JANUARY 6, 2022 by Study Finds SHANGHAI, China — Scientists have found a gene that causes humans to have fingerprints. Interestingly, it has nothing to do with your skin! Scientists in China say this gene — responsible for the circular, wavy, or winding patterns on your fingertips — also fuels limb development. The discovery could lead...
By Dr. Priyom Bose, Ph.D. Jan 6 2022 Reviewed by Aimee Molineux In December 2019, a novel coronavirus was reported from the Wuhan province of China which, subsequently, spread rapidly across the world. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak to be a pandemic, which is now known as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic....
Prostate cancer is a deadly condition, even though new effective treatments are emerging. It is actually the second most common cancer in men worldwide and the incidence rate of this disease is around 1.1-1.5 per 1000 men every year. Now scientists at UCL found that a new prostate cancer drug abiraterone could halve risk of prostate cancer death...
COVID-19 got us talking about viruses and antiviral treatment and antiviral therapies in general, but the truth is that these tiny organisms have been bothering humanity for the entirety of our history. In fact, now we are better equipped to fight them. Researchers at the Universities of York, York St John, and Leeds designed a new approach...
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER COLUMBUS, Ohio – A cancer immunotherapy drug currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat several forms of cancer is also effective for treating aggressive forms of endometrial (uterine) cancer, according to results from an international phase II clinical trial led by researchers at The Ohio...
David Robson Sun 2 Jan 2022 07.00 EST For more than a decade, Paddy Jones has been wowing audiences across the world with her salsa dancing. She came to fame on the Spanish talent show Tú Sí Que Vales (You’re Worth It) in 2009 and has since found success in the UK, through Britain’s Got Talent; in Germany,...
by Cristine Hall, University of Southern California Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Ixel Hernandez-Castro grew up next to a dairy farm near Fresno, California, where she remembers a plane would fly by on weekends and spray the fields surrounding her family home with pesticides. “They’d finish spraying, and we’d run outside to play,” said Hernandez-Castro, MPH,...
You may be surprised to learn that European men are exposed to Ascaris lumbricoides roundworm. In fact, scientists recently figured out that their exposure to this parasite is greater than previously estimated. A new study from the Universities of Birmingham, Bergen, and Cape Town revealed that young men exposed to Ascaris lumbricoides are at increased...
UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA Interventions aimed at promoting physical activity in people with asthma could improve their symptoms and quality of life – according to new research from the University of East Anglia. Researchers looked at whether interventions such as aerobic and strength or resistance training, had helped participants with asthma. Although they found that...
EUROPEAN ALLIANCE OF ASSOCIATIONS FOR RHEUMATOLOGY (EULAR) COVID-19 is the disease caused by infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Since it emerged at the end of 2019, the virus has caused a global pandemic. In February 2021, EULAR, the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology, launched COVAX – a physician-reported registry to collect information about COVID...
