With this method, they have successfully revived and transplanted 600 lungs in the past decade, said Dr. Marcelo Cypel, a lung transplant surgeon at the University of Toronto. But there are limitations: the lungs can be maintained in this way only for hours, not days. And few lungs can be …
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The document, published on the medrxiv.org medical server on Saturday and not yet published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, suggests that antibody responses may begin to decline 20 to 30 days after symptoms of Covid-19 arise. . Antibodies are proteins that the body produces to fight infection. “We showed that …
Read More »New warnings about rapid melting on the Antarctic ‘end of the world glacier’
British Antarctic Study Scientists Drill Thwaites Glacier (BAS) Scientists have issued new warnings about a glacier in Antarctica that is described as “the glacier at the end of the world” because its collapse could lead to a rapid rise in sea level. Even now, the ice that drains from the …
Read More »What you need to know about the coronavirus on Monday, July 13
Most of those new infections occurred in the United States, where a staggering 1 in 100 people has now tested positive and individual states are in worse shape than some countries. If Florida were a nation, it would rank fourth worldwide for most new cases in one day. As the …
Read More »Using mathematical formulas to predict earthquakes
Credit: Unsplash / CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers at the Lyell Center in Edinburgh have developed a way to use mathematical formulas to help predict when an earthquake is likely to occur. In his article published in Geophysical Research Review: Solid Earth, the group describes the translation of …
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