact
IMAGE: Capuchino seedeaters are finch-like birds IMAGE: This stained-glass detail symbolizes
that live in South America. Over the last 50,000 valuable insights gained from comparative studies in
generations, they’ve... fruit flies and mice. ...
Just hours of training triples doctor Piecing together the Alaska coastline’s
confidence in use of handheld ultrasound fractured volcanic activity
devices
IMAGE: Schematic diagram showing the geometry
While ultrasound imaging technology has been of a typical subduction zone and the production of
available for more than 50 years, machine size and arc volcanoes. New...
cost limited its reach to...
Kids mount a COVID-19 immune
Home oxygen therapy for adults with response without detection of the
COPD and ILD: New ATS clinical practice SARSCoV- 2 virus
guideline
IMAGE: Children in a Melbourne family developed a
IMAGE: New clinical practice guideline on home COVID-19 immune response after chronic exposure
oxygen therapy in adults with COPD and ILD. view to the SARS-CoV- 2...
more Credit:...
California scientists launch study to test
Large predatory fish thrive on WWII whether lockdowns have impacted
shipwrecks off North Carolina coast memory
During a 2016 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Since the pandemic began, have you forgotten
Administration (NOAA) expedition to explore a pair someone’s name or struggled to remember a word
of World War II shipwrecks... to use in a sentence? As...
Nearly 60% of Americans WOULD get a Scientists fear up to 10,000 MORE care
coronavirus vaccine, poll reveals home patients have died from Covid-19
than were recorded
Who will get the vaccine first and when will it be
rolled out? HHS secretary Alex Azar has offered up Up to 10,000 Covid deaths among care home
a timeline regarding... residents may have been missed off records, a
study suggests. University of Manchester...
Coronavirus: No10 accused of
‘institutional racism’ for November Coronavirus: Study says dog owners
lockdown that sacrificed Diwali have 78% higher risk of infection
Oxford professor accuses No10 of being Can animals catch Covid-19? The chance of your
‘institutionally racist’ for November coronavirus dog catching Covid-19 strain is very slim, according
lockdown that sacrificed... to the World Health Organization...
Coronavirus deaths continue to rise in Has a five-day delay ruined England’s
England and Wales, ONS data show second lockdown?
The number of people dying with Covid-19 rose by Professor Paul Hunter, an epidemiologist at the
40 per cent in the first week of November, when the University of East Anglia, fears the effects of
virus was to blame for... England’s second...
Masks don’t impair lung function during Sharp rise in sedentary time among
physical activity, study finds newly retired women evident 2 plus years
later
In a new study, published November 16, 2020 in the
Annals of the American Thoracic Society, a team of The rise is more gradual among newly retired men,
American and Canadian... but the longer term pattern is similar, and a cause
for concern for both...
New study could help predict which
individuals are more susceptible to Tropical peatland conservation could
cancer-causing agent protect humans from new diseases
Everyone is exposed to low levels of carcinogens The scientists reviewed existing evidence and
(substances or radiation that promote the formation concluded the high biodiversity in tropical peat-
of cancer) in the environment.... swamp forests, combined with...
Mobility behavior may be the key to Records from six growth studies
predicting, promoting individual well- analyzed to provide milestone data
being
“This study presents an unparalleled opportunity to
A research team led by Sandrine Müller, a Data examine craniofacial growth from childhood into
Science Institute postdoctoral research fellow, and adulthood,”...
Heinrich Peters, a Columbia...
The long road to dementia
Researchers improve neuronal
reprogramming by manipulating To this end, they searched among the already
mitochondria known antibodies directed against misfolded beta-
amyloid proteins for antibodies...
Neurons (nerve cells) have very important functions
in the brain such as information processing. Many Health systems support needed to
brain diseases, injuries... prevent COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing
homes
COVID-19 cardiovascular registry details
disparities among patients hospitalized In a new editorial in the Journal of the American
with COVID Geriatrics Society, Kathleen Unroe, M.D., MHA, a
geriatrician, is advocating...
DALLAS, Nov. 17, 2020 — A new American Heart
Association collaborative model for COVID-19 UCF researcher examines benefits of
research, using data from... supportive communities for older adults
Metal-organic frameworks become ORLANDO, Nov. 17, 2020 – The number of
flexible Americans age 65 and older continues to increase
as the baby boom generation...
IMAGE: First author Pia Vervoorts discussing results
of exerpiments and simulations with colleagues. Motor neural population activity patterns
view more Credit:... are different for reach and grasp
behaviors
Carbyne
A new study from researchers at the University of
Which photophysical properties does carbyne have? Chicago has found that neuronal population
This was the subject of research carried out by dynamics in the motor cortex...
scientists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität...
High-dose equal to standard flu vaccine
Microbial remedies target chemical for risk of death or heart, lung
threats in the environment hospitalization
IMAGE: Srivatsan Mohana Rangan is a researcher DALLAS, Nov. 17, 2020 — People with heart
in the Biodesign Swette Center for Environmental disease can receive either the high-dose or
Biotechnology and lead... standard-dose flu vaccines for...
Covid: The new lockdown rules for Video games ‘good for well-being’, says
England, Wales, Scotland and Northern University of Oxford study
Ireland
The Oxford Internet Institute research focused on
Biden: ‘People may die’ as Trump transition stalls As two games: Nintendo’s Animal Crossing and EA’s
the president-elect rebukes his rival, Michelle Plants vs Zombies.
Obama suggests...
Covid: West of Scotland awaits decision
Covid: Visitor tests in all care homes in on level 4 rules
England ‘by Christmas’
Around the country, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire,
The government issued updated guidance on visits Argyll and Bute, Borders, and Dumfries and
to care homes on 5 November when England went Galloway are in level two, with Highland,...
into its second national lockdown.
Are these ‘healthy’ soups as good as they Coronavirus US: 133 (0.01%) of 1
sound? MILLION infected children have died
From a soup that promises to strengthen your Coronavirus infections among American children are
immune system, to another that could help you to rising but the death rate is continuing to fall, a new
sleep better — can these... report finds. As...
How four jabs of sterile water can ease Experts say you should fidget to keep
pain during labour yourself in shape at home
Giving pregnant women an injection of sterile water My heart sank when the news of lockdown 2.0 was
into their lower back has been shown to ease pain first announced. It’s not just the lack of contact with
during childbirth. A... friends that concerns...
Why dentists should look after your heart Can shark liver, tree bark and piles of
sand help deliver the Covid vaccine?
Why dentists should look after your heart: Rules
introduced in 2008 bar routine use of antibiotics Could we really be on the verge of a return to life as
during dental appointments…... normal? Certainly the recent coronavirus vaccine
breakthroughs hint...
Elastic-free face masks can help some
with allergies stay safe during COVID-19, Novel technique ‘stuns’ arthritis pain in
expert says shoulder and hip
Yashu Dhamija, MD, a first-year fellow in the UC People with moderate to severe pain related to
Division of Immunology, Allergy, and Rheumatology, osteoarthritis face limited treatment options.
presented his findings... Common approaches like injections...
Dieting and weight worries on rise in Children with a migration background
teens often misdiagnosed as having an
‘impairment of language acquisition’
The research, published in JAMA Pediatrics, found
that girls who are trying to lose weight are also more In 2019, an average of around 2.1 million Austrian
likely to experience... inhabitants came from a migration background. Due
to the changing demographic...
Liver condition identified in patients
using urine samples Scientists discover new mechanism
controlling brain size
The research was led by scientists from the
University of Warwick, University Hospitals Coventry The scientists started with genetic analyses of a
and Warwickshire (UHCW),... large family in which children were born with primary
microcephaly; a rare...
Mediterranean diet helps reduce effects
of stress in animal model Bursts of exercise can lead to significant
improvements in indicators of metabolic
But eating a Mediterranean diet may provide a health
relatively easy way to help lessen the physiological
effects of stress and... “Much is known about the effects of exercise on
cardiac, vascular and inflammatory systems of the
Cleveland Clinic led trial shows drug body, but our study...
effective in 96% of patients with recurrent
pericarditis Biochar from agricultural waste products
can adsorb contaminants in wastewater
EMBARGOED UNTIL 8:34 P.M. ET, Monday,
November 16, 2020, Cleveland: Cleveland Clinic UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Biochar — a charcoal-
researchers leading a global clinical... like substance made primarily from agricultural
waste products —...
Solitary bees are born with a functional
internal clock Discovery of protein’s ‘Achilles heel’
paves way for novel class of anti-HIV
IMAGE: Female of the solitary red mason bee inside drugs
the Locomotor Activity Monitor system for registering
activity rhythms ... IMAGE: Panel A shows the normal distribution of
CD4 (green) and MHC-I (HLA, stained red) in T-
SCORED and SOLOIST trials add to lymphocytes. Panel B...
evidence for treating diabetes with SGLT2
inhibitors People who purchased firearms during
pandemic more likely to be suicidal
Boston, MA — Less than a decade ago, the Food
and Drug Administration approved drugs for treating People who purchase a firearm during the pandemic
type 2 diabetes in... are more likely to be suicidal than other firearm
owners, according to...
Existing antidepressant helps to inhibit
growth of cancer cells in lab animals Ethnic minorities face rising disparity in
homicide risk across England and Wales
New research has shown that the antidepressant New research analysing racial disparities among
sertraline helps to inhibit the growth of cancer cells. murder victims across most of Britain over the last
The substance acts... two decades shows that...
‘Will this spot on my face ever clear up?’: US COVID-19 hospitalizations surpass
DR MARTIN SCURR answers your health the April peak by 17%
questions
New coronavirus cases in the US have topped
For the past year, I have had an open wound on my 100,000 on a daily basis for 13 days in a row and
left cheek which refuses to heal. It began as a small nearly 70,000 people are currently...
spot. But, two days...
COVID-19 US: At least 11 forced to
Red eyes could be the first sign of undergo DOUBLE lung transplants
arthritis in your SPINE
Hospitals across the country are increasingly
‘I’d been feeling stressed and had not been sleeping performing double lung transplants for critically ill
much,’ recalls Dasha, who was 19 at the time. ‘I coronavirus patients. Many...
thought...
Why ARE women over 64 not screened
The ‘whistle’ that helps you use your for cervical cancer?
inhaler properly
Ever since the abnormal result from her first smear
A small ring that clips on to an inhaler and whistles test 32 years ago, Marie Elliott has been grateful for
when patients use it correctly could slash the the cervical screening...
number of potentially...
Boris Johnson and TEN Tory MPs in
Coronavirus UK: £100bn Operation quarantine after Covid contact
Moonshot will ‘fail’ as tests poor
Boris Johnson is set to become the first British
Boris Johnson‘s extortionate Operation Moonshot leader to take Prime Minister’s Questions without
mass-swabbing project is destined to ‘fail miserably’ being in the House...
and...
Dairy cows exposed to heavy metals
New fiber optic sensors transmit data up worsen antibiotic-resistant pathogen
to 100 times faster crisis
Used widely in safety applications Fiber optic That’s the finding of a team of researchers that
sensors are commonly used in hazard detection conducted a study of two dairy herds in Brazil four
systems, such as to spot cracks... years after a...
Chronic alcohol use reshapes the brain’s Who is the world’s best super-
immune landscape, driving anxiety and recognizer? This test could help us find
addiction them
Now, for the first time, Roberto and her team have Ten years later she was having breakfast in
identified important changes to anti-inflammatory Australia’s Byron Bay backpackers and asked the
mechanisms and cellular... man next to her whether...
Making the best decision: Math shows X-ray study explores potential of hepatitis
diverse thinkers equal better results C drugs to treat COVID-19
Bhargav Karamched, assistant professor of Inhibiting, or blocking, this protease from functioning
mathematics, and a team of researchers published a is vital to stopping the virus from spreading in
new study today that tackles... patients with COVID-19....
A change of heart: New drug for HCM Changes to the brain’s reward system
reduces heart mass may drive overeating in mice
“This is the first study to show a favorable impact of Food is fuel, but the rising levels of sugar and fat in
a medication on cardiac structure and function in modern diets make the brain treat it as a reward.
any form of... One brain region...
Exercised over nothing: Masks don’t A change of heart — new drug for HCM
impair lung function during physical reduces heart mass
activity
IMAGE: A new drug being tested for hypertrophic
Wearing a facemask helps limit the spread of cardiomyopathy changed the structure of the heart
COVID-19 by reducing respiratory droplets and in a clinical trial. ...
aerosols spewed into the air when...
Study shows geographic shift in U.S.
Henderson island fossils reveal new social mobility
Polynesian sandpiper species
Dylan Connor‘s father worked as a house painter
IMAGE: The extinct Kiritimati Sandpiper, Prosobonia while his mother tended to their home and family,
cancellata – a close cousin of the newly discovered one that included...
Prosobonia...
Trifarotene in moderate acne: No study
US agricultural water use declining for data for the assessment of the added
most crops and livestock production
URBANA, Ill. – Climate change and a growing world benefit
population require efficient use of natural resources.
Water is a... Trifarotene is a drug for the external treatment of
acne vulgaris of the face and trunk. It is suitable for
Quantum tunneling pushes the limits of affected people...
self-powered sensors
Teeth grinding and facial pain increase
IMAGE: Micrograph of the quantum tunneling due to coronavirus stress and anxiety
sensor chipset and the matched Fowler-Nordheim
tunneling barriers. ... The stress and anxiety experienced by the general
population during Israel’s first lockdown brought
Covid-19: New ‘mega labs’ in early 2021 about a significant...
to speed up testing
‘Diabetes burnout’: The mental-health
The latest data shows current capacity is around impact of diagnosis
519,000 – although the number of tests actually
processed is lower. Coronavirus: Diabetic people offered support
Coronavirus: Dentists warn millions of Moderna: Covid vaccine shows nearly
treatments have been missed 95% protection
Sam Shah, group clinical director for East Village The UK has today announced it has secured five
Dental, a group of six practices in the south of million doses of the Moderna vaccine. It has already
England, said: “At... outlined plans that prioritise...
Coronavirus: UK scientist says risk of Up to 70% younger ‘long Covid’ victims
reinfection is ‘low’ but people should still suffer multiple organ damage
be cautious
Younger patients battling ‘long Covid’ can suffer
A 25-year-old man has become the first person in damage to multiple organs four months after beating
the US to be struck down with the coronavirus for a the infection,...
second time –...
Boris Johnson must self-isolate after
Mothers in England and Wales are now being in touch with someone who has
older than EVER tested positive for Covid
Mothers are now older than they have ever been, Boris Johnson is set to make history with the first
official figures published today show. The average ‘virtual’ PMQs after going into self-isolation due to
age of mothers in England... a...
All care homes in England will be able to £100billion Operation Moonshot will ‘fail
allow in-person visits over Christmas miserably because the tests are poor’
Care homes will be able to allow visitors over Boris Johnson‘s extortionate Operation Moonshot
Christmas, Health Secretary Matt Hancock promised mass-swabbing project is destined to ‘fail miserably’
today Care homes... and...
Piers Morgan grills Matt Hancock after Healthy sleep habits help lower risk of
government ‘boycott’ of GMB heart failure
Piers Morgan has grilled the Health Secretary over Heart failure affects more than 26 million people,
the apparent cabinet ‘boycott’ of Good Morning and emerging evidence indicates sleep problems
Britain and... may play a role in the...
Rivaroxaban may be as effective as Natural approach to antiperspirants
warfarin for bioprosthetic mitral valves,
AF This clogging is commonly achieved by the use of
metallic salts. There remains debate as to whether
Researchers say clinicians have used direct oral or not these metallic...
anticoagulants (DOACs) such as rivaroxaban off-
label for patients with bioprosthetic... STRENGTH trial finds new fish oil
medication did not reduce the risk of
Cannabis strength soars over past half cardiac events
century
Fish oil supplements containing the omega-3 fatty
The team behind the study from the Addiction and acids eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) or
Mental Health Group at the University of Bath, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) are commonly...
synthesised data from over...
Repetitive elements trigger RIG-I-like
From the inside out: How the brain forms receptors to enhance hematopoietic stem
sensory memories cell formation
The neocortex is the largest area of the human Hematopoietic stem cells are the foundation of the
brain. It has expanded and differentiated enormously blood system from fish to humans and give rise to
during mammalian evolution,... leukocytes for fighting...
Diabetes drug can treat and reverse heart Understanding astrophysics with laser-
failure and reduce hospitalizations accelerated protons
Their clinical trial showed that this medication can IMAGE: A material sample is placed in the target
improve the heart’s size, shape, and function, chamber of GSI’s high-performance laser PHELIX.
leading to better... With the aid...
Does the human brain resemble the Better than money? In-kind payments
Universe? incentivize farmers to conserve
agrobiodiversity
IMAGE: Left: section of cerebellum, with
magnification factor 40x, obtained with electron IMAGE: Farmers’ rewards included mattresses, farm
microscopy (Dr. E. Zunarelli,... supplies, and other useful items. view more
Credit:...
New technique isolates brain cells
associated with Parkinson’s disease Peptide is a key mediator in the
regulation of compulsive alcohol drinking
PITTSBURGH–Carnegie Mellon University
researchers have developed a new technique for (Boston)–Researchers from Boston University
isolating a type of brain cell... School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified that a
peptide, pituitary adenylate...
Paleontologists uncover three new
species of extinct walruses in Orange New technology allows more precise view
County of the smallest nanoparticles
IMAGE: Map Skulls view more Credit: Journal of IMAGE: Scientists have reported a new optical
Vertebrate Paleontology Millions of years ago, in the imaging technology, using a glass side covered with
warm... gold nanodiscs that...
Deafening insects mask true biodiversity Suffering in silence: two-thirds of older
assessed via acoustic surveys in Japan adults say they won’t treat their
depression
A collaborative team of ecologists, led by those from
Trinity College Dublin, has been using recordings of IMAGE: After experiencing depression, Sami Smith
animal noises... found an effective treatment with the help of her
psychiatrist and...
New ALS guideline establishes national
standard for managing Study finds antibiotics before age 2
neurodegenerative disease associated with childhood health issues
The first Canadian guideline for the care and ROCHESTER, Minn. — In a retrospective case
management of patients with amyotrophic lateral study, Mayo Clinic researchers have found that
sclerosis (ALS) — Lou... antibiotics administered...
Antibiotic exposure in children under age ‘The global built environment sector must
2 associated with chronic conditions think in new, radical ways, and act
quickly’
Children under age 2 who take antibiotics are at
greater risk for childhood-onset asthma, respiratory The construction sector, the real estate industry and
allergies, eczema,... city planners must give high priority to the same goal
– to drastically...
New method brings physics to deep
learning to better simulate turbulence Former piece of Pacific Ocean floor
imaged deep beneath China
IMAGE: Computer simulation visualization showing
the complex structure of flow turbulence view more IMAGE: Fenglin Niu is a professor of Earth,
Credit:... environmental and planetary sciences at Rice
University. view more Credit:...
Pharmacy dropboxes can help improve
proper drug disposal, PSU study finds Covid: Are care homes ready for the
second wave?
Proper disposal of leftover medications can prevent
overdoses and protect waterways from becoming In total, about 16,000 people have died with
polluted by pharmaceuticals.... coronavirus in English and Welsh care homes (up to
23 October). Excess deaths...
Most statin problems caused by
mysterious ‘nocebo effect’, study Covid-19: Normal life back next winter,
suggests says vaccine creator
Statins ‘don’t work well for one in two people’ Coronavirus: Turkish Germans raise new Covid
vaccine hopes
Covid vaccine: Major new trial starts in
UK What happens in the sensory cortex
when learning and recognizing patterns
It comes a week after preliminary results showed
another vaccine offered 90% protection. The research, published in Current Biology,
suggests that neurons in the sensory cortex don’t
just detect sensory information,...
Risk of childhood asthma by Caesarean East African Rift System is slowly
section is mediated through the early gut breaking away, with Madagascar splitting
microbiome into pieces
For the first time, in a new study published in IMAGE: Geosciences doctoral student Tahiry
Science Translational Medicine, researchers from Rajaonarison sets up a GPS instrument in northern
Copenhagen Prospective Studies... Madagascar in this 2016...
Sleep apnea may be risk factor for Risk of AAV mobilization in gene therapy
COVID-19
IMAGE: Provides all-inclusive access to the critical
The question of sleep apnea as the risk factor for pillars of human gene therapy: research, methods,
COVID-19 arose in a study conducted by the Turku and clinical...
University Hospital and...
Managing the microbiome raises new
Antidepressant may prevent severe hope for autism
COVID-19, trial suggests
IMAGE: The body’s vast colonies of bacteria and
IMAGE: A discovery by Alban Gaultier, PhD, of the other non-human cells are collectively known as the
University of Virginia School of Medicine, prompted microbiome....
a clinical trial...
Ultracompact metalens microscopy
The Popovich of floral nectar spurs breaks FOV constraints
IMAGE: Nectar spurs are the hollow tubes that IMAGE: Metalens-integrated imaging device, from
bulge out from a number of flowers and are crucial Xu et al., doi 10.1117/1.AP.2.6.066004 view more
to increasing biodiversity... Credit: Xu...
Shutting Down COVID-19 virus’ Promising MS drug may worsen disease,
destructive proteins with aerosolized research suggests
molecules
IMAGE: Alban Gaultier, PhD, of the University of
WASHINGTON (Nov. 13, 2020) — Researchers at Virginia School of Medicine, has concluded that a
Georgetown University Medical Center have promising MS drug...
successfully used molecules comprised...
New saliva-based antibody test for SARS-
Benefits of high-dose blood thinners in CoV-2 highly accurate in initial study
COVID-19 patients remain unclear
A new saliva-based test developed by a team at
While COVID-19 infected patients should be treated Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
with standard anticoagulation therapies, such as has been found to accurately...
blood thinning medication,...
Two anti-inflammatory compounds shown
A diet rich in ultra-processed fats and to be capable of accelerating recovery
sugars increases the possibility of from COVID-19
muscle pain
IMAGE: Monoclonal antibody tested at University of
IMAGE: That study reveals an association between São Paulo and experimental drug given to patients
pain and overweight that is independent of in Italy by University...
mechanical overload and...
Omega-3 fatty acids vs corn oil, major
Patients taking statins experience similar adverse cardiovascular events in patients
side effects from dummy pills at high risk
People taking dummy pills and statins experienced What The Study Did: This randomized trial
similar side effects in a new study. In a clinical trial of examines the effects on cardiovascular outcomes of
60 patients,... a carboxylic acid formulation...
A novel monoclonal antibody therapy Mass testing: Can it save us from another
cuts LDL cholesterol by half in a high-risk lockdown?
patient population,
China has done this on multiple occasions by mass
The investigational drug evinacumab reduced low- testing everyone in a city after a cluster of cases
density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol–the so-called was detected. Slovakia...
“bad”...
Covid-19: Stop anti-vaccination fake
What’s the science behind mink and news online with new law says Labour
coronavirus?
Coronavirus: How soon can we expect a working
More than 50 million mink a year are bred for their vaccine?
fur, mainly in China, Denmark, the Netherlands and
Poland. Outbreaks... Is zoom increasing the demand for plastic
surgery
Essure: Women in England take legal
action against sterilising-device maker IMAGE: Journal with the key mission of providing
physicians and providers with the most accurate and
“We learned from the mesh problems, we have
learned from the breast implants, we have learned
from the Essure device,... innovative information...
Antibody evolution may predict COVID-19 Aurora-chasing citizen scientists help
outcomes discover a new feature of STEVE
For COVID-19, the difference between surviving and IMAGE: Taken July 17, 2018, at Little Kenosee
not surviving severe disease may be due to the Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada, this photo shows the
quality, not the quantity,... tiny green streaks below...
Why does COVID-19 seem to spare Light shed on the atomic resolution
children? structure of phage DNA tube
IMAGE: Jennifer Sucre, MD, assistant professor of IMAGE: Artistic representation of phages of the
Pediatrics (Neonatology), Vanderbilt University family Siphoviridae (yellow and blue) that infect a
Medical Center ... bacterial cell...
Here’s why conservatives and liberals New medicine reduced risk for heart
differ on COVID-19 failure emergencies, hospital visits
IMAGE: Daniel Zane is an assistant professor of Embargoed until 10:35 a.m. CT/11:35 a.m. ET,
marketing at Lehigh University’s College of Friday, Nov. 13, 2020 DALLAS, Nov. 13, 2020 —
Business. ... Omecamtiv mecarbil, a new,...
Identification of the SARS-CoV-2 virus DR ELLIE CANNON: Will there be serious
features causing COVID-19 using primate side effects from the steroids I am
model taking?
IMAGE: Macaques were exposed to a high titre of I have been diagnosed with a blood condition called
SARS-CoV-2 via combined transmission routes. In giant cell arteritis. My GP prescribed 50mg of
their pulmonary lesions,... steroids while I wait...
How you could join Nicole Scherzinger HEALTH NOTES: Random smiles ‘boost
and learn to do the splits mood’ researcher claim
My ten-year-old daughter has, all of sudden, HEALTH NOTES: Random smiles ‘boost mood’
developed a singular, all- consuming obsession: she researcher claim By Mail on Sunday Reporter
wants to be able to do the... Published: 17:01 EST,...
New arthritis pill that can end the hell of BARNEY CALMAN: Why did an NHS spin
stiff joints doctor tell me ‘it’s very rare to die from
Covid-19’?
NHS patients with rheumatoid arthritis are to benefit
from a breakthrough drug that eases the agonising You can just picture the adverts: ‘Did you get Covid
pain in joints. The... in hospital when it wasn’t your fault? Then YOU
could be entitled...
Prima ballerina Marta Cinta Gonzalez
relives the magic of Swan Lake despite Two-year eye tests ‘enough for most
dementia diabetics’ as 80 per cent of patients do
not need annual reviews
Her frail hand flutters hesitantly, and a shadow
passes over her pale face. Then, as the orchestral Two-year eye tests ‘enough for most diabetics’ as 80
brass begins to soar,... per cent of patients do not need annual reviews
Annual...
The Christmas treats that aren’t that bad
for you! New screening questionnaire can identify
people at high risk of developing heart
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. In that time- disease
honoured tradition, high-street food chains have just
launched... Embargoed until 12:30 p.m. CT/1:30 p.m. CT,
Friday, Nov. 13, 2020 DALLAS, Nov. 13, 2020 —
New study confirms combo pill alone and More than 40% of middle-aged...
with aspirin lowers heart disease risk
Intravenous iron reduced
Embargoed until 12:10 p.m. CT/1:10 p.m. ET, Friday, rehospitalization risk in people with heart
Nov. 13, 2020 DALLAS, Nov. 13, 2020 — A single, failure
daily pill combining...
DALLAS, Nov. 13, 2020 — Patients who were
Study: Respiratory failure in COVID-19 hospitalized with acute heart failure and had iron
usually not driven by cytokine storm deficiency were less likely...
The turning point for people with COVID-19 typically Baricitinib treatment linked to reduced
comes in the second week of symptoms. As most mortality in COVID-19 patients
people begin to recover,...
IMAGE: Volker M. Lauschke, associate professor
Approved JAK inhibitor baricitinib shows Department of Physiology and Pharmacology,
promise against cytokine storm in Karolinska Institutet. ...
COVID-19 clinical study
Outcomes for out-of-hospital cardiac
arrest during COVID-19 pandemic
A clinical study involving 601 patients in Italy and What The Study Did: This study used a large U.S.
Spain suggests that the JAK inhibitor drug baricitinib registry of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests to asses
may enhance survival... the association between...
Go (over) easy on the eggs: ‘Egg-cess’ Coronavirus doctor’s diary: ‘We are first-
consumption linked to diabetes hand witnesses of this devastation’
IMAGE: Eat one or more eggs per day and your risk At the moment my doctor doesn’t feel I can go back
of diabetes increases by 60 per cent. view more to work yet. I’ve been going to the long Covid clinic.
Credit:... I’m...
Is the Covid vaccine safe for me? And Covid: Care home visitors to trial regular
other questions testing
If you’re in England, and you’re a single Coronavirus and care homes: The pensioners
grandparent, you have the right to form a “support suffering through isolation
bubble” with...
The unique hydraulics in the Barbegal
Covid-19: Next two weeks ‘crucial’ for water mills, the world’s first industrial
ending England lockdown plant
The prime minister has said the current restrictions IMAGE: View of the ruins of the Barbegal mill
will “expire” next month. complex in 2018 view more Credit: photo/©: Robert
Fabre, Saint...
Minnesota cardiac arrest resuscitation
treatment demonstrated 100% success Cytokine storms play a limited role in
rate in cannulation moderate-to-severe COVID-19
IMAGE: An SUV from the Minnesota Mobile IMAGE: Jeremy Chase Crawford, PhD; Paul
Resuscitation Consortium in front of McNamara Thomas, PhD; and Aisha Souquette view more
Alumni Center at the U of M... Credit: Courtesy of St....
Worms reveal why melatonin promotes COVID-19 survival among elderly patients
sleep could be improved by arthritis drug
IMAGE: The Caennorhabditis elegans worm’s IMAGE: SARS-CoV-2 virus infects human liver
neurons expressing the receptor for melatonin glow organoids, shown in purple view more Credit:
green. view... Imperial College...
Study: Vitamin D, fish oil don’t lower System brings deep learning to ‘internet
atrial fibrillation risk of things’ devices
IMAGE: Christine M. Albert, MD, MPH, presented Deep learning is everywhere. This branch of artificial
research during the American Heart Association intelligence curates your social media and serves
Scientific Sessions that... your Google search...
Heat and dust help launch Martian water COVID-19 screening at airports is a waste
into space, scientists find of time: Just nine cases were found
IMAGE: This graph shows how the amount of water COVID-19 screening at airports is a waste of time:
in the atmosphere of Mars varies depending on the Nine passengers out of more than 766,000
season. During global... screened at 15 locations across...
Study of nearly 2,000 Marine recruits Internal clocks drive beta cell
reveals asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 regeneration
transmission
Compensatory proliferation, in which cells begin to
The findings have important implications for the actively divide to replace those that have been
effectiveness of public health measures to suppress damaged, is a biological...
transmission of COVID-19...
Learning pathways could guide children
Connection between household who miss best start to improved literacy
chemicals and gut microbiome by age 11
The work, published this month in Environmental The results of the study, by a team of academics
Science and Technology Letters, could lead to better from several UK universities, indicate that while
understanding of how... babies and toddlers brought...
Innovative machine-learning approach for New prediction algorithm identifies
future diagnostic advances in previously undetected cancer driver
Parkinson’s disease genes
“Since conventional analysis focusing on individual Using a new prediction algorithm, called DORGE
mitochondria has not provided satisfying insights (Discovery of Oncogenes and tumor suppressoR
into PD pathogenesis,... genes using Genetic and Epigenetic...
Retreating glacier presents landslide Rare angiosarcoma tumors respond well
threat, tsunami risk in Alaskan fjord to immunotherapy combination
IMAGE: The unstable terrain that poses a landslide IMAGE: SWOG Cancer Research Network
threat lies between the Cascade Glacier and Barry investigator Dr. Michael Wagner view more Credit:
Arm Glacier, which... Seattle Cancer Care...
Politicians and governments are Why do so many parents avoid talking
suppressing science, argues The BMJ about race?
Politicians and governments are suppressing All too often, kids are given less information than
science, and when good science is suppressed, they deserve when it comes to complex
people die, argues a senior editor... phenomena, like how a virus such...
Fish oil and vitamin D supplements not Best practices for mechanical ventilation
effective for preventing atrial fibrillation in patients with ARDS, COVID-19
Embargoed until 11:05 a.m. CT/12:05 p.m. ET, It’s a decision being made thousands of times over
Friday, Nov. 13, 2020 DALLAS, Nov. 13, 2020 — inside hospitals all around the country: is it time to
Taking omega-3 fatty acids... place a patient...
A cost-effective program to fight COVID- Researchers identify promising new
19 in resource-challenged countries compounds to potentially treat novel
coronaviruses
BOSTON – A public health strategy that combines
contact tracing and community-based screening with IMAGE: The compound UMB18 (multi-color) binds
isolation and quarantine... to the 3D structure of SKI protein complex shown in
silver. view...
Eating disorders: Boris Johnson and Matt
Hancock urged to act Covid: Children more likely to be infected
in second wave
The letter asks the government to end the “postcode
lottery” for treatment and improve communication R number for UK has fallen to between 1 and 1.2
and training.
Coronavirus: 5,000 ‘extra’ heart deaths
R number for UK has fallen to between 1 since March
and 1.2
Admissions for the most serious type of heart attack,
It comes as the Office for National Statistics says the caused by a complete blockage of an artery
number of people infected with coronavirus is supplying part of the heart,...
slowing down.
DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: Got heart
Why does COVID-19 kill some people and disease? Then blame your mum
spare others?
Philip Larkin’s poem, ‘They f*** you up, your mum
Why does COVID-19 kill some people and spare and dad . . .’ might not have been written about
others? Study finds certain patients – particularly health,...
men – have ‘autoantibodies’...
Coronavirus US: Wisconsin woman, 52,
New interactive map shows the risk of has double lung transplant
contracting coronavirus at events
anywhere in the US A Wisconsin mother received a life-saving double
lung transplant after a four-month-long battle with
Scientists have developed a new interactive map the novel coronavirus. Carmen...
that shows the risk of contracting coronavirus
anywhere in the US in real-time. The... Schools are to blame for more than a
thousand outbreaks of coronavirus since
Covid-19: Ex-medical tsar Dame Sally September
Davies says UK was ill-prepared
Children don’t spread the virus like teachers do A
Public Health England has come under fire for a Public Health England analysis found 70 children
number of its responses to the Covid-19 crisis. Its out of 1.6million...
directors have tried...
New COVID-19 cases in US spike to
COVID-19: MINK viral mutations could record 153k
produce a more deadly strain
The number of COVID-19 cases and
Rapid coronavirus mutations in MINK could produce hospitalizations per day in the United States is
a more deadly version of the disease and even continuing to hit record highs –...
render vaccines useless if...
The future’s uncertain, but noradrenaline
Circular RNA regulates neuronal can help us adapt
differentiation by scaffolding an inhibitory
transcription complex The COVID-19 pandemic has plunged us all into a
state of uncertainty. In a rapidly changing situation
Correct timing and delicate control of neuronal where it is hard to...
differentiation is essential for development of a
functional nervous system....
Promising MS drug may worsen disease New cardiac arrest resuscitation
treatment demonstrated 100% success
The drug has not yet made it to human trials for MS, rate in cannulation
but the UVA scientists are warning their fellow
researchers to proceed... This Minnesota-based program began last
December by launching three SUVs that brought
Combo pill alone and with aspirin lowers proper medical equipment to emergency...
heart disease risk
Gut check: Teff grain boosts stomach
The medicine tested in this study is a fixed-dose microbiome health
combination therapy (or a “polypill”) combining blood
pressure... Relatively new to the U.S., teff has long been a
superfood in East African — specifically Ethiopia —
Be mindful: Study shows mindfulness as a staple...
might not work as you expect
Parasitic worms offer ‘the missing link’
When the goal is “not to sweat the small stuff,” on the dual nature of a key immune
mindfulness appears to offer little toward achieving regulator
that end. The...
“The mantra of my lab since its inception has been
How air pollution affects homeless that parasitic worms manipulate their hosts in very
populations interesting...
When air quality worsens, either from the smoke Elastic-free face masks can help some
and ozone of summer or the inversion of winter, with allergies stay safe during COVID-19
most of us stay indoors....
IMAGE: Yashu Dhamija, MD, is a fellow at the
Study of infants finds that sleep University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. view
differences by race, income emerge early more Credit:...
As almost any new parent will attest, the issue of Measuring the true cost of conservation
infant sleep can be a nightmare. But the challenges
and consequential... IMAGE: Estimated fair market value of all properties
in the United States (3D visualization). view more
Plastic pollution is everywhere. Study Credit:...
reveals how it travels
Inclusion of patient headshots in
Plastic pollution is ubiquitous today, with microplastic electronic health records decreases order
particles from disposable goods found in natural errors
environments throughout...
Each year, health care practitioners at Brigham and
CCNY & partners in quantum algorithm Women’s Hospital place over a million orders
breakthrough through the electronic...
Researchers led by City College of New York Diabetes drug can treat and reverse heart
physicist Pouyan Ghaemi report the development of failure and reduce
a quantum algorithm with the...
Empagliflozin, a recently developed diabetes drug,
Symptom-based screening at US airports can effectively treat and reverse heart failure in both
for coronavirus is ineffective and found diabetic and non-diabetic...
just NINE cases
Covid-19 research: Inhaled multiple
Symptom-based screening at US airports for sclerosis drug ‘speeds recovery’
coronavirus is ineffective and found just NINE cases
over eight months, CDC report... Scientists believe they have found an inhaler
(pictured) that blocks coronavirus from progressing
D614G strain of coronavirus is ‘better at in the lungs A...
infecting human cells’ than the original
version Coronavirus: PPE ‘is STILL being denied
to some NHS workers’ despite huge
A mutated version of the coronavirus, dubbed stockpiles
D614G, is found in 85 per cent of global cases and
researchers believe this... NHS staff are still being denied equipment to protect
themselves from coronavirus – even though there is
Covid-19 patients in hospitals in Tier 3 a stockpile...
Liverpool DROPPED 15% in week before
second lockdown COVID-19: Viral mutations in MINK could
produce a more deadly strain, EU health
The number of coronavirus patients being treated in agency warns
hospitals in Liverpool fell by 15 per cent in the week
before the second... Rapid coronavirus mutations in MINK could produce
a more deadly version of the disease and even
Dame Sally Davies accused of trying to render vaccines useless if...
worm her way out of PHE’s shambolic
role in Covid pandemic Fluvoxamine may prevent serious illness
in COVID-19 patients, study suggests
Dame Sally Davies has been accused of trying to The study, a collaboration between the university’s
worm her way out of blame for Public Health Department of Psychiatry and Division of Infectious
England’s shambolic... Diseases, involved...
Holistic way to look at neurons in the Researchers simulate privacy leaks in
brain functional genomics studies
Just as biologists sketch evolutionary trees whose In a study publishing November 12 in the journal
branches represent the development of different Cell, a team of investigators demonstrates that it’s
species and the relationships... possible to de-identify...
Rats are capable of transmitting Repeated small blasts put military, law
hantavirus enforcement at risk for brain injury
Following multiple outbreaks earlier in the 21st Led by University of Virginia School of Medicine
century, hantavirus disease syndromes have gained researcher James Stone, MD, PhD, the study
increasing levels of public... compared the brains of 20 “breachers”...
Nearly one in five parents of food-allergic Shining a light on the role of the
children are bullied genome’s ‘dark matter’ in cancer
development
“We know children are often bullied about their food
allergies,” says Dannielle Brown, MHS, lead author RNA had long been considered an intermediary
of the... molecule; DNA codes for RNA, which, in turn, codes
for protein. More recently,...
An epidemic outbreak of Mesoamerican
Nephropathy in Nicaragua linked to nickel Anions matter
toxicity
Metal-ion hybrid capacitors combine the properties
A “CSI-style” scientific investigation led by Dr. Kristy of capacitors and batteries. One electrode uses the
Murray, professor of pediatrics, immunology and capacitive mechanism,...
microbiology...
What type of forest to choose for better
Drawing the line to answer art’s big CO2 storage?
questions
IMAGE: Species diversity allows great carbon
Algorithms have shown that the compositional storage only in equatorial and tropical rain forests,
structure of Western landscape paintings changed such as northern...
“suspiciously”...
Pharmacology
Handles and holes in abstract spaces:
how a material conducts electricity better Scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU)
in Munich have identified the first mechanosensitive
IMAGE: The research, has thrived in the fascinating ion channel to be...
world of topology, an abstract discipline that gives a
potent…... What does the fox say to a puma?
A few kilograms weight loss nearly In the high plains of the central Chilean Andes, an
halves the risk of diabetes ecosystem consisting of only a few animal species is
providing researchers...
Losing a few kilograms in weight almost halves
people’s risk of developing Type 2 diabetes – Is the Covid vaccine safe for pregnant
according to a large... women? And other questions
Computer vision app allows easier If you’re in England, and you’re a single
monitoring of diabetes grandparent, you have the right to form a “support
bubble” with...
IMAGE: User scans glucose monitor with GlucoRx,
a computer vision technology developed at the Coronavirus: Safety officials had
University of Cambridge. ... ‘political’ pressure to approve PPE
Coronavirus: Rapid tests in care homes a Three months after it was signed, the suits from
‘game-changer’ PestFix had still not been released for use in the
NHS, despite the rush...
US election officials reject Trump’s fraud claims A
statement says there is no evidence of any “vote OCD drug improves coronavirus
deletion”,... symptoms by helping stop the body from
attacking own cells and tissue
Covid: Learning disability death rates ‘six
times higher’ OCD drug improves coronavirus symptoms by
stopping body from attacking its own cells and
A report from Public Health England (PHE) found tissues in ‘storms’...
the death rate for those with a learning disability was
30 times higher in... What would happen if they had two?
Auckland goes into COVID meltdown
T-cell test is EIGHT TIMES better at after ONE new case
detecting whether someone was infected
with coronavirus
A new type of test may be more effective at What would happen if they had two? Auckland goes
determining whether someone already had into COVID meltdown after ONE new case ordering
coronavirus compared to widely-used antibody... a testing blitz and making...
Coronavirus UK: Daily cases rise 39% in Coronavirus UK: R rate is BELOW one,
a week to 33,470 Covid Symptom Study claims
A rush to the pub before England’s second national England’s coronavirus outbreak was already
lockdown may have fuelled a record rise in Covid plateauing before the second national lockdown,
cases, experts... according to a major Government-led...
Americans likely to attend large holiday Scientists pinpoint two new potential
gatherings despite COVID-19, survey therapeutic targets for rheumatoid
finds arthritis
This holiday season comes with a lot of worry and Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common form
stress as families try to find ways to balance their of Inflammatory arthritis, affecting 1-2% of the
desire to celebrate... world’s population....
Astrocytes identified as master In mice, cadmium exposure during
‘conductors’ of the brain pregnancy linked to obesity in female
offspring
When the music becomes discordant and a person
is diagnosed with a brain disease, scientists typically Cadmium is a toxic heavy metal. Environmental
look to the synapses... exposure commonly occurs from fossil fuel
emissions, smoking, and some food...
Re-mapping taste in the brain
Mimicking SARS-CoV-2 nasal infection in
The findings, to be published in Current Biology, monkeys
counter an influential but controversial theory based
on studies suggesting... The first step of all effective means to control
COVID-19 and develop vaccines is to understand
Common SARS-CoV-2 mutation may the viral infection process....
make COVID-19 more susceptible to a
vaccine Pollution and pandemics: A dangerous
mix
The new strain of coronavirus, called D614G,
emerged in Europe and has become the most According to new research from the McKelvey
common in the world. Research at the... School of Engineering at Washington University in
St. Louis, pollution may bear...
Black and Hispanic children in the US
have more severe eczema than white Cancer deaths resulted in more than 4
children million potential years of life lost in 2017
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill (November 13, 2020) – Bottom Line: Deaths from cancer accounted for
While research shows Black and Hispanic children more than 4 million potential years of life lost in
suffer disproportionately... 2017. While the cancer...
How religion can hamper economic First non-human primate study showing
progress promise of gene therapy for stroke repair
IMAGE: Mara Squicciarini (Bocconi University) view IMAGE: Astrocyte-converted neurons in monkey
more Credit: Paolo Tonato Religion hampered the brain after stroke view more Credit: Jinan University
diffusion... Stroke...
CMIP6 adds more value in simulating Study reveals physical demands of two-
extreme temperatures in China hour marathon
IMAGE: Sunset at Beihai Park view more Credit: IMAGE: Some of the elites runners were tested at
Kexin CHEN Against the background of global Exeter Arena view more Credit: University of Exeter
warming, more... Elite...
Pearls may provide new information Boosting returns on e-commerce
processing options for biomedical, retargeting campaigns
military innovations
Researchers from Nanjing University, Temple
IMAGE: Lustrous reflection from a pearl offers a University, Fudan University, and Waseda University
concept of hybridizing material and digital properties published a new paper in...
for spectral...
Over-70s WILL now get breast screening
Father-of-two 52, who survived
coronavirus, undergoes life-saving Over-70s WILL now get breast screening: Older
double lung transplant women will be eligible for mammograms again for
first time since March Breast...
A New Mexico father-of-two has undergone a life-
saving double lung transplant after a four-month-
long battle with the novel...
Britons with one of eight genes are at a Rapid Covid-19 antibody test may
much higher risk of dying from Covid-19 wrongly tell 20% they had the virus
People with one of eight genes found on seven A rapid Covid-19 antibody test bought by the
chromosomes are at much higher risk of dying from Government may wrongly tell one in five people they
Covid-19, study shows Individual... have had the coronavirus. Number...
Test and Trace hotline misses 25k calls Urgency means millions of people could
every DAY with nearly half of people get less effective coronavirus vaccine
wanting test unanswered
Millions of people could miss out on the best Covid-
Government’s Test and Trace hotline misses 25,000 19 vaccines because they must be given out as
calls every DAY with nearly half of people wanting a soon as possible, one of...
Covid test going...
Test and Trace was hit by ‘huge’ IT
People with learning disabilities are up to problems that led to ‘delays in squashing
30 TIMES more likely to die from Covid-19 care home outbreaks’
People with learning disabilities are up to 30 times NHS Test and Trace was hit by ‘huge IT problems’ in
more likely to die of coronavirus, according to a October that led to delays in squashing coronavirus
report by Public... outbreaks...
Breaking it down: How cells degrade Soccer players’ head injury risk could be
unwanted microRNAs reduced with simple adjustments to the
ball
The findings, reported online today in Science, not
only shed light on the inner workings of cells but To reduce risk of injury, a new study recommends
could eventually lead... preventing how hard a ball hits the head by inflating
balls to lower pressures...
Predicting the risk of severe side effects
of cancer treatment Ecotourism fans may be in it for the
social posts
It is often difficult during cancer treatment to achieve
a balance between getting rid of as many tumour But a new study by researchers at the University of
cells as possible,... Georgia suggests ecotourism’s altruistic attractions
may be overshadowed...
Exercise classes can reduce loneliness,
social isolation in seniors Chemists discover the structure of a key
coronavirus protein
Seniors face increased risk for developing serious
health issues or even death if they lack social If researchers could devise ways to block this
connections or feel alone.... channel, they may be able to reduce the
pathogenicity of the virus and interfere...
Novel insights on cellular suicide could
provide new avenues for cancer therapies Teacher quality scores change depending
on students, school
Several years ago, biologist Denise Montell, a
distinguished professor at UC Santa Barbara, found Dara Shifrer, the study’s author and assistant
that sometimes cells survive... professor of sociology at PSU, said these findings
are especially salient...
San Diego zoo global biobanking
advances wildlife conservation and Once-discounted binding mechanism
human medicine worldwide may be key to targeting viruses
In a study that has unprecedented implications to IMAGE: An illustration shows a major
advance both medicine and biodiversity histocompatibility (grey) protein encompassing a
conservation, researchers have sequenced... peptide drawn from a SARS-CoV...
JAMA reports fluvoxamine as potential ‘Rewiring’ metabolism in insulin-
early treatment for COVID-19 producing cells may aid Type 2 diabetes
treatment
SAN FRANCISCO – Nov. 12, 2020 – The COVID-19
Early Treatment Fund (CETF), today announced MADISON, Wis. — Researchers have discovered a
that JAMA, The Journal... previously unknown way that pancreatic cells decide
how much insulin...
Are the movements of tiny hairlike
structures a key to our health? Student medical records at UC San Diego
make epic change and a California first
Little is understood about how cilia, the tiny hairlike
organelles that in humans are often the first lines of IMAGE: Marlene Millen, MD, senior author of the
defense against... published study and chief medical information
officer, UC San Diego...
Cellular survivors
How will COVID-19 affect our next
When it comes to complex life — that of the generation?
multicellular variety — cell death can be just as
important as survival.... Exposure to COVID-19 could pose a risk to the
health and aging of individuals who aren’t even born
Covid-19 grief: ‘I do talk about it’ yet, according to...
Covid-19 grief: ‘I do talk about it’ Video, Chester hospital baby deaths: Nurse
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other studies’ findings. Coronavirus: Year-long waits for hospital
care in England worst since 2008
Are No10’s 200million new Covid tests
REALLY going to get us back to normal In recent weeks, major hospitals in Bradford, Leeds,
life? Nottingham, Birmingham and Liverpool, which have
seen high rates of...
There’s ‘absolutely no chance’ the Government’s
new 15-minute coronavirus tests are accurate Asian people are more likely to get Covid-
enough... 19 and die, study claims
Nine out of ten people WOULD get a Black people are twice as likely to get infected with
coronavirus vaccine Covid-19 compared to those of white ethnicity, a
study has revealed. But...
Misinformation spread by anti-vaxx conspiracy
theorists makes people less likely to get a Liverpool, Leeds and Wigan are suffering
coronavirus vaccine when one is... the most fatalities in the second Covid-19
wave
Face mask with copper ‘kills 90% of
coronavirus’ and will be available to Liverpool, Leeds and Wigan are suffering the most
doctors by CHRISTMAS coronavirus deaths in the second wave, official data
shows as the North...
Five-layer surgical face mask embedded with
antiviral copper ‘kills 90% of coronavirus particles’ NHS waiting list for routine treatment hits
and will be... 12-year high
Number of infected patients transferred NHS waiting times have spiralled to their highest
to system reaches record high of 85% level in 12 years, official statistics revealed today.
The number of people...
Is Test and Trace FINALLY getting better? Number
of infected patients transferred to system reaches Dry ice shortage to transport vaccines
record high of 85% Callers... may mean nightclubs have to go without
Compounds block stress-enhanced Nightclubs may be left without smoke machines
nicotine intake in rats when they reopen because all of the dry ice will
have been used to transport...
GABA is an inhibitory neurotransmitter that
decreases nerve signaling in the brain. When a A potential game-changer to reverse
person experiences stress, their... alcohol intoxication
Researchers show safer, more targeted Present in alcoholic drinks, ethanol, normally
way to deliver CRISPR gene therapy referred to as ‘alcohol’, affects every part of the
human body....
A multi-institutional team involving biomedical
engineers and scientists from UNSW Sydney found Dopamine surge reveals how even for
that liposomes — commonly... mice, ‘there’s no place like home’
Scientists discover possible genetic The neurotransmitter dopamine is critical to
target for treating endometriosis motivational control and to directing behaviors that
seek reward and have preferred...
Their study published in Cell Reports, a scientific
journal, could lead to better treatments for women Is proton therapy the silver bullet for
suffering from severe... children with brain cancer?
Individualized brain stimulation therapy But just how safe is proton therapy for children with
improves language performance in stroke brain cancer compared to the conventional x-ray
survivors radiation delivered...
Aphasia is a debilitating language disorder that Children born extremely preterm are
impacts all forms of verbal communication, including more likely to be diagnosed with
speech, language comprehension,... depression
The Strategic Stockpile failed; experts All the results were adjusted for paternal
propose new approach to emergency psychopathology, paternal immigrant status,
preparedness maternal psychopathology, maternal...
Survey: Americans likely to attend large
holiday gatherings despite COVID-19
A new analysis of the United States government’s IMAGE: The West family shares a holiday meal with
response to COVID-19 highlights myriad problems family members through video chat. Experts say that
with an approach that... although celebrations...
New bird genomes give insight into Risk of childhood asthma by caesarean
evolution of genomic diversity section is mediated through the early gut
microbiome
The Bird 10,000 Genome Project (B10K) is a large
international project co-led by University of The prevalence of caesarean section has increased
Copenhagen, China National... globally in recent decades. While the World Health
Organisation suggests...
Illuminating tiny proteins in living cells
using single-residue labeling tags Men feel less powerful in their private
lives
IMAGE: Universal single-residue terminal labels for
fluorescent live cell Imaging of microproteins view Men perceive themselves as having less power in
more Credit:... their private than in their public lives, a new study
from Lund University...
JNCCN study evaluates cost-
effectiveness of olaparib for metastatic Machine learning algorithm could provide
pancreatic cancer Soldiers feedback
IMAGE: JNCCN November 2020 Cover view more IMAGE: Brain image with its fibers show its
Credit: NCCN PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA complexity. A new machine learning algorithm can
[November 12, 2020] —... isolate patterns in brain...
Moderna CEO says the firm could get Covid spread is ‘accelerating,’ White
emergency FDA approval for a vaccine in House task force warns
December
The White House coronavirus task force sent a
Moderna Inc says it is on track receive emergency warning to U.S. states that the spread of coronavirus
approval for its experimental coronavirus vaccine is ‘accelerating’...
next month. At the...
COVID-19 ‘could damage the fertility of
Two thirds of COVID-19 survivors have up to 20% of male survivors’
symptoms 7 weeks later
Coronavirus can survive for a long period of time in
Two thirds of hospitalized coronavirus survivors still the testicles and may affect male fertility, a new
have symptoms like fatigue and shortness of breath study suggests. Researchers from...
seven weeks after...
Coronavirus: US ‘not ready for antibody
Wearing a mask DOES protect you – and drugs’, say Harvard doctors
others
Two doctors are expressing their concerns about the
Wearing a mask DOES protect you – and those Trump administration’s plans to quickly roll out
around you – from coronavirus, CDC now says in coronavirus antibody...
change to guidance...
Pfizer coronavirus jab ‘7 times more
Case report: The man who had COVID-19 expensive’ than AstraZeneca’s
for 154 DAYS
Pfizer‘s coronavirus vaccine could cost Britain
Scattered reports have emerged of people being £588million and wind up being seven times more
reinfected with coronavirus after testing negative – expensive per dose...
but one man may...
Researchers light-up mouse brain,
How molecular chaperones dissolve revealing previously hidden areas
protein aggregates linked to Parkinson’s susceptible to opioids
disease
Although fine-tuned and evolved for complex
Proteins in all cells — from bacteria to human — processing, the brain and its neurotransmitters are
need to fold to their native state. The chains of vulnerable to hijacking by...
amino acid...
Review of plants’ role in antibacterial
Modelling microswimmers for drug activity clears new paths for drug
delivery discovery
The dynamics of microswimmers moving inside a Chemical Reviews published the work by
drop of viscous liquid depends on many things, researchers at Emory University, which includes 459
including the shape and size... plant natural products that met...
Detecting Alzheimer’s disease before Cloth face masks that can be disinfected
symptoms arise by the sun
Now an assistant professor of health psychology, Face masks made of various cloth materials can
Kiselica recently finished a study that has resulted in filter nanoscale aerosol particles — such as those
procedures for defining... released by a cough...
Study finds lasting fatigue common after Smell and taste changes provide early
COVID-19 infection indication of COVID-19 community
spread
Fatigue is one of the most common initial presenting
complaints of people infected with SARS-CoV-2, the “In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many
virus that causes... governments have taken drastic measures to
prevent their intensive care...
‘Smart Wrap’ implant may help people
better control their bladders New study points to a better way to ward
off asthma triggers
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An implantable smart
wrap that fits safely and securely around the bladder IMAGE: Left: Lung tissue of untreated mice. Right:
may one day help... Lung tissue of mice treated with antibodies blocking
OX40L and CD30L. ...
COVID-delayed Arctic research cruise
yields late-season data Increased early-stage cancer diagnoses
tied to ACA’s Medicaid expansion, Pitt
IMAGE: The Cape Prince of Wales, the westernmost study finds
point of mainland North America, rises on the east
coast of the Bering... IMAGE: Assistant professor, Department of Health
Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh
How to maximize the potential of Graduate School of...
marketing agility
Personalized drug screens could guide
Researchers from University of South Carolina, treatment for children with brain cancer
Singapore Management University, George Mason
University, National University... IMAGE: A test run of the personalized drug screen
was completed using a brain tumor from an 8-year-
Researchers find connection between old boy newly diagnosed...
household chemicals and gut
microbiome Early-life events linked to lung health in
young adulthood
IMAGE: Courtney Gardner, assistant professor in
the Washington State University Department of Civil IMAGE: Chronic bronchitis was found in 1 in 20
and Environmental... young adults in the BAMSE study, while irreversible
airflow limitation...
Covid: Bolsonaro hails suspension of
Chinese vaccine trial Instagram: New tools to ban self-harm
and suicide posts
Coronavirus: How will the world vaccinate seven
billion? Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri detailed the new
system, which uses artificial intelligence, in a blog
Covid vaccine: ‘No decision’ on under post on its website.
50s vaccine plan
Russian Covid vaccine shows
New York imposes ‘last chance’ virus restrictions US encouraging results
hospital admissions hit record levels as New York
City warns... It comes after Pfizer and BioNTech said their
vaccine could prevent 90% of people getting Covid-
The husband and wife behind covid 19, based on a study of 43,500...
vaccine that could change the worl
Now Russia claims its Covid vaccine is
Physicians Ugur Sahin and Oezlem Tuereci, who 92% effective
bonded over their love of medical research, are the
married couple behind the... Russia has today claimed its coronavirus vaccine is
92 per effective, which would make it better than the
JVT says he would be ‘at the front of the jab being developed...
queue’ for Pfizer vaccine
Mutated strain of coronavirus found in
England’s deputy chief medical officer today claimed mink in Denmark poses ‘very low risk’
he would be ‘at the front of the queue’ to take
Pfizer‘s... There is a ‘very low’ risk of mink spreading a mutant
form of coronavirus to people living in the UK,
Rapid coronavirus tests used in Public...
Operation Moonshot pilot are 77%
accurate Cambridge University DROPS its estimate
of daily coronavirus cases in England to
Rapid Covid tests being used to pilot Operation 64,000
Moonshot in Liverpool could allow Britain to return to
as close to normality... Cambridge University academics whose gloomy
warnings of 4,000 deaths a day spooked ministers
No10 ‘nudge’ unit suggests paper into imposing England’s...
wristbands for those Covid-negative
Coronavirus UK: Death toll tops 50,000
Britons who test negative for Covid should wear with 595 new victims
paper wristbands to show they don’t have the virus,
Number 10’s... Britain’s official coronavirus death toll passed the
grim milestone of 50,000 today after health chiefs
announced another...
Mental health strained by disaster Scientists identify protein that protects
against Lyme
A team of researchers including the University of
Delaware’s Jennifer Horney, founding director of the Lyme Disease is the most common vector-borne
epidemiology... disease in North America and is transmitted by ticks
infected with the spirochete...
Folding proteins feel the heat, and cold
Job interest not a big predictor of job
A paper in the American Chemical Society’s Journal satisfaction
of Physical Chemistry Letters shows proteins that
presumably evolved... And now it can be told — a report by a University of
Houston researcher reveals that your interest in an
Researchers trap electrons to create occupation...
elusive crystal
Life after COVID hospitalization: Study
Cornell researchers stacked two-dimensional shows major lasting effects on health,
semiconductors to create a moiré superlattice work and more
structure that traps electrons...
Within two months of leaving the hospital, nearly 7%
Viral vaccines preserved without of the patients had died, including more than 10% of
refrigeration the patients treated...
The viruses in vaccines, which train our cells to Framework to study brain connectivity in
identify and vanquish viral invaders must be kept living organisms
cold to keep them from...
The study, which was funded by the National
Sensor for smart textiles survives Institutes of Health, focused on Parkinson’s Disease
washing machine, cars and hammers progression markers....
IMAGE: Moritz Graule, a graduate student at SEAS, Age gates on alcohol websites are
demonstrates a fabric arm sleeve with embedded ineffective, Texas A&M research shows
sensors. The sensors...
IMAGE: Age gates on alcohol websites often ask
Novel population of neurons identified users to click a yes/no box or enter a date of birth
that control binocular eye movements in that is of legal...
3D space
Luddy researchers develop framework to
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – University of Alabama at study brain connectivity in living
Birmingham researchers have discovered a organisms
previously undescribed population...
IMAGE: Bramsh Chandio view more Credit: Indiana
Losing the American Dream University Bramsh Chandio, a Ph.D. candidate in
intelligent...
As many Americans struggle to pay their bills,
keeping up with mortgage payments can be MTU, UMass researchers preserve viral
daunting with the risk of losing... vaccines without refrigeration
Life after COVID hospitalization: Study IMAGE: Michigan Tech and UMass Amherst
shows major lasting effects on health, chemical engineers have discovered a way to
work & more stabilize viruses in vaccines with...
IMAGE: A COVID-19 care team at Michigan Virtual reality forests could help
Medicine, the University of Michigan’s academic understanding of climate change
medical center, in spring...
The effects of climate change are sometimes difficult
Coronavirus England: Liverpool mass- to grasp, but now a virtual reality forest, created by
testing scheme to be rolled out geographers,...
Mass coronavirus testing being used in Liverpool will Spreading anti-vaxx conspiracy theories
be rolled out across in nearly 70 more local should be CRIME, report says
authorities, the Health...
Spreading anti-vaccine conspiracy theories online
Coronavirus: Dido Harding claims Test & should be a crime, according to some of Britain’s top
Trace ‘didn’t predict’ demand surge when scientists. The...
schools went back
Mass testing is to be rolled out at
England’s Test Trace chief Dido Harding today universities to get students home safely
claimed it is not her job to know when there might be for Christmas
surges in demand...
Mass Covid testing will be rolled out to university
Coronavirus: Bristol ONLY one of students so they can go home for Christmas, it was
England’s top 50 hotspots in south claimed today. Under...
Only one place in England’s top 50 coronavirus Hospital admissions were coming down
hotspots is in the south, according to official in the North West BEFORE lockdown
statistics that lay...
Coronavirus hospital admissions in the North West
peaked ten days before lockdown was imposed, in
the latest sign that Tier...
Covid-19 patients with even a slight drop Coronavirus: Boris Johnson warns Pfizer
in oxygen levels are at risk of death jab WON’T end lockdown
Coronavirus patients who suffer even a slight drop in Boris Johnson today warned that a vaccine will not
their oxygen levels are at a heightened risk of dying deliver a ‘knockout blow’ to coronavirus as Tories
from the disease,... insisted...
Plasma treatments quickly kill Burnout can exacerbate work stress,
coronavirus on surfaces further promoting a vicious circle
In Physics of Fluids, by AIP Publishing, modeling Stress and overload in the workplace are increasing
conducted in June showed strains of the novel worldwide and are often considered a cause of
coronavirus on surfaces like... burnout. Indeed, a new...
Young survivors of acute myeloid Sweet taste reduces appetite?
leukemia have long-term complications
from treatment Taste receptor and satiety regulation “We therefore
investigated the role of sweet taste receptor
The most common complications among AYA activation in the...
survivors (ages 15-39) were cardiovascular,
endocrine and respiratory diseases. The... Lack of positivity bias can predict relapse
in bipolar disorder
High temperatures threaten the survival
of insects The results could provide an urgently needed tool
for doctors to predict upcoming relapse and provide
Insects cannot regulate their own body temperature, timely treatment. Bipolar...
which is instead strongly influenced by the
temperature in their immediate... Breakthrough discovery on brain cortex
functionality
Study identifies new ‘hidden’ gene in
COVID-19 virus UTSA College of Sciences researchers Alice
Bertero, Hector Zurita and Marc Normandin and
“Overlapping genes may be one of an arsenal of biology associate professor Alfonso...
ways in which coronaviruses have evolved to
replicate efficiently, thwart... Intelligent surfaces signal better
coverage
Identifying the microscopic mechanism
of vibrational energy harvesters IMAGE: Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)
on buildings could significantly improve
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