Around 70% of long COVID patients in a new study experienced difficulty concentrating and memory problems several months after infection with the virus SARS-CoV-2. Long COVID sufferers performed worse on cognitive tests.…
A study of more than eight million people published by The BMJ today finds no increased risk of rare neurological events after covid-19 vaccination. An increased risk of Bell’s palsy (facial weakness), encephalomyelitis (inflammation…
Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a disease in which inflammation causes scars in the bile duct, leading to liver failure, infections, and tumors. Up to 80% of PSC patients have inflammatory bowel…
Having trouble hearing? Just turn up your shirt. That’s the idea behind a new “acoustic fabric” developed by engineers at MIT and collaborators at Rhode Island School of Design. The team has…
If you’re reaching for the last piece of pizza at a party and see another hand going for it at the same time, your next move probably depends both on how you…
As brain scans have become more detailed and informative in recent decades, neuroimaging has seemed to promise a way for doctors and scientists to “see” what’s going wrong inside the brains of…
The first FDA-approved gene therapies are living drugs: immune cells taken from cancer patients engineered to target tumor cells. However, for many patients, these advanced therapies do not result in a long-lasting…
Faced by one too many obstacles on the way to achieving their personal goals – be it an important, valuable or fun one – people may experience an action crisis where they…
Despite wide variety amongst hunger-gatherer cultures, a new analysis finds that a ‘small world’ network configuration is common to the social structures of all such groups. These network structures are constrained by…
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Nagoya Protocol (NP) are multilateral agreements aimed at conserving biodiversity, promoting sustainable use of biological components, and facilitating the equitable sharing of the benefits…