By University of Edinburgh
Multiple sclerosis treatments that repair damage to the brain could be developed thanks to new research. A study has shed light on how cells are able to regenerate protective sheaths around nerve fibers in the brain.
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By University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
The ubiquity of the endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol A led researchers to ask what it might be doing in publicly supplied, chlorinated drinking water. The answer: Chlorinated BPA has different, but no less profound effects on cell-signaling network
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By King's College London
A breakdown of the skin barrier and inflammation in the skin that occurs in eczema could play a key role in triggering food sensitivity in babies, a new study reveals.
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By NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Here's yet another reason to get off the couch: new research findings suggest that regularly breaking a sweat may lower the risk of having a stroke.
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By Neural Regeneration Research
Recent studies have found that anesthesia drugs have neurotoxicity on the developing neurons, causing learning and memory disorders and behavioral abnormalities. Ketamine is commonly used in pediatric anesthesia. A clinical retrospective study found that
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By University of York
During heat waves – when ozone production rises as plants’ ozone absorption is curtailed -- more pollution is left in the air. This resulted in the loss of an estimated 460 lives in the UK in the hot summer of 2006.
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By Ohio State University Medical Center
The blood-brain barrier protects the brain from poisons but also prevents drugs from reaching brain tumors. A preclinical study shows that an experimental nanotechnology drug called SapC-DOPS crosses the tumor blood-brain barrier, targets brain-tumor cell
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By Queen's University, Belfast
An anti-cancer drug has been proven to be equally as effective in treating the most common cause of blindness in older adults as a more expensive drug specifically formulated for this purpose.
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By European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
People with high blood pressure, who don’t take their anti-hypertensive drug treatments when they should, have a greatly increased risk of suffering a stroke and dying from it compared to those who take their medication correctly.
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By St. Michael's Hospital
The life-threatening MERS coronavirus that has emerged in the Middle East could spread faster and wider during two international mass gatherings involving millions of people in the next few months, according to researchers who describe the most likely pat
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By Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Certain chromosomal abnormalities of the preleukemic type appear to be over-represented in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) who are suffering from vascular complications. This finding may provide a partial explanation for the higher rates of cancer-rel
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By University of Eastern Finland
Persons with Alzheimer's disease are able to manage their everyday activities longer and they suffer from less psychological and behavioral symptoms if the diagnosis is made and treatment begun at a very early phase of the disease, indicates a recent stud
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By BMJ-British Medical Journal
There has been a "worrying" increase in alcohol related deaths among young women in England and Scotland, since the middle of the last decade, finds new research.
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By University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Researchers have found a way to knock down cancers caused by a tumor-driving protein called “myc,” paving the way for patients with myc-driven cancers to enroll in clinical trials for experimental treatments. 
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By EMBO - excellence in life sciences
Scientists have identified higher levels of a receptor protein found on the surface of human breast tumor cells that may serve as a new drug target for the treatment of breast cancer. The results show that elevated levels of the protein Ret, which is shor
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By Karolinska Institutet
Researchers have discovered a previously unknown mechanism that controls whether a cell survives autophagy, a process that can be compared to the cell consuming parts of itself. The discovery means that it might now be possible to influence the process, w
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By Vanderbilt University
Contrary to current scientific understanding, it appears that our microbial companions play an important role in their hosts' evolution. A new study provides the first direct evidence that these microbes can contribute to the origin of new species by redu
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By Case Western Reserve University
Scientists have identified a mechanism that can prevent the normal prion protein from changing its molecular shape into the abnormal form responsible for neurodegenerative diseases.
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By Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A team of researchers has now developed a way to grow liver tissue that can support the liver stage of the life cycle of the two most common species of malaria, Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax.
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By Spectrum Health
Scientists may be closer to predicting who is at risk for a heart attack, according to a recently published study. Researchers used new imaging technology on patients being treated for heart attacks.
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