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New technique gives a "street view" of vital lipid membranes surrounding organellesNovember 18, 2020 at 11:39 PM The ability to "see" the inner workings of structures (organelles) within cells, in real time, offers the promise of advancements in disease diagnosis and treatment.Tags: Health 24 people like this. Like Research shows sexual lineage plays crucial role in transgenerational plasticityNovember 18, 2020 at 11:36 PM A new pair of papers published in the Journal of Animal Ecology has shown that sexual lineage matters for how offspring receive adaptations from parents in stickleback fish.Tags: Health, Journal of Animal Ecology 18 people like this. Like Researchers assess consequences of decades of global nutrition transitionNovember 18, 2020 at 11:21 PM Just a handful of rice and beans - a part of our world is starved. Hawaiian Pizza and ice-cream - another part of our world is stuffed, throwing away food every day.Tags: Health 28 people like this. Like TB researchers uncover crucial clue that explains antibiotic resistance in bacteriaNovember 18, 2020 at 11:04 PM For a slow-growing microbe that multiplies infrequently, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen that causes tuberculosis (TB) has long puzzled researchers as to how it develops resistance to antibiotics so quickly, in a matter of weeks to months.Tags: Health 17 people like this. Like Most COVID-19 convalescent individuals have long-lasting memory T cell responsesNovember 18, 2020 at 11:02 PM Recently, researchers from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, and the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, conducted a comprehensive analysis of memory T cell responses against SARS-CoV-2 in individuals who have recovered from COVID-19.Tags: Health, COVID, University of Duisburg Essen Germany 26 people like this. Like Researchers use single-cell analysis to assess the effects of aging on mice’s egg cellsNovember 18, 2020 at 10:52 PM Using the power of single-cell analysis, researchers at the Babraham Institute have assessed the effects of age on egg cells (oocytes) in mice, particularly looking to identify genomic and epigenetic factors that relate to reduced developmental competence.Tags: Health, Babraham Institute 37 people like this. Like Victoria will close border to South Australia for 48 hours as state records no new Covid cases – live newsNovember 18, 2020 at 10:30 PM A hard border will begin at midnight tonight with only freight drivers and those with medical or emergency reasons allowed to cross. Follow liveSouth Australia and Adelaide lockdown rules and restrictionsAustralia’s state by state restrictions and rules 3.30am GMT Patton said he knows that the community relies on police to keep them safe, but stood by the officers involved saying “no one could have predicted the outcome” because there had never been a hostile vehicle attack in Australia befo...Tags: Health, Australia, Australia news, Queensland, New South Wales, Adelaide, Victoria, South Australia, Patton, Shane Patton, Bourke St, Coronavirus, Bhavita Patel 50 people like this. Like SARS-CoV-2 deactivation on surfaces in 30 seconds with a copper pasteNovember 18, 2020 at 10:27 PM In a recent bioRxiv preprint paper, a team of researchers shows the possibility of using copper, in a new conformation, for effectively killing microbes immediately.Tags: Health 32 people like this. Like New understanding of glycan signatures of the SARS-COV-2 S1 spike proteinNovember 18, 2020 at 10:00 PM A team of scientists from the University of Oxford, UK, has revealed that site-specific glycosylation differs between spike proteins derived from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and a viral vector-based vaccine candidate.Tags: Health, University of Oxford UK 25 people like this. Like Victoria will close border to South Australia for 48 hours as state records no new cases – live newsNovember 18, 2020 at 9:32 PM A hard border will begin at midnight tonight with only freight drivers and those with medical or emergency reasons allowed to cross. Follow liveSouth Australia and Adelaide lockdown rules and restrictionsAustralia’s state by state restrictions and rules 2.32am GMT Victoria’s deputy chief health officer, Prof Allen Cheng, said that increased wastewater testing in western Victoria would be part of Victoria’s protective measures against the SA outbreak.But the discovery of the virus at Portland...Tags: Health, Australia, Australia news, Queensland, New South Wales, Portland, Adelaide, Victoria, South Australia, Benalla, Coronavirus, Prof Allen Cheng 43 people like this. Like LA County, Kaiser and Smithfield Foods among those fined for alleged COVID-19 violationsNovember 18, 2020 at 9:16 PM Los Angeles County, Kaiser Permanente, Smithfield Foods and CitiStaff Solutions are facing a combined $191,380 in fines for COVID-19-related violations at their Southern California operations, according to state officials.
Other businesses cited by the California Department of Industrial Relations, also known as Cal/OSHA, that have received lesser coronavirus penalties include Panorama Meadows Nursing Center in Panorama City, Western General Insurance Co. in Calabasas, Amazon in Eastvale and Cot...Tags: Health, Amazon, News, California, Kaiser Permanente, New York City, America, Sport, Public Health, Soccer, Kaiser, Local News, Orange, Taco Bell, Southern California, Lafc 50 people like this. Like UIC conducts three clinical trials to study blood clot prevention in COVID-19 patientsNovember 18, 2020 at 8:58 PM The University of Illinois Chicago will conduct three clinical trials for studying blood clot prevention in patients with COVID-19.Tags: Health, UIC, University of Illinois Chicago 36 people like this. Like Optimizing SARS-COV-2 inactivation for COVID-19 research at lower biosafety levelsNovember 18, 2020 at 8:56 PM Researchers at Montana State University have validated and compared two methods for inactivating the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that would enable the virus to be studied at a lower biosafety level (BSL) than the one currently required.Tags: Health, Montana State University 9 people like this. Like New approach uses a nanosensor to speed up early-stage disease diagnosisNovember 18, 2020 at 8:54 PM Catching deadly diseases like cancer early on is key to improving patient survival odds. However, diseases are much harder to diagnose in their preliminary stages because people often haven't developed symptoms yet and only trace amounts can be found in their bodies.Tags: Health 9 people like this. Like Computers could use subtle facial features to recognize congenital adrenal hyperplasiaNovember 18, 2020 at 8:49 PM Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is a disorder that affects the adrenal gland's ability to release hormones that regulate the body's response to stress and illness.Tags: Health 49 people like this. Like Study provides new insight into the formation of neural crest cellsNovember 18, 2020 at 8:44 PM Last year, researchers at the University of California, Riverside, identified the early origins of neural crest cells -- embryonic cells in vertebrates that travel throughout the body and generate many cell types -- in chick embryos.Tags: Health, University of California Riverside 20 people like this. Like Altered gut microbiota increases production of molecules that may contribute to type 2 diabetesNovember 18, 2020 at 8:39 PM It is the bacterial changes in the gut that increase the levels of imidazole propionate, the molecule that makes the body's cells resistant to insulin in type 2 diabetes. This result emerges from a European study, MetaCardis.Tags: Health 28 people like this. Like Victoria will close border to SA for 48 hours as state records no new cases linked to Covid cluster – live newsNovember 18, 2020 at 8:33 PM A hard border will begin at midnight tonight with only freight drivers and those with medical or emergency reasons allowed to cross. Follow liveSouth Australia and Adelaide lockdown rules and restrictionsAustralia’s state by state restrictions and rules 1.32am GMT The testing site at Magil is being temporarily closed due to wind.Magill COVID-19 testing site is temporarily closed due to wind.Please go to Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi drive-through site or to find a location to get a COVID-19 t...Tags: Health, Australia, Australia news, Queensland, New South Wales, Adelaide, Victoria, South Australia, NSW, Gladys Berejiklian, Magill, Coronavirus, COVID, Magil, Victoria Park Pakapakanthi 39 people like this. Like "Escape mutations" could help SARS-CoV-2 evade immune attackNovember 18, 2020 at 8:32 PM Researchers in the United States have identified mutations within severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the agent that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) – that can reduce antibody binding to the virus, potentially mediating its escape from immune attack.Tags: Health, United States 37 people like this. Like Brain protein plays a major role in the development and growth of pancreatic cancerNovember 18, 2020 at 8:30 PM Researchers have discovered that a protein thought to only be involved in the development of neurons in the brain also plays a major role in the development and growth of pancreatic cancer.Tags: Health 9 people like this. Like Researchers explore potential role of oxytocin in modulating male sexual functionNovember 18, 2020 at 8:26 PM Hormones are key players of the endocrine system and have a major influence on our emotional and sexual wellbeing.Tags: Health 17 people like this. Like Examining potential foodborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 through fresh produceNovember 18, 2020 at 8:05 PM To address this gap in knowledge, researchers from the Bureau of Microbial Hazards, Health Canada, and Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa examined the survival of human coronaviruses on the surface of fresh produce such as apples, cucumbers, and tomatoes.Tags: Health, Bureau of Microbial Hazards Health Canada, Faculty of Medicine University of Ottawa 45 people like this. Like AI can help recognize individuals with congenital adrenal hyperplasia based on facial imagesNovember 18, 2020 at 8:00 PM Researchers at the VISTA Center (Vision, Image, Speech and Text Analytics) at the USC Viterbi Information Sciences Institutealong with scholars at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and Children's Hospital Los Angeles have discovered strong correlations between facial morphology and congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), a life-threatening genetic condition of the adrenal glands and one of the most common forms of adrenal insufficiency in children.Tags: Health, Los Angeles, Children s Hospital, Keck School of Medicine of USC, USC Viterbi Information Sciences Institutealong 33 people like this. Like Study: Pod e-cigarettes are less damaging to health than traditional cigarettesNovember 18, 2020 at 7:53 PM Cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States, according to federal government data -- and some smokers find it nearly impossible to quit. Many of these smokers use regular, or combustible, cigarettes.Tags: Health, United States 18 people like this. Like UTHSC and Regeneron partner to advance precision medicineNovember 18, 2020 at 7:49 PM The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has entered into an agreement with the Regeneron Genetics Center, a subsidiary of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., for the company to sequence DNA that has been voluntarily collected and stored as part of a biorepository initiative UTHSC is building in collaboration with its partner teaching hospitals.Tags: Health, Regeneron, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc, UTHSC, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Regeneron Genetics Center 19 people like this. Like UIC study aims to improve smoking cessation interventions for underserved populationsNovember 18, 2020 at 7:44 PM Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have received more than $3.3 million to study the burden of tobacco use and to improve smoking cessation interventions for populations with demonstrated high smoking rates.Tags: Health, UIC, University of Illinois Chicago 37 people like this. Like Researchers use proteogenomics to better understand the biological complexity of breast cancerNovember 18, 2020 at 7:41 PM Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and other institutions have applied powerful proteogenomics approaches to better understand the biological complexity of breast cancer.Tags: Health, Harvard 13 people like this. Like Experts highlight latest advancements in neurogenic classification and pain managementNovember 18, 2020 at 7:32 PM There have been significant advances in knowledge regarding the pathology, etiology, assessment, and treatment of several significant neurogenic pain disorders regularly encountered by neurorehabilitation professionals in both inpatient and outpatient care.Tags: Health 32 people like this. Like A DNA-based nanogel for targeted delivery of therapeuticsNovember 18, 2020 at 7:27 PM Current chemotherapy regimens slow cancer progression and save lives, but these powerful drugs affect both healthy and cancerous cells.Tags: Health 43 people like this. Like Urgency increases as coronavirus surge threatens to overwhelm LA County hospitalsNovember 18, 2020 at 7:26 PM An major wave coronavirus patients flowing into hospitals by early December could force Los Angeles County to return to restrictive Safer-at-Home orders similar to those of the early days of the pandemic, according to public health officials who expressed a new sense of urgency on Wednesday, Nov. 18.
The county reported 3,944 new cases Wednesday, among the highest daily numbers since mid-July. If this rate continues, the county could surpass 4,000 average daily cases and 1,750 hospitalizations b...Tags: Health, Home, Utah, Business, News, Education, California, Government, New York City, Sport, Indiana, Public Health, Soccer, Long Beach, Community, Pasadena 3 people like this. Like |
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