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Two school friends have joined forces to boost the global sales opportunities of the UK’s medical device manufacturers

James Hardie, and Mat Targowski, set up Sanollo, an innovative advisory specializing in helping the latest medical technologies enter new markets.

15 Dec 2020

Not all masks protect the same: Research suggests no mask better than an old mask

In a new study, a team of scientists explains how not all masks protect the same from COVID-19 transmission.

15 Dec 2020

Risk of COVID-19 transmission increases when walking through corridors

Research has found that COVID-19 individuals breathe out water droplets that can form into streams that trail behind them when walking through corridors.

15 Dec 2020

SLS and Eppendorf to supply ultra-low temperature freezers for UK COVID-19 vaccines

Scientific Laboratory Supplies and Eppendorf have been chosen to provide ultra-low temperature freezers for the country’s supply of COVID-19 vaccines.

15 Dec 2020

Study: Structural racism has material impact on health of ethnic minorities, immigrants

Structural racism can lead to discrimination in many aspects of life including criminal justice, employment, housing, health care, political power, and education.

15 Dec 2020

Scientists empower wireless sensors with vision abilities to fight viruses

Current and former early-career scientists share their stories and tell how Europe has bet on them, making their high-risk research possible: from intelligent wireless sensors with vision abilities to RNA-based techniques to fight viruses, from the mathematical formulas of the MRI waves to optoceutics, the new technique that uses light to repair the heart after a stroke.

15 Dec 2020

New measurement technique can provide information about brain activity

Is it possible to read a person's mind by analyzing the electric signals from the brain? The answer may be much more complex than most people think.

15 Dec 2020

Study provides valuable interaction about animal host and pathogen during pneumococcal infections

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine published one of the most comprehensive analyses of how genes get expressed during infection (known as a transcriptome). The analyses include three different strains of the bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae, which causes pneumonia, meningitis, and middle-ear infections.

15 Dec 2020

Pandemic backlash jeopardizes public health powers, leaders

A series examining how the U.S. public health front lines have been left understaffed and ill-prepared to save us from the coronavirus pandemic.

15 Dec 2020

New AI tool may soon offer the right treatment for stroke survivors

An AI developed by Japanese researchers might soon help stroke survivors get the right treatment by detecting a patient's post-stroke depression (PSD) type, a frequently seen but often overlooked neuropsychiatric manifestation after a stroke that could impair functional recovery.

15 Dec 2020

Study: Flavoring chemicals of e-cigarette vapor alone can measurably damage the lungs

Known for their appetizing flavors, such as bubblegum, banana and strawberry, e-cigarettes continue to grow in popularity around the world. Promoted by makers as a "healthy" alternative to regular tobacco cigarettes, researchers are finding e-cigarettes, or vaping, still result in injury to the lungs.

15 Dec 2020

Researchers develop new model to determine quarantine measures for COVID-19

As Covid-19 infections soar across the U.S., some states are tightening restrictions and reinstituting quarantine measures to slow the virus' spread.

15 Dec 2020

Republicans are less likely to follow social distancing guidelines that prevent COVID- 19 transmission

Young Californians who identify themselves as Republicans are less likely to follow social distancing guidelines that prevent coronavirus transmission than those who identify as Democrats or Independents, according to a new USC study published today in JAMA Internal Medicine.

15 Dec 2020

Smartphone-based adherence program can optimize uptake of COVID-19 vaccine

The light at the end of the pandemic tunnel is getting brighter. This week, the first health care workers will receive the first doses of an FDA-approved coronavirus vaccine. Soon, so will other front-line workers in health care and beyond, and residents of long-term care facilities.

15 Dec 2020

DFG establishes “COVID-19 Focus Funding” to address questions on coronavirus pandemic

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) has made its first decisions in the new COVID-19 Focus Funding instrument. These decisions will enable 33 projects to immediately begin research on immunity, host susceptibility and pathomechanisms of infection with SARS-CoV-2.

15 Dec 2020

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Two school friends have joined forces to boost the global sales opportunities of the UK’s medical device manufacturers

Not all masks protect the same: Research suggests no mask better than an old mask

Risk of COVID-19 transmission increases when walking through corridors

SLS and Eppendorf to supply ultra-low temperature freezers for UK COVID-19 vaccines

Study: Structural racism has material impact on health of ethnic minorities, immigrants

Scientists empower wireless sensors with vision abilities to fight viruses

New measurement technique can provide information about brain activity

Study provides valuable interaction about animal host and pathogen during pneumococcal infections

Pandemic backlash jeopardizes public health powers, leaders

New AI tool may soon offer the right treatment for stroke survivors

Study: Flavoring chemicals of e-cigarette vapor alone can measurably damage the lungs

Researchers develop new model to determine quarantine measures for COVID-19

Republicans are less likely to follow social distancing guidelines that prevent COVID- 19 transmission

Smartphone-based adherence program can optimize uptake of COVID-19 vaccine

DFG establishes “COVID-19 Focus Funding” to address questions on coronavirus pandemic

FDA approves first IGA in GalSafe pigs for human food, promising therapeutic uses

COVID-19 vaccine shows the long-term value of curiosity-driven basic research

Study explores new parasitic worm that affects reproduction in Caribbean spiny lobster

New criteria allow accurate determination of death in mountain rescue situations

Unique inhibitory protein may suppress the formation of cancer cells

Advancing Neuroscience Research Through Collaboration and Patient-Centered Innovation

The impact of vibration on microscopy

How Omics Technologies Are Transforming Biological Research and Drug Discovery

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