WASHINGTON, May 15 -- The American Civil Liberties Union, a 501(c)3 non-profit that works to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the U.S., issued the following news release on May 14: Even during a pandemic, governments have a legal obligation to provide all students equal access to an adequate education, the American Civil Liberties Union and over 25 ACLU state chapters warned in letters to state and local leaders nationwide. To h  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 13 -- Massachusetts General Hospital issued the following news release: Reprogramming a patient's own skin cells to replace cells in the brain that are progressively lost during Parkinson's disease (PD) has been shown to be technically feasible, reports a team of investigators from McLean Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital in the most recent issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. PD is the second most common degenerative disease of the brain, and mill  more

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, May 11 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service issued the following news: NOAA scientists and colleagues have created an image of the change in nighttime illumination over metropolitan New York City and surrounding regions since the COVID-19 slowdown. Tapping into data from the NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite's Day/Night Band (DNB), NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) colleagues at the  more