Researcher studies rise of tick-borne diseases in Midwest
When Ram Raghavan heard from a former colleague at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that a 7-year-old girl had died from Rocky Mountain spotted...
Daily Archive: May 13, 2021
President of Key Teachers’ Union Shares Plea: ‘Schools Must Be Open’ in Fall
About half the nation’s schools are not fully open despite rising vaccination levels, and teachers’ unions are getting much of the blame. Randi Weingarten hopes to...
Stanford Faces Two Lawsuits for Decision to Cut Sports
The suits are a last-ditch effort by some athletes, alumni and supporters to save 11 sports planned to be cut after this school year.
Scientists show immune cells change behavior unexpectedly to instigate psoriasis lesions
Millions of people suffer from psoriasis, a chronic, autoimmune disorder that causes scaly patches on the skin and often precedes psoriatic arthritis. While no cure exists,...
Pandemic stigma: Foreigners, doctors wrongly targeted for COVID-19 spread in India
The Indian public blamed foreigners, minority groups and doctors for the rapid spread of COVID-19 across the country during the first wave, due to misinformation, rumor...
Contact-tracing apps prove that they save lives
A study published today in Nature shows that the NHS COVID-19 app for digital contact tracing, based on the DP3T protocol, averted between 300,000 and 600,000...
Long-term trial finds early detection of ovarian cancer does not save lives
A more than 30-year study into the long-term impact on mortality rates of screening for ovarian cancer has found that the cancer can be detected early...
Psychology research demonstrates unique ‘time compression’ effect of virtual reality
Grayson Mullen was playing a virtual reality game at a friend’s house when, suddenly, he noticed that something very strange was happening.
NK cells with bispecific antibody show activity against lymphoma cells
Cytokine-activated natural killer (NK) cells derived from donated umbilical cord blood, combined with an investigational bispecific antibody targeting CD16a and CD30 known as AFM13, displayed potent...
Man Riding in Driverless Tesla Is Arrested in California
Param Sharma, 25, was arrested on charges of reckless driving. “I’m about to go in the back seat right now,” he said after being released from...
