The SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID has the unsettling ability of often generating variants of itself. Other viruses also mutate, but as SARS-CoV-2 quickly spread throughout the entire human population during the pandemic, killing millions, the virus' dynamic evolution posed a serious problem: it repeatedly challenged our bodies' immune response fighting the virus and hindered the process of getting updated vaccines ready ..read more

A study by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and Biobizkaia proposes using an available, simple, non-invasive tool to monitor this neurodegeneration ..read more

​New research to be presented at next week's ESCMID Global Congress (formerly ECCMID) in Barcelona, Spain (27-30 April) highlights the risk of new immune-evasive SARS-CoV-2 variants emerging in immunocompromised patients ..read more

With more than 200 types of cancer and every cancer individually unique, ongoing efforts to develop precision oncology treatments remain daunting ..read more

To study how parasites evolve to break the defenses of their hosts, the National Institutes of Health has granted UC Riverside nematologist Simon "Niels" Groen a $1.9 million Outstanding Investigator Award ..read more

People with a history of cognitively stimulating occupations during their 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s had a lower risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia after age 70, according to a new study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, the Columbia Aging Center, and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health ..read more

Humans, Homo sapiens, have unique features compared with other closely related hominin species and primates, including the shape of the base of the skull ..read more

A component of the human intestinal flora that has been little studied to date is the focus of a new study ..read more

Understanding the mutation and evolution of viruses (such as SARS-CoV-2) is crucial for effective public health management and response ..read more

The same technology that enables a bullet train to travel at speeds up to 200 mph without touching its rails now keeps a failing heart pumping-;and in the near future, it will do so via a wireless power connection ..read more