By Society for General Microbiology
Viruses that can target and destroy bacteria have the potential to be an effective strategy for tackling hard-to-treat bacterial infections. The development of such novel therapies is being accelerated in response to growing antibiotic resistance, s
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By Society for General Microbiology
Oral bacteria that escape into the bloodstream are able to cause blood clots and trigger life-threatening endocarditis. Further research could lead to new drugs to tackle infective heart disease, say scientists who recently presented their work at t
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By Society for General Microbiology
The ripeness of fruit could determine how food-poisoning bacteria grow on them, according to scientists who recently presented their work at the Society for General Microbiology's Spring Conference in Dublin. Their work could lead to new strategies
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By American College of Cardiology
If you have slightly higher than normal blood pressure -- known as prehypertension -- consider eating a handful of raisins. New data suggest that, among individuals with mild increases in blood pressure, the routine consumption of raisins (three tim
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By Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Cedars-Sinai researchers have determined that two prevalent drug therapies -- rifaximin and lubiprostone -- offer some of the best options for treating irritable bowel syndrome, a widespread disorder that affects up to one in five Americans. The fin
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By Brigham & Women's Hospital
Researchers report no significant difference in high versus low dose aspirin in preventing recurring cardiovascular events.
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By Brigham & Women's Hospital
New research has found that ongoing treatment with ticagrelor is generally safe and effective in patients with acute coronary syndrome.
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By International Osteoporosis Foundation
Results may help to understand ways in which early growth can be optimised to reduce the risk of osteoporotic fracture in older age.
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By Springer Science+Business Media
A new study, using brain imaging technology, reveals structural adaptations in short-track speed skaters' brains which are likely to explain their extraordinary balance and co-ordination skills.
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By University of Leicester
An international team of scientists has announced a new advance in the ability to target and destroy certain cancer cells. A group led by the University of Leicester has shown that particular cancer cells are especially sensitive to a protein called
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By Mayo Clinic
A research network led by a Mayo Clinic physician found that stem cells derived from heart failure patients' own bone marrow and injected into their hearts improved the function of the left ventricle, the heart's pumping chamber. Researchers also fo
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By Cornell University
Escherichia coli -- a bacteria considered the food safety bane of restaurateurs, grocers and consumers -- is a friend. Cornell University biomolecular engineers have learned to use E. coli to produce sugar-modified proteins for making pharmaceutical
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By American Chemical Society
Scientists are enlisting the living, self-propelled microbes found in pond scum -- the pea-green surface slicks that form on ponds -- in the development of a long-awaited new test to detect the cells that spread cancer through the bloodstream from t
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By American Chemical Society
Medicine's recipe for keeping older people active and functioning in their homes and workplaces -- and healing younger people injured in catastrophic accidents -- may include "noodle gels" and other lab-made invisible filaments that resemb
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By American Chemical Society
Just as aspiring authors often read hundreds of books before starting their own, scientists are using decades of knowledge garnered from sequencing or "reading" the genetic codes of thousands of living things to now start writing new volum
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By Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
When poet Walt Whitman wrote that we "contain multitudes," he was speaking metaphorically, but he was correct in the literal sense. Every human being carries over 100 trillion individual bacterial cells within the intestine -- ten times mo
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By Brigham & Women's Hospital
Human geneticists have long debated whether the genetic risk of the most common medical conditions derive from many rare mutations, each conferring a high degree of risk in different people, or common differences throughout the genome that modestly
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By Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
A genetic finding could help explain why influenza becomes a life-threating disease to some people while it has only mild effects in others. New research led by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has identified for the first time a human gene that
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By American Chemical Society
Popcorn's reputation as a snack food that's actually good for health popped up a few notches as scientists recently reported that it contains more of the healthful antioxidant substances called "polyphenols" than fruits and vegetables.
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By University of Gothenburg
Women are nearly three times more likely to experience urinary incontinence for more than 10 years following a vaginal delivery rather than a caesarean section, finds new research at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
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