Ever since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, people have become more interested in how well airplane cabins filter and circulate their air. Now, Northwestern University researchers have launched a new project to explore what, exactly, these air filters actually capture. To kick off the six-month-long project, the team recently received a $217,011 grant from the Walder Foundation. With this […]

Mayo Clinic and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) announced today a research agreement to transform organ transplantation. The institutions will bioengineer innovative approaches to address barriers in organ transplantation. This relationship with the esteemed CMU Biomedical Engineering team is a very important step in Mayo Clinic's Transforming Transplant strategic initiative. Research and innovation breakthroughs resulting from this initiative will address challenges […]

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In a recent JAMA study, researchers report on the potential for serious maternal illness or death during or following a pregnancy complicated by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Herein, the researchers examined the records of over 14,000 patients in order to identify outcomes like hypertension, postpartum bleeding, or other maternal […]

It may look like a bizarre bike helmet, or a piece of equipment found in Doc Brown’s lab in Back to the Future, yet this gadget made of plastic and copper wire is a technological breakthrough with the potential to revolutionize medical imaging. Despite its playful look, the device is actually a metamaterial, packing in a ton of physics, engineering, and […]

A clinical research team at Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University today published the results of the first randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial of the effectiveness of niclosamide, an oral medication long-used worldwide for treatment of tapeworms, in COVID-19 patients. The study, sponsored by Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), found […]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced new changes to school nutrition standards for the next 2 school years, which will reinstate health goals that were rolled back during the Trump administration. The Biden administration is also tightening rules for fat and salt content in foods after restrictions were eased during the pandemic, according to The Washington Post. “Nutritious school […]

Uppsala researchers have succeeded in designing a molecule that inhibits the replication of coronaviruses and that has great potential for development into a drug suitable for treating COVID-19. The molecule is effective against both the new variant and previously identified coronaviruses. The article has been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The new coronavirus has caused more […]

Ebola can lurk in fluid-filled cavities in the brain and kill monkeys, even after the animals have been treated for the disease and seem to have recovered, a new study shows. The study, conducted in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), hints at why some human Ebola survivors relapse and die months or years after recovering from their initial infections, The Scientist […]