The World Health Organization said Wednesday that despite a drop-off in cases, it still considers mpox, previously known as monkeypox, an international health emergency.
Feb 15, 2023
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A highly infectious strain of avian influenza is tearing through commercial and backyard poultry flocks, causing egg prices to rise as sick chickens are culled across the United States.
Feb 14, 2023
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Pollutants are, by definition, harmful. But not all of them are equally harmful. Of the multitude of synthetic chemical compounds that pollute our environment, those that set off the loudest alarm bells are persistent organic ...
Feb 9, 2023
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Massachusetts legislators have proposed a bill that would allow prison inmates to donate their organs or bone marrow as a way to trim the length of their sentence.
Feb 9, 2023
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Arsenic contamination is a significant threat to human health in many parts of the world. Exposure to high levels of arsenic has been associated with a range of health problems such as diabetes, cognitive dysfunction, and ...
Feb 9, 2023
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A team of University of Colorado researchers has developed a new strategy for transforming medical images, such as CT or MRI scans, into incredibly detailed 3D models on the computer. The advance marks an important step toward ...
Jan 26, 2023
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Scientific claims that babies harbor live bacteria while still in the womb are inaccurate, and may have impeded research progress, according to University College Cork (UCC) researchers at APC Microbiome Ireland, a world-leading ...
Jan 25, 2023
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In 2019 Dr. Stephen Withers and colleagues at the University of British Columbia identified a series of enzymes that can be used to modify the chemical structure of a sugar antigen on the surface of blood cells, thereby converting ...
Jan 24, 2023
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The new coronavirus continues to dodge, duck, dip and dive, mutating again and again to find its way past people's immune defenses.
Jan 20, 2023
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A research effort involving researchers from Texas A&M University, the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has used human genomics to identify a new ...
Jan 10, 2023
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