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Patients With Rare Skin Cancer Face 40% Recurrence Rate

A UW Medicine-based study shows most Merkel cell carcinoma recurrences happen in the first three years after treatment.

Framework Predicts Genetic Diversity Loss

New study published in Science with CMEC co-authorship resolves a 100 year old challenge for predicting global genetic diversity loss.

Greatest Increase in Animal Species Can Help Us Understand and Control Ocean Deoxygenation

Deoxygenation can make large areas of the ocean uninhabitable. But new study offers new knowledge of how oxygen levels affect marine life – this may help us preserve marine ecosystems. “In the past 50 years, we have already lost an area the size of the EU due to deoxygenation,” researcher behind the study says.

MRI May Lower Breast Cancer Death From Variants In 3 Genes

Variants in the ATM, CHEK2 and PALB2 genes are collectively as prevalent as the much-reported BRCA1/2 gene mutations.

MIT senior on groundbreaking research: 'I like helping people if I can because I got helped so much'

MIT senior Sherry Nyeo, a student since Fall 2019, has conducted groundbreaking work in multiple labs, served as a mentor to dozens of students, and made a lasting mark on the larger MIT community

Phone App Can Help Detect Blood's Ability To Clot

Researchers have developed a new clotting test that uses only a single drop of blood and a smartphone vibration motor and camera.

Dog Aging Project, A Resource For Scientists In Many Fields

In this week’s Nature, the Dog Aging Project team outlines how the open-source data it's gathering could be useful for a myriad of studies.

Study: ‘Mix-And-Match’ Booster Strategy Is Safe, Effective

For fully vaccinated adults, a booster of any of the FDA-authorized COVID-19 vaccines was found to enhance immunity.

Biodiversity Cradles and Museums: New Study on Speciation-Extinction Dynamics

The distribution of old and young species brings new insight into the speciation-extinction dynamics operating in global hotspots of biodiversity.

Study Details Changes In Omicron’s Spike Protein

Findings explain how mutations allow the omicron variant to evade antibodies against previous variants yet remain so infectious.

Breakthrough Infections Spur Strong Antibody Responses

People vaccinated three times or vaccinated after an earlier COVID-19 infection had comparable neutralizing antibody activity to those with a breakthrough case.

Hologenomics Viewed Through a Mathematical Lens

A recent paper published by researchers from Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics (CEH) and collaborators on a strategic model of a host-microbe-microbe system not only reveals the importance of a joint host-microbe immune response to combat stress-induced gut dysbiosis but also reveals a remarkable interdisciplinary collaboration between two different EU projects coordinated by CEH.

Supplement Appears To Boost Muscle, Mitochondria Health

A study cohort that received an oral supplement of a gut-produced compound had better endurance in two small exercises.

Tracking Stress In Pregnant Moms, For Their Child's Health

An artificial-intelligence system was designed to use EKG readings to track the stress of mothers and their fetuses in a recent study.

Antibody That Inhibits Broad Range Of Sarbecoviruses Found

The antibody closely mimics the binding site that the SARS-CoV-2 virus uses to infect cells, and seemingly thwarts invasion via mutation.

NEJM Paper Is Compendium On Rapid Tests For COVID-19

The FDA has approved 28 of the more than 1,000 such diagnostics commercially available worldwide.

It Takes Three To Tangle: Long-Range Quantum Entanglement Needs Three-Way Interaction

A theoretical study shows that long-range entanglement can indeed survive at temperatures above absolute zero, if the correct conditions are met.

Iron-Snatching Compound Effective Against The Parasitic Amoeba Entamoeba Histolytica

A safe and effective drug against a parasitic amoeba could come from a new approach that exploits the parasite’s need for iron

Hyperfast White Dwarf Stars Provide Clues For Understanding Supernovae

Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research have used computer modeling to show how a hypothesized type of supernova would evolve on the scale of thousands of years, giving researchers a way to look for examples of supernovae of this model, known as “D6.”

Mouse Stem Cells For Primitive Endoderm Established

The third type of stem cells that make up the precursors of mouse embryos has been established for the first time