Freezing of gait, one of the most incapacitating symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, manifests as sudden, short episodes of an inability
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Cellular-level interactions that lead to the cytokine storm in COVID-19
A significant percentage of COVID-19 cases are severe enough to warrant admission to hospital for monitoring and treatment. A substantial
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Researchers study how tumor cells divide in the crowd
Scientists led by Dr. Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich, group leader at the Excellence Cluster Physics of Life (PoL) and the Biotechnology Center
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How COVID-19 smell loss differs from the common cold
New research from a European group of smell disorder experts, including Prof Philpott at the University of East Anglia, shows
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How the brain’s internal states affect decision-making
At Carnegie Mellon University, Biomedical Engineering’s Matthew Smith and Byron Yu, along with former Ph.D. student Ben Cowley (Ph.D., School
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Patients taking long-term opioids produce antibodies against the drugs
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists have discovered that a majority of back-pain patients they tested who were taking opioid painkillers produced
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For some COVID-19 survivors, serious problems continue long after the infection is gone
Josh Wiese, 45, of St. Louis, was training for ultramarathons before what was likely COVID-19 forced him to quarantine at
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The yin and yang of inflammation controlled by a single molecule
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have now identified a protein called histone deacetylase
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The wrong track: How papillomaviruses trick the immune system
Specific antibodies protect us against viral infections—or do they? Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) studied the immune
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The dangerous ingredient in Dollar Tree’s hand sanitizer
If you’ve been to Dollar Tree recently and managed to score yourself a few bottles of hand sanitizer, it could
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