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14 May 2021

No one knew if lymph vessel cells bear cilia. Turns out, they’re indispensable for health

Lymphatic primary cilia involved in growth of lymph vessels and inflammation, suggesting possible medical applications: Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

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29 Apr 2021

National Cancer Control Month: Research Topics on Prevention and Treatment

National Cancer Control Month provides a great opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate the success surrounding treatment, development of new therapies and technology to improve patient survival. To help raise awareness, we have curated a selection of open access Research Topics and articles published within our journal, Frontiers in Oncology.

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23 Apr 2021

‘Fingerprint’ in blood markers may reveal heart attack in chest pain patients

By Conn Hastings, science writer Image: New Africa / Shutterstock When a patient with chest pain arrives at hospital, time is of the essence. Doctors must quickly rule heart attack in or out and start treatment as soon as possible. A new study reveals blood biomarkers that could help. By analyzing blood samples from patients with chest pain, researchers found a unique fingerprint of heart attack in the form of blood biomarkers. The results could help doctors to quickly diagnose and treat heart attack patients. A patient arrives at hospital with chest pain. Doctors suspect heart attack and rapid diagnosis is important, but the tests to confirm it can be invasive and it could easily be something else. Could a simple blood test help to non-invasively rule heart attack in or out? A new study in open access journal Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine certainly suggests so. The study identified telltale markers in the blood of heart attack patients that distinguished them from patients suffering chest pain with other causes. The researchers hope that the results will lead to new diagnostic tests for heart attacks. Read original article Download original article (pdf) If you have ever suffered chest pain, the […]

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21 Apr 2021

New study on virus survival time on surfaces

Survival of coronavirus particles on surfaces depends on material: Frontiers in Materials

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20 Apr 2021

Gut’s immune response in Covid-19 may not provide efficient protection of other organs

Gut-imprinted T cells don’t contribute to immunity against SARS-CoV-2: Frontiers in Immunology

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07 Apr 2021

New Lyme disease test distinguishes between early and late-stage disease

Novel sensitive test for Lyme disease: Frontiers in Microbiology

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24 Mar 2021

Deforestation, forest conversion and palm oil plantations linked to disease outbreaks

Deforestation, forest conversion and palm oil plantations linked to disease outbreaks, finds new study in Frontiers in Veterinary Science

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25 Feb 2021

Allergy season starts earlier each year due to climate change and pollen transport

Long-distance pollen affects length of allergy seasons in Germany: Frontiers in Allergy

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17 Feb 2021

CT scans of Egyptian mummy reveal new details about the death of a pivotal pharaoh

How did Egyptian pharaoh Seqenenre-Taa-II die? Frontiers in Medicine

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16 Feb 2021

COVID-19 crisis – a technology providing unconventional supply relief

By Kate E. Mullins / EPFL Credit: Felix Schürmann and coauthors When the full-scale effect of the COVID-19 pandemic was starting to be understood in early 2020, the EPFL Blue Brain Project and ETH Zurich, as part of the Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force, began collaborating with Spiez Laboratory on an online Platform – Academic Resources for COVID-19 (ARC). In a paper published in Frontiers for Public Health, the authors explain how the ARC Platform was set up to be a service to support Swiss diagnostic laboratories that are testing for SARS-CoV-2. The ARC Platform matched requests for critical equipment, reagents and consumable goods required by Swiss diagnostic laboratories involved in combating COVID-19 with supplies available from Swiss academic groups. Since then, with further input from Swiss startup Apptitude SA, the Platform has evolved with the needs of the epidemiological situation and the technology has been open sourced with the purpose to serve public health as a response solution for other countries and communities in the current COVID-19 crisis or in future crises. In the beginning of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland, diagnostic testing had to be ramped up in a very short time, but even basic molecular […]