[ad_1] The COVID-19 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has infected more than 59.65 million people worldwide and caused the deaths of over 1.4 million. The virus, first detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, China, is the most significant public health problem since the 1918 …
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[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 24, 2020 Eighty to 90% of teens benefit from sustained weight loss after bariatric surgery, and most experience remission of obesity-related complications such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, and musculoskeletal pain, among others. In a new study published in Obesity, …
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[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 24, 2020 Don’t be afraid to throw a handful of raisins or dried apples into your Thanksgiving stuffing this year – a new Penn State study has found that dried fruit could be linked to better health. The researchers found that people who ate …
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[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 24, 2020 The correlation between the high concentration of fine particles and the severity of flu waves is well known to epidemiologists. An interdisciplinary team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and ETH Zurich’s spin-off Meteodat investigated the possible interactions between acutely high levels …
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[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 24, 2020 When it comes to brain scans to evaluate head trauma, detect brain cancer, and perform numerous other tests, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the best option, but MRI scanners are expensive, require special infrastructure, and are immobile . Now a team led …
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[ad_1] ksc-20200306-ph-awg07_0007_medium.jpg A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket takes off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 11:50 pm EST on March 6, 2020, carrying the unmanned Dragon spacecraft on its journey to the International Space Station for NASA and SpaceX 20a commercial refueling …
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[ad_1] In a recent medRxiv * preprint paper, the researchers of the Health Center of the University of Connecticut in the United States reveal their method CRISPR (WS-CRISPR) with digital hot start for rigorous quantitative and sensitive detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV -2) in clinical samples …
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[ad_1] Ants are rather organized little creatures. Highly social insects, they know how to forage, build complicated nests, steal pantry snacks, and generally take care of the queens and the colony, all working together. Leaf cutter ants increase this collaboration by several levels. Colonies of leaf cutter ants like Acromyrmex …
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[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 24, 2020 Funding from the National Institutes of Health will allow a Penn State researcher to investigate whether vitamin D supplementation could help people ward off or reduce symptoms caused by COVID-19. Margherita Cantorna, a distinguished professor of molecular immunology and nutrition at the …
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[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 24, 2020 One study revealed that newborn brains can be shaped by the stress levels the mother experiences during pregnancy. Stress levels in mothers – measured by a hormone linked to anxiety and other health problems – are linked to changes in the newborn’s …
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