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CREDIT: UNSPLASH/CC0 PUBLIC DOMAIN Uganda Declared the End of An Ebola Virus Outbreak Saturday, Which has kiled at Least Two People in the East African Nation Since Late January. The Annencement Came 42 Days After the Discharge of the Last Confermed Patient from Hospital. The Outbreak Marked the Sixth Time Uganda was affected by the […]
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Dogs are sociable, enthusiastic and widely used to comfort people in settings like hospitals, schools and care homes. But an increasingly popular alternative is emerging: therapy cats. The term is often used loosely in the media and inconsistently within the scientific community. But in its strictest sense, animal-assisted therapy is a structured activity delivered by […]
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Photo Credit: istock.com/studiom1 Research Shows Results from A PRESORGICAL 6-Minute Walk Test May Predict Cardiopulmonary Risk After Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery for Lung Cancer. Pair of Ergometric Performance Results from a Presurgical 6-Minute Walk Test May Predict Cardiopulmonary Complications After Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (Vats) for Lung Cancer, According to Study Published In Cancer. “At […]
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Scientists have discovered a planet that is literally falling apart as it orbits its star. Located about 140 light-years from Earth in the Pegasus constellation , this doomed world named BD+05 4868 Ab whips around its star once every 30.5 hours — so close that its surface is being scorched into magma and vaporizing into […]
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Amy Fletcher, Pilot Plant Manager, and Reid Waterman, Third-Youar Food Science Major, Start the Ice Cream Maker in the Pilot Food Processing Facility on the UC Davis Campus. Store-Babet Ice Cream Usually Falls Into the “Ultra-Processed” Food Category. Credit: Alysha Beck/UC Davis Take a Stroll Down the Middle Aisles of Any American Grocery Store, and […]
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Jared Isaacman, President Trump’s choice to lead NASA, keeps having to explain his ties to Elon Musk. The topic came up repeatedly during Isaacman’s nomination hearing, which the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held on April 9. Multiple Democratic senators pressed the 42-year-old billionaire on his relationship with the SpaceX chief, who was […]
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Photo Credit: Dreamstime The Following is a summary of “Outcomes of Penetrating Keratoplast Vs Lamellar Endothelial Keratoplasty in Iridocorneal Endothelial Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-Aalysis,” Published in the April 2025 Issue of American Journal of Ophthalmology by Teth et al. Researchers Conducted the Retrospective Study to Compare Surgical Outcomes Following Penetrating Keratoplast (PK), Descemet […]
Continue ReadingSkin-Relaced Fibroblasts with Nuclei Stained Green and F-Actin Stained Red. Credit: Jude Phillip, Johns Hopkins University Senescent Skin Cells, Often Referred to As Zombie Cells Because They have Outlived Their Usefulness Without Ever Quite Dying, Have Exised In The Human Body as a Seeming Paradox, Causing Inflammation and Promoting Sysmmmm to Heal Wounds. New Findings […]
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Photo Credit: VMPHOTO The Following is a summary of “Revolution ex vivo skin imaging: 3D Charachterization of Skin Tumors with Ex vivo LC-CT. A Pilot Study,” Published in the April 2025 Issue of Dermatology by Rosés-Gibert et al. Various Imaging Techniques, Including Reflectance Confocal Microscopy (RCM), Optical Cohernce Tomography (OCT), and Line-Field Confocal Oct (LC-CT), […]
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Have you ever wondered why you don’t have thick hair covering your whole body like a dog, cat or gorilla does? Humans aren’t the only mammals with sparse hair. Elephants, rhinos and naked mole rats also have very little hair. It’s true for some marine mammals, such as whales and dolphins, too. Scientists think the […]
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