Suppose a large forest fire hits California. Millions of acres are burning, and many towns are threatened. The Forest Service…
Covid-19 and Disparities in Nutrition and Obesity
Black, Latinx, and Native Americans are experiencing disproportionate burdens of infections, hospitalizations, and deaths from SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). Similar disparities are…
Improving Clinical Trial Enrollment — In the Covid-19 Era and Beyond
More than 3 million people in the United States are known to have been infected with SARS-CoV-2. If every study…
The Climate Crisis and Covid-19 — A Major Threat to the Pandemic Response
Just as an active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is getting under way, the entire U.S. hurricane coast, from Texas to…
Does eating fish protect our brains from air pollution?
Older women who eat more than one to two servings a week of baked or broiled fish or shellfish may…
Reprogramming of immune cells enhances effects of radiotherapy in preclinical models of brain cancer
A new study has dissected how radiotherapy alters the behavior of immune cells known as macrophages found in glioblastoma (GBM)…
New antiplatelet drug shows promise for treating heart attack
Researchers have developed a new drug that prevents blood clots without causing an increased risk of bleeding, a common side…
Social distancing and COVID-19: A law of diminishing returns
New modeling shows how social distancing could have better been implemented. The key? Longer periods of distancing would have helped…
Single drop of blood could help rapidly detect radiation sickness
A new proof-of-concept study reports evidence that a new testing method has the potential to rapidly identify radiation sickness based…
‘Bystander’ Cs meet their match in gene-editing technique
Biomolecular engineers have developed new tools to increase the accuracy of CRISPR single-base editing to treat genetic diseases.