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The Toughest Triage — Allocating Ventilators in a Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to severe shortages of many essential goods and services, from hand sanitizers and N-95 masks…
Stem cells and nerves interact in tissue regeneration and cancer progression
Researchers show that different stem cell populations are innervated in distinct ways. Innervation may therefore be crucial for proper tissue…
Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19
Covid-19 is officially a pandemic. It is a novel infection with serious clinical manifestations, including death, and it has reached…
Thalidomide Use Did Happen Here, These Americans Say
They believe they were harmed in the thalidomide crisis of the 1950s and 1960s.
The Story of Thalidomide in the U.S., Told Through Documents
A trove of archival records shows how in the early 1960s the Food and Drug Administration investigated the use of…
Immunotherapy using ‘young cells’ offers promising option against cancer
A new study suggests that the age of certain immune cells used in immunotherapy plays a role in how effective…
When Coronavirus Closes Your Lab, Can Science Go On?
Plenty of work can be done from home, but the pandemic is forcing some parts of the scientific process to…
Graphite nanoplatelets on medical devices kill bacteria and prevent infections
Graphite nanoplatelets integrated into plastic medical surfaces can prevent infections, killing 99.99 per cent of bacteria which try to attach…
To sleep deeply: The brainstem neurons that regulate non-REM sleep
Researchers identified neurons that promote non-REM sleep in the brainstem in mice. These neurons commonly expressed the gene that encodes…