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Researchers develop an efficient, low-energy method for upcycling polyethylene plastic waste into valuable molecules that can be repurposed for further use.

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the antiviral drug Veklury (remdesivir) for use in adult and pediatric patients (≥ 12 years of age and weighing at least 40 kg) for the treatment of COVID-19 requiring hospitalization.

In the womb, a human fetus has limited contact with pathogens. However, once born, babies face a myriad of germs completely new to their bodies. Their immune system must rapidly develop to ensure early protection from infection. But what is exactly the dynamic of the immune system development in the first days of life?

News has emerged from Brazil that a participant of the Phase III clinical trial investigating the COVID-19 vaccine, ChAdOX1, has died.

Scientists have broken a crucial resolution barrier in cryo electron microscopy, succeeding in observing single atoms in a protein structure and taking the sharpest images ever with this method. Such unprecedented details are essential to understand how proteins perform their work in the living cell or cause diseases.

Mass testing that is fast, non-invasive and able to identify cases before people show symptoms holds the key to boosting COVID-19 detection, improving contact tracing and managing disease outbreaks.

In the analysis published in Indoor Air, the team looked at indoor air, thermal, acoustic, and lighting conditions. The collected evidence from 21 studies showed that the indoor environmental quality can contribute to the quality of learning.

Air pollution contributed to nearly 500,000 infant deaths worldwide in 2019 and 6.7 million total deaths were linked to air pollution, now the 4th highest health risk. A study has found that globally little or no progress has been made in the most polluted regions over the past 10 years.

Chemicals that haven't been manufactured in the U.S. for years or even decades are still turning up in the bodies of migratory terns in the Great Lakes region, a new study finds.

People with celiac disease may find themselves more comfortable with extra Thanksgiving turkey. Researchers have found that tryptophan, an amino acid present in high amounts in turkey, combined with some probiotics, may help them heal and respond better to a gluten-free diet.