ChatGPT, a popular online artificial intelligence (AI) tool, provides largely appropriate responses to simple cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention questions, according to a research letter published...

Dendritic cells (DCs) are important players of the immune system with important functions such as the identification of infectious pathogens, production of cytokines (chemical signalers of the immune...

Social factors affect an individual’s future health, but there’s currently no practical way to summarize their prognostic impact. Investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and...

Research led by scientists at St George’s, University of London, has discovered 119 areas in the genome that help to determine the size and shape of blood vessels at the back of the eye, and that...

In a recent study published in Cell Host & Microbe, researchers comparatively assessed the gastrointestinal virome of mothers and infants. Study: Longitudinal comparison of the developing gut virome...

Time is running out for free-to-consumer covid vaccines, at-home test kits, and even some treatments. The White House announced this month that the national public health emergency, first declared in early...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers perform ontological and taxonomical analysis of human coronavirus (HCoV) hosts. Study: Taxonomical and ontological analysis...

Levels of toxic mercury in canned tuna are so ‘unpredictable’ pregnant women should avoid it completely, report warns Consumer Reports found that all canned tuna it tested contained mercury Three...

Nearly 88 percent of those who died from cannabis and synthetic cannabis use were men. Approximately 65 percent were non-Hispanic whites. One hundred percent of cannabis-related deaths occurred in urban...

Although hepatitis E is a common disease, little is known about the life cycle of the virus. Initial findings on how it manages to infect cells are reported by a team from Molecular and Medical Virology...