A new form of magnetic brain stimulation rapidly relieved symptoms of severe depression in 90% of participants in a small…
Lipid gradient that keeps your eyes wet
New understandings of how lipids function within tears could lead to better drugs for treating dry eye disease.
Engineered virus might be able to block coronavirus infections, mouse study shows
No vaccines exist that protect people against infections by coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, or the ones that cause…
Spain’s Coronavirus Crisis Accelerated as Warnings Went Unheeded
The Spanish epidemic has become a painful example of the tendency of one government after another to ignore the experiences…
Doubts cast over accuracy of many popular fertility and pregnancy planning apps
Many popular fertility and pregnancy planning apps may be inaccurate, suggest the results of a scoping review of the available…
Chemists working on drugs to treat COVID-19
In the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic, chemists have focused on searching for drugs to treat COVID-19. One group…
Lifestyle trumps geography in determining makeup of gut microbiome
Researchers studied the gut microbiomes of wild apes in the Republic of Congo, of captive apes in zoos in the…
Compound in fruit peels halts damage and spurs neuronal repair in multiple sclerosis
Ursolic acid, abundant in fruit peels and some herbs, both prevents and repairs neurons in animal models of multiple sclerosis.
Potential early biomarker to track development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Research has uncovered a biomarker in humans tied to the development of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease that might help doctors…
Clinical trial to assess potential treatment for COVID-19-related respiratory failure
A team of physician-scientists are now enrolling patients in a clinical trial to evaluate a common anti-clotting drug for the…