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National Institutes of Health renews $290 million in funding for largest adolescent brain study

The National Institutes of Health has renewed its funding for $290 million over the next seven years for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study, which is the largest long-term brain development study that has been conducted on child health in the nation.

Today's 'once-in-a-lifetime' coastal flooding likely to become daily events by 2050

Today’s measure of 50-year record high tides will become daily events by 2050 for many coastal dwellers in the United States.

Images, science continue 30 years after Hubble reached orbit

NASA released a photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of a swirling spiral galaxy named NGC 2906.

Jazz guitarists help researchers study creativity, improvisation

Jazz guitarists helped researchers show that inexperienced musicians rely on their brain’s right hemisphere, but experienced musicians can improvise almost automatically while primarily using their brain's left hemisphere.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: Lab-on-a-chip COVID-19 antibody test could offer rapid, accurate results

COVID-19 antibody testing that’s portable, fast, cheap and highly precise—four attributes that are usually mutually exclusive—could be possible with a microfluidic device invented at the University of Michigan and developed by U-M startup Optofluidic Bioassay.

NIH: Expert U.S. panel develops NIH treatment guidelines for COVID-19

“Living document” expected to be updated often as new clinical data accrue.

University of Michigan embarks on study to discover smallest synthetic particle

The University of Michigan has led an international team in creating complicated and intricate microparticles, even more so than the ones found in nature.

Study links glucose metabolism proteins in the brain to Alzheimer’s disease biology

A team of scientists from the Emory School of Medicine appeared to put another piece of the puzzle in place to predict and treat Alzheimer’s disease with a new finding that identified disease-specific proteins and biological processes that could be developed into both new treatments and biomarkers.

NASA missions reveals the power of shock waves in nova explosions

An uncommon nova outburst captured by three satellites in 2018 has given direct proof that most of visible light from the explosion is caused by shock waves.

Study finds connection between modern Eurasians, Neanderthals

A recent study by the National Science Foundation found that people who currently live in Eurasia have genetic material linked to Neanderthals from the Altai mountains in present-day Siberia, according to a press release from the foundation.

University of California study uses blue-green algae to show importance of circadian rhythm

Scientists at the University of California in San Diego have found that behaviors are regulated by the circadian clock and when these behaviors are irregular, it increases an individual's risk of disease, according to a university-issued press release.

UC BERKELEY: ‘Liquid gold’: UC Berkeley lab makes free hand sanitizer for the needy

When University of California, Berkeley, graduate student Abrar Abidi heard that several staff members at the San Francisco County Jail had tested positive for COVID-19, he and others worked around the clock to manufacture, package and deliver more than 900 bottles of hand sanitizer to the jail – enough for each inmate at all five county lockups.

EMORY HEALTHCARE: Telemedicine use rises at Emory during COVID-19 outbreak

The use of telemedicine has soared at Emory Healthcare during the COVID-19 outbreak, according to Gregory Esper, MD, MBA, associate chief medical officer at Emory Healthcare and leader of Emory’s systemwide telehealth initiatives.

Manchester partnership receives AHSC designation for five more years

The partnership between Manchester's NHS and other academic organizations has been given an extension to continue its world-leading health research for diseases, treatments and patient care.

The crowd fight against COVID-19

To increase testing for COVID-19, researchers are coming together.

Comet Atlas might not be visible to the naked eye as scientists think it is disintegrating

Scientists were hopeful that “Comet Atlas” would become visible to the naked eye in the northern hemisphere towards the end of April.

NHS awards grant to University of Utah biomedical engineer for COVID-19 research

Mucus may be part of the spread of the coronavirus and University of Utah biomedical engineer Jessica Kramer has received a grant to research the potential role it plays in spreading the virus.

COVID-19 infections lessening in Chinese province of Hubei, but researchers are concerned about a second wave

According to a March 30 report in the journal Nature, 60 days after Hubei province went into lockdown, authorities are lifting travel restrictions.

A big hole in the ozone layer has opened over the arctic

In March weather balloons over the arctic reported a 90 percent drop in ozone near the center of the ozone layer.

A4's screening data show link between high amyloid levels and early Alzheimer's disease

Data published from the Anti-Amyloid Treatment in Asymptomatic Alzheimer's Disease (A4) study on April 6 show that early stages of Alzheimer's disease could be represented by high levels of amyloid protein in the brain.