In a scientific first, researchers at the University of California, Irvine have discovered fundamental mechanisms by which the hippocampus region of the brain organizes memories into sequences and how this can be used to ...
Feb 15, 2022
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An experimental chewing gum could reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, according to a recent study published in the journal Molecular Therapy. You might already have noticed headlines calling the ...
Nov 29, 2021
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Parents of newborns will describe in detail, to anyone willing to listen, the wonder that is their baby's smell—and they might not be in the wrong. A new study by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science suggests ...
Nov 22, 2021
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When I first wrote about the arrival of SARS-CoV-2 in early March 2020, the question was whether or not the new virus would become a pandemic. At the time, most experts believed that we had already reached the point of no ...
Sep 16, 2021
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A Brazilian study published in the Journal of Pineal Research describes a group of genes potentially regulated by the hormone melatonin in some types of cancer, especially breast cancer. According to the authors, the results ...
Dec 8, 2020
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University of New Mexico researchers who combed through a "library" of previously approved drugs believe they have identified a medication with the potential to help speed a patient's recovery from SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Oct 16, 2020
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Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific and medical journals have published over 100,000 studies on SARS-CoV-2. But according to data scientists who created a machine-learning tool to analyze the deluge of publications, ...
Sep 17, 2020
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Seven months into the pandemic, U.S. government officials and scientists still disagree over basic safety guidance on the coronavirus. People are still disregarding key public health advice. And we are still seeing leading ...
Jul 28, 2020
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Scientific methods normally used to forecast weather have been borrowed to predict how rapidly COVID-19 could spread in different countries as lockdown is eased, as well as assess the effectiveness of measures put in place.
Jul 1, 2020
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Software for an innovative wearable that could optimize the collection of data in psychological studies is being developed by researchers at Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences in Krems, Austria (KL Krems). The ...
Jun 3, 2019
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