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Researchers at The University of Toledo have developed an experimental vaccine that shows significant promise in preventing rheumatoid arthritis, a painful autoimmune disease that cannot currently be cured.

According to research, a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine provides optimal protection to individuals infected between doses.

A discovery by researchers at Utrecht University reveals how brain cells influence each other and how psychiatric disorders can arise when this process goes wrong.

Researchers have discovered that strong protection following natural infection with SARS-CoV-2 is short-lived. They also modeled the risk of reinfection over time.

A team of researchers reports in JAMA that convalescent plasma did not help critically ill COVID-19 patients, according to findings from the convalescent plasma trial, REMAP-CAP.

Promising news in the effort to develop drugs to treat obesity: University of Virginia scientists have identified 14 genes that can cause and three that can prevent weight gain. The findings pave the way for treatments to combat a health problem that affects more than 40% of American adults.

University of Delaware chemical engineer Catherine Fromen is investigating how organ-protection mechanisms work to improve the delivery of therapeutic medicines to the body.

Researchers have profiled thousands of individual cells sampled from brain tumors. The findings and methods used represent a significant advance in cancer research, and may lead to better ways of detecting, monitoring and treating cancers.

When many mutations are combined in a cancer cell, new features can emerge. Biologists are using a mathematical approach to find important genetic interactions associated with cancer.

JILA scientists have boosted the sensitivity of their decade-old frequency comb breathalyzer a thousandfold and can detect additional biomarkers of disease.