Jennifer DeBruyn, University of Tennessee Each human body contains a complex community of trillions of microorganisms that are important for your health while you’re alive. These microbial symbionts help you digest food, produce essential vitamins, protect you from infection and serve many…
Brian Ho, University of Florida and Ronald Cohen, University of Florida People in the oldest stage of life who regularly engage in aerobic activities and strength training exercises perform better on cognitive tests than those who are either sedentary or…
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Bill Sullivan, Indiana University Flesh-eating bacteria sounds like the premise of a…
Kayla B. Rowe, University of Pittsburgh; Lucas Berenbrok, University of Pittsburgh, and…
Prasad Shirvalkar, University of California, San Francisco The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Using a brain implant that can record neural signals over many…
Tim Viney, University of Oxford and Barbara Sarkany, University of Oxford Over 55 million people worldwide have dementia. This mind-robbing condition has a huge impact on society and the economy, so scientists…
David Verhoeven, Iowa State University While effective vaccines for COVID-19 should have heralded the benefits of mRNA vaccines, fear and misinformation about their supposed dangers circulated at the same time. These misconceptions…
Marian Moser Jones, The Ohio State University and Amy Lauren Fairchild, The Ohio State University The COVID-19 pandemic’s public health emergency status in the U.S. expires on May 11, 2023. And on…
Simon Nicholas Williams, Swansea University World Health Organisation (WHO) experts have officially declared that COVID no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (Pheic). This coincides with the WHO’s new…
Prakash Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina and Mitzi Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina These days you see signs for delta-8 THC, delta-10 THC and CBD, or cannabidiol, everywhere – at gas stations,…
A spotlight of two small businesses in the Oakland/Berkeley area that are guaranteed to leave any customer satisfied and wanting to come back for more of their delicious plant-based and dairy-alternative dining…
Joshua Warrick, Penn State; David DeGraff, Penn State, and Monika Joshi, Penn State Cancer is an evolutionary disease. The same forces that turned dinosaurs into birds turn normal cells into cancer: genetic…
Prakash Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina and Mitzi Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina These days you see signs for delta-8 THC, delta-10 THC and CBD, or cannabidiol, everywhere – at gas stations,…
Christine Coughlin, Wake Forest University Political pressure is nothing new for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The agency has frequently come under fire for its drug approval decisions, but attacks on…
