Tag: numbers

Good news: More than 250,000 people of Coronavirus recover

The Coronavirus is spreading in Germany: 1318 people have already died, 91.314 with Covid-19 infected. Worldwide already more than a Million cases were registered. In the meantime, the USA registered with more than 266.000 cases, most of the Corona cases worldwide. All the information about the Corona-crisis you will find in the News Ticker of

As Alzheimer’s numbers grow among Latinos, need for research grows too, say experts

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has awarded scientists at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and San Diego State University (SDSU) with a five-year, $4 million grant to boost the number of Latino and other underrepresented minority researchers studying Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related dementias afflicting seniors of Latino origins, a demographic

Pathology and social interactions—safety in numbers

What if social behavior affected the progression of even noncontagious diseases? This has now been demonstrated by French CNRS teams and international collaborators. Using a fly model of intestinal cancer, the researchers have shown that disease progression is impacted both by social isolation—which has a negative effect—and the composition of the social group with which