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Infographic: We know breastfeeding helps children. Now we know it helps mothers too

Rachel Moeller Gorman&nbsp|&nbsp
When a woman becomes pregnant, her risk of type 2 diabetes increases for the rest of her life, perhaps because ...

Common vaccines appear to reduce risk of Alzheimer’s and cognitive decline

Amanda Heidt&nbsp|&nbsp
[Two studies] have demonstrated that flu and pneumococcal vaccines are linked with a lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease. In both ...
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Teaching AI to diagnose COVID-19 by analyzing CT scans

Claire Jarvis&nbsp|&nbsp
In China, CT scans are already used as a COVID-19 diagnostic tool when a patient arrives at a healthcare setting ...

Infographic: No more shots? Next-gen vaccine ‘sheets’ melt on the tongue

Ruth Williams&nbsp|&nbsp
Two issues influencing the accessibility of many vaccines are their needs for constant refrigeration from production until use and for ...

COVID-19 recoverers appear to rapidly lose antibodies, leaving them vulnerable to reinfection within months

Amanda Heidt&nbsp|&nbsp
Infections caused by coronavirus cousins such as SARS and MERS result in antibodies that remain in the body for nearly ...

How the COVID-19 pandemic has emboldened ‘armchair’ virologists

Bob Grant&nbsp|&nbsp
[W]hen the Olympics are being broadcast, I transform into an armchair commentator, catching a full-blown case of what I like ...

People with PTSD may have trouble suppressing memories—good and bad

Jef Akst&nbsp|&nbsp
One question the researchers want to explore through the lens of the [November 13, 2015] Paris attacks is why some ...

Viewpoint: We need more female animals included in research projects

Shawna Williams&nbsp|&nbsp
In 2011, Annaliese Beery and Irving Zucker of the University of California, Berkeley, analyzed biomedical literature and reported that studies ...

Infographic: From the common cold to COVID-19, here’s our history with coronaviruses

Shawna Williams&nbsp|&nbsp
On January 9 of this year, Chinese state media reported that a team of researchers led by Xu Jianguo had ...

‘Bioelectric memory patch’ promises to boost short-term memory. Could it really work?

Diana Kwon&nbsp|&nbsp
What if you could boost your brain’s processing capabilities simply by sticking electrodes onto your head and flipping a switch? ...

Gut microbiomes are most malleable in the first 2 years of life. Can infant probiotics improve long-term health?

Diana Hazard Taft, Jennifer Smilowitz&nbsp|&nbsp
[Children] acquire gut microbiome species from their mothers and others in the community during early life. This stands in contrast ...

Why a poorly designed coronavirus vaccine could actually make infections worse

Katarina Zimmer&nbsp|&nbsp
Antibodies created during a first-time infection could, under very specific circumstances, end up enhancing the disease rather than protecting against ...

People with two copies of ‘Alzheimer’s gene’ at greater risk of developing severe COVID-19 infection

Jef Akst&nbsp|&nbsp
The APOE ε4 gene variant that puts people at a greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease also has a link ...

Infographic: How our brains keep track of time

Catherine Offord&nbsp|&nbsp
It’s unclear how the brain keeps track of the timing of events within a memory. One theory posits that, as ...
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‘The Idea of the Brain’: Pinpointing the storage location for our memories

Matthew Cobb&nbsp|&nbsp
For centuries, scientists have been arguing about where memory resides in the brain. I explore the fascinating history of this ...

Sewage monitoring could give early warning of fresh coronavirus outbreaks

Chris Baraniuk&nbsp|&nbsp
Scientists in Spain are expecting to begin regularly analyzing sewage for traces of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, The Scientist ...

Fighting malaria: Genetically modified parasites offer promising but incomplete protection

Ruth Williams&nbsp|&nbsp
Two clinical trials, in which subjects were vaccinated with genetically engineered Plasmodium parasites and later exposed to the malaria-causing microbe, ...

Hydroxychloroquine trials halted after World Health Organization cites ‘significantly higher risk of death’ for COVID-19 patients

Catherine Offord&nbsp|&nbsp
The World Health Organization has suspended testing of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine after a study published in The Lancet reported ...

Humans may have driven weeds to evolve to resemble crop plants—And they even became edible

Shawna Williams&nbsp|&nbsp
Nikolai Vavilov’s story has stuck with Longjiang Fan ever since he learned about the Soviet plant biologist during his undergraduate ...

False memories: Why marijuana users may not be the best eye witnesses

Amy Schleunes&nbsp|&nbsp
When Lilian Kloft stumbled across a 2015 study showing a connection between cannabis use and susceptibility to false memories, she ...

From “COVID toes” to delirium, coronavirus presents a wide range of unusual symptoms

Claire Jarvis&nbsp|&nbsp
In late April, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its list of COVID-19 symptoms. The CDC initially ...

AI digs through billions of molecules, searching for an effective coronavirus treatment

Abby Olena&nbsp|&nbsp
Shantenu Jha, a computational scientist at Rutgers University and Brookhaven National Laboratory, is coupling artificial intelligence techniques and algorithms with ...

Tuberculosis vaccine gets a shot at the coronavirus

Anthony King&nbsp|&nbsp
One of the oldest vaccines could protect us against our newest infectious disease, COVID-19. The vaccine has been given to ...

Experimental cancer blood test shows promise, but also hits some snags

Ashley Yeager&nbsp|&nbsp
A blood test has detected cancer in individuals who had no history or symptoms of cancer. A trial of the ...

Infographic: 3 factors affecting how viruses jump from animals to humans

Ashley Yeager&nbsp|&nbsp
Raina Plowright of Montana State University is working with infectious disease experts, ecologists, and a range of other scientists to ...

Taming the body’s immune response could offer treatment option for coronavirus

Shawna Williams&nbsp|&nbsp
Among the many outstanding questions about COVID-19 is how the same virus, SARS-CoV-2, can kill some patients and leave others ...

Coronavirus ‘immunity passports’? Why it’s too early to know whether survivors are safe

Katarina Zimmer&nbsp|&nbsp
Policymakers have another reason to scramble to deploy antibody tests: they could indicate whether someone is immune to SARS-CoV-2. With ...

Injecting tumors with a flu shot ignites cancer-killing immune response in mice

Ashley Yeager&nbsp|&nbsp
Nearly 5,000 years ago, Egyptian physician Imhotep observed a grotesque but revealing detail about tumors: some grew so large that ...