Month: February 2021

Home testing for secondary pupils will be twice weekly, with parents expected to carry out the testing at home after three tests in school. They will be encouraged but not mandatory, with pupils from year one upwards able to take a test, the Department of Health and Social Care said.

The latest government figures show 20,089,551 people in the UK have now had a first dose, while 796,132 have had a second.

IMAGE: Ceratina_calcarata carpenter bee view more  Credit: Associate Professor Sandra Rehan, York University TORONTO, Feb. 26, 2021 – The maternal care of offspring is one of the behavioural drivers that has led some bee species to have an ever-expanding social life over the history of evolution, new research out of York University has found. By virtue Read More

IMAGE: Marilyn Rantz is a Curators’ professor emerita at the University of Missouri’s Sinclair School of Nursing. view more  Credit: MU Sinclair School of Nursing COLUMBIA, Mo. — Marilyn Rantz still remembers the day she got the call that her mother, whose health had been declining, had fallen and fractured her shoulder. After rushing to the Read More

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants with moderate to large patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) may benefit from transcatheter PDA closure (TCPC) in the first four weeks of life, according to research published by Le Bonheur Cardiologist Ranjit Philip, MD, and Medical Director of Interventional Cardiac Imaging and Interventional Catheterization Laboratory Shyam Sathanandam, Read More

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, Read More

IMAGE: The red supergiant appears as a red starburst between two orange clouds. view more  Credit: © 2021 Andrew Klinger Red supergiants are a class of star that end their lives in supernova explosions. Their lifecycles are not fully understood, partly due to difficulties in measuring their temperatures. For the first time, astronomers develop an accurate Read More