Health

First real-world study gives detailed new insights into when people with COVID-19 are infectious. A new study of 57 people with mild COVID-19 estimates how long people are infectious for and when they can safely leave isolation. The research, which is led by Imperial College London and published in The Lancet …

Johns Hopkins Medicine Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have evidence to potentially overturn a prevailing belief in a type of important signaling within cells. The mainstream idea is that a single protein receptor molecule – a kind of flag on the cell surface – spurs the activity of up …

A male birth control pill has shown significant results in mice and is heading toward human trials, which could start next year. Shutterstock Amale birth control pill has shown significant results in lab trials in mice and is heading toward human trials, which could start next year. Although several male …

University of Sheffield research is the biggest ever study to examine the link between IE and dental treatment and for the first time confirms that giving antibiotics to those at high IE-risk before invasive dental procedures, significantly reduces the risk of them developing IE Infective endocarditis (IE) is an infection …

Johns Hopkins University A team of physicists at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Quantum Matter has discovered that they can control a metal’s electromagnetic properties by manipulating it mechanically. The finding suggests potential developments in the technologies involved in magnetic random access memory, or RAM, as well as other applications. Scientists usually …