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Drug discovery may mean finding new uses for old drugs and using them in a different therapeutic area based on a previously known 'off-target' effect

Many medications affect more than one target in the body – some drug designers are embracing the ‘side effects’ that had been seen as a drawback

Posted on July 25, 2022July 25, 2022 by Contributor

Drugs don’t always behave exactly as expected. While researchers may develop a drug to perform one specific function that’s perhaps tailored to work for a ...

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Shot of two adorable young school children learning about molecules in science class at school.

Improving science literacy means changing science education

Posted on July 19, 2022July 25, 2022 by Contributor

To graduate with a science major, college students must complete between 40 and 60 credit hours of science coursework. That means spending around 2,500 hours ...

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COVID-19 road to immunity and vaccine development

What happens when the COVID-19 vaccines enter the body – a road map for kids and grown-ups

Posted on September 7, 2021July 25, 2022 by Contributor

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has changed the way people live around the world. As of late August 2021, more than 630,000 ...

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Getting a Covid-19 vaccine — quickly and safely

Posted on August 2, 2020August 2, 2020 by Contributor

Explained Researchers around the globe are working with unprecedented speed to find the vaccines we need to find our way through the pandemic. What’s the ...

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These Are the Meta-Trends Shaping the Future (at Breakneck Speed)

Posted on September 5, 2019August 31, 2019 by Contributor

Life is pretty different now than it was 20 years ago, or even 10 years ago. It’s sort of exciting, and sort of scary. And ...

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OIT or Oral immunotherapy could be useful to treat food allergies like peanut allergy.

Why Parents Are Turning to a Controversial Treatment for Food Allergies

Posted on August 31, 2019August 31, 2019 by Contributor

An idea based on a century-old concept could soon receive FDA approval to treat food allergies. But will it cause more anxiety than relief?

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Do our bodies coddle cancer cells? The image shows Killer T cells surrounding a cancer cell.

How our bodies coddle cancer

Posted on July 21, 2019July 21, 2019 by Contributor

Tumors resist chemotherapy with help from a surprising source: nearby normal cells. Researchers are developing workarounds. By Bob Holmes 7.18.2019 For cancer patients and their ...

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University of California breaks with Elsevier, the biggest academic publisher

University of California’s break with the biggest academic publisher could shake up scholarly publishing for good

Posted on March 8, 2019August 14, 2019 by Contributor

Libraries subscribe digitally to academic journals – and are left with nothing in the stacks when the contract expires. Eric Chan/Flickr, CC BY MacKenzie Smith, ...

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Can you life-hack your way to love?

Posted on January 30, 2019March 11, 2019 by Contributor

Joseph Reagle, Northeastern University There’s never been a shortage of dating advice from family, friends and self-help authors. Yet in the digital age, people are ...

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Sounding out the brain

Posted on January 24, 2019March 21, 2019 by Contributor

Ultrasound isn’t just for images. Sonogenetics and other promising technologies let researchers use focused sound waves to control genes and entire cells deep in the ...

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