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rewrite this title Environmental Factor – November 2020: Hormone receptor implicated in ovarian cancer

Summarize this content to 1000 words Li is an Intramural Research Training Award fellow in DeMayo’s group. (Photo courtesy of Steve McCaw)Although the U.S. death rate due to ovarian cancer has steadily declined since 1992, the disease still poses a considerable health risk to women, according to the National Cancer Institute. With that knowledge informing […]

Science/Nature

rewrite this title Environmental Factor – October 2020: SARS-CoV-2 blocked by newly discovered nanobodies — from a llama

Summarize this content to 1000 words A team of scientists isolated 13 immune system compounds, called nanobodies, which show promise for treating COVID-19. The nanobodies, isolated from a llama’s immune cells, blocked the SARS-CoV-2 virus from entering human cells. Negin Martin, Ph.D., director of the NIEHS Viral Vector Core, contributed to the research. The study […]