Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Three billion under lockdown as UN warns virus threatens humanity

More than three billion people are living under lockdown measures as soaring death tolls in Europe and the US on Wednesday underlined a United Nations warning that the coronavirus pandemic threatens all of humanity.

Medical research

New diagnostic technique accounts for patient resilience

Medical diagnoses mostly focus on resolving isolated issues. But fixing one problem may create others, and even invoke an overall health collapse. Scientists now report a new approach to assess the risks of such collapse ...

Medical research

Novel glimpses into early lung development

For most prematurely born infants, it's not their tiny size itself that makes life a struggle. Rather, it's the development of their lungs that spells the difference between life and death.

Medical research

From omics' novel glimpses into early lung development

Lungs take in oxygen and release carbon dioxide. Yet despite their existential importance, the development of the lungs and the rules governing the process that enables respiration is still not well understood at the molecular ...

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