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Medical Xpress / The newborn vitamin K shot: What every parent needs to know

When a baby is born, hospital staff move quickly through a standard checklist of newborn care: taking measurements, administering antibiotic eye ointment to prevent eye infections, and giving a small injection of vitamin ...

18 hours ago
Phys.org / Researchers identify enzyme that prevents chromosome breaks during DNA copying

Researchers at The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) have identified how a key enzyme called ATR protects DNA from breaking when cells copy damaged genetic material, a discovery that could affect how certain cancer ...

19 hours ago
Phys.org / Fair matching systems can still produce unequal outcomes, new research finds

A computerized matching system can be designed to be fair and still produce unequal outcomes if the people using it do not understand how it works, according to new research published in Organization Science that shows that ...

18 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Novel CAR T cell therapy moves into clinical studies

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and CTMC, a joint venture between UT MD Anderson and Resilience, today announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a 'safe to proceed' for the Investigational ...

18 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Study reveals promising new therapy for non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Not all cancers respond to the same treatments or have the same genetic origins. Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), a common and highly contagious virus, has been found to cause certain cancers, including non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). ...

18 hours ago
Tech Xplore / A novel deep learning architecture for multi-source data fusion

Recent years have witnessed the unprecedented development of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things. These two technologies have significantly facilitated data collection from different sources for numerous tasks, ...

18 hours ago
Phys.org / How 'gentle power' leads to successful environmental conservation

Environmental conservation is one of the most pressing debates across the world. For decades, it has often been viewed as a choice between strict government regulation and voluntary community action. However, a new research ...

21 hours ago
Phys.org / How studying friendship has changed the way I understand my own loneliness

A few years ago, I had just moved into a house.

23 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Improving the treatment of Lassa fever: First clinical trial with favipiravir shows promising results

The infectious disease Lassa fever can be fatal, and there is a lack of treatment options with proven efficacy. Researchers at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf ...

19 hours ago
Tech Xplore / 'Reading the invisible': AI framework accounts for hidden defects in metal 3D printing

Metal additive manufacturing (AM), widely regarded as a revolution in modern manufacturing for its ability to produce lightweight and geometrically complex components, has long faced a critical barrier to widespread adoption: ...

20 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Exploiting tuberculosis 'superspreading niches' to curb transmission

Superspreading became a familiar concept to many during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior studies examining infectious disease epidemics, including those on COVID-19, have found that some individuals are much more likely to transmit ...

20 hours ago
Phys.org / Patrolling males and waiting females—observing reproductive behavior of black sea bream in the wild

Ultrasonic tracking in Hiroshima Bay shows that male and female black sea bream move differently during the spawning season, offering a novel discovery into the reproductive behavior of a broadcast-spawning sparid fish in ...

22 hours ago