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Ezplaz: Freeze-Dried Plasma Gets FDA Approval
Vascular Solutions, LLC, has been given U.S. Food and Drug Authority authorization for its Ezplaz Freeze Dried Plasma for transfusion in adults. Beginning in 2017, Public Law 115-92 made it possible d...
Earth Sciences
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How Do Scientists Know Climate Change Made A Heat Wave Worse?
When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did human-caused climate change influence this event, if at all?For many years, scientists could...
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For Better Brain Health, Have Three Children
An analysis of 303,196 subjects enrolled the UK Biobank, a longitudinal study since 2006, found men and women with children were both faster and more accurate in a "Pairs Matching" visual memory task ...
Medicine
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PROTEXI Cancer Vaccine Platform Based On SARS-CoV-2 Immune Memory
A new cancer vaccine platform works by enhancing the ability of the immune system to recognize cancer by leveraging anti-viral memories it already has - due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the worst o...
Physical Sciences
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44 Nysa - An Asteroid Now With Its Own Moon
Asteroid (44) Nysa, discovered in 1857 by astronomer Hermann Goldschmidt, has gotten a lot of study in the last 170 years but a recent analysis of data reveals it has its own moon.The new data came vi...
Social Sciences
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Warning: Cannibalism Will Turn You Into A Zombie Russian Nesting Doll
Humans are calorically dense enough that it is no surprise that some ancient cultures engaged in cannibalism - or even more modern people in the right circumstances.(1) Yet it is also taboo. In Christ...
