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Credits: Photo: Raleigh McElvery Caption: Michael Gould (right) and Sara Moss (center) touring the laboratory of Professor Bob Horvitz with former MSRP-Bio students (left to right) Kiera Sapp, Cristina Torres Cabán, and Sheena Vasquez. Credits: Photo: Mandana Sassanfar Credits: Photo: Raleigh McElvery Next image Last month, the Department of Biology received a...

Press release content from PR Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. National Eating Disorders Association Partners with UC San Diego Eating Disorders Center for Treatment and Research to Provide Online Access to Care January 25, 2021 GMT (PRNewsfoto/National Eating Disorders Assoc) NEW YORK, Jan. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) provides a critical grant to support University of California San Diego Eating Disorders Center for Tre...

The Chinese Mestizos and the Formation of the Filipino Nationality [article] pp. 141-162 Archipel, volume 32, 1986. pp. 141-162. The Chinese Mestizos and the Formation of the Filipino Nationality The recorded history of the Philippines would be incomplete as a basis for understanding contemporary society unless it takes into account the Chinese mestizos contributions to our development as a nation. The Chinese mestizos were an important element of Philippine society in the 19th ce...

Facing criticism from the administration she worked for and some in the scientific community, Deborah Birx, coordinator of the Trump White House's coronavirus response, « always » considered quitting her job, she said in an interview set to air Sunday.

A relatively simple and rapid blood test can predict—within a day of a hospital admission—which patients with COVID-19 are at highest risk of severe complications or death. One of the most vexing aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic is doctors’ inability to predict which newly hospitalized patients will go on to develop severe disease, including complications that require the insertion of a breathing tube, kidney dialysis, or other intensive care. Knowing a patient’s age and underlying medi...

By Rich McManus NIAID’s Dr. Helen Su When the global pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus made its debut in late 2019, NIAID’s Dr. Helen Su was studying inborn errors of immunity in patients with viral infections, mostly rhinoviruses, which cause colds, and influenza. Why, she wondered, was there such variability of outcomes in people infected with the same virus? In a remarkable example of the NIH Intramural Research Program’s nimbleness, she and her colleagues quickly pivoted to studi...

Harmful and Healing Responses to Brain Injury Diverge by Cellular Mediators and Time January 20, 2021 Harmful and healing immune responses to cerebrovascular injury depend on the timing of the response and cells mediating the response, a new study reports. Injury to blood vessels in the brain, or cerebrovascular injury, commonly caused by a stroke that blocks a blood vessel (ischemic stroke), can result in severe swelling and inflammation. In patients with short-term blockade of a blood vessel ...

TROY, N.Y. — The findings of a new study may revolutionize how infant autism-risk is assessed in pregnant mothers. Researchers from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Arizona State University, and the Mayo Clinic report that mothers of children born with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) show significantly different metabolite levels as long as two to five years after giving birth in comparison to women who gave birth to normally developing children. Study authors analyzed blood samples from...

Dr. Neil Hanchard joins NHGRI as a clinical investigator SHARE: Dr. Hanchard will lead the new Childhood Complex Disease Genomics Section. The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has appointed Neil Hanchard, M.D., Ph.D., as a clinical investigator within the Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch (MGMGB) in the NHGRI Division of Intramural Research. Dr. Hanchard will head the Childhood Complex Disease Genomics Section within the MGMGB. “We are delighted to welcome Neil Ha...

NIH Researcher Recognized for Contributions to Structural Biology Techniques Tuesday, January 19, 2021 IRP researcher Robert Tycko was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020 for his important contributions to the field of structural biology. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS), established in 1863, is comprised of the United States’ most distinguished scientific scholars, including nearly 500 Nobel Prize winners. Members of the NAS are elected by their peers and entrusted with...