coronavirus health news nov 2020

Coronavirus: Excess deaths in private Covid vaccine research: Pfizer volunteers
homes soar to 30,000 in England and describe ‘hangover’ effect
Wales
Volunteers on the Pfizer vaccine trial have
The number of people dying in private homes has compared the jab’s side effects to a ‘severe
surged to more than 30,000 above the yearly hangover’ and...
average this year, official data...
Coronavirus England: NO London
Denmark resorts to dumping 17million boroughs in top 100 hotspots
culled animals in mass graves amid
mutant Covid fears None of London‘s 33 boroughs are in England’s top
100 Covid hotspots, statistics show amid calls for
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock warned today the capital...
the new Covid-19 variant — called Cluster 5 —
could have ‘grave... Coronavirus UK: Pandemic causes NHS
backlog of 5 MILLION patients
Who will get Covid vaccine first? Matt
Hancock tells NHS to prepare for jabs Coronavirus pandemic has caused a ‘hidden
from start of December backlog’ of FIVE MILLION patients needing NHS
treatment, report reveals Referrals...
A priority list of who should get the vaccine first was
drawn up earlier this year by the influential Joint Queen and rest of Royal Family WON’T
Committee... be able to jump the queue for Covid
vaccine
Government considers changing anti-
Covid tier system AGAIN after December The Queen and the rest of the Royal Family will not
2 be able to jump the queue for a Covid-19 vaccine
and even Boris Johnson...
Whole regions of England could be kept under brutal
restrictions after the blanket lockdown ends on Loneliness highest in the 20s and lowest
December 2 as the government... in the 60s

‘Goldilocks’ neonatal immune response Researchers used a web-based survey of 2,843
may protect against autism participants, ages 20 to 69 years, from across the
United States. The study,...
The report from researchers at the Karolinska
Institute in Sweden appears in Biological Psychiatry, New airflow videos show why masks with
published by Elsevier.... exhalation valves do not slow the spread
of COVID-19
Computer model can predict how COVID-
19 spreads in cities The videos, which show airflow patterns through
masks with and without exhalation valves, were
“We built a computer model to analyze how people created by NIST research engineer...
of different demographic backgrounds, and from
different neighborhoods,... Studies outline key ethical questions
surrounding brain-computer interface
Kids’ physical fitness is more important tech
than BMI
“BCI technologies are devices that detect brain
Physical education should focus on improving signals conveying intention and translates them into
students’ physical skills, knowledge of the benefits executable output...
of exercise and motivation...
A viable vaccine for tough tumors
Frugal science: A low-cost way to
decontaminate PPE equipment Now, a new, best-of-both-worlds approach packages
the cancer-killing power of chemotherapy and the
Meanwhile, supply-chain problems are likely to long-term efficacy of...
cause limited supplies of filtering facepiece
respirators, such as N95 masks.... The lung microbiome may affect lung
cancer pathogenesis and prognosis
Tips for making nanographene
Bottom Line: Enrichment of the lungs with oral
IMAGE: The copper probe can manipulate matter at commensal microbes was associated with advanced
the atomic scale. view more Credit: © 2020 Shiotari stage disease, worse prognosis,...
et al. Nanographene...
Animation reveals secrets of critical
Building your professional brand in a tumour protein
prestigious job
The latest animation technology has revealed the
Researchers from HEC Montreal and York molecular detail of how our bodies are protected
University published a new paper in the Journal of from cancer by a key ‘tumour...
Marketing that examines how people...
Vitamin C’s effectiveness against COVID
Sleep loss hijacks brain’s activity during may hinge on vitamin’s natural
learning transporter levels

Philadelphia, November 11, 2020 – Sleep is crucial IMAGE: Drs. Sadanand Fulzele and Carlos Isales
for consolidating our memories, and sleep view more Credit: Kim Ratliff, Production
deprivation has long been... Coordinator, Augusta...

UTSA research team makes breakthrough Targeted therapies developed to reduce
discovery on brain cortex functionality lung fibrosis

A team of researchers from UTSA’s Neurosciences IMAGE: A new treatment option for lung fibrosis is
Institute is challenging the historical belief that the being developed by Philip Low, a Purdue University
organization... scientist, and...

One in five children has a ‘vaccine Study finds suicidal thoughts, drug and
hesitant’ parent alcohol addictions have surged by 68%
from 2009 to 2018
One in five children has a ‘vaccine hesitant’ parent
whose concerns over the risks of shots could be a ‘Diseases of despair,’ including substance abuse,
barrier... alcohol dependency and suicidal thoughts, have
spiked in the...
COVID-19 cases in nursing homes surged
by 44% last month Coronavirus US: Nearly 65% WILL get
vaccine that is 90% effective
New weekly coronavirus infections in US nursing
homes surged by 44% last month compared to Nearly 65% of Americans say they WILL get a
September and deaths rose by 10%... coronavirus vaccine that is 90% effective – the same
level of protection...
Glioblastoma nanomedicine crosses into
brain in mice, eradicates recurring brain New technique may revolutionize
cancer accuracy and detection of biomechanical
alterations of cells
A new synthetic protein nanoparticle capable of
slipping past the nearly impermeable blood-brain A study derived by an international collaboration
barrier in mice could deliver... between the University of Exeter, Gloucestershire
Hospitals NHS Foundation...
Survey of COVID-19 research provides
fresh overview Demolishing abandoned houses does not
reduce nearby crime, study finds
In the wake of the rapid spread of COVID-19,
research on the disease has escalated dramatically. Since the housing foreclosure crisis of 2007-08, the
Over 60,000 COVID-19-related... number of abandoned homes across the country
has rapidly increased,...
Two genes regulate social dominance
When kids watch a lot of TV, parents may
“We discovered that two paralogous androgen end up more stressed
receptor genes control social status in African cichlid
fish,” reports... Why? Because the more television that kids watch,
the more they’re exposed to advertising messages.
Strenuous work during pregnancy The more advertising...
increases likelihood of overly high birth
weight Research identifies ‘volume control’ in
the brain that supports learning and
The researchers matched data on maternal and fetal memory
health, as well as job data, from the New Jersey
Department of Health... The molecular system controls the width of electrical
signals that flow across synapses between neurons.
Under-insured transgender americans The finding of the...
turn to riskier sources for gender-
affirming hormones Gene signature predicts whether
localized prostate cancer is likely to
Under-Insured Transgender Americans Turn to spread
Riskier, Non-Licensed Sources for Gender-Affirming
Hormones Transgender people... NEW YORK, NY (Nov. 10, 2020)–Researchers have
identified a genetic signature in localized prostate
New analysis finds lung cancer screening cancer that can...
reduces rates of lung cancer-specific
death Representation of female authors in
family medicine academic journals is
New Analysis Finds Lung Cancer Screening trending upward
Reduces Rates of Lung Cancer-Specific Death Low-
dose CT screening methods may prevent... Representation of Female Authors in Family
Medicine Academic Journals is Trending Upward
Hundreds of copies of Newton’s Principia After decades of underrepresentation...
found in new census
Postpartum care fails to provide women
IMAGE: Caltech’s own copy of the first edition of the with key recommended services
Principia is part of the Institute’s Archives and...
IMAGE: Kimberley Geissler is an assistant professor
of health policy and management in the UMass
Amherst School of...

Researchers 3D print biomedical parts Weighing space dust with radar
with supersonic speed
IMAGE: The observatories are 173 km apart. The
ITHACA, N.Y. – Forget glue, screws, heat or other relatively close distance allows more accurate
traditional bonding methods. A Cornell University-led correlation of their...
collaboration...
Lockdown: Will the vaccine be
Covid-19: Husband of test and trace boss compulsory? And other questions
to self-isolate
If you’re in England, and you’re a single
Tory MP John Penrose said he was alerted by the grandparent, you have the right to form a “support
app, part of the operation overseen by his wife. bubble” with...

Covid ‘raises new psychiatric disorders Covid vaccine: No guarantees on Pfizer
risk’ roll-out but NHS ready

Covid: Lockdown had ‘major impact’ on mental On Monday, early results from the world’s first
health effective coronavirus vaccine showed it could
prevent more than 90%...
Coronavirus: Computer model shows
where spread occurs in cities Covid: Nursing home residents’ infection,
death risks twice as high
Researchers have developed a computer model that
predicts how the novel coronavirus spreads in US Residents of crowded nursing homes are at higher
cities. The model looks... risk of coronavirus infection and death compared to
other elderly people,...
Number of deaths from type 2 diabetes
more than DOUBLED at the peak of Why tall women and short men are
pandemic, study finds becoming a thing of the past

Number of deaths from type 2 diabetes in England Tomorrow’s woman is short and has a small head.
more than DOUBLED at the peak of the Covid-19 Her narrow mouth sits beneath prominent
pandemic, study finds Researchers... cheekbones. She is a winner in...

Hydroxychloroquine does not treat What can I do about my swollen ankles?
COVID-19, NIH ‘formally’ declares Dr MARTIN SCURR answers your health
questions
NIH ‘formally’ declares that hydroxychloroquine
does NOT improve hospitalized coronavirus I suffer with water retention between my ankles and
patients’ survival... calfs. I get terrible burning and, at times, it feels as if
my skin will...
One in 16 Covid survivors will be
diagnosed with anxiety ‘within three Severe COVID-19 infection rare in
months of the disease’ newborns, study finds

Contracting Covid-19 raises the risk of developing The UK-wide analysis, led by researchers from
psychiatric disorders, researchers have found. Imperial College London and the Nuffield
Nearly one in five people... Department of Population Health at...

Common flame retardants cause mice to Russian scientists created a chemical
give birth to offspring that become space mapping method and cracked the
diabetic, study finds mystery of Mendeleev number

These flame retardants, called PBDEs, have been IMAGE: Compound hardness map. view more
associated with diabetes in adult humans. This Credit: Artem R. Oganov Scientists had long tried to
study demonstrates that PBDEs... come up with...

Urban gulls adapt foraging schedule to Fossil shark turns in to mystery
human activity patterns pterosaur

IMAGE: Gull in flight wearing one of the GPS IMAGE: Pterosaurs with these types of beaks are
backpacks used for the study view more Credit: better known at the time period from North Africa, so
University of... it would be reasonable...

Scientists speed up artificial organoid Exoskeletons can reduce strain also in
growth and selection health care

The method currently used to produce stem cell- IMAGE: An exoskeleton vest was used in a Finnish
derived tissues has a very limited throughput. By study where nurses assisted patients from a hospital
semi-automating tissue differentiation,... bed into a wheelchair....

Methods developed by biorobotics Mari and Karelian respondents share
engineers help make hydropower plants ideas on how to improve local education
more fish-friendly
The study was initiated in 2018 by three researchers
IMAGE: Sensors ready for demployment view more who have an established interest in Indigenous
Credit: TalTech In the Europe-wide FIThydro project, issues – Daria...

TalTech... Two MPs reveal the unique bond that saw
them cope as they battled breast cancer
New research maps potential global
spread of devastating papaya mealybug Across the political divide, they reached out to each
pest other: two politicians, one Conservative, one Labour,
both aged only...
IMAGE: Impact of papaya mealybug on papaya view
more Credit: CABI CABI scientists have mapped Why sleeping with the window open can
the potential... be good for you

Chief executive saw his life brought to a Until recently, whether you sleep with the window
screeching halt by a mental health crisis open or closed has been a question of preference,
but now the choice could...
As a successful, middle-aged man, it had never
occurred to Ian Braid that one day he might have a Donald Trump accuses the FDA of
mental health crisis As a... holding up Pfizer vaccine until after the
election
One in 11 coronavirus patients
discharged from a hospital gets Donald Trump has accused the Food and Drug
readmitted within three months Administration of deliberately delaying work on a
coronavirus vaccination in order...
One in 11 coronavirus patients discharged from a
hospital is readmitted within two months, suggesting Newborn babies are very unlikely to
long-lasting effects... become severely ill with Covid, major
study finds
Vaccines will not be a ‘silver bullet’ to end
Covid-19 immediately, report warns Newborn babies are very unlikely to become
severely ill with Covid-19, according to research that
A coronavirus vaccine won’t immediately bring the puts to rest one of the...
pandemic to an end and scientists and officials must
be honest about... Conflicts in kindergarten can reduce
children’s interest in reading and math
Pfizer’s Covid vaccine ‘must be stored at
MINUS 70C in special suitcases’ Kindergarten represents a crucial context in which
children develop school-related skills and patterns of
DOES THE ANNOUNCEMENT MEAN A VACCINE engagement that...
IS READY? Not quite yet. Pfizer has released
preliminary findings that suggests its... More green spaces can help boost air
quality, reduce heart disease deaths
Scientists create hybrid tissue construct
for cartilage regeneration “We found that both increased greenness and
increased air quality were associated with fewer
This cartilage, known as fibrocartilage, helps deaths from heart disease,”...
connect tendons or ligaments or bones and is
primarily found in the meniscus... Bringing drugs to the brain with
nanoparticles to treat neurodegenerative
People who eat chili pepper may live diseases
longer?
The blood-brain barrier is the main obstacle in
Previous studies have found eating chili pepper has treating neurodegenerative diseases such as
an anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anticancer and Alzheimer and Parkinson. According...
blood-glucose regulating...
Trees set sixth-graders up for success
Researchers examine if online physician
reviews indicate clinical outcomes A new University of Illinois study suggests an
unexpected but potentially potent remedy: trees.
In a new study, researchers from The University of “Hundreds of studies...
Texas at Dallas investigated whether patient-
generated online reviews... Cleveland Clinic researchers identify
melatonin as possible COVID-19
Study finds patients prefer doctors who treatment
share their same race/ethnicity
CLEVELAND – Results from a new Cleveland
PHILADELPHIA – Patients who shared the same Clinic-led study suggest that melatonin, a hormone
racial or ethnic background as their physician were that regulates the sleep-wake...
more likely to give...
COVID Misinformation a Roadblock to
Putting stock into Twitter: Social media Curbing Pandemic
can influence returns, WVU finance
professor says IMAGE: HDFS Professor Valerie Earnshaw’s new
research confirms that stigma around COVID-19
IMAGE: Alexander Kurov has studied Twitter’s effect may lead people to...
on the stock market. view more Credit: Brian
Persinger/West... Efforts needed to better integrate family
caregivers into health care teams
Stanford researchers develop DNA
approach to forecast ecosystem changes

IMAGE: A night vision camera trap captured this Integrating family caregivers into a patient’s health
image of mountain lions drinking from a stream at care team can help improve care quality and the
Stanford’s... quality of life...

Do consumers enjoy events more when Microbe "rewiring" technique promises a
commenting on them? boom in biomanufacturing

Researchers from Rutgers University and New York IMAGE: A two-liter bioreactor containing an E. coli
University published a new paper in the Journal of culture that has undergone metabolic rewiring to
Marketing that explores... produce indigoidine...

‘Mutant coronavirus’ seen before on mink Covid: NHS staff helped through crisis by
farms, say scientists ‘wobble room’

What’s the science behind mink and coronavirus? Covid-19: NHS in England moves to highest alert
level
Covid: Who will have the Pfizer vaccine
first and when can I get it? Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine
offers 90% protection
In the UK, older care home residents and care home
staff are top of the preliminary priority list. They are The data shows that two doses, three weeks apart,
followed by health... are needed. The trials – in US, Germany, Brazil,
Argentina, South...
Nasal spray that blocked coronavirus
transmission in ferrets may protect What is the best way to get your hit of
people Vitamin D?

Nasal spray that blocked COVID-19 transmission in Vitamin D is in the spotlight again — last month,
ferrets may protect people exposed to the virus from following a flurry of promising studies, Health
getting infected,... Secretary Matt Hancock...

Urinary tract problems are treatable but, US FDA grants emergency approval for
as model Scarlett Howard found they can Eli Lilly’s coronavirus antibody drug
last for years
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday
Every Wednesday, 27-year-old radio presenter and (FDA) authorized emergency use of Eli Lilly and
model Scarlett Howard undergoes a painful Co’s experimental COVID-19...
procedure to inject a cocktail...
Boris Johnson felt led into second
Bamboo-like sticks could be useful in coronavirus lockdown by fake data
orthopaedics, researchers say
Boris Johnson believes he was bounced into
A bamboo-like wood could help repair damaged ordering a second national lockdown, a Cabinet ally
bones. The material, rattan, has a honeycomb-like said last night. The Prime...
core, much like real bone,...
Coronavirus: Who in UK will get Pfizer
Tories demand lockdown ends early amid vaccine first and when?
claims PM fears he was ‘bounced’
The global race to find a Covid-19 vaccine took a
Britain’s today recorded another 21,350 Covid cases leap forward today when pharma companies Pfizer
as the country’s outbreak continues to tail off amid and BioNTech claimed their...
mounting...
Key to piercing harmful bacteria’s armor
Remote learning adds pressure for
teachers who work second shift as When a physician suspects an illness of bacterial
mothers origin, they will perform diagnostic tests to identify
what bacterial species...
The study explored the experiences and challenges
facing teacher-mothers who perform the roles of Genetic disposition protects immune
educator in the classroom... system from aging

Clinicians who prescribe unnecessary The gene with the cryptic abbreviation CRELD1 has
antibiotics fuel future antibiotic use so far been a mystery to science. It was known to
play an important role...
The analysis, published online August 10 in Clinical
Infectious Diseases, is believed to be the first to Researchers use ‘big data’ approach to
measure how variation... identify melatonin as possible COVID-19
treatment
Menstrual cycle length and body
temperature change with age and As COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the
seasons world, particularly with cases rising during what
some have termed the “fall...
Statistics prevalent worldwide about the human
menstrual cycle are based on antiquated and Researchers identify new Rickettsia
restricted surveys dating from... bacteria species in dogs

Study finds surprising diversity in early
child care

The researchers were surprised by the diverse Rickettsia pathogens are categorized into four
experiences that kids brought with them to groups; of those, spotted-fever group Rickettsia
kindergarten: While some received... (which are transmitted by...

Clemson researchers decode thermal New insight into a placental gene
conductivity with light pathway and its association with vitamin
D
IMAGE: Collaborative research by (from left)
Sriparna Bhattacharya, Prakash Parajuli and IMAGE: Illustration showing the relationship
Apparao Rao has been published... between preeclampsia and an axis of genes that
includes NKX2-5, also known...
All weight loss isn’t equal for reducing
heart failure risk Why do bats fly into walls?

IMAGE: Ambarish Pandey, M.D. view more Credit: Bats excel in acoustic perception and detect objects
UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – Nov. 9, as tiny as mosquitoes using sound waves.
2020... Echolocation permits them to...

Researchers isolate and decode brain Don’t be fooled by pretty food, USC
signal patterns for specific behaviors research warns

At any given moment in time, our brain is involved in IMAGE: USC researcher Linda Hagen found that
various activities. For example, when typing on a food that is presented and styled expertly was often
keyboard, our brain... perceived as better...

Researchers identify new Rickettsia Large, delayed outbreaks of endemic
species in dogs diseases possible following COVID-19
controls
Researchers at North Carolina State University have
identified a new species of Rickettsia bacteria that Measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19
may cause significant... through non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs)
such as mask wearing and social...
Coronavirus US: Spike in Philadelphia
firearms victims amid lockdown Residents at crowded nursing homes
twice as likely to be infected with – and
Hospitals in Philadelphia saw an alarming spike in die of -COVID
emergency room visits for violence and gunshot
wounds amid stay-at-home... Residents of crowded nursing homes are at higher
risk of coronavirus infection and death compared to
Boris Johnson feels he was bounced into other elderly people,...
second coronavirus lockdown, says
Cabinet ally Number of Britons seeking help for
suicidal thoughts ‘has TRIPLED since the
Boris Johnson believes he was bounced into first lockdown’
ordering a second national lockdown, a Cabinet ally
said last night. The Prime... The number of people seeking help for suicidal
thoughts has risen drastically since the first
NHS hospitals must isolate all patients lockdown was imposed, an investigation...
from Denmark over mink-Covid fears
Unions demand pre-Christmas pay-rise
People admitted to NHS hospitals who have recently for burned out NHS staff
returned from Denmark will be treated in ‘strict’
quarantine... Dietitians, opticians and other non-essential NHS
staff were today branded ‘cynical’ for asking for a
Intensive care nurses forced to ditch pre-Christmas...
NHS’s 1:1 ratio to cope with coronavirus
Daughter volunteers at care home so she
NHS nurses in intensive care units are being can keep seeing her father, 77, during the
allowed to look after two coronavirus patients pandemic
instead of one after national...
A loving daughter has got a job in a care home so
Calories by the clock? Squeezing most of she can continue seeing her Alzheimer’s suffering
your calories in early doesn’t impact father throughout...
weight loss
High blood pressure complications in US
“We have wondered for a long time if when one eats pregnancies have nearly doubled
during the day affects the way the body uses and
stores energy,”... Pre-pregnancy hypertension is a well-established
risk to the health of both mothers and infants, and
Trauma hospitalizations fall in Philly mortality rates of mothers...
during COVID-19 lockdown, but gun
violence rises COVID-19 can worsen OCD in children
and young people, study finds
“Social disruption resulting from the pandemic and
statewide stay-at-home orders deeply affects the Trauma and stress can trigger or worsen OCD.
balance in urban... Researchers already know this. They have also
shown us that COVID-19 may be...

Social distancing is increasing loneliness 90% accuracy in detecting melanoma:
in older adults New non-invasive method

The research has identified a link between increases In Europe, melanoma is the fifth most common type
in loneliness in over 60s and the worsening of of cancer and is the major cause of death from skin
wellbeing and health.... cancer. Northern Europe...

The natural artistry of disease: A wintry Significant psychological toll from New
landscape in the eye Zealand COVID-19 lockdown

A Japanese woman in her early fifties was Researchers from the University of Otago conducted
diagnosed with acute-type adult T-cell leukemia- a demographically representative survey of adult
lymphoma associated with human... New Zealanders between...

Researchers discover bacterial DNA’s Nut consumption causes changes in
recipe for success sperm DNA function

IMAGE: The list of equations required to model three IMAGE: Researchers have evaluated for the first
plasmids being swapped in one bacterial species time the effect of a short/middle-term consumption of
using the old... a mixture of...

New ‘genomic’ method reveals atomic Electrified magnets: researchers uncover
arrangements of battery material a new way to handle data

IMAGE: The low-temperature structure of NVPF The properties of synthesised magnets can be
[Na3V2(PO4)2F3] solved in this work. Calculations changed and controlled by charge currents as
from Lawrence Berkeley... suggested by a study and simulations...

Half a billion years old microfossils may A biomimetic membrane for desalinating
yield new knowledge of animal origins seawater on an industrial scale

IMAGE: Northern Greenland’s Portfjeld Formation, The treatment of seawater, including its large-scale
more than half a billion years old, contains embryo- desalination, is a major challenge for our society.
like microfossils. ... Reverse osmosis[1]...

Environmental factors affect the Low risk of cancer spread on active
distribution of Iberian spiders surveillance for early prostate cancer

IMAGE: The study led by the UB and IBRio reveals November 9, 2020 – Men undergoing active
how environmental factors affect the distribution of surveillance for prostate cancer have very low rates
biodiversity... – one percent or...

Covid: Cancer delays ‘could cause 2,000 Covid: Lack of ventilator supplies ‘hit’
deaths in Wales’ disabled people

playCovid: Why this cancer patient feels coronavirus Coronavirus: Disabled people fear losing their job
has ‘cost me a future’
Covid-19: Global coronavirus cases pass
Covid: Firebreak lockdown ends as new 50 million
restrictions begin
Joe Biden pushes forward with plans for office His
From Monday people can travel anywhere within team says his priorities are the coronavirus
Wales and two households can again form a bubble. pandemic, the economy, racism...

Study examines health literacy and E-cigarettes can be ‘gateway’ to
shared decision-making in prostate cigarettes for teens with no prior
cancer screening intention to smoke

New research examines the dynamics between Cigarette smoking remains a leading preventable
men’s health literacy, their discussions with their cause of morbidity and mortality in the United
doctors, and their decisions... States. And while adolescent...

Do spoilers harm movie box-office Cell ageing can be slowed by oxidants
revenue?
IMAGE: Yeast can be grown on both solid and liquid
Researchers from Western University and University nutrition medium and is a good model system for
of Houston published a new paper in the Journal of studying ageing....
Marketing that examines...
Prescriptions of antipsychotic
More economic worries mean less medications in young children is
caution about COVID-19 declining

VANCOUVER, Wash. – Workers experiencing job The use of antipsychotics in young children is
and financial insecurity are less likely to follow the declining but doctors continue to prescribe these
CDC’s guidelines... medications off-label for...

WFIRM scientists create hybrid tissue New research supports clinical utility of
construct for cartilage regeneration CTC count for metastatic breast cancer

IMAGE: A highly elastic hybrid construct for Bologna, Italy and Huntingdon Valley, Pa. —
fibrocartilaginous regeneration is produced by Menarini Silicon Biosystems, the pioneer of liquid
coprinting a cell-laden... biopsy technology, today...

Large-area flexible organic photodiodes Black patients with RA less likely to
can compete with silicon devices receive biologic, more likely to get
glucocorticoids
The low-noise, solution-processed, flexible organic
devices offer the ability to use arbitrarily shaped, ATLANTA — A new study reveals that Black patients
large-area photodiodes... with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were less likely to be
prescribed...
Hydroxychloroquine not linked to longer
heart rhythm intervals in RA or lupus AI accurately detects radiographic
patientsti sacroiliitis in axial spondyloarthritis

ATLANTA — New research presented at ACR ATLANTA — New research presented at ACR
Convergence, the American College of Convergence, the American College of
Rheumatology’s annual meeting, discovers... Rheumatology’s annual meeting, shows...

Methotrexate improves function in people Children with Kawasaki Disease at higher
with knee OA after 3 months risk for heart problems 10 years later

ATLANTA — A new study presented at ACR ATLANTA — New research shows that children with
Convergence, the American College of Kawasaki Disease remain at an increased risk for
Rheumatology’s annual meeting, shows... cardiovascular events...

Preexisting antibodies targeting SARS- COVID-19 infection rates low in people
CoV-2 discovered in small proportion of with rheumatic diseases, most report
uninfected individuals mild illness

Scientists have detected preexisting antibody-driven ATLANTA — A new study shows that the COVID-19
immunity against SARS-CoV-2 in a small proportion infection incidence has been low in people with
of individuals who... rheumatic diseases, and...

Call for a National Covid-19 Resilience Covid-19: US hits record daily case rise
Programme to keep older people healthy three days running
and resilient
Tracking the global pandemic
Public health agencies across the UK should launch
a National Covid-19 Resilience Programme to Covid: Liverpool testing trial sites
support older people through... doubled after queues on first day

Greater Manchester’s NHS hospitals Matthew Ashton said a total of up to 12,000 people
suspend non-urgent care were tested at six centres on Friday as England’s
first trial of...
Why not follow BBC North West on Facebook,
Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story Therapeutic drug monitoring does not
ideas to [email protected] improve remission for patients starting
infliximab
Coronavirus: Hauliers included in
Denmark restrictions ATLANTA — New research presented at ACR
Convergence, the American College
The new rules, which began at 04:00 GMT on Rheumatology’s annual meeting, showed...
Sunday, follow a ban on non-UK citizens coming to
the UK from Denmark. Minority patients with rheumatic diseases
have worse COVID-19 outcomes
Key features of chronic nonbacterial
osteomyelitis identified in ATLANTA — New research at ACR Convergence,
groundbreaking study the American College of Rheumatology’s annual
meeting, reveals that...
ATLANTA — New research presented at ACR
Convergence, the American College of Tuberculosis screening needed for
Rheumatology’s annual meeting, identified... methotrexate users in at-risk locales

Global survey reveals that few children ATLANTA — New research presented at ACR
with rheumatic disease report contracting Convergence, the American College of
COVID-19 Rheumatology’s annual meeting, shows...

ATLANTA — Results from a large, international New study reveals undetected rare
survey shows that only a small fraction of children neurodegenerative disorder that looks
with rheumatic diseases... like Parkinson’s disease

Many with lupus at high risk for adverse
reactions to pneumocystis pneumonia
drug

ATLANTA — New research shows that adults with A joint study by the National Neuroscience Institute
systemic lupus erythematosus, who receive (NNI) and Singapore General Hospital (SGH)
trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole... revealed that patients who...

Scientists design magnets with Higher-resolution imaging of living,
outstanding properties moving cells using plasmonic
metasurfaces
IMAGE: Pictural representation of the molecule-
based magnet and its magnetic properties. view IMAGE: A mouse fibroblast cell imaged on a
more Credit:... metasurface made of gold nanoparticles under a
total internal reflection...
New insights into 3D printing of spacers
and membranes A new candidate material for quantum
spin liquids
IMAGE: Overview of the relationship between 3D
printing and membrane-based water treatment IMAGE: Quantum Spin Liquid driven by molecular
industry. view more Credit:... rotors. view more Credit: Péter Szirmai In 1973,
physicist...
phyloFlash: New software for fast and
easy analysis of environmental microbes Paleogenomics — the prehistory of
modern dogs
IMAGE: The two lead authors share a passion for
bioinformatics and symbiotic critters in marine An international team of scientists has used ancient
sands. Here, they are... DNA samples to elucidate the population history of
dogs. The results...
Atrophy can be combated by boosting
expression of an enzyme produced in Final dance of unequal black hole
muscles partners

IMAGE: Study showed that targeted stimulation of Solving the equations of general relativity for
PKA production promoted muscle growth and colliding black holes is no simple matter. Physicists
enhanced resistance to fatigue ... began using supercomputers...

Reducing dementia in patients with Covid: Queues as Liverpool’s city-wide
rheumatoid arthritis coronavirus testing begins

The incidence of dementia in patients with As of Friday a further 23,287 people tested positive
rheumatoid arthritis is lower in patients receiving for coronavirus across the UK and a further 355
biologic or targeted synthetic... deaths within 28 days...

Covid: Queen Elizabeth Hospital Coronavirus: UK bans Denmark visitors
Birmingham postpones operations over mink Covid-19 fears

Coronavirus: Queen Elizabeth Hospital suspends Writing on Twitter, Grant Shapps said: “This decision
cancer transplants to act quickly follows on from health authorities in
Denmark...
Covid-19: Nursing shortage warning as
winter looms Olympic legend Chris Boardman reveals
why it’s safer NOT to wear a cycle helmet
The boss of NHS England, Sir Simon Stevens, told
a Downing Street press conference on Thursday It was a harmless promotional video: Olympic cyclist
that flu and other winter... Chris Boardman, riding around Manchester,
unveiling plans for £85million...
At least 15,000 sick Britons ‘wrongly
denied’ funding for care homes in the Women with ovarian cancer can FINALLY
past decade be diagnosed with a simple blood test
given by GPs
At least 15,000 sick and elderly Britons have been
‘wrongly denied’ funding for care homes in the past A simple, widely available blood test given by GPs
decade Thousands... can accurately tell women they are at risk of ovarian
cancer – as well...
Coronavirus: Can downing handfuls of
vitamins every day save you? DR ELLIE CANNON: How did Test and
Trace turn into such a fiasco?
By lunchtime, every day, Karen Cummings-Palmer,
50, has already consumed 25 oranges’ worth of What sort of a shambles is Test and Trace? And
Vitamin C, three salmon... why? Honestly, I can’t fathom it. Launched on May
28, it seemed to falter...
Why are so many clever, privileged
teenage girls on antidepressants? Coronavirus: How thousands died of
Covid-19 they caught in hospitals
Every weekday, Ella Wilson wakes up at 7.30am
and opens the Instagram app on her iPhone, Thousands of Britons died of Covid-19 after catching
checking for ‘likes’... it in hospital – as experts warn the virus is now
being spread by...
Reduction of environmental pollutants for
prevention of cardiovascular disease An Amazonian tea stimulates the
formation of new neurons

In a current opinion article “Reduction of IMAGE: Preparation of ayahuasca in Ecuador. / view
environmental pollutants for prevention of more Credit: Terpsichore. One of the main natural
cardiovascular disease: it’s... components...

On the hunt for wild bananas in Papua Study dives into genetic risk of
New Guinea Alzheimer’s and dementia for diverse
Latinx groups
IMAGE: Scientists Bart Panis and a local guide hold
their rare find of Musa ingens, a wild species that Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD)
grows up to... are degenerative brain diseases that affect over 5.8
million people...
New juvenile idiopathic arthritis guideline
emphasizes disease-modifying New RA guideline emphasizes
treatments maximizing methotrexate and biologics,
minimizing steroids
ATLANTA — The American College of
Rheumatology (ACR) will preview the 2021 ATLANTA — The American College of
Guideline for the Treatment of Juvenile... Rheumatology (ACR) will preview its 2020 Guideline
for the Management of Rheumatoid...
A better test for the tumor-targeting of
CAR-T therapies Ultrasound-guided percutaneous needle
biopsy excellent for small pleural lesions
IMAGE: Ludwig Lausanne Director George Coukos diagnosis
and Ludwig Lausanne’s Melita Irving view more
Credit:... IMAGE: Enhanced axial CT (A) shows diffuse
pleural thickening (arrow) with a maximum thickness
Ancient crocodiles’ family tree reveals of 3.17 mm. US image...
unexpected twists and turns
Diet and lifestyle during pregnancy linked
IMAGE: Artist’s impression of Macrospondylus- an to modifications in infants’ DNA
extinct fossil group of teleosauriods. view more
Credit:... A new study has shown pregnant women with
obesity could reduce the health risks for their infants
Why a "board-certified cosmetic through improved diet and...
surgeon" isn’t a plastic surgeon, and
what that means for you UM research essential to global arctic
animal migration archive
November 6, 2020 – Cosmetic surgery is not just
another way of saying plastic surgery. Doctors who IMAGE: A caribou calf frolics in the archive study
advertise themselves... area. view more Credit: Photo credit to Karsten
Heuer MISSOULA...
Get on the grid: ‘Micro-doses’ of Botox
provide up-close improvement of facial Staying in touch!
skin
For our cells to assemble into tissues and whole
November 6, 2020 – Botulinum toxin – best known organs, the extracellular ma-trix (ECM) as well as
by the brand name Botox – is a popular treatment to the integrins are required....
reduce...
Study reveals strategy to create COVID-
Policy, not tech, spurred Danish 19 drugs to inhibit virus’s entry and
dominance in wind energy replication

ITHACA, N.Y. – In emerging renewable energy IMAGE: Lead author Michael Sacco (sitting), a
industries, are producers’ decisions to shut down or doctoral student in the USF Health Department of
upgrade aging... Molecular Medicine,...

Covid travel ban for visitors to UK from ‘I was refused a home Covid test after
Denmark credit check’

Writing on Twitter, Grant Shapps said: “This decision “We really couldn’t understand why we weren’t able
to act quickly follows on from health authorities in to have our identities verified, ” says Laura...
Denmark...
Covid-19: Union fears nursing shortage
Covid: How to survive a winter lockdown, as winter looms
from those who’ve done it
The boss of NHS England, Sir Simon Stevens, told
Lockdown in Tromsø began in March 2020, when a Downing Street press conference on Thursday
the average temperature was -1.1C, with lows of that flu and other winter...
-8.9C. It rained or snowed...
Mothers’ lifestyle predicts when offspring
Genetic mutation could worsen heart will have first heart attack or stroke
function in Duchenne muscular
dystrophy patients “Our study suggests that mothers are the primary
gatekeepers of their children’s health,” said study
DMD, caused by a mutation on the X chromosome, author...
affects 1 of every 3,500 to 5,000 boys worldwide.
This mutation results in...

Scientists make breakthrough discovery Pay people to get COVID-19 jab to ensure
of new therapeutic targets for Alzheimer’s widespread coverage, says leading
ethicist
Although the pathological mechanisms of AD have
been studied for decades, the disease remains The incentive could be either financial or ‘payment in
incurable. One reason is that... kind’, such as being allowed to forego the need to
wear...
Social distancing may have saved more
than 59,000 u.s. Lives if implemented two Optimizing the design of new materials
weeks earlier
Northwestern University researchers have
Implementing social distancing, business closures, developed a new computational approach to
and other non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) accelerate the design of materials exhibiting...
in the U.S. two weeks...
Variety in the migratory behavior of
Two-birds-one-stone strategy shows blackcaps
promise in RNA-repeat expansion
diseases Through a large-scale study with so-called
geolocators, researchers led by Miriam Liedvogel of
JUPITER, FL–A new strategy for treating a variety of the Max Planck Institute for...
diseases known as RNA-repeat expansion
disorders, which affect... Study shows disadvantaged communities
may get overlooked for climate
Rivers melt Arctic ice, warming air and adaptation funding
ocean
IMAGE: Extreme heat threatens the wellbeing of
IMAGE: Water from Canada’s Mackenzie River people all over the world, a new study from
enters the blue Arctic Ocean in July 2012. White scientists at the University...
areas in the top...
Why consumers think pretty food is
Perspectives of infrared spectroscopy in healthier
quantitative estimation of proteins
A researcher from University of Southern California
Infrared (IR) spectroscopy is a frequently used published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing
technique for the structural analysis of simple and that explores whether...
complex molecules. It...
Coronavirus Research: Children develop
Four pharma firms offer $26bn to settle fewer, weaker antibodies
opioid epidemic lawsuits
Children develop weaker antibodies to coronavirus
Johnson Johnson and three distributors of opioids than adults do, new research suggests. Scientists
offer to pay $26 BILLION in landmark settlement of at Columbia University...
thousands of lawsuits...
CDC KNEW its first coronavirus test kit
DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: Help! I’m trying to could fail up to a THIRD of the time
stay sane trapped in tiny quarantine room
for 14 days The first U.S. coronavirus test kit failed up to 33
percent of the time in the Centers for Disease
My wife Clare and I are locked away in a small room Control and Prevention’s...
— just nine paces by four — with a guard outside to
make sure we... Covid-19 cases are dropping in under-40s
in England, PHE data shows
Covid-19 lockdown: Watchdog scolds
No10 for lack of transparency Coronavirus infection rates fell among the under-40s
last week but continued to rise in older people,
Britain’s statistics watchdog today criticised Number Public Health England...
10 for not being transparent enough with the data it
used to... COVID-19 linked to worse stroke
outcomes
Coronavirus England: 40% of young ‘will
break Christmas lockdown’ Having COVID-19 at stroke onset was also
associated with more than double the mortality rate
Four out of 10 young people say they will break the of other stroke patients, according...
coronavirus lockdown rules this Christmas, a survey
has found. Forty... Pre-existing coronavirus antibodies could
help protect children against new
Hydroxychloroquine not linked to longer pandemic strain
heart rhythm intervals in rheumatoid
arthritis or lupus patients In response to infection with a virus, the immune
system creates antibodies to help fight it. These
Rheumatoid arthritis is the most common type of antibodies remain in...
autoimmune arthritis. It is caused when the immune
system (the body’s... Patients reported international
hydroxychloroquine shortages due to
COVID-19 infection rates low in people COVID-19
with rheumatic diseases, most report
mild illness

COVID-19 is the infectious disease caused by the Systemic lupus erythematosus, also called lupus or
novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. As the COVID-19 SLE, is a chronic (long-term) disease that causes
pandemic surged worldwide... systemic inflammation...

Photopharmacology: Light-gated control Sugar-coated viral proteins hijack and
of the cytoskeleton hitch a ride out of cells

“The problem with using these drugs as research The findings have been published in PNAS today
tools is that they are not precise enough to tell us and are important to efforts to develop broad-
what we need to... spectrum antiviral agents. Professor...

Down Syndrome-associated gene Mystery of glacial lake floods solved
suppresses age-related corneal clouding
IMAGE: The hot water drill used to drill through the
Down syndrome, the most common congenital glacier to the subglacial lakes. The drill stem is
disease in human genetics, has seen dramatic hundreds of...
increases in longevity with advances...
Physical distancing polices not enough
Underinsurance is growing, but HSAs to protect lower-income people: BU study
aren’t keeping up: BU study
A new Boston University School of Public Health
High deductible health plans (HDHPs) have become study of the first four months of America’s
much more common among all racial/ethnic and coronavirus epidemic, published...
income groups, but the health...
Coming out as bisexual associated with
Study projects more rainfall in Florida increased risk of smoking: BU study
during flooding season
For many years, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and other
IMAGE: (a) Map of the correlation between Atlantic non-heterosexual (LGB+) folks have been known to
SSTs and precipitation for June – October in GPCP be more likely to smoke...
(squares)...
New findings for viral research on bicycle
How cell processes round up and dump crashes at railroad crossings
damaged proteins
New research by Professor Chris Cherry follows his
IMAGE: Eric Strieter at UMass Amherst says he and previous research that drew worldwide attention to
his chemistry lab group have discovered how an the frequency of bicycle...
enzyme known as UCH37...
HIV diagnoses in gay and bisexual men at
Migration and molt affect how birds 20-year low
change their colors
A new report shows a drop in diagnosed cases
IMAGE: Indigo buntings and other migratory birds across people of all sexualities and genders.
molt before making the long trek south every fall.
view more Credit:... Poor diet: Children 20cm shorter as a
result, analysis says
Covid: Can mass testing save us from
another lockdown? The study appears in The Lancet.

China has done this on multiple occasions by mass Stroke risk DOUBLES for Asian people
testing everyone in a city after a cluster of cases with Covid-19, study finds
was detected. Slovakia...
Asian people are twice as likely to have a stroke if
UK coronavirus infections may be they have Covid-19, a study has suggested.
‘stabilising’ Researchers found people...

The increase in coronavirus infections appears to be Coronavirus UK: Death rate graphs
slowing around the UK, latest data from the Office justifying lockdown were WRONG
for National Statistics...
An official prediction that coronavirus deaths would
Pay people to get Covid-19 jab to ensure soon pass those registered in the first wave has
widespread coverage, ethicist says been quietly corrected...

People should be paid to get a Covid vaccine to Coronavirus UK: New case numbers flat
ensure that millions get protected against the at 24,141 but lockdown resumes
disease, a leading expert...
Britain’s coronavirus cases remained flat at 24,141
Covid-19 can make tinnitus WORSE or today despite Boris Johnson justifying lockdown by
even trigger a hearing problem claiming the...

Almost half of tinnitus sufferers say catching Fury over ‘dodgy dossier of Covid
coronavirus has made their hearing condition even models’ after doomsday graph which
worse, a study has found. The... predicted 1,500 daily deaths

Contacts of Covid-19 patients are The Government and its scientific advisers were
‘blocking’ test and trace phone number lambasted today for using ‘dodgy coronavirus data’
to justify...
Britons are ignoring calls from test and trace and
blocking its number because they are being
bombarded, a contact tracer...

More proof England’s second wave of Case study details leukemia patient who
Covid-19 was slowing BEFORE lockdown shed infectious SARS-CoV-2 for at least
70 days
Downing Street today refused calls for England’s
second lockdown to be cut short and insisted it will “At the time we started this study, we really didn’t
run until December... know much about the duration of virus shedding,”
says...
Every month delayed in cancer treatment
can raise risk of death by around 10% Exposure to high temperatures linked to
poor pregnancy outcomes
Canadian and UK researchers found there was a
significant impact on a person’s mortality if their Although the effects may appear small in size, the
treatment was delayed,... researchers say the findings “could have a major
impact on public...
Poor nutrition in school years may have
created 20 cm height gap across nations Vaccine shows promise against herpes
virus
The study, which used data from 65 million children
aged five to 19 years old in 193 countries, revealed Published Nov. 6 in the journal Nature Vaccines, the
that school-aged... study found that vaccinating guinea pigs with the
modified live virus...
Green prescriptions could undermine the
benefits of spending time in nature Photopharmacology — light-gated control
of the cytoskeleton
An international research team led by the University
of Exeter and published in the journal Scientific Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich
Reports, investigated... researchers have developed photoresponsive
derivatives of the anticancer...
Has the hidden matter of the universe
been discovered? Swirl power: how gentle body movement
will charge your mobile phone
Astrophysicists consider that around 40% of the
ordinary matter that makes up stars, planets and IMAGE: When woven into clothes, piezoelectric
galaxies remains undetected,... fibres will transform mechanical energy into electric
energy every time...
Germanium telluride’s hidden properties
at the nanoscale revealed Cancer researchers train white blood
cells to attacks tumor cells
IMAGE: The Fermi surface of multidomain GeTe
(111) bulk single crystal measured with high- IMAGE: Immunotherapies that rely on training the
resolution angle-resolved... body’s non-specific defence could improve
therapeutic options...
Investigating optical activity under an
external magnetic field Baby dinosaurs were ‘little adults’

Optical activity in chiral molecules has become a hot IMAGE: Mounted skeleton of Plateosaurus “Fabian ”
topic in physics and optics, representing the ability in the Sauriermuseum Frick, with the 20 inch (50
to manipulate... cm)...

The applications of liquid crystals have Coronavirus London: Sadiq Khan says
been extended to drug encapsulation rate of infections is slowing

Researchers from the Complutense University of London‘s second wave of coronavirus had already
Madrid (UCM) and the NOVA University of Lisbon started to slow down before the national lockdown
(UNL) have used platinum (Pt)... forced workers to...

Machine learning shows similar Social media can guide public pandemic
performance to traditional risk prediction policy, research finds
models
Led by Associate Professor Tan Yigitcanlar from
The NHS has invested £250m ($323m; €275m) to QUT’s School of Built Environment, and in
embed machine learning in healthcare, but collaboration with researchers...
researchers say the level of consistency...
Rapid changes in biomarker of
Face masks don’t hinder breathing during inflammation may be a key predictor of
exercise, study finds COVID-19 outcomes

Questions have been raised as to whether mask “We realized that whereas a single CRP lab value
wearing during vigorous exercise might compromise from hospital admission wasn’t very practical as a
oxygen uptake or increase... predictor...

Tokyo’s voluntary standstill may have Virus that causes COVID-19 puts a plug in
stopped COVID-19 in its tracks cellular defenses

A new comparative analysis of people’s mobility Now, a multidisciplinary team of Yale researchers
during the virus’ first wave illustrates how drastically has discovered how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that
the... causes COVID-19, accomplishes...

Llama nanobodies could be a powerful COVID-19 is making tinnitus worse, new
weapon against COVID-19 study finds

These special llama antibodies, called “nanobodies,” The study of 3,103 people with tinnitus was led by
are much smaller than human antibodies and many Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), with support from
times more... the British Tinnitus...

Stable protein decoy neutralized SARS- Game ‘pre-bunks’ political
CoV-2 in cells and protected hamsters misinformation by letting players
from viral challenge undermine democracy

Researchers have designed a protein “decoy” that IMAGE: The title screen of online browser game
mimics the interface where the SARS-CoV-2 spike Harmony Square. view more Credit: Gusmanson A
protein binds... short online...

A brief pilot intervention enhances Anti-depressant repurposed to treat
preschoolers’ self-regulation and food childhood cancer
liking
IMAGE: Caitrín Crudden, former PhD student at the
AUDIO: Lead investigator Sara A. Schmitt, PhD, Department of Oncology-Pathology at Karolinska
Purdue University, reports that an intervention using Institutet. ...
mindfulness training...
Decrease in fossil-fuel CO2 emissions
Anti-hacking based on the circular due to COVID-19 detected by atmospheric
polarization direction of light observations

IMAGE: A Schematic Diagram of the Major IMAGE: Birds-eye view photo of Hateruma Island
Strategies for the Development of Near-infrared (left) and the monitoring station on the island (right).
Radiometric Sensitivity Photovoltaic... view...

Plastics and rising CO2 levels could pose Here’s how to improve packaged foods
combined threat to marine environment nutrition

The combined environmental threat of plastic Researchers from Illinois State University, North
pollution and ocean acidification are having Carolina State University, University of South
significant impacts on species... Carolina, and University...

UK contact-tracing apps start to talk to Covid-19: Assisted dying travel allowed
each other during lockdown, says Hancock

“While the majority of us will not be travelling under Eccleston family tell of meeting to hear mercy
the current restrictions, this update will provide deaths plan
protection...
Covid: Regulator criticises data used to
Covid: Care home visits advice justify lockdown
impractical, say charities
Covid-19 in the UK: How many coronavirus cases
The updated government advice, which came into are there in your area?
effect on Thursday, says care homes – especially
those which have not... CDC director says ‘now is time’ to
develop a testing strategy to identify
Colonoscopy and mammogram rates in asymptomatic COVID cases
the US plummet by 65% amid pandemic
The director for the Centers for Disease Control and
The number of Americans getting key screenings Prevention (CDC) says the US must immediately
like colonoscopies and mammograms fell by 65 develop a testing strategy...
percent amid the pandemic, a...
One-third of cancer patients undergoing
Americans who go to the office are nearly chemotherapy and radiation tested
TWICE as likely to test positive for positive for COVID-19
coronavirus
Should all cancer patients be screened for COVID-
Americans who go out to work are nearly TWICE as 19? Nearly one-third of patients undergoing chemo
likely to test positive for coronavirus as people who or radiation in UAE study...
work from home, CDC...
Supply of N95 masks is running low as
Llamas make tiny ‘nanobodies’ that are
‘many times more powerful’ than human Hospitals and health departments in many states
coronavirus antibodies are once again facing a looming shortage of
protective gear – especially...
Could LLAMAS be the key to stopping COVID-19?
The woolly animal’s immune system makes tiny Two motivational artificial beings are
‘nanobodies’... better than one for enhancing learning

Coronavirus UK: Test & Trace reaches
just 59.9% of at-risk contacts

England’s Test Trace bungling system reached a In a study published this month in PLOS ONE,
smaller proportion of at-risk people than at any point researchers from the University of Tsukuba have
since it started,... shown that motor task performance...

Human intelligence just got less Resensitizing ‘last-resort’ antibiotics for
mysterious treatment of infections

It has previously been thought and copiously The findings provide insights into development of
published that it is ‘pattern separation’ in the inorganic pharmaceutics and new therapeutic
hippocampus, an... approach for superbug infections....

Researchers study strength-training Discovery of shape of the SARS-CoV-2
gender gap, possible solutions genome after infection could inform new
COVID-19 treatments
In a study of college students, researchers found
that women were less likely than men to participate SARS-CoV-2 is one of many coronaviruses. All
in muscle-strengthening... share the characteristic of having the largest single-
stranded RNA genome in...
Most humans are vulnerable to type 2
diabetes Mystery molecule in bacteria is revealed
to be a guard
A recent study from scientists at Indiana University
School of Medicine, the University of Michigan and The study, conducted in the lab of Prof. Rotem
Case Western Reserve... Sorek of the Institute’s Molecular Genetics
Department, was led by Adi...
Gene in mice controls food cravings,
desire to exercise COVID-19: Enzyme targeted by virus also
influences gut inflammation
Prkar2a contains the information needed to make
two subunits — molecular components — of the IMAGE: The novel coronavirus as seen under a
enzyme protein kinase... microscope. view more Credit: Courtesy of the
National Institutes...
Shifts in water temperatures affect eating
habits of larval tuna at critical life stage Immunotherapy may work better in
stomach cancer when combined with
IMAGE: Larval tuna. view more Credit: Cedric chemo, given earlier
Guigand NEWPORT, Ore. – Small shifts in ocean
temperature... IMAGE: Stomach cancer cells from a mouse model;
PDL1 molecules are stained pink. view more Credit:
Keeping our cool Wang lab,...

Fossil fuel burning accounts for the majority of Scientists work to shed light on Standard
global greenhouse gas emissions, and to the world’s Model of particle physics
credit, several...
IMAGE: Typical magnetic field variations as mapped
Children produce different antibodies in by the trolley at different positions in the Muon g-2
response to SARS-CoV-2 experiment’s...

NEW YORK, NY (Nov. 5, 2020)–Children and adults Brain magnetic stimulation for veterans
produce different types and amounts of antibodies in with concussion: Need is high, but
response to infection... evidence is limited

Study suggests most humans are November 5, 2020 – Studies using repetitive
vulnerable to type 2 diabetes transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), a
noninvasive technique, to help...
IMAGE: Researchers at IU School of Medicine have
published a study suggesting most humans are Coronavirus: Sniffer dogs may be
vulnerable to Type 2... BETTER detectors than swab tests

Coronavirus UK: Test & Trace reaches Sniffer dogs could be BETTER at spotting Covid-19
smallest ever proportion of at-risk than swab tests, scientists claim after Finnish airport
contacts trial sees them...

England’s Test Trace bungling system reached a Sadiq Khan says infections across the
smaller proportion of at-risk people than at any point capital have started to tail off
since it started,...
London‘s second wave of coronavirus had already
Technique to regenerate optic nerve started to slow down before the national lockdown
offers hope for future glaucoma treatment forced workers to...

Axons — nerve fibres — in the adult central nervous How does the brain process fear?
system (CNS) do not normally regenerate after
injury and... IMAGE: Scientists know that fear memories for mice
are made in the amygdala, an almond-shaped
Story tips: Ice breaker data, bacterial structure deep in the...
breakdown, catching heat and finding
Forthcoming COVID-19 preprints to be
peer reviewed in Rapid Reviews

order CAMBRIDGE, MA – November 4, 2020—Rapid
Reviews: COVID-19 (RR:C19), an open-access
IMAGE: The icebreaker R/V Polarstern carried more overlay journal published by...
than 60 ARM instruments for the MOSAiC
expedition. view more Credit:... Researchers use genomics to
reconstitute yellow fever outbreak in São
New study shows that football fixture Paulo
pile-ups are forcing layers and coaches
to change Agência FAPESP – Yellow fever virus is normally
confined to the Amazon region, but the virus
IMAGE: Fixture congestion is affecting top-level circulated in the Southeast...
football view more Credit: Emilio Garcia
@piensaenpixel Dr... Minor fluctuations in sound make it hard
to identify in which concert hall music is
Boosting treatments for metastatic played
melanoma
IMAGE: Speaker orchestra view more Credit:
IMAGE: Soma Sengupta, MD, PhD, and Daniel Photo: Jukka Patynen The volume and timbre of
Pomeranz Krummel, PhD, pictured here in their lab music have a significant...
in the Vontz, say they...
Basildon maternity unit handed ‘urgent’
Blue phosphorus: How a semiconductor safety deadline
becomes a metal
Basildon University Hospital maternity unit rated
IMAGE: The international team modelled a two-layer ‘inadequate’
buckled honeycomb structure of blue phosphorus by
means of highly... Coronavirus: Was tier 3 working in
Liverpool City Region?
Glitch caused self-isolation orders to be
too long Three weeks later, the region, along with the rest of
the country, has moved into an even stricter national
The mistake – which was first reported by Sky News lockdown.
– follows a series of other software-based Covid-19
foul-ups. People who have had Covid think they’re
‘immune’ and are less likely to follow
Covid: New care home visits guidance in lockdown rules
England defended by minister
Britons who believe they have previously had
The updated government advice, which comes into coronavirus are three times more likely to break
effect on Thursday, says care homes – especially lockdown rules, a study has...
those which haven’t...
‘BAH-code’ reader senses gene-silencing
Coronavirus vaccines could be available tag in cells
‘within weeks’
UNC Lineberger’s Greg Wang, PhD, associate
Covid-19 vaccines could be rolled out in the UK professor in the UNC School of Medicine
within the first half of next year, with the NHS to Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics,...
prepare itself to deliver...
Sleep-deprived mice find cocaine more
Breakdown of gene coordination during rewarding
aging suggests a substantial challenge to
longevity Poor sleep and cocaine use go hand-in-hand. Both
acute and chronic cocaine use disrupts sleep, and
How is it that random, disorganized damage, which sleep disturbances can...
accumulates differently among different humans,
and moreover, among different... Researchers identify key marker to help
speed development of CMV vaccines
Four major predictors of COVID-19
emerge in new study In a study appearing online Nov. 4 in Science
Translational Medicine, the researchers describe an
Rich Whittle, a doctoral student at Texas AM, cites in immune surrogate that demonstrates...
a recent study that by April 2020, New York City
accounted for more... Coronavirus infection odds twice as high
among Black, Latinx hospital workers
Tel Aviv University says ‘environmentally-
friendly’ tableware harms marine animals Support staff and Black and Latinx hospital
employees with and without patient care
A new Tel Aviv University study compares the responsibilities are at highest risk...
effects of two types of disposable dishes on the
marine environment —... Analysis reveals high burden of
musculoskeletal disorders across the
The biggest trees capture the most globe
carbon: Large trees dominate carbon
storage in forests Musculoskeletal disorders–which affect muscles,
tendons, ligaments, bones, and joints–can severely
IMAGE: A recent study examining carbon storage in affect individuals’...
Pacific Northwest forests demonstrated that
although large-diameter...

Better health – for people and the planet Prejudice, poverty, gender

IMAGE: A view of an agroforestry production system IMAGE: Long distances and poor roads hinder many
in Lampung province, Indonesia in 2017. view more with NTDs from accessing healthcare, especially
Credit:... those with poor mobility. ...

Why big-box chains’ embrace of in-store The first duckbill dinosaur fossil from
click-and collect leaves money on the Africa hints at how dinosaurs once
table crossed oceans

Researchers from University of North Carolina- IMAGE: Duckbill dinosaurs evolved in north
Chapel Hill and Tilburg University published a new America, spreading to South America, Asia, Europe,
paper in the Journal of... and finally Africa ...

Coronavirus: FDA warns against at-home Experimental thyroid hormone treatment
oxygen concentrator treatment could prevent lung failure in COVID-19
patients
FDA warns against treating coronavirus at home
with ‘oxygen concentrator’ devices that filter nitrogen An experimental thyroid hormone treatment could
out of... block lung failure and speed up recovery in patients
with severe cases of...
High temperatures increases risk of
premature births, says study Cancer patient with coronavirus was
infectious for 70 DAYS
Every two degree rise in temperature increases the
risk that pregnant women will give birth prematurely Coronavirus can remain infectious for 70 days, a
or have a stillbirth... new case study suggests. Researchers at the
National Institute of Allergy...
Britain records 492 Covid-19 deaths in
highest daily toll since May Countdown to Lockdown: Brits stock up
at Primark, Aldi and Wetherspoons
Britain today recorded another 492 Covid-19 victims
in the highest daily death toll since May — but Pubs are running dry across England this evening,
infections are no longer... as revellers gather for one last drink before a
second national lockdown comes...
Coronavirus UK: NHS moves to highest
alert at MIDNIGHT ‘Monster tumors’ could offer new glimpse
at human development
Sir Simon Stevens – NHS England’s chief executive
– said the move to level four was in response... Teratomas — which mean “monstrous tumors” in
Greek — are tumors made up of different tissues
Biologists create ‘atlas’ of gene such...
expression in neurons, documenting
diversity of brain cells Brain region implicated in predicting the
consequences of actions
“Diversity of the different cell types that make up our
brains can only be fully understood in light of their Scientists have now found that a brain structure
developmental... called the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), known to
be important for decision...
Why protecting the brain against infection
takes guts How birth experience shapes
development
The brain is arguably the most important organ in
the body, as it controls most other body systems and Today, roughly one in three births in the United
enables reasoning,... States occurs via cesarean section or C-section. In
some other countries...
Local cooking preferences drove
acceptance of new crop staples in Brain region tracking food preferences
prehistoric China could steer our food choices

A new study in PLOS ONE led by Xinyi Liu, Their findings, published in the journal Science
associate professor of archaeology in Arts Sciences, Advances, built upon the same team’s discovery two
focuses on the ancient history... years ago that...

Identifying communities at risk for Nature-inspired design–Mimicking moth
impacts of extreme heat eyes to produce transparent anti-
reflective coatings
As climate change progresses, governments are
increasingly interested in equity-oriented policies to IMAGE: Scientists have found a way to produce
aid communities that... large area transparent films whose nanostructures
are inspired by the...
Paper addresses fieldwork safety for
minority scientists Providing a safe environment for
psychiatric patients during pandemic
ITHACA, N.Y. – Scientists and graduate students
with minority identities who conduct fieldwork report The very heart of inpatient care for psychiatric
being stalked,... patients is socialization, group therapy, shared
meals, and a standard two...

Near-atomic ‘maps’ reveal structure for New insights on a common protein could
maintaining pH balance in cells lead to novel cancer treatments

IMAGE: Cryo-EM images of proton-activated A new University of Colorado Boulder-led study
chloride channel (PAC) view more Credit: Courtesy sheds light on a protein key to controlling how cells
of Dr. Wei Lü,... grow, proliferate and...

Plot twist New research traces the origins of trench
fever
The black rats weren’t supposed to be there, on
Palmyra Atoll. Likely arriving at the remote Pacific IMAGE: Researchers analyzed bone fragments and
islet network... the teeth of 145 individuals alive between the 1st
and 19th centuries....
Hydrogen bonds may be key to airborne
dicamba Covid: MPs to vote on England’s four-
week lockdown
Dicamba has been the subject of lawsuits across the
country, with landowners contending the herbicide, Covid: Destructive rules only current option, says
when used by neighboring... Chris Whitty

Covid in Scotland: NHS staff ‘facing Covid-19: NHS in England moves to
perfect storm’ highest alert level

“We can re-purpose approximately 3,000 acute beds Patients’ access to vital NHS tests delayed by
nationally as part of our contingency planning, warehouse failure
including the ability...
Half of depression patients given magic
Coronavirus: Extremely vulnerable mushroom compound symptom-free a
advised not to go to work from Thursday month after being dosed

Under updated government guidance, they should Taking just two doses of a compound found in magic
only go out for exercise and to attend health mushrooms can reduce feelings of depression, a
appointments. new small study suggests. Researchers...

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says Coronavirus: Charts suggest local
England WILL resort to whack-a-mole lockdowns ARE working on eve of MPs’
lockdowns vote

The Foreign Secretary admitted the blanket national England’s three-tier lockdown strategy is bringing
intervention was ‘reluctantly’ accepted as a last- down coronavirus cases in badly affected areas,
ditch... according to official...

New method shows great potential for the Genetic elements involved in heart
treatment of Alzheimer’s disease development identified

In Alzheimer’s disease, the peptide amyloid-beta In a paper published in the October issue of
begins to form clumps in the brain. This process is Circulation Research, Cotney outlines the
called aggregation... importance of “hub genes”...

COVID-19 lung damage caused by Scientists identify synthetic mini-
persistence of ‘abnormal cells’ antibody to combat COVID-19

The study, published today in The Lancet’s Llama’s mini-antibodies and their synthetic imitations
eBioMedicine, by King’s College London in The ability of SARS-CoV-2 to infect cells depends
collaboration with University... on interactions...

Different outcomes by race/ethnicity Lighting the way to selective membrane
among patients with COVID-19 and imaging
rheumatic disease
The targeted delivery of therapeutic drugs or DNA
The analysis included data on all U.S. patients with directly to cells has many uses for treating disease,
rheumatic disease and COVID-19 entered into the hence there is increasing...
COVID-19 Global Rheumatology...
Western diet impairs odor-related
The dangers of collecting drinking water learning and olfactory memory in mice

A new international study published in BMJ Global Some people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) show signs
Health reveals dangers including falls, traffic of olfactory dysfunction, including problems with
accidents, animal attacks,... detecting, discriminating...

Tricking fake news detectors with Understanding the spread of infectious
malicious user comments diseases

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Fake news detectors, IMAGE: Simulations based on a new model for the
which have been deployed by social media spread of epidemics show the decrease in infection
platforms like Twitter and Facebook... rates as a result...

Chikungunya may affect central nervous Water-energy nanogrid provides solution
system as well as joints and lungs for rural communities lacking basic
amenities
IMAGE: Investigation showed that chikungunya
virus can cause neurological infections. Risk of IMAGE: The water-energy nanogrid. Electricity
death in subacute phase... generated at solar panels during peak availability is
used to run a water...
Using artificial intelligence can improve
pregnant women’s health Scientists find Ebola virus antibodies in
people before 2018 DRC outbreak
Researchers from the University of Seville have
carried out a rigorous and detailed analysis of how IMAGE: Residents walk along a road in Eastern
artificial intelligence... Democratic Republic of Congo. view more Credit:
Tracey Goldstein/UC...
Monitoring open-cast mines better than
before Four major predictors of COVID-19
emerge in Texas A&M study
IMAGE: Mean deformation rates over the Hambach
open-pit mine in Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany, In March 2020, New York City, an icon of America,
retrieved from different... was unfortunately named an early epicenter of the
novel coronavirus. Now...
Coronavirus: Covid-19 accounted for 1 in
10 deaths in England in mid-October Boris could HALVE self-isolation for
those who test positive for Covid to
Almost 1,000 more people than usual died in seven days ‘this week’
England and Wales in the week ending October 23,
official figures revealed today... Boris Johnson could HALVE the self-isolation period
for those who test positive for coronavirus to seven
Top researchers say Britain’s R rate has days ‘this...
dropped to 1
Testing chief admits mass testing scheme
Fears England may have jumped the gun with a in Liverpool will NOT spot everyone
second national lockdown grew today after top infected with Covid-19
scientists claimed the R rate...
Mass testing in Liverpool will not be able to identify
Coronavirus: Parents of schoolchildren every single case of coronavirus, one the
‘NOT at greater risk’ government’s testing...

Parents of schoolchildren do not face a greater risk Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance
of being admitted to hospital or dying of the defend their ‘4,000 deaths a day’ dossier
coronavirus, research...
AT A GLANCE: HOW VALLANCE AND WHITTY
Coronavirus Vaccine: GPs ‘told to DEFENDED THE LOCKDOWN SATURDAY’S
prepare to give jabs within weeks’ GLOOMY SLIDES The pair admitted what one MP...

As scientists race to develop a coronavirus vaccine Coronavirus England: Is the NHS
to bring the world back to normal, MailOnline has QUIETER than usual?
taken a look at the...
NHS hospitals in England appear quieter than usual
Combo-drug treatment for Type 2 for this time of year even though they are treating
diabetes remains effective after two years more than 9,000 patients...

“Many therapies in diabetes management are short- New insight into how brain neurons
lived, which is why it’s useful to test for long-term influence choices
effect,”...
Now, a study in monkeys by researchers at
Avoiding inflammatory foods can lower Washington University School of Medicine in St.
heart disease, stroke risk Louis has shown that the activity...

Chronic inflammation has been shown to play an Scientists identify specific brain region
important role in the development of heart disease and circuits controlling attention
and stroke. Certain inflammatory...
“Our results demonstrate a fundamental causal role
Study finds 1 in 8 patients with cancer of LC neuronal activation in the implementation of
harbor inherited genetic mutations attentional control...

In a new study published in JAMA Oncology, Intensive lab experiences and online
scientists with Mayo Clinic’s Center for learning during the COVID-19 pandemic
Individualized Medicine conducted...
IMAGE: “With our rapid pivot to online instruction, it
A material that "bruises"like the skin? is more important than ever to ensure our students
have...
IMAGE: Chemical structure of the spiropyran (SP)
mechanophore and its transformation into the Scientists improve a land surface model
merocyanine (MC) form. ... to better simulate the carbon-nitrogen
flux

IMAGE: The nitrogen cycle related to carbon flux in
the Atmosphere–Vegetation Interaction Model view
more Credit:...

3D print experts discover how to make Death from below: the first video of a
tomorrow’s technology using ink-jet parasitic wasp attacking caterpillar
printed graphene underwater

IMAGE: A representative arrangement of graphene A very few species of parasitoid wasps can be
flakes in ink-jet printed graphene between two considered aquatic. Less than 0.1% of the species
contacts (green). Color... we know today have been found...

Do small gifts to donors increase charity Plants communicate at a molecular level
appeal ROI?
Working together with researchers from the
Researchers from John Carroll University and University of Tübingen, the University of Tromsø, the
University of Kansas published a new paper in the UC Davis and the Sainsbury...
Journal of Marketing that...
Covid: Destructive rules only current
How asymmetrical alliances impact firm option, says Chris Whitty
performance and risk
Meanwhile, more details of England’s lockdown
Researchers from University of Georgia, University have also been revealed, with the publication of the
of South Carolina, and University of Arkansas legislation that...
published a new paper in...
Earwax test could reveal stress levels
Covid: Deaths 10% higher than normal as
virus deaths rise Follow Rachel on Twitter

Covid-19 in the UK: How many coronavirus cases COVID-19 US: Nearly 50,000 hospitalized,
are there in your area? with 81,431 new cases today

Coronavirus: Living with children ‘no The third wave of the coronavirus pandemic has left
increased risk’ nearly 50,000 Americans hospitalized with experts
fearing several hospitals...
Covid: What is the mental health cost to the young?
Weather alone will NOT change the
Women who are pregnant are three times spread of coronavirus, study finds
more likely to fall severely ill if they catch
COVID-19 Weather itself does not have any significant effect
on the spread of the coronavirus, a new study
Pregnant women who contract the coronavirus are suggests. Researchers found...
more likely to become critically ill and die, and are at
higher risk for... Babies with higher vitamin D levels less
are likely to grow up to be obese
Coronavirus NY: Study says 1.7m – 6
times official figure Making sure babies get plenty of vitamin D in the
first year of their lives could protect them from
The number of New York City residents who have obesity, a new study...
been infected with the coronavirus may be six times
greater than the official... Venous origin of brain blood-vessel
malformations
COVID-positive or quarantining people
CAN vote in person, CDC says The vascular lesions, or blood-vessel malformations,
that appear in a cerebral cavernoma — also known
People who have COVID-19 or are in quarantine as a cerebral...
after a potential exposure still have the right to vote
– and should... Harnessing the ‘wisdom of crowds’ can
help combat antibiotic over-prescription
Tracking flight trajectory of evaporating
cough droplets Published in Scientific Reports, an international
group of researchers led by Dr Eva Krockow at the
In a new paper in Physics of Fluids, by AIP University of Leicester...
Publishing, researchers from A*STAR’s Institute of
High Performance Computing... Researchers engineer tiny machines that
deliver medicine efficiently
Study uncovers subset of COVID-19
patients who recover quickly and sustain David Gracias, Ph.D., a professor in the Johns
antibodies Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering,
and Johns Hopkins gastroenterologist...
A new study led by investigators from Brigham and
Women’s Hospital examined blood samples and Europe took center-stage in global
cells from patients who... spread of the coronavirus, says new
research
Implantable device can monitor and treat
heart disease The University of Huddersfield’s Archaeogenetics
Research Group has mapped out the dispersal of
Researchers led by a mechanical engineer from the the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus,...
University of Houston have reported in Nature
Electronics a patch made...

Researchers pioneer more effective way Europe took centre-stage in global
to block malaria transmission in spread of the coronavirus, says new
mosquitoes research

University of California, Irvine postdoctoral IMAGE: A collaboration between genome
researcher Adriana Adolfi, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Huddersfield and
colleagues at UCI, UC Berkeley... geneticists at the University...

Key populations for early COVID-19 How to fix the movement for fossil fuel
immunization in Canada divestment

Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Bankers and environmentalists alike are increasingly
Immunization (NACI) recommends vaccinating key calling for capital markets to play a bigger role in the
populations, such as people... war on carbon....

Vitamin E from palm oil useful in boosting Texas A&M lion genetics study uncovers
immune response based on studies on major consequences of habitat
liver cells fragmentation

Palm oil contains abundant quantities of vitamin E Over the course of only a century, humanity has
compounds, which include tocopherols and made an observable impact on the genetic diversity
tocotrienols. These compounds... of the lion population....

Industrial-strength brine, meet your UConn researcher identifies genetic
kryptonite elements involved in heart development

IMAGE: Rice University engineers created a robust IMAGE: Justin Cotney in his lab at UConn Health
heating element for desalinating highly corrosive view more Credit: Encarnacion/UConn Photo The
industrial-strength... advent of...

Leaf-cutter bees as plastic recyclers? Not White House coronavirus strain: Genome
a good idea, say scientists sequencing traces its roots

LOGAN, UTAH, USA — Plastic has become Scientists have sequenced the genome of a
ubiquitous in modern life and its accumulation as coronavirus strain that likely infected President
waste in the environment is... Trump and dozens of his advisers...

STI rates have fallen by more than 30% More than 61,000 children tested positive
amid the coronavirus pandemic for coronavirus last week in record-
breaking increase
Rates of sexualluy transmitted infections have
plummeted amid the coronavirus pandemic – but More than 61,000 children in the US tested positive
experts are wary that... for coronavirus last week – the highest total ever
since the pandemic...
Should you wash your mane with horse
shampoo or slather goat’s milk cream on New book says you don’t ALWAYS have
your face? to finish an antibiotics course

Animal-based treatments have a long-established Some of the most common medical treatments we
role in medicine — maggots can help heal chronic rely on are out of date and may even be bad for us,
wounds, for example, and... says Dr Paul Offit, a leading...

Which countries are REALLY winning the Nasal spray containing oxtyocin could
race to beat coronavirus? treat TINNITUS

With previous reports of it taking days just to book a A nasal spray of the ‘love hormone’ oxytocin could
Covid test, and even now, some people still having banish tinnitus — the ringing or buzzing in the ears
to wait days for... that affects...

How safe is it to head a football? Focus on COVID-19 deaths in under-65s
for better insights into infection rates
For football fans, the winning 1966 England World
Cup team has assumed almost legendary status, The research, conducted by scientists at the
but many of the team are... University of Cambridge and the Institut Pasteur,
was published today in the...
Seven different ‘disease forms’ identified
in mild COVID-19 Ultrapotent COVID-19 vaccine candidate
designed via computer
In the study involving 109 convalescents and 98
healthy individuals in the control group, the Compared to vaccination with the soluble SARS-
researchers were able to show... CoV-2 Spike protein, which is what many leading
COVID-19 vaccine candidates...
COVID-19 ‘super-spreading’ events play
outsized role in overall disease Review finds almost 20 percent of COVID-
transmission 19 patients only show gastrointestinal
symptoms
The study of about 60 super-spreading events
shows that events where one person infects more Gastrointestinal symptoms associated with COVID-
19 vary widely but can include loss of appetite,

than six other people are much... nausea, vomiting, diarrhea...

Study finds 1.7 million New Yorkers have New study reveals poisoning exposures
been infected with SARS-Cov-2 and virus in Australian schools
was in NYC earlier than reported
The authors state that by focusing on improved
Results of the retrospective surveillance study of safety strategies, the incidence of poisonings in
more than 10,000 plasma samples taken from the schools could decrease. Published...
beginning of February to...
Drones that patrol forests could monitor
Some of the principal treatments for environmental and ecological changes
osteoporosis could reduce the incidence
of COVID-19, study finds Sensors for forest monitoring are already used to
track changes in temperature, humidity and light, as
The last author of the study, Dr. Jordi Monfort, head well as the movements...
of Rheumatology at Hospital del Mar and
coordinator of the Cell Research... RUDN University chemists developed
new magnetic and luminescent
Brain effects of repetitive low-level lanthanide-siloxane-based compounds
occupational blast exposure
IMAGE: A team of chemists from RUDN University
IMAGE: focuses on the latest advances in the synthesized new organosilicon compounds
clinical and laboratory investigation of traumatic containing terbium and europium...
brain and spinal cord...
Harnessing the ‘wisdom of crowds’ can
The birth of a bacterial tRNA gene help combat antibiotic over prescription

Translation is the process by which genetic A new study has demonstrated that using the
information is converted into proteins, the ‘wisdom of crowds’ (also known as collective
workhorses of the cell. Small molecules... intelligence) of three...

New mineral discovered in moon Transparent soil-like substances provide
meteorite window on soil ecology

IMAGE: Scanning electron microscope image of the IMAGE: Fungal filaments (false-coloured pink)
new mineral, Donwilhelmsite, in the lunar meteorite grown in liquid (left) or transparent soil (right) view
Oued Awlitis 001. ... more Credit:...

The cement for coral reefs Covid: Target ‘hit’ for 500,000 tests a day
in the UK
Coral reefs are hotspots of biodiversity. As they can
withstand heavy storms, they offer many species a Covid: Speed of Lighthouse lab test results falls
safe home, and at... again

Coronavirus lockdown: PM warns UK T-cell response ‘lasts six months after
faces ‘medical disaster’ without action Covid infection’

Sir Keir – who started calling for a short lockdown or Covid: Antibodies ‘fall rapidly after infection’
circuit-breaker in October – criticised the
government’s... ‘Stopping statins left me with pins and
needles’: DR MARTIN SCURR answers
Covid-19: Liverpool to pilot city-wide your health questions
coronavirus testing
Statins made my legs ache, but when I stopped
New test sites will be set up across the city, them I developed severe pins and needles, and it’s
including in care homes, schools, universities and now painful to walk any...
workplaces. People will...
Low-carb diet can help reverse Type 2
Breakthrough to defeat cold virus that’s diabetes in elderly patients
the second biggest global killer of infants
Following a low-carb diet has shown promise in
When four-week-old Ella Cope developed a snuffly reversing type 2 diabetes — and new research
nose, her mother thought: ‘Bless her, she’s got her... suggests it could even help...

‘Dose’ of coronavirus a person is infected Boris Johnson says he had no alternative
with may predict how sick they will get to second Covid lockdown

People who catch a higher ‘dose’ of coronavirus are Key points in COVID lockdown Mark 2 Restrictions
more likely to get sicker – and masks could reduce... will start at midnight on Thursday morning and last
until December 2. People...
‘Thousands of lives’ could have been
saved if SAGE advice followed Dietitian reveals the nutrient missing
from your diet
Professor Andrew Hayward, an infectious diseases
expert at University College London, said he had a Dietitian reveals the crucial mineral many people
forget about – and the ideal ‘day on a plate’ to

‘high degree... follow...

COVID-19 ‘nanoparticle’ vaccine could It’s not if, but how people use social
trigger strong immune response media that impacts their well-being

Scientists develop a ‘nanoparticle’ COVID-19 Derrick Wirtz, an associate professor of teaching in
vaccine that could trigger a 10-times stronger psychology at the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts
immune response than... and Social Sciences,...

Age is a primary determinant of How the immune system remembers
melanoma treatment resistance viruses

Cancer has long been known to be a disease of To bring the infection under control and maximize
aging, with 60% of cases and 70% of deaths the defenses against the virus, these few antigen-
occurring in people over age 65.... specific T cells start...

Malaria test as simple as a bandage Emergency care doctors not getting
sufficient ‘down time’
That’s the idea behind a platform developed by Rice
University engineers who introduced a microneedle Published today in the BMJ Open, the study
patch for rapid... highlighted how the doctors’ ‘need for recovery’ was
higher...
Root bacterium to fight Alzheimer’s
Machine learning predicts anti-cancer
The area around the roots of plants is a complex drug efficacy
ecosystem with numerous interactions between
plants and diverse microorganisms.... In light of this, a research team led by Professor
Sanguk Kim in the Department of Life Sciences at
Teens who participate in extracurriculars, POSTECH is drawing attention...
get less screen time, have better mental
health NIST researchers advance efforts to
accurately measure glyphosate pesticide
The study, published in the journal Preventive in oats
Medicine, found that spending less than two hours
per day of recreational... IMAGE: NIST researcher Jacolin Murray records the
mass of an oat flour sample. view more Credit: J.
Genomic data ‘catches corals in the act’ Murray/NIST Pesticides...
of speciation and adaptation
Study suggests increased risk of restraint
IMAGE: A) Porites lobata (yellow massive use in black patients in the emergency
morphology) shown next to Porites compressa setting
(blue-grey branching morphology)...
IMAGE: Patient visits at Massachusetts General
Lizard skull fossil is new and ‘perplexing’ Hospital (2016-2018). view more Credit: KIRSTY
extinct species CHALLEN, B.SC.,...

IMAGE: A CT image of the Kopidosaurus perplexus Your favorite music can send your brain
skull in left lateral view. view more Credit: Simon into a pleasure overload
Scarpetta In...
We all know that moment when we’re in the car, at a
New protein nanobioreactor designed to concert or even sitting on our sofa and one of our
improve sustainable bioenergy favorite songs...
production
Solar cells of the future
IMAGE: Illustration of a carboxysome and enzymes.
view more Credit: Professor Luning Liu Organic solar cells are cheaper to produce and
Researchers at... more flexible than their counterparts made of
crystalline silicon, but do...
The importance of good neighbors in
catalysis Stillbirths DOUBLED during first wave of
Covid-19 pandemic
IMAGE: Neighbourly collaboration for catalysis.
First, a number of nanoparticles of copper are Stillbirths DOUBLED during first wave of Covid-19
isolated in a gas-filled... pandemic amid fears that mothers were delayed
from seeking NHS care 40...
Government scientific adviser warns
keeping secondary schools open means UK Government’s forecast of 4,000
lockdown could be LONGER coronavirus deaths per day ‘could be
FIVE TIMES too high’
University College London’s Professor Andrew
Hayward, a member of SAGE, said keeping The claim that 4,000 people could be dying from
secondary schools open... coronavirus by next month could be four or five
times too high and not reflect...
Banning care home visits in second
lockdown would violate ‘human rights’ Coronavirus: UK Government advisers’
estimate of daily Covid cases has
DROPPED

Banning care home visits in England’s lockdown The Government claims to have met Boris
would breach the ‘fundamental human rights’ of Johnson‘s target of being able to process 500,000
residents... coronavirus tests per day...

Number of people with syphilis and Keir Starmer attacks Boris Johnson in
gonorrhoea went UP during lockdown in PMQs for his lockdown delays
Italy, small study finds
Key points in COVID lockdown Mark 2 Restrictions
Rates of syphilis and gonorrhoea may have actually will start at midnight on Thursday morning and last
increased during lockdown, a small study suggests. until December 2. People...
Researchers in Italy...
Excessive alcohol consumption during
Britain records FEWEST daily Covid-19 the COVID-19 pandemic
cases in a fortnight
Because the COVID-19 pandemic is longer lasting
Britain today recorded the fewest daily Covid-19 and more extensive than previous traumatic events
cases in a fortnight, offering more proof that the — with widespread...
crisis is slowing down...
Microfluidics helps engineers watch viral
Vitamin D levels during pregnancy linked infection in real time
with child IQ
The technique uses microfluidics — the
Melissa Melough, the lead author of the study and submillimeter control of fluids within a precise,
research scientist in the Department of Child Health, geometric structure. On what...
Behavior, and Development...
New cause of COVID-19 blood clots
A.I. tool provides more accurate flu identified
forecasts
The culprit: an autoimmune antibody that’s
By incorporating location data, the A.I. system is circulating in the blood, attacking the cells and
able to outperform other state-of-the-art forecasting triggering clots in arteries,...
methods, delivering...
Discrimination increases against Asian
Hot or cold, weather alone has no and Asian American population, affecting
significant effect on COVID-19 spread health

The link between weather and COVID-19 is That’s according to a new paper written by
complicated. Weather influences the environment in Washington State University researchers recently
which the coronavirus must survive... published in the journal...

New simulation finds max cost for cost- Self-watering soil could transform
effective health treatments farming

David Vanness, professor of health policy and IMAGE: The soil pulls water out of the air during
administration, led a team of researchers that cooler, humid periods at night and then releases it
created a simulation to consider... when activated...

Depression, social anxiety, and use of Biologists shed light on mystery of how
mobile dating apps microbes evolve and affect hosts

IMAGE: Explores the psychological and social IMAGE: Specimens of the clover-like Medicago
issues surrounding the Internet and interactive truncatula plant were each given an initial mixture of
technologies. view... two strains of...

Short-term moisture removal can Two centuries of Monarch butterflies
eliminate downy mildew of spinach show evolution of wing length

IMAGE: Braham Dhillon in Spinach Field view more IMAGE: Monarch butterflies are known for their
Credit: Braham Dhillon Downy mildew is the biggest lengthy migrations, but in some cases the insects
threat... have spread outside...

‘Transparent solar cells’ can take us Covid-19 "super-spreading" events play
towards a new era of personalized energy outsized role in overall disease
transmission
IMAGE: Scientists have been developing
transparent solar cells that may soon find their use CAMBRIDGE, MA — There have been many
in all kinds of devices,... documented cases of Covid-19 “super-spreading”
events, in which one...
Rapid method finds potent COVID-19
monoclonal antibody among a trillion Algorithm spots ‘Covid cough’ inaudible
possibilities to humans

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 2, 2020 – University of MIT scientist Brian Subirana, who co-authored the
Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists have paper, published in the IEEE Journal of Engineering
discovered the fastest way to... in Medicine and Biology,...

‘Living in America’s cancer alley is like Lockdown: PM warns of Covid-19 deaths
death row’ ‘twice as bad’ as spring

“We are only fighting for fresh air,” Shamara Lavigne But he’ll face sharp, and opposing, questions from
tells Radio 1 Newsbeat. The area around St. James behind him, on his backbenches, and opposite him,
in Louisiana,... from Labour and...

Stillbirth rise during pandemic leads to Nearly 50,000 Americans are hospitalized
safety review with COVID-19 and the US records 81,000
new cases
The HSIB told the Health Service Journal that it had
seen approximately twice the number of intrapartum The third wave of the coronavirus pandemic has left
stillbirths compared... nearly 50,000 Americans hospitalized with experts
fearing several hospitals...
Coronavirus: Imperial College study says
Covid-19 kills 1.15% of all patients in Radical diagnostic could save millions of
wealthy countries people at risk of dying from blood loss

Covid-19 kills around 1.15 per cent of all people who In a world-first outcome that could save more than
are infected in high-income countries, according to two million lives globally each year, researchers
the latest projections... have developed a diagnostic...

The protein dress of a neuron Outcome of 2016 US election associated
with poorer mental health in Clinton
One of the most fundamental questions in voters
neurobiology is how sensory inputs are processed
within the neuronal circuits of... Comparing states in which Trump had received the
most votes with states in which Clinton had received
Fashion’s underappreciated role in the most votes, a team...
presidential politics
Innovative strategies sustain children’s
(Carlisle, Pa.) – Does a well-dressed president preventative care during pandemic
make for a better president? Yes, says political
scientist David O’Connell.... WILMINGTON, Del. (November 2, 2020) – Nemours
Children’s Health System increased patient
Mobile phones help Americans encounter immunizations by 4.6%...
more diverse news
Study provides clues on curbing the
IMAGE: Mobile access increases the reach of news aggressive nature of coronavirus
sources and audience engagement. It also
increases co-exposure to... IMAGE: Figure1 view more Credit: University of
Tartu Recent study by Estonian researchers in
Higher risk of future fecal incontinence University...
after sphincter injuries
Follow your gut: How farms protect from
IMAGE: Maria Gyhagen, MD/PhD, Sahlgrenska childhood asthma
Academy, University of Gothenburg. view more
Credit: Photo: Sodra... We are born into an environment full of small
organisms called microbiota. Within the first minutes
Emergency care doctors not getting and hours of our lives,...
sufficient ‘down time’, new study shows
Analyzing biological and chemical
A survey of more than 4,000 UK emergency care damage on 20th-century construction
doctors has shown that they need more support to materials
recover from work pressures...
IMAGE: Photo of Dr Iratxe Ibarrondo using portable
Coronavirus: Imperial College study says high-resolution spectroscopic techniques to analyse
1.15% patients die the impact on...

Covid-19 kills around 1.15 per cent of all people who Physician burnout, sleep disorders
are infected, according to the latest projections by
‘Professor... What The Study Did: Researchers investigated the
association between sleep disorders and symptoms
Diet quality, survival among individuals of burnout among faculty...
with metastatic colorectal cancer
Canada should approve HIV self-testing
What The Study Did: Whether quality of diet was
associated with overall survival among patients Canada should integrate self-testing for HIV into the
beginning treatment for metastatic... health system to help reduce the burden of the
disease, argues a commentary...
New research reports discovery of 5-
million-year-old honey badger-like animal Starting kindergarten on the right foot

IMAGE: Five million years ago, dangerous Everything you ever really needed to know you
carnivores – such as giant wolverines and otters, learned back in kindergarten – that old saying gets
bears, sabertooth... some scientific support...

Biomarker combination predicts kidney Intelligent cameras enhance human
injury in critically ill children perception

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have Intelligent cameras are the next milestone in image
identified a unique method of identifying the early and video processing A team of researchers at the
signs of a potentially... Chair of Multimedia...

More Republicans follow COVID Covid-19: English lockdown may last
guidelines when they’re told it will protect beyond 2 Dec, says Gove
themselves
Pubs, restaurants, gyms, non-essential shops and
For decades, scientists have predicted that a deadly places of worship will close, but schools, colleges
pandemic would sweep the globe — but what they and universities can...
didn’t expect...
First Australian night bees recorded
Laboratory findings associated with foraging in darkness
severe illness, mortality among
hospitalized patients with COVID IMAGE: (Reepenia bituberculatav) Nomiine bee with
night foraging activity view more Credit: James
What The Study Did: This observational study Dorey, Flinders...
examined how well sociodemographic features,
laboratory value and comorbidities... Breakthrough nano-particle technology
provides fresh solution for smelly feet
New non-allergenic, anti-inflammatory
fragrance can be game changer for dry LUGANO, 30 October, 2020 – New research (1)
skin sufferers presented at the 29th EADV Congress, EADV
Virtual, shows that socks coated...
LUGANO, 31 October, 2020 – Researchers have
developed a novel allergen-depleted and anti- Plankton turn hunters to survive
inflammatory fragrance that... dinosaur-killing asteroid impact

Carbon-releasing ‘zombie fires’ in IMAGE: Graphic explaining the research method
peatlands could be dampened by new and findings. view more Credit: Gibbs et al New
findings research by...

Imperial College London researchers have Researchers discover mechanism that
simulated for the first time how soil moisture content allows SINEUPs to amplify protein
affects the ignition and... production

Skilled surgeons boost colon cancer Scientists from an international group led by the
survival by 70% RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences and
Yokohama City University...
‘This is pretty mind blowing’ Patients treated by
highly skilled surgeons are more likely to survive New drone technology improves ability to
long-term Ask... forecast volcanic eruptions

Living near green space linked to lower Specially-adapted drones developed by a UCL-led
rates of smoking and higher chances of international team have been gathering data from
quitting never-before-explored volcanoes...

People are significantly less likely to smoke – and To survive asteroid impact, algae learned
are more likely to successfully quit – if they live in to hunt
green...
IMAGE: K/Pg, or Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction
Specially-adapted drones gather data event, refers to the aftermath of the asteroid hitting
from unexplored volcanoes to better Earth 66 million...
forecast eruptions
Smart tablecloth can find fruit and help
IMAGE: Taking a look at the new data soon as the with watering the plants
drone returns. Featuring Dr Emma Liu (UCL) and Dr
Kieran Wood (University... IMAGE: The Capacitivo smart fabric can identify fruit
and find lost objects. Overall, the system achieved a
COVID-19 test result turnaround time for 94.5% accuracy...
residents, staff in US nursing homes
Malaria parasites adapt to survive the dry
What The Study Did: This study used the Medicare season, research shows
COVID-19 Nursing Home Database, a federally
mandated weekly survey of... The main parasite that causes malaria can alter its
gene expression to survive undetected in the human
Minimally invasive Ellipsys system blood stream, new...
creates fused, permanent vascular
access for dialysis Covid: What will the England lockdown
achieve?
San Juan Capistrano, Calif. — A new case report
published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery
provides one of the first...

NHS ‘refuses’ medical cannabis for
children with epilepsy

*:not([hidden]):not(style) ~ *:not([hidden]):not(style) But on Saturday, the prime minister told the nation
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1lb37cz-Stack >... disaster, the NHS...

Covid-19: England gets ready for new Photopharmacology – A light
four-week lockdown
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich
The UK is the ninth country to reach the milestone of researchers have designed a light-sensitive inhibitor
a million confirmed cases – after the US, India, that can control cell...
Brazil, Russia,...
Bacilli and their enzymes show prospects
New fault zone measurements could help for several applications
us to understand subduction earthquake
The Laboratory of Enzyme Biosynthesis and
IMAGE: The outcrop of the pseudotachylyte-bearing Bioengineering of Kazan Federal University is
fault zone in pelagic sedimentary rocks. view more engaged in several projects in fundamental...
Credit:...
Denisovan DNA found in sediments of
Trial targets deadly lung cancer Baishiya Karst Cave on Tibetan Plateau

IMAGE: Associate Professor Sonja Klebe, leader of IMAGE: Baishiya Karst Cave view more Credit:
Asbestos Associated Disease research at Flinders HAN Yuanyuan One year after the publication of
University ... research on...

The order of life Water on ancient Mars

IMAGE: Particles of two types (red and green) IMAGE: Martian meteorite NWA 7533 is worth more
interact with each other. While particles of the same than its weight in gold. view more Credit: ©
type inevitably... NASA/Luc Labenne There’s...

Neurosurgeons and malpractice suits Are your shoulders being wrecked by
yoga overkill, asks personal trainer
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (NOVEMBER 1, 2020). RHIAN COWBURN
We live in a litigious world. With respect to medicine,
this manifests in medical... Every personal trainer has a handful of gold-star
clients who manage to power through every move
I hear a constant humming… am I a and lift, without breaking...
tinnitus victim? DR ELLIE CANNON
answers your questions Patients with Tracey Emin’s cancer
welcome new treatment plans
I have a permanent humming in my ears – I don’t
think it’s tinnitus, as it isn’t a ringing but sounds... Thousands of Britons with incurable bladder cancer
will be offered fresh hope thanks to an immune-
Coronavirus Questions UK: Will there be boosting drug therapy...
a vaccine by Christmas?
Coronavirus: Children are now being hit
Q: If I go a museum in Tier 2 and my friend is also by ‘long Covid’ symptoms too
there, can we interact? A: Millions of Britons are now
under Tier 2... It has, almost since the start of the pandemic, been
the mantra of experts when it comes to Covid-19
1980s AIDS TV ads show scaring public and the threat it poses...
ISN’T the way to beat Covid
How using stem cells from your TUMMY
Do you remember the ‘Don’t Die Of Ignorance’ AIDS FAT could restore your hair
advert from the 1980s – the one with the
tombstone?... Baseball caps that blast laser beams on to the head,
potent medicines, shampoos, serums, mousses and
How allergens trigger itching: Finding creams. Even ‘vampire...
points to new targets for allergy drug
development Researchers devise new method to get
the lead out
How allergens are detected by the immune system
had not been known. “The focus has been on IMAGE: Researchers in the lab of Daniel Giammar,
dendritic cells and T cells,... the Walter E. Browne Professor of Environmental
Engineering in the...
Microbes in the gut could be protective
against hazardous radiation exposure SARS-CoV-2 might attack red marrow and
block new erythrocytes formation
IMAGE: UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer
Center’s Jenny P.Y. Ting, PhD, and colleagues IMAGE: Lung parenchyma of patient 56 years old;
report in Science that... Staining with hematoxylin and eosin. Microphoto
×400. Spherocytes,...
Galaxies in the very early universe were
surprisingly mature Radical changes in ecosystems

IMAGE: Artist’s illustration of a galaxy in the early Earth and all the living organisms on it are
universe that is very dusty and shows the first signs constantly changing. But is there any way we can
of... detect if these changes are...

Stars and skulls: New ESO image reveals Vitamin B3 protects skin cells from the
eerie nebula effects of UV exposure, new research
finds
IMAGE: Captured in astounding detail by ESO’s
Very Large Telescope (VLT), the eerie Skull Nebula LUGANO, 31 October, 2020 – Research presented
is showcased... today at EADV’s 29th Congress, EADV Virtual,
shows hope that a...
New research reveals risky sexual
behavior and STIs are rising despite
COVID-19 pandemic

LUGANO, 31 October, 2020 – New research (1)
launched at the 29th EADV Congress, EADV Virtual,
has found that despite...

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