Biochemists report that a damage-containment system in stressed bacteria can become overrun and blocked, but that this leads to cells…
Waning attention to climate change amid pandemic could have lasting effects
With COVID-19 dominating the headlines, searches for climate change are on the decline. That worries authors of a new study…
Partitioning the Curve — Interstate Travel Restrictions During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Since the onset of the Covid-19 crisis in the United States, government action taken to “flatten” the curve of disease…
From Icebox to Tinderbox — A View from the Southern Border
Dozens of asylum seekers used to arrive at Puerto Fronterizo El Chaparral in Tijuana at the break of dawn each…
Corrigendum to “Effectiveness and Safety of Oral Anticoagulants in Adults with Non-valvular Atrial Fibrillation Patients and Concomitant Coronary/Peripheral Artery Disease” American Journal of Medicine 131:09 (2018): 1074-1085.e4
There were 33,269 apixaban-warfarin, 9,345 dabigatran-warfarin, and 42,156 rivaroxaban-warfarin matched pairs, with a median follow-up of 4-5 months. Compared with…
Vitamin D twice a day may keep vertigo away
Taking vitamin D and calcium twice a day may reduce your chances of getting vertigo again, according to a new…
Drivers respond to pre-crash warnings with levels of attentive ‘gaze’
Engineers conducted open road testing of three collision avoidance systems and demonstrated that a drivers’ visual behavior in response to…
Warming climate may trigger more West Nile outbreaks in Southern California
A new study of captured mosquitoes in Los Angeles finds that West Nile infection is strongly associated with average temperature,…
Education may be protective for people with gene for familial early onset Alzheimer’s
Even for people who carry the gene for early onset Alzheimer’s disease, more years of education may slow the development…
Implanted neural stem cell grafts show functionality in spinal cord injuries
Researchers report successfully implanting specialized grafts of neural stem cells directly into spinal cord injuries in mice, then documenting how…