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Medical Xpress / Drug delivery system slowly releases pain-relieving nerve block over weeks

Most local anesthetics used in medicine last only eight to 12 hours, or a day at most. Now, Boston Children's Hospital researchers have formulated a more effective slow-release injectable drug delivery system that achieved ...

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Medical Xpress / PATHFINDER 2 findings advance multi-cancer early detection blood testing

A single blood draw that screens for more than 50 cancers substantially increased cancer detection when added to standard screening, identifying cancers that otherwise might have gone undetected until later stages, according ...

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Phys.org / Earth may have gained optimal conditions for life's chemistry 4.33 billion years ago

Conditions on early Earth may have become stable enough to sustain the chemistry associated with the origins of life around 4.33 billion years ago, according to new research co-led by Planetary Science Institute senior scientist ...

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Phys.org / Adding limestone to Mississippi River Basin farmlands acts as a major carbon sink, study finds

In a discovery as broad and far-reaching as the Big Muddy itself, a new Yale–led study says farmers in the Mississippi River Basin are storing more carbon dioxide (CO2) in the soil than they emit when they add limestone to ...

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Phys.org / DIY filter systems improve air quality in classrooms

As students return to school and cold and flu season begins, researchers are studying ways to improve indoor air quality and reduce the risk of airborne disease transmission.

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Phys.org / Bennu asteroid samples point to a surprising origin involving Jupiter

The asteroid Bennu orbits the sun once every 1.2 years and approaches Earth every six years, passing within around 300,000 kilometers. NASA took advantage of this to collect material from the celestial body. In a spectacular ...

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Phys.org / Hairy feet, red eyes: Salish Sea reveals two sea spider species new to science

If you're swimming in the Salish Sea late at night and feel a skittering along your calves, tiny hairy feet tip-tapping their way higher and higher toward your face, don't worry—it's probably just the stuff of nightmares: ...

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Medical Xpress / Large-scale studies create one of the world's most comprehensive single-cell atlases of human brain disease

Research led by Mount Sinai scientists within the PsychAD Consortium, a large-scale, multidisciplinary initiative launched in 2019 with support from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), is featured in a collection of nine ...

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Medical Xpress / Newly discovered inflammatory cell signaling could open the door to autoimmune disease treatments

Our understanding of how cells interact with each other has been driven for decades by the central concept of receptor-mediated signal transduction. Now, researchers from Boston Children's Hospital are reporting the discovery ...

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Medical Xpress / People with dementia want to participate in research, according to study

For a long time, dementia research has been shaped by concerns that participation may be too burdensome for people with cognitive impairment. However, a recent study led by professors Eino Solje and Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen ...

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Phys.org / The stories we tell ourselves shape who we are

"One way or another, we are living the stories planted knowingly or unknowingly in us early in life, the stories that give our lives meaning."—Ben Okri, A Way of Being Free

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Medical Xpress / New pathways identified to reduce pain and depressive symptoms associated with fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition affecting between 2% and 6% of the global population, characterized by widespread, persistent pain often associated with fatigue, sleep disturbances, cognitive difficulties and affective ...

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