Mindfully Curated
Opioid overdose is a leading cause of injury-related death for adults ages 25 to 54 in the U.S. Recent data suggest that commonly used opioids for pain management may interfere with medications used to manage and treat cardiovascular disease and stroke.
A new study found that while a ‘beauty premium’ exists across professions, it’s partially because attractive people develop distinct traits as a result of how the world responds to their attractiveness. They build a greater sense of power and have more…
A new study confirms that for millennia, Indigenous people managed their relationship with shellfish and sea otters to safeguard their access to shellfish which remain important for food, social, and ceremonial uses today.
Immigrants to Canada have a 33% lower rate of stroke than long-term residents, according to a new study.
The final results of the Clinical Trial of COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma in Outpatients (C3PO) demonstrate that COVID-19 convalescent plasma did not prevent disease progression in a high-risk group of outpatients with COVID-19, when administered within …
A major crisis that accompanied the rise of the pandemic was lack of availability of the nasopharyngeal swab — necessary for testing for COVID-19, which in turn, was necessary to get a grip on the pandemic. An account of how one group addressed that c…
Scientists are developing new fish vaccines using nanocellulose produced from Maine’s wood pulp industry. Nanocellulose poses no known harmful effects to fish tissue and is unlikely to cause cellular damage. Fish vaccines made with nanocellulose may al…
The genome of the seadragon, a very unusual fish, has been decoded. Seadragons (Phyllopetryx taeniolatus) live off the coast in western and southern Australia. Evolutionary biologists have now found the genetic basis for some external characteristics o…
A research team offers a practical way to make ships CO2 neutral — or even CO2 negative — with CO2-capturing solid oxide fuel cells. After ‘burning’ traditional carbon-based fuels, the fuel cell generates concentrated CO2 that can be stored on-board …
A team led by researchers has generated premature cells that support early heart development but vanish soon after birth.