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UrduWhat The Study Did: Researchers evaluated the association between the pandemic and clinical research and development by studying the initiation of oncology clinical trials over time. Authors: Elizabeth B. Lamont, M.D., M.S., M.MSc., of Acorn AI by Medidata, a Dassault…
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Janet Rossant receives the 2021 ISSCR Achievement Award
Skokie, IL–The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) will award its 2021 Achievement Award to Janet Rossant, PhD, FRS, FRSC, President and Scientific Director of Gairdner Foundation , Chief of Research and Senior Scientist, Research Institute, The Hospital for…
Madeline Lancaster receives 2021 ISSCR Dr. Susan Lim Award for Outstanding Young Investigator
Skokie, IL–The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) will award the Dr. Susan Lim Award for Outstanding Young Investigator to Madeline Lancaster, PhD, The Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK. The prize recognizes the exceptional achievements…
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards nearly $4M to top young scientists
Twenty brilliant early career investigators will receive funding to pursue cutting-edge cancer research.
Analysis details racial inequity and corrective strategies in research grant funding
New Orleans, LA – An analysis by Nicholas Gilpin, PhD, Professor of Physiology and Associate Director of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and Michael Taffe, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry…
Safe, efficient performance of open tracheostomies in patients with COVID-19
What The Study Did: Researchers demonstrate a technique of tracheostomy that minimizes aerosolization risks while creating a tight seal around the tracheostomy tube. Authors: Oluwafunmilola T. Okuyemi, M.D., M.S.C.I., of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Medicine, is the corresponding…
Suicide-related internet searches during early stages of COVID-19 pandemic
What The Study Did: This study monitored suicide-related internet search rates during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and researchers report searches for suicide decreased during that time. Although this study cannot independently confirm that…
Karīna Narbute’s research in extracellular vesicles earns her Young Investigator Award
Durham, NC – Karīna Narbute, Ph.D. is the latest recipient of STEM CELLS Translational Medicine ‘s Young Investigator Award. The award fosters advancements in the field of stem cells and regenerative medicine by honoring a young researcher who is the…
Register now for our Police Misconduct & Qualified Immunity symposium
Please register for the event here: https:/ / host. regform. com/ police-%20misconduct-qualified-immunity-reimagining-we-the-people/ Please join us on Thursday, February 4, 2021, from 9:00am-5:00pm, as Texas Southern University’s Center for Justice Research, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, in partnership with The Earl…
Suicide deaths during COVID-19 stay-at-home advisory in Massachusetts
What The Study Did: Researchers assembled suicide death data for people 10 and older from January 2015 through May 2020 in this observational study and they report stable rates of suicide deaths during the COVID-19 stay-at-home advisory in Massachusetts, a…
Factors associated with US public motivation to use, distribute COVID-19 self-tests
What The Study Did: Researchers examined individuals’ motivation to self-test and to distribute self-test kits given the urgent need to increase COVID-19 testing coverage and contact tracing. Author: Cedric Bien-Gund, M.D., of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University…
Who’s writing open access articles?
An Academic Analytics Research Center (AARC) study has found greater rates of authorship of open access (OA) research articles among scholars at more prestigious institutions with greater access to resources and job security. “The open access publishing model is growing,…
New research finds connection: Inflammation, metabolism and scleroderma scarring
Study finds NAD+ break down leads to multi organ scarring, providing now a previously undiscovered pathogenic role of the enzyme CD38 in disease scarring.
Managing large-scale construction projects to avoid cost overruns
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C-Path announces SHIP-MD 2021 Virtual Workshop
Multi-stakeholder event will focus on national innovation ecosystem for pediatric medical device development
Comparing reactions of flu vaccines in older adults
What The Study Did: Researchers in this randomized clinical trial compared injection-site pain and other reactions among adults age 65 and older who received flu vaccines. Author: Kenneth E. Schmader, M.D., of the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham,…
Progression of myopia in children after COVID-19 home confinement
What The Study Did: Researchers investigated the association of home confinement during the COVID-19 outbreak with myopia (nearsightedness) development in school-age children in China. Authors: Xuehan Qian, M.D., Ph.D., of Tianjin Medical University Eye Hospital in Tianjin, China, is the corresponding…
What does marketing have to do with ill-advised consumer behavior?
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COMBINEDBrain receives grant from The Marlene and Spencer Hays Foundation
Established in 2019 in Nashville, COMBINEDBrain is a non-profit consortium of patient advocacy groups, researchers and clinicians working together to fast-track cures and therapies for individuals afflicted with rare genetic neurodevelopmental disorders. Established in 2017, the Marlene and Spencer Hays…
When salespeople advocate for sellers and customers
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Speech recognition changes after cochlear implant
What The Study Did: Researchers compared changes in preoperative aided speech recognition with postoperative speech recognition among individuals who received cochlear implants. Authors: Theodore R. McRackan, M.D., M.S.C.R., of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, is the corresponding…
How market incumbents can navigate disruptive technology change
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Public mobility, social media attention in response to COVID-19 in Sweden, Denmark
What The Study Did: Denmark was one of the first countries to enforce lockdown to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and subsequent gradual reopening, whereas Sweden has had few restrictions, largely limited to public recommendations. Researchers assessed public mobility and…
Comparing health outcomes of privileged Americans with residents of other developed countries
What The Study Did: Researchers looked at whether health outcomes of white citizens living in the richest U.S. counties were better than that of average individuals in other developed countries. Authors: Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of…
Anglo-German project to investigate the role of translation in post-war European magazines
The British Arts and Humanities Research Council and the German Research Foundation are funding the research project ‘Spaces of Translation: European Magazine Cultures’ run jointly by Nottingham Trent University and Mainz University
Variation in US hospital mortality rates for patients admitted with COVID-19 during the 1st 6 months of pandemic
What The Study Did: Researchers used data from a large national health insurer in the U.S. to examine whether hospital outcomes for patients with COVID-19 are improving. Authors: David A. Asch, M.D., of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is…
Nobel Prize reflects perseverance in scientific research
New Rochelle, NY, December 21, 2020–The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to three researchers for their discovery of hepatitis C virus (HCV). The undying perseverance that it took to find and cure this elusive virus is eloquently…
Winners announced: 2020 Nature Research Awards for Mentoring in Science — Israel
Computational biologist, Hanah Margalit, is the winner of the lifetime achievement award, while cancer researcher Neta Erez and molecular biologist Tal Pupko jointly receive the mid-career award
Catherine Cesarsky wins 2020 Tate Award for International Leadership in Physics
WASHINGTON, December 17, 2020 — The American Institute of Physics announced the winner of the 2020 John Torrence Tate Award for International Leadership in Physics to French astrophysicist Catherine Cesarsky. Named after the celebrated American physicist John Torrence Tate, the…
Political researchers to study how ideas become “framed” for debate
Who decides how political ideas are ‘framed,’ and how are these frames shared with others? A new international three-year project led by Dr Özlem Atikcan of Warwick’s Department of Politics and International Studies, Professor Anna Holzscheiter of Germany’s TU Dresden,…
Energy transition at the crossroads: New topical issue in Russian Journal of Economics
Titled “Energy transition at the crossroads”, the new issue of the Russian Journal of Economics gets a set of profound messages across, which can be summarized as: “transition matters, transition goes, yet transition is not a simple, unified march towards…
All-cause excess mortality, COVID-19-related mortality among us adults
What The Study Did: Researchers used publicly available data to examine all-cause excess mortality (the gap between observed and expected deaths) and COVID-19-related mortality during the early period of the pandemic among adults ages 25 to 44. Authors: Jeremy Samuel Faust,…
Suicide risk among patients with Parkinson disease
What The Study Did: Researchers investigated whether Parkinson disease was associated with an increased risk of suicide among a large group of patients in Taiwan. Authors: Pei-Chen Lee, Ph.D., of the National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences in…
SwRI developing biomechanics AI system to help train military medical personnel
Integrating markerless motion capture with machine learning to assess performance of medical trainees
Harvard Data Science Review explores reproducibility and replicability in science
CAMBRIDGE, MA–December 16, 2020– In 2019, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) published a consensus report for the US Congress– Reproducibility and Replicability in Science –which addressed a major methodological crisis in the sciences: The fact that…
Biochemist Josh Sakon chosen as National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Election based on chemist’s many inventions focused on treatments for osteoporosis, alopecia and bone metastasis
Capacity-building for nature-based solutions: The ReNature open-access research collection
EU project ReNature launches a collection of research articles in the RIO journal collating key outputs on the excellence of nature-based solutions for innovation, sustainable economic growth and human well-being in Malta
FARI publishes new research on omega-3s and heart rate recovery
The Fatty Acid Research Institute (FARI) has published a new research paper in conjunction with The Cooper Institute on omega-3s and heart rate recovery. Omega-3 fatty acids have a long history of being “heart healthy” but exactly why and how…
Norway launches major wind power research centre
The NorthWind research centre will work on innovations to make wind power cheaper, more efficient, and more sustainable
OHSU physician honored for co-invention of eye-imaging technology
David Huang, M.D., Ph.D., recognized by Sanford and Susan Greenberg Prize to End Blindness
German public attitudes toward health communications regarding COVID-19
What The Study Did: This survey study assessed attitudes of the German public regarding COVID-19 health communications with varying degrees of scientific uncertainty. Authors: Odette Wegwarth, Ph.D., of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, is the corresponding author.…
COVID-19 found in the cornea: Are transplants a transmission risk?
A multi-institutional study finds that COVID-19 can be found in post-mortem corneal tissue, highlighting the importance of the donor screening process
Klauber-DeMore recognized for academic innovation in cancer research
MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researcher named as a 2020 fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
For consumer protection: applying research together
German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment and Berlin University of Applied Sciences for Engineering and Economics agree on close cooperation
Jin Kim Montclare named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, December 9, 2020 – Jin Kim Montclare , professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering , and director of the Montclare Lab , has been named a Fellow…
Sandia National Laboratories hosts Education With Industry officer
Air Force captain brings experience and determination to labs
A major research grant awarded to Professor Roberge’s team on sociology of AI
Jonathan Roberge, professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), is part of an international research team awarded with a prestigious grant
Book release: ‘Women in European Academies — From Patronae Scientiarum to Path-Breakers’
ALLEA released the book “Women in European Academies — From Patronae Scientiarum to Path-Breakers” today. Published by De Gruyter, the volume examines the lives and achievements of women who played determining roles in the history of European academies and in…
Nursing researcher’s experience in COVID-19 vaccine trial
What The Article Says: This perspective is that of a nursing researcher turned volunteer in a COVID-19 vaccine trial. She considers the experience of study participants and how clinicians will need to prepare their patients for the vaccine’s possible adverse…
Grant boosts Louisiana children’s access to clinical trials
Federal program could improve health for all children in the state, country