Colorado squirrel tests positive for bubonic plague, health officials say
A squirrel in a Colorado has tested positive for bubonic plague, public health officials say.
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A squirrel in a Colorado has tested positive for bubonic plague, public health officials say.
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Many cancers can be successfully treated, but treatment itself often comes with risks as well. Cancer therapy that uses anthracyclines—a class of commonly used chemotherapy drugs—has been associated with heart damage ...
Apr 9, 2020
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According to Google Trends, the top globally trending topic this week is "orthohantavirus", as spurious sites claim it's the next pandemic on the horizon.
Mar 27, 2020
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One promising new strategy to treat diabetes is to give patients insulin that circulates in their bloodstream, staying dormant until activated by rising blood sugar levels. However, no glucose-responsive insulins (GRIs) have ...
Mar 9, 2020
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Findings collected during several decades of research in the fields of psychology and neuroscience suggest that the perception of control during stressful events can have striking and long-lasting effects on the behavior ...
Evidence from the lab of Raffi Aroian, Ph.D., shows that short-term human hookworm infection, even at low levels, can cause rapid, acute and measurable cognitive impairments in spatial memory among a mammalian animal model. ...
Sep 5, 2019
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Obesity rates worldwide have nearly tripled since 1975. Now, new research from the University of Minnesota Medical School has discovered, in rodents, critical mutations in molecules implicated in obesity, which may help inform ...
Sep 4, 2019
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The traditional method of housing mice and rats alone increases stress and worsens epilepsy, according to a new study published in eNeuro. The added stress could complicate results of pre-clinical drug trials.
Jul 22, 2019
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How do neurons process information? Neurons are known to break down an incoming electrical signal into sub-units. Now, researchers at Blue Brain have discovered that dendrites, the neuron's tree-like receptors, work together—dynamically ...
Jul 12, 2019
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Is sexism getting in the way of good science?
May 31, 2019
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