A prominent group of academics is pressing the Biden administration to move faster and take stronger action to protect high-risk workers from airborne exposure to the coronavirus, urging enforceable standards to help safeguard risky workplaces including health care, food processing and prisons. The researchers say that even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]
Researchers make discoveries to better understand SARS-CoV-2 virus
An effort led by Lin Li, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics at The University of Texas at El Paso, in collaboration with students and faculty from Howard University, has identified key variants that help explain the differences between the viruses that cause COVID-19 and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). A team comprised of researchers from […]
New study could help scientists more effectively use T-cell technologies to better understand immune responses
A comparison of two key research tools used by immunologists to study different types of T-cell receptor signals has identified important features of existing technologies that could allow scientists to better understand immune responses, in a new study led by scientists at the University of Birmingham. T cells form a crucial part of the immune […]
Focus on COVID-19 deaths in under-65s for better insights into infection rates across populations, say researchers
Simply comparing the total number of deaths across countries may provide a misleading representation of the underlying level of transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, because of large differences in reported COVID-19 death rates in elderly populations in different countries. The research, conducted by scientists at the University of Cambridge and the Institut […]
Two Major Chicken Producers Commit to Better Welfare
We are proud to have worked with Mary’s Free Range Chicken and Naked Truth Chicken to develop these companies’ recent commitments to raising healthier breeds of chickens in more humane conditions in line with the ASPCA-supported Better Chicken Commitment. The Better Chicken Commitment is a set of standards at the heart of a global campaign […]
Temperature-sensitive, longer-lasting eyedrops may mean fewer applications, better therapy
Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have created a gel-based eyedrop that responds to the eye’s temperature and allows drugs to remain longer on the eye surface, penetrating tissues more effectively without obscuring vision. Tested in mice, rabbits and pigs, the formulation could reduce the number of times a day that patients need to reach for the […]
Researchers now better understand ovarian cancer tumors and treatment outcomes
After nearly four years of work, a group of researchers and clinicians from the University of Colorado (CU) published a paper this week in the Clinical Cancer Research that shares findings from research looking at how the composition of ovarian cancer tumors changes during chemotherapy and contributes to therapeutic response. While the standard of care […]
Surgical innovation promises better dialysis outcomes
A new technique developed by a Yale-led research team improves blood flow in surgically made blood vessels used in dialysis, enables them to last longer, and results in fewer complications than the standard technique. The findings, based on work with hundreds of patients and supported by animal studies, appear in the Aug. 19 issue of […]
CDC reports the rich sleep better at night
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has conducted a sleep study and found that rich people, on average, sleep longer at night than poor people. According to a report by CNN, researchers at the agency sent surveys to people in the United States over the years 2011 to 2014 inquiring about their sleep […]