Should I or shouldn’t I? The activity of individual nerve cells in the brain tells us how confident we are…
The choroid plexus: A conduit for prenatal inflammation?
New work offers an unprecedented real-time view of the choroid plexus in a mouse model, providing a glimpse of how…
Identification of a viral factor that impairs immune responses in COVID-19 patients
Researchers aimed to characterize the viral factor(s) determining immune activation upon SARS-CoV-2 infection and found that ORF3b, a gene encoded…
Risk of dying from COVID-19 greater for men, unmarried and born in low and middle income countries, Swedish study finds
Being a man, having a lower income, having a lower level of education, not being married, and being born abroad…
Bone Loss: Perforated bone tissue from too little sugar
Bone marrow cancer is currently an incurable disease that affects about 400 people in Norway every year. One Norwegian researcher…
Effects of poverty on childhood development seen in children as young as 5
Researchers have found that health inequities can be measured in children as young as 5 years old. The research contributes…
Black and Asian patients have increased risk of severe COVID-19 at different stages of the disease, UK study finds
Patients of Black ethnicity have an increased risk of requiring hospital admission for COVID-19, while patients of Asian ethnicity have…
Immune evasion strategy used by Malaria-causing parasite
A team of researchers has found that the Plasmodium parasite, which transmits malaria to humans through infected mosquitos, triggers changes…
Most nations failing to protect nature in COVID-19 pandemic recovery plans
The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to reset the global economy and reverse decades of ecosystem and species losses, but…
How Many Children Do I Have? It’s Not So Simple
I gave birth to two, but I also was a foster parent to another child for a year and a…