New vaccines to protect infants against infections
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Wednesday, 8 January 2020
Plant-derived SVC112 hits cancer stem cells, leaves healthy cells alone
Study shows drug SVC112 stops production of proteins that cancer stem cells need to survive and grow. from Diseases and Conditions News --...
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Scientists discover how TB puts the brakes on our immune engines
The scientists pinpointed a small mRNA molecule used by TB bacteria to shut down key engines that drive our immune response. However, they a...
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Thursday, 2 January 2020
Ultimate Telemedicine: Expert helps treat astronaut's blood clot during NASA mission
An astronaut aboard the ISS had a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) -- or blood clot -- in the jugular vein of the neck and had it treated while on...
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Half the amount of chemo prevents testicular cancer from coming back, new trial shows
Testicular cancer can be prevented from coming back using half the amount of chemotherapy that is currently used, a new clinical trial has s...
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Monday, 23 December 2019
For CRISPR, tweaking DNA fragments before inserting yields highest efficiency rates yet
Researchers have now achieved the highest reported rates of inserting genes into human cells with the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system, a nec...
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Wednesday, 18 December 2019
How immune cells switch to attack mode
Macrophages have 2 faces: In healthy tissue, they perform important tasks and support their environment. However during an infection, they s...
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Turning light energy into heat to fight disease
An emerging technology involving particles that absorb light and turn it into localized heat sources shows great promise in several fields, ...
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Monday, 16 December 2019
More than 1 in 3 low- and middle-income countries face both extremes of malnutrition
Being undernourished or overweight are no longer separate public health issues. A new article details how more than one in three low- and mi...
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Sunday, 15 December 2019
How a protein in your brain could protect against Alzheimer's disease
Research shows that white blood cells in the human brain are regulated by a protein called CD33--a finding with important implications in th...
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Tuesday, 10 December 2019
Regional trends in overdose deaths reveal multiple opioid epidemics
The United States in the grip of several simultaneously occurring opioid epidemics, rather than just a single crisis. The epidemics came to ...
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Alzheimer's drug candidates reverse broader aging, study shows
In mouse models of Alzheimer's disease, the investigational drug candidates known as CMS121 and J147 improve memory and slow the degener...
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Monday, 9 December 2019
Have your health and eat meat too
Barbecued, stir-fried or roasted, there's no doubt that Aussies love their meat. Consuming on average nearly 100 kilograms of meat per p...
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Thursday, 5 December 2019
Open source EEG visualization tool
Researchers have developed a free open source computer program that can be used to create visual and quantitative representations of brain e...
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Behavioral interventions may be as effective at reducing food intake as anorectic drugs
Simulations predict that behavioral interventions such as imposing strict no-food restrictions after meals can be as effective as strong ano...
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Nervous system doesn't merely detect Salmonella, it defends the body against it
Study in mice shows the nervous system not only detects the presence of Salmonella in the gut but actively stops the organism from infecting...
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Sunday, 1 December 2019
Home urine test for prostate cancer could revolutionize diagnosis
A new home urine test for prostate cancer could revolutionize diagnosis -- according to new research. As well as diagnosing aggressive prost...
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Air pollution linked to several new causes of hospital admissions
Short term exposure to fine particulate matter in the air (known as PM2.5) is associated with several newly identified causes of hospital ad...
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Prostate cancer 'super responders' live for 2 years on immunotherapy
Some men with advanced prostate cancer who have exhausted all other treatment options could live for two years or more on immunotherapy, a m...
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Thursday, 21 November 2019
How an AI solution can design new tuberculosis drug regimens
With a shortage of new tuberculosis drugs in the pipeline, a software tool can predict how current drugs--including unlikely candidates -- c...
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