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Our Ability To Focus May Be Impacted After Eating a High-fat Meal

New research suggests that eating just one meal high in saturated fat could hinder our ability to concentrate.
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Genetic Patterns in Brain Cancer Tumors Can Predict Life Expectancy

An international team of scientists has experimentally validated a predictor for glioblastoma life expectancy that is not only more accurate but also more clinically relevant: a pattern of co-occurring changes in DNA abundance levels, or copy numbers, at hundreds of thousands of sites across the whole tumor genome.
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How the Dreaming Brain Suppresses the Outside World

Researchers have shown that the brain suppresses information from the outside world, such as the sound of a conversation, during the sleep phase linked to dreaming.
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How Do Plants Forget?

An international group of researchers found the answer to the question: how do plants forget?
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Analysis of Retinal Texture and Thickness Could Provide Alzheimer's Biomarker

A new imaging technique combined two technologies that could be used to spot early warning signs of Alzheimer’s disease in the retina.
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"Body's Own Marijuana" Helps Us Forget Traumatic Memories

Researchers have suggested that anandamide – often referred to as the body’s own marijuana – plays a role in erasing memories of a traumatic event.
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Small Study Shows Antiviral Drug May Speed Up COVID-19 Recovery

Researchers have shown for the first time that an antiviral drug can help speed up the recovery of COVID-19 patients. According to the new study, treatment with interferon(IFN)- α2b may significantly accelerate viral clearance and reduce levels of inflammatory proteins in COVID-19 patients.
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Mathematical Model Developed To Predict Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness

Researchers have developed a multiscale mathematical model to analyze integrated biologic and pathologic data to determine prostate tumor aggressiveness.
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Trial Explores Hormone Suppressor’s Ability To Reduce COVID-19 Illness in Men

UCLA researchers have launched a clinical trial that uses a hormone suppressor commonly used to treat men with prostate cancer to help improve clinical outcomes for men infected with COVID-19.
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COVID-19 Trial Finder Simplifies Search for Clinical Studies

A team from Columbia University has developed COVID-19 Trial Finder, to help patients, clinicians and healthy volunteers search for appropriate COVID-related clinical trials in their general location.
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