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Olfactory Health and Inflammation: New Study Links Smell Loss to Over 100 Medical Conditions
A study from the Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences and Oxford Research Centre has revealed that loss of smell, linked with inflammation, is …
Wearables can track COVID symptoms, other diseases
If you become ill with COVID-19, your smartwatch can track the progression of your symptoms, and could even show how sick you become.
The role of genes in prenatal responses to air pollution
Exposure to pollution during pregnancy can have many adverse effects in infants and children that can even extend into adulthood. For example, air pollution …
An automatic information extraction system for scientific articles on COVID-19
VIGICOVID is a system that uses natural language questions to get answers in the avalanche of information on COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2.
Researchers identify key complex for ribosome generation
Researchers have identified a four-protein complex that appears to play a key role in generating ribosomes -- organelles that serve as protein factories for …
Black patients with cancer fare worse with COVID-19, study shows
Lack of access to health care, social determinants of health, preexisting comorbidities and reduced access to clinical research are common to both cancer and …
Health risk due to micro- and nanoplastics in food
Five grams of plastic particles on average enter the human gastrointestinal tract per person per week. This is roughly equivalent to the weight of …
Study shows effectiveness of pill form of remdesivir to treat COVID-19 in mice
Scientists are testing a new route for remdesivir, a pill form of the COVID-19 treatment that's given to half of all hospitalized patients with …
Seeing lipids more deeply with mass spectrometry
PRMC-MS allows enhanced profiling of phosphoinositide acyl variants both in intracellular and extracellular environments.
Home-based flu tests as accurate as rapid diagnostic testing in clinical settings
Home-based, self-administered tests for influenza are comparable in accuracy to rapid diagnostic tests in clinical settings, according to a peer-reviewed study. The researchers determined …
Common houseplants can improve air quality indoors
Ordinary potted house plants can potentially make a significant contribution to reducing air pollution in homes and offices, according to new research.
Nanoparticle reduces skin and lung scarring for scleroderma, mouse study finds
Researchers found a unique immune cell plays a key role in the chronic inflammation and scarring in the lungs and skin of people with …