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Will COVID-19 Vaccines Need To Be Evaluated and Adapted Regularly?
Influenza vaccines need to be evaluated every year to ensure they remain effective against new influenza viruses. Will the same apply to COVID-19 vaccines?
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“Hot Spots” for DNA Damage Discovered Within Neurons
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered specific regions within the DNA of neurons that accumulate a certain type of damage (called single-strand breaks or SSBs).
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It Takes a Village: Gorilla Families Come Together To Support Young Who Lose Their Mothers
A study of mountain gorillas by the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund has pored through more than 50 years of data to reveal how these great apes respond to the loss of a mother gorilla within a community.
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You Think Lockdown Is Bad? Here's How To Cope With Isolation in an Antarctic Research Station
Antarctica's East Ongul Island is home to a research station, where a Japanese team winters over and conducts experiments each year. From 2004 to 2014, however, they were also research subjects themselves. A new study conducted a non-invasive psychological surveys to understand how the team dealt with the polar isolation.
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Researchers Implant, and Then Remove, False Childhood Memories
A new study has found that rich false memories of autobiographical events can be planted - and then reversed. The study highlights techniques that can correct false recollections without damaging true memories.
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Researchers Discover Why Human Brains Are So Big
A new study is the first to identify how human brains grow much larger, with three times as many neurons, compared with chimpanzee and gorilla brains. The study, identified a key molecular switch that can make ape brain organoids grow more like human organoids, and vice versa.
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Two Common Medications Reduce Headache Pain After Concussion
A new study has found a combination of two drugs, both common anti-nausea medications, given intravenously in the emergency room may relieve the headaches experienced after a concussion better than a placebo.
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Gene Associated With Iron Metabolism May Enhance Athletes’ Performance
A genetic variation that regulates iron metabolism may enhance athletes’ endurance performance, researchers at the University of Toronto have found.
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Immune Cell Auto-Aggression Causes Fatty Liver Hepatitis
Researchers have discovered that non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is caused by cells that attack healthy tissue - a phenomenon known as auto-aggression. Their results may help in the development of new therapies to avoid the consequences of NASH.
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Couches a Major Source of Toxic Chemical Dust
A new study shows that when people replace their old couch with a new one that has no added flame retardants, levels of the harmful chemicals in household dust drop significantly. Replacing the foam inside the couch cushions is also just as effective.
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