When thinking about reopening schools, the rate of community transmission is a key factor We are all tired of the pandemic. We'd like to wake up one day and have life returned to normal. A big step towards normalcy would be allowing schools to open in the fall. Schools provide education, social environments, and ... Jul 7, 2020 0 3
Info-metrics for modeling and inference with complex and uncertain pandemic information As the world faces the possibility of recurring waves of the current novel coronavirus pandemic, it is critical to identify patterns and dynamics that could be leveraged to decrease future transmission, infection, and death ... Jul 7, 2020 0 1
Four-dimensional physiologically adaptive cardiac patch Bioengineers have considerably advanced cardiac scaffold engineering techniques to treat myocardial infarction, a form of cardiovascular disease and the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. However, it is still ... Jul 7, 2020 feature 0 176
Drug screens and CRISPR combine to help make better cancer drugs A new study has created the most comprehensive analysis for understanding how cancer drugs work at a molecular level. Scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and AstraZeneca ... Jul 7, 2020 0 163
Improved cancer immunotherapies require radical CAR overhaul CAR-T cell therapy is a new and revolutionary weapon against cancer: T cells are isolated from the patient's blood for genetic modification and then infused back into the patient to attack cancer cells. Researchers from the ... Jul 7, 2020 0 107
The gut microbiome of Irish Travellers gives a timely public health lesson Investigators at APC Microbiome Ireland SFI Research Center in Cork were stunned by the findings of the first microbiome study of Irish Travelers which challenges the concept of a "normal" or "healthy" microbiome and asks: ... Jul 7, 2020 0 131
Researchers develop new approach to study the genetics of human disease Many heritable immune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and blood-cell related traits derive from critical proteins not being made or not functioning correctly. But exactly how a person's genes, the regulation of these ... Jul 7, 2020 0 104
Fighting E. coli with E. coli According to findings published this week in mBio, Nissle, a strain of Escherichia coli, is harmless to intestinal tissue and may protect the gut from enterohemorrhagic E. coli, a pathogen that produces Shiga toxin. Jul 7, 2020 0 3
View mask refusers like drink drivers: leading scientist People who refuse to wear face masks during the coronavirus pandemic should be stigmatised the same as drink drivers, the head of the prestigious Royal Society science journal said Tuesday. Jul 7, 2020 1 6
Mumbai opens new hospitals as India virus deaths top 20,000 India's financial capital Mumbai opened four new coronavirus field hospitals on Tuesday—including one at a horseracing track—as the nationwide death toll jumped past 20,000. Jul 7, 2020 0 2