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Bypass Surgery Has Lower Risks Than Endovascular Therapy for Limb-threatening Ischemia

Bypass surgery performed on arteries leading to the legs was associated with a lower risk of cardiac events among patients with peripheral arterial disease who are candidates for two types of revascularization therapy, new research suggests.

Psychological Distress Associated With a 28% Greater Risk of Heart Disease

Screening for psychological distress can significantly reduce cardiovascular disease risk and improve quality of life.

How A Common Gene Variant Influences Your Risk of Severe Illness From COVID-19

Anew study led by Yale researchers has found that a common genetic variant that occurs in nearly 20% of individuals influences both susceptibility to COVID-19 and the development of severe disease.

Study Finds Large Gap in Excess Deaths Along Partisan Lines After COVID-19 Vaccines Introduced

A team of Yale researchers has found that Republican voters in two U.S. states had more excess deaths than Democratic voters after vaccines for COVID-19 became widely available to counter the disease. The discrepancy didn’t exist prior to the vaccines.

Will Long COVID Research Provide Answers for Poorly Understood Diseases Like ME/CFS?

In 1983, Rivka Solomon was 21 and attending the University of Massachusetts Boston when she and her two roommates came down with infectious mononucleosis, or “mono.” Her roommates recovered within a couple of weeks. She never did.

Anti-obesity Medication’s Steep Price Tag Adds to Public Health Disparities

The latest anti-obesity medication for adults with overweight and obesity comes with a high financial burden.

Life’s Mysteries Converge in a Droplet

Recreating conditions that may have existed before the dawn of life, researchers watched droplets give rise to possible precursors of today’s proteins.

Down to the Synapse: Connecting Brain Circuits to Behavior

When a threat is looming and an escape route is open, one would expect any animal to flee imminent danger.

Scientists Say Eye-Disease Drug May Also Help Fight COVID

An interdisciplinary research team led by UCLA found that a drug already approved by the Food and Drug Administration for eye disease, verteporfin, stopped the replication of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Ingestible Sensor Could Help People With HIV Stick To Medication Regimen, UCLA-Led Study Finds

For people living with HIV, sticking to a prescribed medication regimen is a critical part of staying healthy.

This Gulp of Engineered Bacteria Is Meant to Treat Disease

A small study of people with a rare disorder that prevents them from processing protein is an early attempt at creating “living” medicines.

Who Is Working to End the Threat of AI-Generated Deepfakes, and Why Is It So Difficult?

Like many of the world’s best and worst ideas, MIT researchers’ plan to combat AI-generated deepfakes was hatched when one of their number watched their favorite not-news news show.

Flip Those Tertiary Centers

Here’s another paper with a reaction that would have looked like magic to me back when I first learned organic synthesis. The Wendtland group at MIT details a way to change tertiary carbon stereochemistries, flipping them/scrambling them through the use of a photochemical decatungstate-catalyzed radical reaction.

MIT Researchers: Sound of Your Voice Can Help Predict Disease

Your voice could help doctors diagnose everything from cancer to Alzheimer’s disease to depression.

This AI Can Harness Sound to Reveal the Structure Of Unseen Spaces

It's called a neural acoustic field model, and it can also consider what noises would sound like as you traveled through virtual reality.

This Sticker Looks Inside the Body

A new stick-on ultrasound patch can record the activity of hearts, lungs and other organs for 48 hours at a time

Wildfire Smoke May Warm The Earth For Longer Than We Thought

Wildfires are a major source of air pollution. They are also predicted to worsen as climate change progresses.

Incurable Neurodegenerative Myelin Diseases: A Hopeful Advance

There’s new hope for the future treatment of some leukodystrophies, neurodegenerative diseases in young children that progressively affect their quality of life, often leading to death before adulthood.

A Better Understanding Of How HIV-1 Evades The Immune System

The type of virus used as a model to study the efficacy of non-neutralizing antibodies against the virus responsible for AIDS has a crucial role to play, according to a new study led by Andrés Finzi, Université de Montréal professor and researcher at the CHUM Research Centre.