Public health scientists predict that school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic will exacerbate the epidemic of childhood obesity in…
Coronavirus: Virological findings from patients treated in a Munich hospital
New research has detailed the clinical course and treatment of Germany’s first group of COVID-19 patients. Criteria may now be…
Possible coronavirus drug identified
A new study has shown that an anti-parasitic drug already available around the world can kill the virus within 48…
Tissue dynamics provide clues to human disease
Scientists have studied oscillating patterns of gene expression, coordinated across time and space within a tissue grown in vitro, to…
Stress thwarts our ability to plan ahead by disrupting how we use memory
Pairing brain scans with virtual-navigation tasks, researchers found that people make less efficient and effective plans when stressed.
Gita Ramjee, a Leading AIDS Researcher, Dies at 63
Working in South Africa, she led studies and drug trials, hoping to overcome not only H.I.V. but also cultural barriers…
Gita Ramjee, a Leading AIDS Researcher, Dies at 63
Working in South Africa, she led studies and drug trials, hoping to overcome not only H.I.V. but also cultural barriers…
Clues to COVID-19 coronavirus’s vulnerability emerge from an antibody against SARS
An antibody recovered from a survivor of the SARS epidemic in the early 2000s has revealed a potential vulnerability of…
Rapid infectious disease shifts in Chinese children and adolescents prior to COVID-19
Deaths of children and adolescents in China due to infectious diseases were becoming rare prior to the covid-19 pandemic, according…
To divide or not to divide? The mother cell may decide
Researchers have found that it’s actually the mother cell that determines if its daughter cells will divide. The finding sheds…