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A team led by scientists at Scripps Research has discovered a common molecular feature found in many of the human antibodies that neutralize SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
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The invasive population of Asian longhorned ticks in the United States likely began with three or more self-cloning females from northeastern Asia, according to a Rutgers-led study. Asian longhorned ticks outside the U.S. can carry debilitating diseases. In the United States and elsewhere they can threaten livestock and pets. The new study, published in the journal Zoonoses and Public Health, sheds new light on the origin of these exotic ticks and how they are spreading across the United States.
Read moreWhat causes African hybrid honey bees (AHB), also known as killer bees, to be highly defensive and aggressive? York University researchers have found it was the mixing of African and European genetics that led to hyper-aggression in this invasive strain of honey bees.
Read moreUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison researchers have developed a safer and more efficient way to deliver a promising new method for treating cancer and liver disorders and for vaccination — including a COVID-19 vaccine from Moderna Therapeutics that has advanced to clinical trials with humans.
Read moreGenomic variants that cause common periodic fever have spread in Mediterranean populations over centuries, potentially protecting people from the plague
Read moreNeurons that regularly remodel are more prone to the dysfunctions linked to the disease’s onset, a new experimental and computational study finds
Read moreGenomic variants that cause common periodic fever have spread in Mediterranean populations over centuries, potentially protecting people from the plague
Read moreNeurons that regularly remodel are more prone to the dysfunctions linked to the disease’s onset, a new experimental and computational study finds
Read moreIn biology, phylogenetic trees represent the evolutionary history and diversification of species – the “family tree” of Life. Phylogenetic trees
Read moreMulticenter study led by Dartmouth’s and Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center shows vastly improved turnaround time to get results from the lab to the oncologist using the newest technology in the cancer testing space.
Read moreFor the first time, researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and their colleagues have succeeded in using
Read moreScientists identify an important protein that increases “bacterial virulence,” when mutated, changing harmless bacteria to harmful ones
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