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Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed a new tool to help researchers interpret the clinical significance of somatic mutations in cancer. The tool, known as CancerVar, incorporates machine …
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Asking people to stop using social media for just one week could lead to significant improvements in their well-being, depression, and anxiety, and could in the future be recommended as …
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A team of Yale-led researchers can now quantify the factors causing changes in the DNA that contribute most to cancer growth in tumors of most major tumor types. They write …
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Osteoarthritis is a wear-and-tear disorder marked by bone thickening and cartilage degeneration, an excruciatingly painful disability, and a major cause of impaired mobility as people age. But scientists have begun …
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Toronto/CMEDIA: Cases of severe liver disease “of unknown origin” among children in Canada are being investigated by public health officials as a mysterious hepatitis outbreak has reportedly affected nearly 200 youths around …
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CMEDIA: Young adults are prone to developing COVID-19 infection or testing positive for the disease with even short-term exposure to low levels of air pollution, according to the published results in JAMA Network Open last week …
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An interdisciplinary team of engineers, biologists, and geneticists has developed a new way of studying the heart: they’ve built a miniature replica of a heart chamber from a combination of …
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Genetics and other factors that can determine if a woman is at risk for a recurrence of breast cancer have been identified by investigators at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, …
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Covid-19 infection. Image credit: Twitter handle Ontario/CMEDIA: An expected, but likely different, COVID-19 wave is expected for this fall, the scientific director of Ontario’s Science Advisory Table, Dr. Peter Juni …
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CMEDIA: Scientists have known for years that amyloid fibrils—fibrous, ropelike structures formed by closely linked protein molecules—are present in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases and likely …
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