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Throwback Thursday

Category: Medicine

Want to Lose Weight? Eat a Big Breakfast! The time you eat plays an important role in how fast our body metabolizes food. By shifting to eating more portions during breakfast, people can metabolize high-calorie meals at a faster rate–and lose more weight in the process.

April 3, 2020 by Jocelyn Solis-Moreira Read More

Novel Coronavirus Still Detected in Recovered Patients With No Symptoms In this study, 50% of patients tested positive for coronavirus after recovery in the hospital and two weeks of isolation. They were found to still have the coronavirus in their system for up to eight days after symptoms disappeared.

April 1, 2020 by Jocelyn Solis-Moreira Read More

COVID-19: What it is, how it works, and what we can do to prevent its spread Researchers summarize the current state of known medical and biological information about COVID-19 and discuss ways to control the spread of the disease.

March 27, 2020 by Tony Jia Read More

How would we know if COVID-19 came from a lab? A group of researchers gathered evidence from previous studies and, using what is known about the virus structure, made the case that the 2019 novel coronavirus was unlikely to have been intentionally engineered.

March 25, 2020 by Gina Misra Read More

Protection by disinfection: best ways to sanitize surfaces from the coronavirus family Researchers conclude that 0.1% bleach and 62-71% ethanol are most effective for disinfecting surfaces from viruses within the coronavirus family.

March 24, 2020 by Mary Sabuda Read More

A glow-in-the-dark protein called luciferase improves medical diagnostics The study and commercialization of a firefly’s famous ability to illuminate, called bioluminescence, is helping us explore biology and medicine in new and fascinating ways

March 17, 2020 by Justin Dingman Read More

How long will it take to contain COVID-19? Some researchers used computer simulations to determine how good our public health efforts have to be in order to control the coronavirus pandemic within 3 months.

by Gina Misra Read More

Treating Autism Spectrum Disorders with… Feces? People with autism spectrum disorders were treated with microbiota transfer therapy, and a follow-up study after 2 years showed improvement in autism-related symptoms.

February 9, 2020 by Justina Žvirblytė Read More

Antibiotic resistance is natural and it is everywhere Researchers have found bacteria with antibiotic resistance genes in Antarctic environments untouched by humans.

December 4, 2019 by Angelica Cave Read More

Parkinson’s Disease and Antioxidant Treatment A recent study highlights a promising potential therapy for the neurodegenerative disease

October 23, 2019 by Nathan Gock Read More

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