Strategically increasing testing capacity, either by making diagnostic tests faster or more available, can reduce reliance on costly preventative interventions, such as distancing and shutdowns, according to a team of researchers ...
Oct 28, 2021
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Our brains have the remarkable ability to process details, but may sometimes fail to notice even marked differences. For example, in the images above, some people may not immediately spot the difference in size between the ...
Oct 20, 2021
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COVID-19 is not the flu. The disease caused by the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus is more transmissible, and deadlier, than most influenza epidemics we've encountered in our lifetimes, and scientists and physicians are still learning ...
Oct 14, 2021
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A new computational analysis suggests that, beyond the initial effect of one infected person arriving and spreading disease to a previously uninfected population, the continuous arrival of more infected individuals has a ...
Oct 14, 2021
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A group of researchers at Université de Montréal has simulated the effects of more than 17,000 possible mutations of the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19.
Sep 17, 2021
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Every country in the world these days must make smart decisions about how to allocate vaccines and what sort of social distancing to mandate to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev scientists have ...
Sep 13, 2021
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For millions of people with epilepsy and movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, electrical stimulation of the brain already is widening treatment possibilities. In the future, electrical stimulation may help people ...
Sep 3, 2021
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By developing the first statistical model to finely characterize how ketamine anesthesia affects the brain, a team of researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and Massachusetts General Hospital have ...
Sep 3, 2021
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A new analysis suggests that, in order to boost freedoms and protect against overwhelming new waves of COVID-19, the pace at which restrictions to reduce spread are lifted must be directly tied to the pace of vaccination. ...
Sep 2, 2021
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The best way to keep COVID cases out of businesses and schools while maintaining some in-person presence is to create two rotating groups, a French study showed Thursday.
Aug 26, 2021
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