Lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines are allowing us to feel optimistic again, after more than a year of anxiety and tragedy. But vaccines are only one side of the coin—we also need treatments that can prevent severe disease after ...
Aug 16, 2021
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Vaccines are turning the tide of the pandemic, but the risk of infection is still present in some situations. If you want to visit a friend, get on a plane, or go see a movie, there is no highly accurate, instant test that ...
May 18, 2021
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Blood pressure monitors are a common at-home tool for monitoring heart health, but they don't look at the health of the endothelium, the lining of the blood vessels. And endothelial function is a powerful predictor of heart ...
Apr 30, 2021
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Newborn babies, particularly those born under-weight or preterm, are susceptible to hypothermia, since newborns are not yet able to maintain their own body heat. Hypothermia is recognized to be a significant contributor to ...
Apr 29, 2021
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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 ...
Mar 4, 2021
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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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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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