COVID-19 accelerates vascular aging in women
The world’s largest study of COVID-19 survivors shows the virus accelerates vascular aging, especially in women, while vaccination…
‘Zombie squirrels’ covered in oozing warts spotted sulking through US backyards
Squirrels covered in pus-filled, wart-like tumors have been spotted skulking through backyards across the United States, according to…
Giant Dormant Virus Found in Algae Could Revolutionize Genetics
In 2025, scientists at Virginia Tech made an extraordinary discovery while studying a simple green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.…
In Oregon and Beyond, Many Kids in Mental Health Crises Come to the ER—And Languish
A few years ago, the Portland-based health policy researcher John McConnell recalls, he started hearing about a problem.…
Gene editing restores hearing and balance in adult mice with DFNA41 deafness
Zheng-Yi Chen, DPhil, associate scientist at the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories, and Ines and Fredrick Yeatts Chair in Otolaryngology, at…
Scientists solve decade-long mystery of Pacific sea star epidemic | Spare News
The mystery behind a catastrophic disease that caused the massive die off of billions of sea stars along…
Gfi1 regulates exhausted CD8+ T cells to improve cancer immunotherapy
Killer immune cells destroy cancer cells and cells infected by virus. These CD8+ T cells are activated after…
Healthy Life: Ancient viruses in our DNA may hold clues to what makes us human | Healthy Life
Fragments of ancient viral DNA once dismissed as “junk” may play a role in controlling our genes, according…