A snapshot of the results of Israel's national vaccination campaign indicates that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has dramatically reduced the number of cases of COVID-19, the number of hospitalizations and the number of critically ill patients.
Researchers have found a way to alter human calcitonin into a safe and effective drug for the treatment of osteoporosis and other bone diseases.
American Chemical Society Chemistry for Life’s ChemRxiv, a preprint server for chemical services, reported that Cambridge’s Open Engage platform will be hosting their server starting in April 2021.
The American Geophysical Union reported that Southern California is likely to begin experiencing an increase in post-wildfire landslides, according to a new study.
Rice University has discovered that there is a previously unknown relationship between mammals’ biodiversity and the forests that they dwell in, according to a press release.
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) has forged a new partnership with a South Korean pharmaceutical company to develop a new multiple sclerosis treatment, according to a press release.
How three groups of spitting cobras in different parts of the world independently developed a pain-inducing venom to hurt and blind their predators is an interesting study of convergent evolution.
What drove the explosion of diversity in an East African cichlid freshwater fish that radiated into more than 2,000 species in the last few million years?
A clinical trial of a drug that targets the interleukin 17 family of cytokines could lead to a preventive treatment for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in COVID-19.
European eels have long fascinated biologists because of their complex life cycle and diverse habitats, ranging from above the polar circle to North Africa in the south, the Azores in the west to the Black Sea in the east.
A research team from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel reviews the different types of antibody tests for COVID-19, and their importance, in a January 2021 preprint of Cell Reports Medicine.
Waiting to get care is dangerous, OHSU co-author emphasizes
Injecting patients with a gel that would dissolve over several months could replace the need to administer daily or weekly shots. But to make this possible, researchers first had to create a Jello-like substance that could defy one of the fundamental laws of nature.
Utilizing X-ray imaging techniques, researchers at Penn State, MIT and cooperating institutions recently made a breakthrough in understanding the synthesis of thiostrepton, a powerful antibiotic with the potential to target even specific breast cancer cells.
When bacteria reproduce their chromosome pairs and the DNA contained within them must separate and then faithfully reproduce copies of themselves.
A conceptual framework for examining the role of novelty and innovation in evolution--and their differences--is the subject of a comprehensive article in the journal Biological Reviews, published Aug. 31, 2020.
Earth has remained continuously habitable for billions of years partly due to luck, according to computer simulations of climate evolution for 100,000 randomly generated planets.
Protein therapies are often more potent and selective toward their biochemical targets than other types of drugs, particularly small molecules.
Researchers from Tulane University have developed a 15-minute COVID-19 test that is read by a smartphone to address the need to expand testing capacity in community-based settings.
Sugary drinks interfere with hormones that tell the body “I feel full,” potentially contributing to obesity and undermining weight loss efforts, a new USC study shows.The findings, which appear today in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, strengthen the case against sugar-sweetened beverages, a significant driver of obesity.