By Johns Hopkins Medicine
Newly published research reveals that a faulty genetic pathway already known for its role in some connective tissue disorders is also a potent player in many types of allergies. Scientists have long understood that allergies are the result of a complex in
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By Mayo Clinic
Bipolar disorder evolves differently in patients who also binge eat, a study has found.
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By Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Understanding complex systems such as the brain of mammals: Dr. Arvind Kumar and colleagues from the Bernstein Center and the Cluster of Excellence BrainLinks-BrainTools at the University of Freiburg present a new view on brain function. Much of today's b
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By Manchester University
Scientists have used stem cell gene therapy to treat a fatal genetic brain disease in mice for the first time.
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By University of Bristol
Researchers studying a type of cell found in the trillions in our brain have made an important discovery as to how it responds to brain injury and disease such as stroke. Scientists have identified proteins which trigger the processes that underlie how as
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By University of California - San Francisco
Adenoviruses commonly infect humans, causing colds, flu-like symptoms and sometimes even death, but now researchers have discovered that a new species of adenovirus can spread from primate to primate, and potentially from monkey to human.
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By University of Cambridge
If you are trying to lose weight or save for the future, new research suggests avoiding temptation may increase your chances of success compared to relying on willpower alone.
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By Columbia University Medical Center
Scientists have identified new genetic mutations that can cause pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a rare fatal disease characterized by high blood pressure in the lungs. The mutations, found in the gene KCNK3, appear to affect potassium channels in t
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By University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Human glioblastoma multiforme, one of the most common, aggressive and deadly forms of brain cancer, is notoriously difficult to study. Now engineers have developed a three-dimensional hydrogel that more closely mimics conditions in the brain than other pl
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By Oregon State University
Athletes seeking a healthy performance weight should eat high fiber, low-fat food balanced with their training regimen in order to maintain muscle while still burning fat, according to a new article.
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By University of New South Wales
The human papillomavirus triples the risk of people developing yet another cancer, esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, according to new research.
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By Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Painstaking new analysis of the genetic sequence of the X chromosome -- long perceived as the "female" counterpart to the male-associated Y chromosome -- reveals that large portions of the X have evolved to play a specialized role in sperm produ
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By The Earth Institute at Columbia University
The risk of catching some nasty germ in the Hudson River just started looking nastier. Disease-causing microbes have long been found swimming there, but now researchers have documented antibiotic-resistant strains in specific spots, from the Tappan Zee Br
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By Manchester University
High levels of arsenic in rice have been shown to be associated with elevated genetic damage in humans, a new study has found.
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By Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Whether in fish embryos or human tumors, the same gene controls how cells migrate in cell tissue. In experiments on zebrafish, researchers have demonstrated that the same proteins that lead to the formation of metastases in humans also cause the cells to
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By Public Library of Science
Recent changes in hockey rules regulating contact to the head have not reduced the number of concussions suffered by players during National Hockey League season, according to a new study.
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By Women's College Hospital
Kidney patients who take calcium supplements to lower their phosphorus levels may be at a 22 percent higher risk of death than those who take other non-calcium based treatments, according to a new study.
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By Harvard University
New research shows that, under certain conditions, using two drugs in a "targeted therapy" -- a treatment approach designed to interrupt cancer's ability to grow and spread -- nearly all cancers could be effectively cured.
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By Harvard University
Researchers have long understood that genetics can play a role in how susceptible people are to contracting cholera, but a team of scientists is now uncovering evidence of genetic changes that might also help protect some people from contracting the deadl
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By California Institute of Technology
Biologists have worked out the details of a mechanism that leads undifferentiated blood stem cells to become macrophages -- immune cells that attack bacteria and other foreign pathogens. The process involves an unexpected cycle in which cell division slow
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