[ad_1] A new British study that is partly reassuring, especially for the little ones and their parents. The research, conducted by University College London (UCL) with the Francis Crick Institute and spotted by Yahoo! News, suggests that some people may have “pre-existing immunity” to the novel coronavirus, and that without …
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[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 10, 2020 Disparities in unilateral knee replacement surgery have been well documented, with lower use and higher complication rates among African American patients. While previous studies had focused on single knee replacement surgery, researchers at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) set out to …
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[ad_1] Metal-organic structures (MOFs) are a class of porous and crystalline materials that are synthesized from inorganic metal ions or clusters attached to organic ligands. Two of these materials are shown, HKUST-1 and MIL-100 (Fe). (Credit: Tania Evans, Georgia Tech) An artificial intelligence technique, machine learning, is helping to accelerate …
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[ad_1] Confirmed cases for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) – caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have surpassed 50.8 million worldwide. As many countries begin to impose tighter blockades once again amid recurring cases, scientists are frantically trying to develop an effective treatment regimen for COVID-19 or antiviral …
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[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 9, 2020 With a $ 1.3 million grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), researchers are developing and evaluating the Belonging and Empathy, With Intentional Targeted Helping (BE WITH) project, designed to reduce ‘social isolation, loneliness and the high risk …
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[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 9, 2020 The recently FDA-cleared alpha-defensin lateral flow test is a highly accurate ten-minute test for diagnosing periprosthetic joint infection (PJI), a serious and costly complication of total joint replacement, reports a study in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. The magazine is …
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[ad_1] Most vaccine research in the current 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has focused on the role of the angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor in mediating viral entry into the host cell. However, a recent study published on the prepress server bioRxiv* in November 2020 discovers the major role played …
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[ad_1] mars2020-sample-tubes.jpg NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will store rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet’s surface for future recovery missions, as seen in this illustration. Credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech NASA will host a media conference call on Tuesday, November 10 at 11:00 EST, to discuss the …
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[ad_1] Scientists from Stony Brook University, the US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Materials Project, the University of California-Berkeley, and European collaborators have developed a new way to decipher the structure at atomic level of data materials collected from ground dust samples. They describe …
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[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 9, 2020 At high concentrations, reactive oxygen species – known as oxidants – are harmful to the cells of all organisms and have been linked to aging. But a study from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has now shown that low levels of oxidizing …
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