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May 28, 2020

Posts on the Chinese social media site Weibo about covid symptoms and diagnoses accurately predicted cases 14 days ahead of official statistics

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Apr 03, 2020

New study shows how common parasitic infection can cause seizures and psychiatric illness, like schizophrenia. Persistent parasitic infection causes a loss of inhibitory synapses, and they also observed that cell bodies of neurons became ensheathed by other brain cells, microglia.

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Feb 26, 2020

Study finds more than half of those living on the street suffer from a brain injury

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Feb 11, 2020

A surgical robot that can perform supermicrosurgery (reconnecting vessels with diameter as little as 0.3mm) has been successfully tested on human patients. The robotic system gives surgeons more precision and can increase the number of patients who will benefit from reconstructive supermicrosurgery.

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Jan 09, 2020

To study the link between minimum wage and suicide rates, researchers looked at two decades of data. They found that raising the wage by just a $1 leads to a drop in suicide rates - between 3.5 and 6 percent.

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Nov 27, 2019

In a landmark study, scientists show that certain anti-HIV medicines can be used from birth to attack the virus’ stronghold in the immune system. Treating infants in the hours after they are born is not standard practice in the US. But the study suggests those few hours may make all the difference.

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Nov 16, 2019

A new study shows the keto diet may have an unexpected side effect: increased protection against one of the most contagious viruses on the planet, influenza. Just one week on the keto diet protected mice from lethal influenza infection and disease compared to mice on a high-carb, low-fat diets.

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Nov 13, 2019

Bill and Melinda Gates-funded invention could potentially solve malnutrition by delivering essential nutrients, reports a new study, by encapsulating 11 micronutrients including iron, iodine, zinc, and B12 inside a microparticle, which is slightly larger than the diameter of a single human hair.

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Oct 16, 2019

New capsule can orally deliver drugs that usually have to be injected

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Oct 10, 2019

New research shows that the koala is developing genomic immunity to koala retrovirus, a disease that makes the animal susceptible to chlamydia, leukemia, and lymphoma. This immunity is something scientists knew about in theory but had never observed in-progress.

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Sep 19, 2019

How the sleeping brain decides which memories are worth keeping

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Aug 05, 2019

Low-dose radiation, similar to that which astronauts might experience during long-distance space travel, caused significant cognitive and behavioral changes in mice. Even as space travel technology advances, space radiation may continue to be a limiting factor for human space exploration.

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Jul 25, 2019

After 2008, bisphenol F and S (BPF, BPS) were used to replace bisphenol A (BPA) in many plastics because BPA was shown to be an endocrine disruptor. Now, urine levels of BPF and BPS are significantly associated with a higher risk of obesity in kids aged 6-19.

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Jul 25, 2019

Microrobots, tiny drug-filled capsules 20 micrometres in diameter that can motor around the body to target cancer cells, have been successfully demonstrated in mice intestines in a colon cancer model, and could one day be targeted treatments for cancers in hard to reach places in the body.

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Jun 26, 2019

Researchers have found a "hidden consciousness" in people in a coma or vegetative state, which may have an effect on decisions regarding the withdrawal of life support. "This raises the possibility of some preservation of consciousness," writes the lead author.

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Jun 12, 2019

Researchers debut method for binding and controlling lethal pufferfish toxin for clinical use. A rat study shows how this technique turned tetrodotoxin into a local anesthetic that can act for multiple days at a time, showing promise for eventually treating humans with chronic pain conditions.

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Jun 12, 2019

EDM Festivals Trigger Brain Disturbances in Undiagnosed Patients: Strobe lights are linked to a tripling in the risk of epileptic fits in susceptible individuals.

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Jun 03, 2019

CCR5-∆32, the mutation inserted into the genome of a human embryo in China's rogue gene editing trial to confer HIV resistance, is linked to a 21% increase in all-cause mortality rate in people of British ancestry who are homozygous for the allele. (n=409,693)

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May 30, 2019

Stem cell treatments can restore the sense of smell in mice. A new proof-of concept study suggests that such a treatment should be possible in humans, who share a similar olfactory system.

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May 28, 2019

Doctors in the U.S. experience symptoms of burnout at almost twice the rate of other workers, due to long hours, fear of being sued, and having to deal with growing bureaucracy. The economic impacts of burnout are also significant, costing the U.S. $4.6 billion every year, according to a new study.

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