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Scientists uncover immune cells that may lower airway allergy and asthma risk
Scientists offer a clue to why non-allergic people don’t have a strong reaction to house dust mites. They’ve uncovered a…
Personality traits linked to toilet paper stockpiling
People who feel more threatened by COVID-19 and rank highly on scales of emotionality and conscientiousness were most likely to…
Elastomeric masks provide a more durable, less costly option for health care workers
A cost-effective strategy for health care systems to offset N95 mask shortages due to COVID-19 is to switch to reusable…
COVID-19 may trigger new diabetes, experts warn
Emerging evidence suggests that COVID-19 may actually trigger the onset of diabetes in healthy people and also cause severe complications…
Self-swabbing tests for COVID-19 accurate and safe, study reports
Test samples collected by people who swabbed their own nasal passages yielded results for the COVID-19 virus that were as…
As rare animals disappear, scientist faces ‘ecological grief’
Five years before the novel coronavirus ran rampant around the world, saiga antelopes from the steppes of Eurasia experienced their…
Up to 45 percent of SARS-CoV-2 infections may be asymptomatic
Asymptomatic infections may have played a significant role in the early and ongoing spread of COVID-19 and highlight the need…
New algorithm uses artificial intelligence to help manage type 1 diabetes
Researchers and physicians have designed a method to help people with type 1 diabetes better manage their glucose levels. The…
Parasites and the microbiome
In a study of ethnically diverse people from Cameroon, the presence of a parasite infection was closely linked to the…