Stress is a health hazard, but a supportive circle of friends can help undo the damaging effects on your DNA Stress affects up to 90% of people, and we know it harms our mental and physical well-being. Nov 22, 2021 0 57
Challenges faced by healthcare workers during COVID-19 pandemic In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, while many of us remained in the safety of our own homes, frontline healthcare workers faced a sudden influx of patients with the new, highly contagious, life-threatening disease. ... Nov 22, 2021 0 130
How distance from care affects cancer outcomes In a seemingly counterintuitive finding, young adults diagnosed with central nervous system (CNS) tumors might have better survival rates the farther they live from care. Nov 22, 2021 0 32
The dynamics of neuronal assemblies in cortical networks based on excitatory and inhibitory balance Neuronal assemblies are formed via the repetitive activation of subpopulations of neurons to guide learning and behavior. Technical advances have made it possible to artificially induce such assemblies, although the method ... Nov 22, 2021 feature 0 106
Microrobots for treating neurological diseases through intra-nasal administration The joint research team of Professor Choi Hongsoo at Robotics Engineering, DGIST, a senior researcher Jinyoung Kim from DGIST-ETH Microrobotics Research Center, and the research team of Professor Sung Won Kim at Seoul St. ... Nov 22, 2021 0 53
Brief period of 'blindness' is essential for vision Fixational eye movements are tiny movements of the eye—so small we humans aren't even aware of them. Yet they play a large role in our ability to see letters, numbers, and objects at a distance. Nov 22, 2021 0 75
Smokers keep smoking, even as perceptions of COVID-19 risk and severity increase As soon as the 2019 novel coronavirus was characterized as capable of causing atypical pneumonia, and subsequently named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), medical and public health professionals ... Nov 22, 2021 0 89
Gold-based cancer therapy could face competition from other substances The gold complex auranofin has traditionally been used for treating rheumatism but is also being evaluated as a treatment for certain forms of cancer. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden now show that other molecules ... Nov 22, 2021 0 35
Avoiding COVID-19 infections during laparoscopic procedures A team of researchers from the Department of Medicine of the Universitat Jaume I and health professionals from the Multidisciplinary Unit of Abdominopelvic Oncological Surgery (MUAPOS) together with the rest of the services ... Nov 22, 2021 0 37
Study of twins finds type 2 diabetes clues in epigenetic changes Identical twins share the same DNA, but one twin can suffer from type 2 diabetes while the other twin does not develop the disease. A study led by Lund University in Sweden has now discovered that there are differences in ... Nov 22, 2021 0 91
