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COVID-19 is putting us at risk for increasing resistance to antibiotics
As scientists around the globe wage war against a novel, deadly virus, one University of Colorado Boulder lab is working on new weapons to battle a different microbial threat: a rising tide of antibiotic-resistant...
COVID-19: The face mask does not prevent children from understanding facial expressions
The proliferation of face coverings to keep COVID-19 in check isn't keeping kids from understanding facial expressions, according to a new study by University of Wisconsin-Madison psychologists.
It's easiest to understand the emotions of the...
A drug called CC-486 show a 30 percent improvement in survival in patients with...
A landmark paper published today in the New England Journal of Medicine describes the results from a global trial across 148 sites in 23 countries, showing a 30 percent improvement in survival in patients...
Le donne incinte con COVID-19 trasmettono non solo il virus ma anche livelli relativamente...
Analisi recenti indicano che le donne incinte e i neonati possono affrontare rischi elevati di sviluppare casi più gravi di COVID-19 a seguito di infezione da SARS-CoV-2 .
Una nuova ricerca condotta dai ricercatori del Massachusetts General...
Pregnant women with COVID-19 pass no only the virus but also relatively low levels...
Recent analyses indicate that pregnant women and newborns may face elevated risks of developing more severe cases of COVID-19 following SARS-CoV-2 infection.
New research led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and published...
A new endovascular technology can explore capillaries
At EPFL, Lucio Pancaldi, a Ph.D. student, and Selman Sakar, an assistant professor, have harnessed hydrokinetic energy (mechanical energy resulting from the motion of liquids) to get an instrument into places in the human...
New transparent liquid bandage can detect tissue oxygenation as well as the gold standard...
In the first human clinical trial, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and surgeons at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have validated the practicality and accuracy of an oxygen-sensing liquid bandage that measures...
Alzheimer’s disease: the new wearable electrical stimulator can reduce or reverse its onset
Stimulating humans' sense of smell to prevent conditions such as Alzheimer's Disease is the focus of international research led by the University of Otago.
The olfactory system, or sense of smell, is known to be...
People who have been infected with the COVID-19 virus have immune memory to protect...
Australian researchers have revealed - for the first time - that people who have been infected with the COVID-19 virus have immune memory to protect against reinfection for at least eight months.
The research is...
Policies to contain the COVID-19 pandemic require widespread cooperation in order to be successful
A study by the University of Konstanz shows that voluntary motivation to comply with anti-COVID-19 policies is relatively high in Germany, but can be undermined by enforcement—The consequence of this finding differs depending on...
Androgen receptor inhibitors as a treatment for COVID-19
By taking a lesson from prostate cancer, researchers now have a promising lead on a treatment for COVID-19.
Two proteins, ACE2 and TMPRSS2, help the coronavirus gain entry and replicate within cells. TMPRSS2 is well-known...
AI solves Schrödinger’s equation in quantum chemistry
A team of scientists at Freie Universität Berlin has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) method for calculating the ground state of the Schrödinger equation in quantum chemistry.
The goal of quantum chemistry is to...
Why do seizures occur in a subgroup of multiple sclerosis patients?
A research team at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine has identified a pathway involving astrocytes, a class of central nervous system support cells, that could shed light on why seizures happen...
Researchers have identified the type of brain cell that produces collagen 19
A research team led by Michael Fox, a professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, has identified the type of brain cell that produces collagen 19, a protein that is crucial for...
Fenofibrate: generic anti-lipid drug may squelch COVID-19 severity
Jerusalem researchers say they have shown that an existing drug used to lower lipid levels significantly downgrades the intensity of COVID-19, after conducting a comparative study of 1,500 medical records from hospitalized patients.
Fenofibrate, a...
