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UCI-Led Study Discovers Pre-Treatment Cognitive Impairment In Younger Cancer Patients

Toxicity must be evaluated and managed at diagnosis to help prevent further deterioration

Patient-Specific Cancer Tumours Replicated In 3D Bioprinting Advance

Bowel cancer patients could in future benefit from a new 3D bioprinting technology which would use their own cells to replicate the complex cellular environment of solid tumours in 3D models.

UCI-Led Astronomers Capitalize On Early Access To James Webb Space Telescope Data

Advanced instruments aid in development of coherent picture of extragalactic nucleus

People Smoke More When Smoking From Larger Size Cigarette Packets

People smoke more when smoking cigarettes from larger size packs, according to new research published in the journal Addiction

Association Between Poor Sleep Quality And An Increased Risk Of Developing Alzheimer's, New Study Finds

New research has shown an association between sleep quality – less than seven hours - and Alzheimer's disease-related pathology in people without cognitive impairment.

New International Study Concludes Digital Media Can Fuel Polarisation And Populism

The question whether the rise in usage of digital media is contributing to the erosion of democracy is a source of popular debate, with tech companies arguing findings are inconclusive.

Fertilisers Limit Pollination By Changing How Bumblebees Sense Flowers

Pollinators are less likely to land on flowers sprayed with fertilisers or pesticides as they can detect electric field changes around the flower, researchers at the University of Bristol have found.

Scientists Closer To Solving A Superconducting Puzzle With Applications In Medicine, Transport And Power Transmission

Researchers studying the magnetic behaviour of a cuprate superconductor may have explained some of the unusual properties of their conduction electrons.

Social Bees Travel Greater Distances For Food Than Their Solitary Counterparts, Study Finds

Social bees such as honeybees and bumblebees have larger foraging ranges, according to researchers at the University of Bristol.

Pocket Feature Shared By Deadly Coronaviruses Could Lead To Pan-Coronavirus Antiviral Treatment

Scientists have discovered why some coronaviruses are more likely to cause severe disease, which has remained a mystery, until now.

Significant Gaps And Inequalities In The Provision Of Specialist Child Weight Management Services In England, Study Finds

Over three quarters of acute NHS trusts in England (77%) do not have a child weight management service, despite being responsible for providing specialist services for the most severely obese,

Fossil Discovery In Storeroom Cupboard Shifts Origin Of Modern Lizards Back 35 Million Years

A specimen retrieved from a cupboard of the Natural History Museum in London has shown that modern lizards originated in the Late Triassic and not the Middle Jurassic as previously thought.

Scientists Invent Pioneering Technique To Construct Rare Molecules Discovered In Sediments From The Bahamas With Potential To Help Treat Disease And Infection

Scientists have created a much faster way to make certain complex molecules, which are widely used by pharmaceuticals for antibiotics and anti-fungal medicines.

Studies Find Omicron Related Hospitalisations Lower In Severity Than Delta And Pfizer-BioNTech COVID Vaccine Remains Effective In Preventing Hospitalisations

Adult hospitalisations from Omicron-related SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) were less severe than Delta and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine (also known as Comirnaty and BNT162b2*) remains effective in preventing not only hospitalisation, but severe patient outcomes associated with COVID-19, two new research studies have found.

Services Must Adopt Anti-Racist And Holistic Models Of Care To Reduce Ethnic Inequalities In Mental Healthcare

The experiences of people from ethnic minority groups with NHS mental healthcare are being seriously undermined by failures to consider the everyday realities of people's lives in services in the UK, reports a new study led by researchers at the University of Bristol and Keele University.

NASA Mars Rover Finds ‘Very, Very Strange Chemistry’ and Ingredients for Life

A trio of new studies using data from NASA's Perseverence rover confirm that Jezero Crater on Mars was once habitable.

Is Earth a Self-Regulating Organism? New Study Suggests Our Planet Has a Built-In Climate Control

Earth can correct its climate over eons, scientists say; sadly, it doesn't work fast enough to stop climate change

This Company Is Sending Plastic-Eating Enzymes Into Space

SeedLab’s experiment will test how enzymes can break down plastic, and then how bacteria can turn it into a new material.

CRISPR’s ‘Ancestry Problem’ Misses Cancer Targets In Those Of African Descent

Reference genomes used to direct the gene editor fail to account for human diversity

There Might Be a Perfect Indoor Humidity to Curb COVID Spread

FRIDAY, Nov. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- It’s sort of like the Goldilocks principle — a room that’s either too dry or too humid can influence transmission of COVID-19 and cause more illness or death, Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say.