Despite short-term harms and emerging negative long-term effects, the use of electronic nicotine delivery systems—better known as e-cigarettes—among both American adolescents and adults has accelerated and presents public health concerns for tobacco control efforts. Now, a Johns Hopkins Medicine researcher…
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International team develops predictive tool to help mitigate COVID-19 in Africa
The virus that gives rise to COVID-19 is the third coronavirus to threaten humanity in the past two decades. It also happens to move more efficiently from person to person than either SARS or MERS did. The first African case…
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Japanese-European research team discovers novel genetic mitochondrial disorder
DNA ligase proteins, which facilitate the formation of bonds between separate strands of DNA, play critical roles in the replication and maintenance of DNA. The human genome encodes three different DNA ligase proteins, but only one of them—DNA ligase III…
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International team identifies genetic link between face and brain shape
An interdisciplinary team led by KU Leuven and Stanford has identified 76 overlapping genetic locations that shape both the face and our brain. What the researchers didn’t find is evidence that this genetic overlap also predicts someone’s behavioral-cognitive traits or…
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WHO team urges patience after 1st look for origin of virus
An international team that drew up a long-awaited study of the possible origins of COVID-19 with Chinese colleagues on Tuesday called it a “first start,” appealing for patience and noting all hypotheses—including a possible laboratory leak—cannot be fully ruled out….
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Research team describes how a virus can cause diabetes
It has recently been described that infection by some enteroviruses—a genus of viruses that commonly cause diseases of varying severity—could potentially trigger diabetes, although its direct effect ‘in vivo’ as well as its mechanism of action at the molecular level…
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Team creates a collaborative platform to streamline brain metastasis research
Science is collaborative by nature, since scientific knowledge only advances, step by step, through combined efforts and findings. Nevertheless, there is often a lack of communication regarding the more technical and everyday advances in laboratory work, and as a result,…
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Team announces disease: NBA legend Patrick Ewing because Covid-19 in the hospital
The longtime Center of the New York Knicks, also played for the Seattle Supersonics and Orlando Magic, is currently in a hospital in Washington in Isolation, such as the Georgetown University announced. There, the two-time Olympic champion coaches the College…
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Scientific team finds new, unique mutation in coronavirus study
As the coronavirus pandemic has swept across the U.S., in addition to tracking the number of COVID daily cases, there is a worldwide scientific community engaged in tracking the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself. Efrem Lim leads a team at ASU that…
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Vaccine by September? Oxford team run promising trials on monkeys
Could the world have a coronavirus vaccine by September? Monkeys given Oxford University’s jab were infection-free a month after contact with the virus – and researchers say ‘millions’ of doses could be ready this fall Last month, six rhesus macaque monkeys…
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