As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its second year, scientists are still working to understand how the new strain of coronavirus evolved, and how it became so much more dangerous than other coronaviruses, which humans have been ...
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The prevalence of anxiety disorders, already the most common mental illness in many countries, including the U.S., has surged during the novel coronavirus pandemic. A study led by researchers in Berkeley Lab's Biosciences ...
Feb 2, 2021
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Since the earliest microscopes, scientists have been on a quest to build instruments with finer and finer resolution to image a cell's proteins—the tiny machines that keep cells, and us, running. But to succeed, they need ...
Jan 13, 2021
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In the early days of the pandemic, amidst all the uncertainty, one thing was for sure: N95 masks—the personal protective respiratory devices that filter out viruses, bacteria, and wildfire smoke—were in short supply. ...
Dec 10, 2020
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Human health is highly dependent on genetics, yet it is also known to be affected by factors in an individual's environment—and these days that environment is quite stressful. As we shelter in place amid the coronavirus ...
Oct 6, 2020
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Vaccines, which help the body recognize infectious microorganisms and stage a stronger and faster response, are made up of proteins that are specific to each type of microorganism. In the case of a virus, viral proteins—or ...
Oct 1, 2020
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Laser and biology experts at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are working together to develop a platform and experiments to study the structure and components of viruses like the one causing COVID-19, ...
May 29, 2020
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As society prepares to reopen indoor spaces and ease back into some sense of normalcy during the COVID-19 pandemic, a team of researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) ...
May 13, 2020
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Why do some people feel like they need three cups of coffee just to get through the day when others are happy with only one? Why do some people abstain entirely? New research suggests that our intake of coffee—the most ...
Mar 6, 2020
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An investigational cancer drug that targets tumors caused by mutations in the KRAS gene will be evaluated in phase 2 clinical trials, following promising safety and efficacy results in preliminary human studies and excellent ...
Dec 23, 2019
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