Following the emergence and rapid spread of COVID-19, several countries have succeeded in bringing local outbreaks under control. The most dramatic of these is China, where large scale restrictions on people's movement appear ...
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Diabetic kidney diseases are the main cause of kidney failure in industrialized countries. An international, EU-funded R&D project—which is being headed by the Medical University of Innsbruck, and involves collaboration ...
Apr 9, 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, with 1.4 million cases and almost 75,000 deaths reported worldwide as of April 7. To slow down the spread and reduce mortality, governments across the world have put in place social ...
Apr 8, 2020
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Considerable uncertainty surrounds Covid-19—how long it will take before a vaccine is developed, the death rate amongst cases and even how many cases there have been so far. But there is one thing of which we can be sure: ...
Apr 7, 2020
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Interstate transmission of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is now a much greater public health threat in the United States than cases coming into the country via international travel, a new study led by researchers ...
Apr 7, 2020
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The project, Electronic AXONs: wireless microstimulators based on electronic rectification of epidermically applied currents (eAXON, 2017-2022), funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant awarded to Antoni ...
Apr 6, 2020
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The complete isolation of the population in the face of an epidemic such as COVID-19 is a strategy that requires subsequently adopting active measures in order to maximize its effectiveness, such as conducting large scale ...
Mar 27, 2020
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Humans have a number of ways to learn how to do new things. One of those ways is through observation: watching another person perform a task, and then doing what they did. Think of a child that learns how to "adult" by observing ...
Mar 27, 2020
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Leiden researchers have developed an app that doctors can use to more easily determine the right dosage of medication for coronavirus patients. At the moment, doctors are prescribing many existing kinds of medication to patients. ...
Mar 26, 2020
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If Leah Shaw gets any time to herself during this period of social distancing, she plans to run a simulation—on social distancing.
Mar 25, 2020
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