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Increased use of minimally invasive non-endoscopic tests for Barrett's esophagus screening
The authors of a new commentary from Mayo Clinic suggest that more extensive use of minimally invasive non-endoscopic tests for Barrett's esophagus (BE) screening could impact early detection and prevention of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC), a particularly deadly form of cancer. This is important because BE, the only known precursor to esophageal cancer, is often asymptomatic. Their commentary is published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Local impacts from fracking the Eagle Ford
Stanford scientists simulated the local risk of damaging or nuisance-level shaking caused by hydraulic fracturing across the Eagle Ford shale formation in Texas. The results could inform a new approach to managing human-caused earthquakes.
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Bai lab develops stable, efficient, anode-free sodium battery
The lab of Peng Bai has developed a stable, anode-free sodium ion battery that is highly efficient, will be less expensive and is significantly smaller than a traditional lithium ion battery.
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Using social values for profit cheapens them, a new study cautions
Businesses sometimes align themselves with important values such as a clean environment, feminism, or racial justice, thinking it's a win-win: the value gets boosted along with the company's bottom line. But be careful, warns new research from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.Using these values primarily for self-interested purposes such as profit or reputation can ultimately undermine their special status and erode people's commitment to them.
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Mutant corn gene boosts sugar in seeds, leaves, may lead to breeding better crop
An abnormal build up of carbohydrates -- sugars and starches -- in the kernels and leaves of a mutant line of corn can be traced to one misregulated gene, and that discovery offers clues about how the plant deals with stress.
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Speeding new treatments
University of New Mexico Researchers Create Open Source Computational Tool to Rapidly Screen Molecules For COVID-Fighting Properties.
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New research shows benefits of deworming expectant mothers to their infants
With more than a quarter of the world infected with the soil-transmitted helminth (STH), one method is showing particular promise when it comes to reducing infant mortality and low birth weight caused by STH infection.
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33% of neighborhoods in largest US cities were 'pharmacy deserts'
Black and Latino neighborhoods in the 30 most populous U.S. cities had fewer pharmacies than white or diverse neighborhoods in 2007-2015, USC research shows, suggesting that 'pharmacy deserts'- like so-called food deserts-may be an overlooked contributor to persistent racial and ethnic health disparities.
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Housing subsidies reduce health care costs for vulnerable veterans
Ensuring that veterans have stable housing not only reduces homelessness but also slashes the cost of providing them with publicly funded health care, according to a national study led by University of Utah Health scientists.
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Prehistoric humans first traversed Australia by 'superhighways'
An international team of scientists using a Sandia National Laboratories supercomputer in the largest reconstruction ever attempted of prehistoric travel has mapped the probable "superhighways" that led to the first peopling of Australia.
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Previously unrecognized tsunami hazard identified in coastal cities
A new study found overlooked tsunami hazards related to undersea, near-shore strike-slip faults, especially for coastal cities adjacent to faults that traverse inland bays. Several areas around the world may fall into this category, including the San Francisco Bay area, Izmit Bay in Turkey and the Gulf of Al-Aqaba in Egypt.
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3D 'lung-on-a-chip' model developed to test new therapies for COVID-19 and other lung conditions
To better understand respiratory diseases and develop new drugs faster, investigators designed a 3D "lung-on-a-chip" model of the distal lung and alveolar structures, the tiny air sacs that take in oxygen as you breathe.
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NYUAD study sequences genome of extinct date palms germinated from 2,000 year-old seeds
Researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi's Center for Genomics and Systems Biology have successfully sequenced the genome of previously extinct date palm varieties that lived more than 2,000 years ago.
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Northern Red Sea corals pass heat stress test with flying colors
EPFL scientists are beginning to understand why corals in the Gulf of Aqaba, along with their symbiotic algae and bacteria, resist higher temperatures particularly well.
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New understanding of ovarian follicle development may lead to novel reproductive therapies
Mullerian inhibiting substance, a reproductive hormone, keeps follicles dormant in the ovaries until they are ready to be activated, grow, and release eggs during ovulation. Understanding the mechanism of follicle development by this hormone could allow scientists, for the first time, to identify novel therapeutic targets to preserve follicles and eggs lost to aging or chemotherapy, to improve the harvesting of eggs during IVF, and to create a new hormonal contraceptive.
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Intranasal influenza vaccine enhances immune response and offers broad protection, researchers find
An influenza vaccine that is made of nanoparticles and administered through the nose enhances the body's immune response to influenza virus infection and offers broad protection against different viral strains, according to researchers in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University.
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Researchers publish most comprehensive study yet of COVID-19 hospital mortality
Researchers analyzed data on more than 20,000 patients admitted to hospitals for COVID-19. After controlling for patient age, sex, comorbidities, and severity of disease when the patient was admitted, they found that none of these factors fully explained the decline in mortality rates.
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Flexible, easy-to-scale nanoribbons move graphene toward use in tech applications
Silicon-based fiber optics are currently the best structures for high-speed, long distance transmissions, but graphene -- an all-carbon, ultra-thin and adaptable material -- could improve performance even more.
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Unraveling a mystery of dinoflagellate genomic architecture
New work from a Stanford University-led team of researchers including Carnegie's Arthur Grossman and Tingting Xiang unravels a longstanding mystery about the relationship between form and function in the genetic material of a diverse group of algae called dinoflagellates. Their findings, published in Nature Genetics, have implications for understanding genomic organizational principles of all organisms.
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Story tips: Stealthy air leak detection, carbon to chemicals and recycling goes large
ORNL story tips: Stealthy air leak detection, carbon to chemicals and recycling goes large.
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