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Evidence of lower COVID-19 severity in SARS-CoV-2 Omicron infection compared to Delta infection

Researchers compared COVID-19 severity among hospitalized patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 Delta and Omicron variants in Norway.

17 Mar 2022

Evidence of COVID-19 impacts on glycated hemoglobin levels in a real-world clinical cohort

Researchers established the impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on glycated hemoglobin levels, type 2 diabetes risk, and diabetic ketoacidosis through data from the large real-world clinical cohort.

17 Mar 2022

Relationship between people’s subjective beliefs about risks and their private protective behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic

Researchers evaluated the relationship between risk perception and personal protective behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic.

17 Mar 2022

Behavioral psychedelics: Fostering changes in habits, behaviors to improve health and resilience

Despite their reputation as illicit drugs, psychedelics may find new, legitimate roles in treatment for anxiety, depression, stress disorders, addiction, and other mental and behavioral health problems.

16 Mar 2022

Brain-wide association studies need thousands of people to achieve higher reproducibility

As brain scans have become more detailed and informative in recent decades, neuroimaging has seemed to promise a way for doctors and scientists to "see" what's going wrong inside the brains of people with mental illnesses or neurological conditions.

16 Mar 2022

Transcription factors work together to drive cancer cell proliferation

Scientists have discovered that a well-established cancer cell transcription factor and its newly identified co-factor work together to drive cancer cell proliferation, according to findings published in Science Advances.

16 Mar 2022

Discovery of how NK cells are regulated in peripheral tissues could help combat cancer, other diseases

New research reveals factors that control the interplay of natural killer (NK) cells - which are part of the body's innate, or first line, immune response - with tumor cells, viral infections, and solid organ transplants.

16 Mar 2022

Novel metabolic mechanisms contribute to how ovarian cancer evades immune attack, research finds

High-grade serous carcinoma is the most aggressive form of ovarian cancer and accounts for the majority of advanced-stage cases.

16 Mar 2022

Elevated triglyceride levels may increase risk of second stroke, even while on statin therapy

Stroke can have many causes. An atherothrombotic stroke is caused by a clot that forms from plaques that build up within blood vessels in the brain.

16 Mar 2022

Neurons that drive competition and social behavior within groups discovered

New research in mice has identified neurons in the brain that influence competitive interactions between individuals and that play a critical role in shaping the social behavior of groups.

16 Mar 2022

Penn State professor receives $2.8 million NIH grant to investigate lower jaw development

How the lower jaw - mandible - develops and consequently how and why some developmental birth defects occur is the focus of a five-year, $2.8 million grant to Joan Richtsmeier, distinguished professor of anthropology, Penn State, from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research.

16 Mar 2022

Blood test may identify risk of stillbirth and placentitis in pregnant patients with COVID-19

A small preliminary study from Northwestern Medicine has shown that a blood test may identify risk of stillbirth and placentitis in pregnant individuals who have had COVID-19.

16 Mar 2022

Study delineates how drug-induced changes of conscious awareness are rooted in neurotransmitter receptors

Psychedelics are now a rapidly growing area of neuroscience and clinical research, one that may produce much-needed new therapies for disorders such as depression and schizophrenia.

16 Mar 2022

Potential Covid-19 vaccine may offer an inexpensive, easy-to-store alternative to RNA vaccines

While many people in wealthier countries have been vaccinated against Covid-19, there is still a need for vaccination in much of the world.

16 Mar 2022

Study finds a promising new target for immunity-boosting cancer treatments

Tumors can use an enzyme called ART1 to thwart antitumor immune cells, making the enzyme a promising new target for immunity-boosting cancer treatments, according to a study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

16 Mar 2022

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Evidence of lower COVID-19 severity in SARS-CoV-2 Omicron infection compared to Delta infection

Evidence of COVID-19 impacts on glycated hemoglobin levels in a real-world clinical cohort

Relationship between people’s subjective beliefs about risks and their private protective behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic

Behavioral psychedelics: Fostering changes in habits, behaviors to improve health and resilience

Brain-wide association studies need thousands of people to achieve higher reproducibility

Transcription factors work together to drive cancer cell proliferation

Discovery of how NK cells are regulated in peripheral tissues could help combat cancer, other diseases

Novel metabolic mechanisms contribute to how ovarian cancer evades immune attack, research finds

Elevated triglyceride levels may increase risk of second stroke, even while on statin therapy

Neurons that drive competition and social behavior within groups discovered

Penn State professor receives $2.8 million NIH grant to investigate lower jaw development

Blood test may identify risk of stillbirth and placentitis in pregnant patients with COVID-19

Study delineates how drug-induced changes of conscious awareness are rooted in neurotransmitter receptors

Potential Covid-19 vaccine may offer an inexpensive, easy-to-store alternative to RNA vaccines

Study finds a promising new target for immunity-boosting cancer treatments

UQ researchers discover a molecule essential for regulating nerve repair

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome as a late complication in COVID-19 infected children

Young adults protected by booster COVID-19 vaccine during Omicron dominant period

The Future of Tuberculosis; An Interview with the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute

Novel targets to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 variants

Advancing Motor Neuron Disease Diagnosis with Non-Invasive Ultrasound and AI

How agentic AI is reshaping laboratory workflows

Fourier 80: bringing benchtop NMR systems to the laboratory

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