A mathematical model of the body’s interacting physiological and biochemical processes shows that it may be more effective to replace red blood cell transfusion with transfusion of other fluids that are far less in demand.
In a head-to-head comparison of the three widely used coronavirus vaccines in the United States, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine yielded a strikingly lower antibody response in a Stanford School of Medicine-led study.
Scientists from Stanford and Mexico developed advanced versions of the algorithms used to reveal people’s ancestries to show how Polynesian mariners crossed a vast ocean.
Men and women experience brain injuries differently
While analyzing brain trauma data from the Department of Veterans Affairs, neurosurgery Professor Odette Harris realized there was a big gender difference in the aftermath of traumatic brain injuries, and no one was talking about it.
Incorporating sensing and way-finding approaches from robotics and self-driving vehicles, the cane could reshape life for people with blindness or sight impairment.
Breast cancer mutations don’t lower survival rates
Newly diagnosed breast or ovarian cancer patients who carry common cancer-associated mutations have similar or better short-term survival rates than those with no mutations, researchers report.
Extinction changes the rules of body size evolution
A sweeping analysis of marine fossils from most of the past half-billion years shows the usual rules of body size evolution change during mass extinctions and their recoveries. The discovery is an early step toward predicting how evolution will play out on the other side of the current extinction crisis.
