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COVID-19 data on Native Americans is ‘a national disgrace.’ This scientist is fighting to be counted

... the full and ethical inclusion of American Indians and Alaska... making trouble As the director of the Urban Indian Health. UIHI and the chief research officer for the Seattle...
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Hidden immune weakness found in 14% of gravely ill COVID-19 patients

From the first months of the COVID 19 pandemic, scientists... that in a significant minority of patients with serious COVID 19, ... two papers explain nearly 14 of severe COVID 19 cases. That......
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Statins reduce COVID-19 severity, likely by removing cholesterol that virus uses to infect

... in clinical trials, current standard of care involves providing patients... are associated with reduced risk of developing severe COVID 19 disease, ... at UC San Diego School of Medicine has uncovered...
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How microbes in a mother s intestines affect fetal neurodevelopment

. pregnancy in mice, the billions of bacteria and other microbes... the brain function and behavior of offspring often in response to factors... periods and in the absence of...
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Complications from diabetes linked to worse memory, IQ in children

... a serious but common complication of type 1 diabetes, is... children with a previous diagnosis of type 1 diabetes. advertisement... in the body. Early signs of DKA include excessive...
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Most infants are well even when moms are infected by COVID-19, researchers find

... first report in the country of infant outcomes through eight weeks of age. advertisement The study, ... there was a higher rate of neonatal intensive care unit... were reported through...
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Forest margins may be more resilient to climate change than previously thought

... it s just a matter of time before we lose... on the project as part of his doctoral dissertation. There... that there s a lot of spatial variability in...
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Anthropologists compare a composite measure of physiological dysregulation among humans and other primates

... rural Tennessee or the forests of Papua, New Guinea, the... to succumb to any number of different ailments. advertisement But... published in a special issue of the journal Philosophical...
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How the oil industry made us doubt climate change

Marty Hoffert leaned closer to his... was working in an area of science considered niche. We were just a group of geeks with some great... trial in October, 2019...
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Brain-scanning backpack brings neuroscience into the real world

... researchers to get a sense of how the brain works outside of a laboratoryand how to... technology is an inspiring demonstration of whats possible with portable... backpack and its...
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Hubble captures crisp new portrait of Jupiter s storms

... Space Flight Center , M.H. Wong University of California, Berkeley , and the OPAL team Hubble s new image of Jupiter and Europa. Credit ... Space Flight Center , M.H. Wong University of...
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Plastic pollution: Washed clothing s synthetic mountain of fluff

... it up, the total amount of synthetic microfibres going into the wider... seas. That s the equivalent of seven billion fleece jackets, ... that affects the land. The University of...
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The persistence of plastic

The amount of synthetic microfiber we shed into our waterways has been of great concern over the... releases in its wastewater tens of thousands of tiny, near invisible plastic fibers......
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People s life goals relate to their personality type

... Einstein, have noted the importance of goals, researchers said. Einstein... driving force behind the types of goals he aimed to... co authors include Richard Robins, a professor of psychology who...
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Florida woodrat nests are laced with antibiotic-producing bacteria

... plastic houses scattered throughout some of the last remaining forest... only are the nests free of common rodent diseases, but they are also chock full of antibiotic producing bacteria. This may......
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New dopamine sensors could help unlock the mysteries of brain chemistry

... fluorescent protein based biosensor. This family of highly specific sensors detects... provides high resolution, real time imaging of the spatial and temporal release of dopamine in live animals... in expanding the...
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Rising temperatures could shift US West Nile virus transmission

... lead to the increased spread of West Nile virus in... changes will affect the transmission of mosquito borne diseases, says lead... a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, California, US, at...
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The latest round in the CRISPR patent battle has an apparent victor, but the fight continues

... Nobel Prize and many millions of dollars to whoever is... a team led by the University of California UC . The Patent Trial... already granted patents for uses of the...
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Energy ‘scavenger’ could turn waste heat from fridges and other devices into electricity

... problem These low grade sources give off too little heat for... This is a nice piece of work and a very... Liu, a nanoengineer at the University of California, San...
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To recreate ancient recipes, check out the vestiges of clay pots

A research team led by University of California, Berkeley, archaeologists has discovered... cookware can retain the residue of not just the last... a postdoctoral scholar at the University of...