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Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to Jordanian scientist

Jordanian-American scientist Omar Yaghi has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, alongside Japan's Susumu Kitagawa and Australia's Richard Robson, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences reported.

Japan approves drug to treat Alzheimer's disease

Japan's health ministry has officially approved the domestic production and sale of a new drug for Alzheimer's disease. Donanemab was developed by U.S. pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly. The ministry gave the greenlight on October …

Japan approves drug to treat Alzheimer's disease

Green light may reduce chronic pain - study

A new study has unraveled the neural circuits that explain how green light can relieve some cases of chronic pain. The neurons ultimately activate the brain’s own opioid system. The effect of light on pain reduction has …

Green light may reduce chronic pain - study

Low mortality from "omicron" strain explained

According to the New York Times, researchers in Japan and the United States conducted a series of experiments on hamsters and rats with strains of coronavirus and found the reason why the newest omicron strain has an extremely low …

Low mortality from "omicron" strain explained

Coronavirus can persist in body for months - study

The coronavirus that causes Covid-19 can spread within days from the airways to the heart, brain and almost every organ system in the body, where it may persist for months, a study found. In what they describe as the most comprehensive …

Coronavirus can persist in body for months - study

Some sleep disorders may lead to worse COVID-19 outcom

Adult COVID-19 patients with sleep-disordered breathing and related low oxygen levels had a higher risk of hospitalization and death, finds a study in JAMA Network Open. A team led by Cleveland Clinic researchers conducted a …

Some sleep disorders may lead to worse COVID-19 outcom

European regulator says more data needed on Sputnik vaccine

The European Union's drugs regulator said it was awaiting more data on Russia's Sputnik V and a rival COVID-19 vaccine by China's Sinovac Biotech before it can progress on its rolling reviews of the two shots. "For …

European regulator says more data needed on Sputnik vaccine

Social distance not effective as measure against Covid-19

Cyprus scientists from the Nicosia University Medical School conducted a large-scale study to identify the main factors influencing the spread of the new coronavirus, the Cyprus Mail informs. With the help of a computer model that takes …

Social distance not effective as measure against Covid-19

Coronavirus damages lung cells within few hours

A team of Boston University researchers—hailing from BU's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), the Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) at BU's Medical Campus, and BU's Center for Network Systems …

Coronavirus damages lung cells within few hours
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