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Genetics study reveals how pneumococcus bacteria evolve to evade vaccines
Genetics has provided surprising insights into why vaccines used in both the UK and US to combat serious childhood infections can eventually fail. The study, published today in Nature Genetics, which investigates how bacter ...
Genetics
Jan 29, 2012 |
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New malaria maps to guide battle against the disease
A new suite of malaria maps has revealed in unprecedented detail the current global pattern of the disease, allowing researchers to see how malaria has changed over a number of years.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 23, 2012 |
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Nuts and Bolts: the neuron
Neurons are highly specialised cells that conduct and process information in animals, enabling thought, perception and control of movement. Problems with neuronal function underpin a range of neurological and psychiatric ...
Neuroscience
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Scientists find link between gene and sensitivity to emotional environment
Researchers at the University of Essex have shown that a genetic variant could make some people more sensitive to their emotional environment - and more susceptible to anxiety disorders - than others. The study, funded by ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 13, 2012 |
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Spasticity gene finding provides clues to causes of nerve cell degeneration
The discovery of a gene that causes a form of hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) may provide scientists with an important insight into what causes axons, the stems of our nerve cells, to degenerate in conditions such as ...
Genetics
Jan 09, 2012 |
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Neglected tropical diseases: A new handle on old problems
‘Neglected tropical diseases’ is a new name for old diseases that cause long-term suffering among the world’s poorest people. The Wellcome Trust and others have funded research into these diseases ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 06, 2012 |
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New candidate vaccine neutralizes all tested strains of malaria parasite
A new candidate malaria vaccine with the potential to neutralise all strains of the most deadly species of malaria parasite has been developed by a team led by scientists at the University of Oxford. The results of this new ...
Medical research
Dec 20, 2011 |
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Malaria during pregnancy: New study assesses risks during first trimester
The largest ever study to assess the effects of malaria and its treatment in the first trimester of pregnancy has shown that the disease significantly increases the risk of miscarriage, but that treating with antimalarial ...
Obstetrics & gynaecology
Dec 13, 2011 |
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Rare genetic disorder provides clues to development of the pancreas
A rare genetic disorder has given researchers at the University of Exeter a surprising insight into how the pancreas develops. The finding provides a clue to how it may be possible to 'programme' stem cells – master ...
Genetics
Dec 11, 2011 |
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Changing the locks: HIV discovery could allow scientists to block virus's entry into cell nucleus
Scientists have found the 'key' that HIV uses to enter our cells' nuclei, allowing it to disable the immune system and cause AIDS The finding, published today in the open access journal PLoS Pathogens, provides a potential new ta ...
HIV & AIDS
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Changes in London taxi drivers' brains driven by acquiring 'the Knowledge', study shows
Acquiring 'the Knowledge' – the complex layout of central London's 25,000 streets and thousands of places of interest – causes structural changes in the brain and changes to memory in the capital's ...
Neuroscience
Dec 08, 2011 |
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African sleeping sickness: a tale of two parasites
(Medical Xpress) -- The savannahs and rainforests of Africa bring to mind romantic notions of wildlife, adventure and exploration. But beneath this natural beauty lies a deadly, long-neglected disease: trypanosomiasis, ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Stroke: Restructuring the brain
(Medical Xpress) -- Neuroscientists are exploring the structural changes in the brain’s white and grey matter that underlie learning. Understanding the precise cellular nature of those changes may improve ...
Neuroscience
Dec 06, 2011 |
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New antibiotic compound enters phase I clinical trial
(Medical Xpress) -- Novacta Biosystems has commenced dosing of the first healthy volunteers in a phase I clinical trial of a new antibiotic to treat the hospital superbug Clostridium difficile.
Medications
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Scientists make step towards using brain scans to predict outcome of psychotic episodes
Computer analysis of brain scans could help predict how severe the future illness course of a patient with psychosis will be, according to research funded by the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust. The findings ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 07, 2011 |
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