Archive: 29/05/2020

You likely won't get COVID-19 from your pets—but you could give it to them

Worried about catching COVID-19 from your cat or dog? You shouldn't be, says a University of Alberta expert.

May 29, 2020

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Engineering immunity: Profiling COVID-19 immune responses and developing a vaccine

As COVID-19 looks more like a disease of the immune system, a Michigan engineer is working with doctors to look at how immune responses differ between mild and severe cases.

May 29, 2020

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Greedy for glucose: Cancer cells rely on a primeval energy-producing pathway to proliferate and spread

To fuel their rapid proliferation, tumor cells rely on glycolysis, a primordial metabolic pathway that is easily exploited by cancers to gain energy to grow—and spread.

May 29, 2020 feature

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Black and south Asian ethnic groups in England appear to be at higher risk of COVID-19, as well as hospitalisation

New UK Biobank research, led by the University of Glasgow and published today in BMC Medicine, has found that black and south Asian ethnic groups have a higher risk of testing positive with SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes ...

May 29, 2020

Not much exercise needed to lower heart disease risk for overweight people

A new study suggests, for obese or overweight adults, that any amount of exercise might lower the risk of developing cardiovascular disease in the next 10 years.

May 29, 2020

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Modified Parkinson's drug shows potential in treating nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a condition characterized by excessive fat accumulation in the liver. It can cause serious complications, including nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, cirrhosis and cancer. Although ...

May 29, 2020

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SSRI antidepressants associated with increase in violent crime in some patients

Scientists have found that some people being treated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) have a greater tendency to commit violent crime. In addition, this effect seems to continue for up to 12 weeks after ...

May 29, 2020

Women 4 times more likely to develop lupus after stillbirth

Women who have gone through the trauma of having a stillbirth are four times more likely to develop lupus than women with an uncomplicated live birth, according to a University of Manchester study.

May 29, 2020

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A new way to control Epstein-Barr virus

A team of researchers at University of Utah Health have shown the Epstein-Barr virus—which causes mononucleosis and is linked to development of several cancers—uses a novel strategy to survive. The virus takes the reins ...

May 29, 2020

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Researcher combats COVID-19 by developing new computational tools to analyze genetic data

Ali Rahnavard, an assistant professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics and the Computational Biology Institute at George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health, received a $200,000 Rapid Response ...

May 29, 2020

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