Health
24 Mar 2021
Deforestation, forest conversion and palm oil plantations linked to disease outbreaks
Deforestation, forest conversion and palm oil plantations linked to disease outbreaks, finds new study in Frontiers in Veterinary Science
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25 Feb 2021
Allergy season starts earlier each year due to climate change and pollen transport
Long-distance pollen affects length of allergy seasons in Germany: Frontiers in Allergy
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17 Feb 2021
CT scans of Egyptian mummy reveal new details about the death of a pivotal pharaoh
How did Egyptian pharaoh Seqenenre-Taa-II die? Frontiers in Medicine
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16 Feb 2021
COVID-19 crisis – a technology providing unconventional supply relief
By Kate E. Mullins / EPFL Credit: Felix Schürmann and coauthors When the full-scale effect of the COVID-19 pandemic was starting to be understood in early 2020, the EPFL Blue Brain Project and ETH Zurich, as part of the Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force, began collaborating with Spiez Laboratory on an online Platform – Academic Resources for COVID-19 (ARC). In a paper published in Frontiers for Public Health, the authors explain how the ARC Platform was set up to be a service to support Swiss diagnostic laboratories that are testing for SARS-CoV-2. The ARC Platform matched requests for critical equipment, reagents and consumable goods required by Swiss diagnostic laboratories involved in combating COVID-19 with supplies available from Swiss academic groups. Since then, with further input from Swiss startup Apptitude SA, the Platform has evolved with the needs of the epidemiological situation and the technology has been open sourced with the purpose to serve public health as a response solution for other countries and communities in the current COVID-19 crisis or in future crises. In the beginning of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland, diagnostic testing had to be ramped up in a very short time, but even basic molecular […]
Health
12 Feb 2021
Research highlights ways to protect astronaut cardiovascular health from space radiation
Does space radiation damage the cardiovascular health of astronauts? Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
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09 Feb 2021
Evidence for routine brain tumor imaging is murky, but research can shed light
Position Statement from UK experts: limited evidence for value of routine brain tumor imaging, highlight way forward: Frontiers in Oncology
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05 Feb 2021
Researchers make discoveries to better understand SARS-CoV-2 virus
Key structural differences in the virus’s spike protein between the viruses that cause SARS and Covid-19: Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
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04 Feb 2021
Study links brain cells to depression
Major depression is associated with a reduced number of cells in the brain that support neuron function: Frontiers in Psychiatry
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19 Jan 2021
Rescuers at risk: emergency personnel face trauma and post traumatic stress symptoms
Emergency workers face suicidal thoughts and PTSS: Frontiers in Psychiatry
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13 Jan 2021
Ovarian cancer cells adapt to their surroundings to aid tumor growth
How do ovarian cancer cells survive and proliferate in the abdominal cavity? Frontiers in Oncology
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12 Jan 2021
Gut microbes may antagonize or assist in anorexia
Gut microbes may significantly contribute to anorexia nervosa: Frontiers in Psychiatry
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04 Jan 2021
Rapid adaptation of the foodborne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni
A uniform nutrient-rich medium selects for the loss of motility due to genomic deletions in the pathogenic bacterium C. jejuni: Frontiers in Microbiology
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14 Oct 2020
Recovery from grief is a slow, difficult process for families of victims of terrorist attacks
How do people copy with grief after losing loved ones to terrorism? Frontiers in Psychiatry
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06 Oct 2020
Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic coincide with a heavy mental health burden
COVID-19 is taking a mental health toll even on people who are not directly impacted: Frontiers in Psychiatry
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23 Sep 2020
Greater father involvement in infant parenting is beneficial for paternal mental health
What are the benefits of paternal involvement in child care on mental health of fathers? Frontiers in Psychiatry