The National Cancer Institute’s Genomic Data Commons (GDC), launched in 2016 by then-Vice President Joseph Biden and hosted at the University of Chicago, has become one of the largest and most widely used resources in cancer genomics, with more than 3.3 petabytes of data from more than 65 projects and over 84,000 anonymized patient cases,…
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URBANA, Ill. – Economists and urban planners generally agree that local pollution sources disproportionally impact racial minorities in the U.S. The reasons for this are largely unclear, but a University of Illinois study provides new insights into the issue. “Our work finds experimental evidence that racial discrimination in the home-renting process actively sorts minority renters…
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Challenging the idea that older people with shorter life expectancies should rank lower in coronavirus immunization efforts, new UC Berkeley research shows that giving vaccine priority to those most at risk of dying from COVID-19 will save the maximum number of lives, and their potential or future years of life. The findings, published Feb. 25…
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When patients with COVID-19 arrive in emergency rooms, there are relatively few ways for doctors to predict which ones are more likely to become critically ill and require intensive care and which ones are more likely to enjoy a quick recovery. New Yale research could help them identify important early clues. In a recent…
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BOSTON – Two novel calculators for predicting which patients admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 are at greatest risk of requiring mechanical ventilation or of in-hospital death have been developed and validated by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). In a study published in The Lancet’s EClinicalMedicine, researchers describe how these models could enable clinicians to better…
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Bentham Science is pleased to announce the launch of new subscription-based journal, The International Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Diseases. The first issue of the journal will be available online by the start of the year, 2021. Dr. N. Mendez-Sanchez, from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, is serving as the Editor-in-Chief…
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Bentham Science is pleased to announce the launch of a new subscription-based journal, Current Cosmetic Science. The first issue of the journal will be available online by the start of the year, 2021. The journal is edited by Dr. Syed A.A. Rizvi. Dr. Syed Rizvi is currently associated with Hampton University, Hampton, VA, USA. Current…
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Entitled “Education: COVID-19 and social inequalities”, a March 03 webinar promoted by FAPESP, the São Paulo Research Foundation, will be gathering experts on education to explore how the pandemic has impacted education in different national contexts. They will discuss the challenges associated with the implementation of responses by the educational systems in face of structural…
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New research from Baylor College of Medicine scientists shows that a combination of deep brain stimulation (DBS) and exercise has potential benefits for treating ataxia, a rare genetic neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive irreversible problems with movement. Working with a mouse model of the human condition, researchers at Baylor and the Jan and Dan…
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BOSTON — Billions of peripheral white blood cells are produced every day by the regular divisions of hematopoietic stem cells and their descendants in the bone marrow. Under normal circumstances, thousands of stem cells contribute progeny to the blood at any given time, making white blood cells a group with diverse ancestry. Clonal hematopoiesis is…
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