Lancet U-turns on COVID lab leak theory amid reports of scientists having Wuhan links Pressure building to determine coronavirus origins. House Oversight Committee ranking member James Comer weighs in on ‘Fox & Friends First.’ The World Health Organization is developing…
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Scientists probe mystery of ‘thunderstorm asthma’ event that sent thousands to the ER
Calls to emergency departments spiked in the wake of a thunderstorm that swept over Melbourne, Australia, in 2016. It was a rare outbreak of “thunderstorm asthma,” the most severe ever recorded. Now, a new model, published April 14 in the…
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Imaging probe to visualize Alzheimer’s disease-related gamma-secretase in the brain
Scientists at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have developed a molecular imaging probe to reveal Alzheimer’s disease (AD)-related γ-secretase in rodents and macaques with translational potentials in humans. γ-Secretase is a key player in the etiology of AD and a…
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Researchers probe cancer’s ongoing evolution
Cancers gain and lose large sections of chromosomes in some of their cells but not in others, a process that may indicate ongoing evolution and selection for preferred traits, report a team of researchers led by the Max Delbrück Center…
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Improved neural probe can pose precise questions without losing parts of the answers
A technique for studying individual circuits in the brains of mice has been hampered because the light needed to stimulate neural activity briefly overwhelms the electrodes “listening” for the response. Now, improved shielding within the neural probe enables those lost…
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