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·April 3, 2020·4 min read

Wearing surgical masks in public could help slow COVID-19 pandemic’s advance

Wearing face masks significantly reduced the amounts of airborne virus particles expelled from infected patients. Findings suggest surgical-style face masks could slow the transmission of coronavirus and influenza viruses.

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·April 3, 2020·3 min read

World’s biggest study of left-handedness

A meta-analysis study reveals at least 10.6% of the world's population is left-handed.

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·April 3, 2020·3 min read

How important is speech in transmitting coronavirus?

Aerosolized particles produced while speaking may be enough to transmit coronavirus infection by those who are asymptomatic.

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·April 3, 2020·4 min read

Stress thwarts ability to plan ahead by disrupting how we use memory

Stress generates lower levels of activity in the hippocampus and frontal-parietal lobe networks, hindering the ability to make certain decisions and plan ahead.

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·April 2, 2020·3 min read

Common vitamin combined with chemotherapy helps immune cells attack glioblastoma

Combining niacin, or vitamin B3, with chemotherapy, helped slow the progression and increase life span in mouse models of glioblastoma.

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·April 2, 2020·4 min read

Mice make different facial expressions based on emotion

Mouse show different facial expression depending on their emotional state. Using machine learning, researchers were able to link five different emotional states to the facial expressions of mice.

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·April 2, 2020·2 min read

Drugs considered for Coronavirus can raise risk for dangerous abnormal heart rhythms

Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, two drugs touted as potential coronavirus therapeutics, could increase the risk of heart arrhythmias, cardiologists say.

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·April 2, 2020·5 min read

How T. gondii infection causes seizures, and psychiatric illness for some

Study shows how Toxoplasma parasitic infections promote the loss of inhibitory signaling in the brain by altering the behavior of microglia.

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·April 2, 2020·5 min read

COVID-19 vaccine candidate shows promise in first peer-reviewed research

A new COVID-19 vaccine produces antibodies specific to SARS-CoV-2 at quantities believed sufficient for neutralizing the virus, a mouse model study reveals. The new vaccine using an innovative microneedle array on fingertip-sized pads, which increases the vaccine potency.

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·April 2, 2020·4 min read

Lifestyle changes could delay memory problems in old age, depending on our genes

The genes GRB10 and ABTB1 are influential in nutrient-sensing pathways and memory. Researchers say these genes may be the molecular links between diet, neural stem cell aging, and cognitive ability.

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·April 2, 2020·3 min read

How COVID-19 sheds when symptoms are relatively mild

Study reports viral shedding of SARS-CoV-2 occurs in the upper respiratory tract during early COVID-19 infection when symptoms are mild or hardly noticeable.

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·April 2, 2020·5 min read

Newly discovered memory process influences decision-making

Memory encoding processes important for decision making begin in the basolateral amygdala. The basolateral amygdala then creates cellular memories in the nucleus accumbens. The findings shed light on the learned connection between stimuli and reward.