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A non-profit, open-science consortium, The COVID Moonshot, has received funding of £8 million from Wellcome, on behalf of the Covid-19 Therapeutics Accelerator. In addition to addressing the current COVID-19 pandemic, the consortium plans to develop one or more novel pan-coronavirus antiviral molecules to combat future outbreaks.

New research has shown why some drugs in clinical trials for treating a form of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) often fail and has demonstrated a way to restore their effectiveness.

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher Dr. Alice Soragni has received a $2.5 million grant to develop lab-grown mini tumors that can help to identify treatments for rare neuroendocrine cancers.

Researchers have discovered that sequencing circulating tumor DNA can improve the detection of human papillomavirus (HPV) in the bloodstream and could further hone precision treatment of the illness.

A team of researchers is now in the process of developing a blood test that will enable a reliable diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease using atomic force microscopy.

Researchers develop a novel method for rapidly detecting SARS-CoV-2 RNA that could also be designed to detect other diseases.

Following dozens of children over the course of five years, a Boston University researcher has taken the closest look yet at the link between how babies’ brains are structured in infancy and their ability to learn a language at a young age, and to what degree their environment plays a role in brain and language development.

Research has shown that mice can become experts in sorting images by subtle differences.

A new study shows that using mathematical equations with continuous mood sampling may be better at assessing what people prefer over asking them directly.

A research team has identified a new gene as a cause of an inherited heart condition that affects one in 500 people.