Archive: 29/10/2020

Artificial intelligence model detects asymptomatic COVID-19 infections through cellphone-recorded coughs

Asymptomatic people who are infected with COVID-19 exhibit, by definition, no discernible physical symptoms of the disease. They are thus less likely to seek out testing for the virus, and could unknowingly spread the infection ...

Oct 29, 2020

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Can video games help you level up your health?

You might assume that portraying video games as bad for your health would be as easy as shooting ducks on an old Nintendo.

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Cut chores and kill chill time: new advice to boost children's academic achievement

Determining a child's best daily balance of sleep, activity and relaxation can be a challenge, but if you're hoping to improve their academic results, then it's time to cut back on chores and chill time, according to new ...

Oct 29, 2020

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Neurons that 'talk' to the gut help the female body to prepare for reproduction

The gut-brain axis describes the two-way communication between the neurons that make up the central nervous system, which includes the brain, and the so-called peripheral nervous system, which includes the gut. There is increasing ...

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Research advances understanding of life-threatening lung inflammation following the flu

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have identified fibroblasts as the cells that serve as the gatekeeper of the inflammatory immune response in the lungs following influenza and other respiratory infections. ...

Oct 29, 2020

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How the immune system deals with the gut's plethora of microbes

The gut is an unusually noisy place, where hundreds of species of bacteria live alongside whatever microbes happen to have hitched a ride in on your lunch. Scientists have long suspected that the gut's immune system, in the ...

Oct 29, 2020

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Spread of a novel SARS-CoV-2 variant across Europe in summer 2020

Researchers from Basel and Spain have identified a novel SARS-CoV-2 variant that has spread widely across Europe in recent months, according to an un-peer-reviewed preprint released this week. While there is no evidence of ...

Oct 29, 2020

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Brazilian researchers discover how muscle regenerates after exercise

Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have discovered that the muscle regeneration promoted by aerobic exercise is mediated by changes in oxygen consumption by satellite cells, also known as skeletal ...

Oct 29, 2020

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Validation of ERCC1/2 signature as radiosensitivity biomarker for tumor and normal tissues in NSCLC

A genetic analysis of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients on the phase III NRG Oncology RTOG 0617 clinical trial assessing radiation dose discovered that high dose radiation therapy is associated with shorter survival ...

Oct 29, 2020

Stronger treatments could cure Chagas disease

Researchers in the University of Georgia's Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases have found that a more intensive, less frequent drug regimen with currently available therapeutics could cure the infection that ...

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