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UK Researchers Set To Explore Human Challenge Studies for COVID-19 Vaccine Development
Researchers are set to explore a human challenge study with the virus that causes COVID-19, the first such study anywhere in the world.
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"Safe" PFAS Intake Values Put Forward
The EFSA has derived a tolerable weekly intake of four PFAS, namely PFOA, PFOS, perfluorohexane sulfonic acid (PFHxS) and perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA) of 4.4 nanograms (ng) per kilogram (kg) of body weight per week. This value indicates the amount of a substance that can be ingested weekly over a lifetime with no appreciable health risk.
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NMR Offers Targeted Measurement of Thyroid Hormone Action in Tissue
A study has tested the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to measure the effect of therapeutic thyroid hormone in body tissues.
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Breakthrough Shows Neuropilin-1 Drives SARS-CoV-2 Infectivity
In a major breakthrough scientists have potentially identified what makes SARS-CoV-2 highly infectious and able to spread rapidly in human cells. The findings describe how the virus’s ability to infect human cells can be reduced by inhibitors that block a newly discovered interaction between virus and host, demonstrating a potential anti-viral treatment.
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Can Edible Insects Trigger Food Allergies?
It's estimated that more than 1900 insect species are consumed worldwide and probable they will be used in food increasingly in the future. Although only a few cases of allergies caused by insect components have been described to date, there is considerable potential for cross-reaction. So, a joint project is looking to develop allergen detection methods for insect components.
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Brain Scans Reveal Disconnect Between Visual, Emotional Regions in Newborns
Humans aren't born with mature brain circuitry that attaches emotions to the things they see or hear in their environment, a new study shows.
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Imaging Study Suggests Fear and Anxiety Are Not Orchestrated by Distinct Neural Networks
Anxiety, the most common family of mental illnesses in the U.S., has been pushed to epic new heights by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimating that nearly 1 in 3 U.S. adults and a staggering 41% of people ages 18-29 experienced clinically significant anxiety symptoms in late August. Now, the findings of a recent UMD-led study indicate that some long-accepted thinking about the basic neuroscience of anxiety is wrong.
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CRISPR Therapy Restores Retinal and Visual Function in Mice
A breakthrough study, led by researchers from the University of California, Irvine, results in the restoration of retinal and visual functions of mice models suffering from inherited retinal disease.
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First Draft Sequence of the Human Proteome Is Mapped
Twenty years after the release of the human genome, the genetic “blueprint” of human life, an international research team, including the University of British Columbia’s Chris Overall, has now mapped the first draft sequence of the human proteome.
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How Do Cancer Cells Escape Crowded Tumors?
The mechanism enabling cells to evade crowded environments appears to involve an unusual player – the cell nucleus. This is what researchers from St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute Vienna, King's College London, Institute Curie Paris and ETH Zürich in Basel showed in their recent work.
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