The gut microbiome is an ecosystem of hundreds to thousands of microbial species living within the human body. These populations affect our health, fertility, and even our longevity. But how do they get there in the first ...
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While tendons of the body differ dramatically in their function, mechanics, and the range of motion, they all connect to bone via an enthesis—a specialized interface that integrates tendon into bone. Effective force transfer ...
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, UCL, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and The Institute of Cancer Research, London have developed a computer model to analyze how the way in which tumors grow affects their ...
Dec 28, 2021
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Physicians treating coronavirus infections have a new diagnostic that could help identify patients at risk of organ failure.
Dec 13, 2021
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A SARS-CoV-2 variant with traits similar to that of the Delta variant—enhanced transmissibility and an ability to infect people who had previous infections/vaccination—will cause a more severe pandemic with more infections ...
Nov 19, 2021
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Researchers have developed a model that could predict early on in treatment whether cancer patients will respond to immunotherapy, according to a report published today in eLife.
Nov 9, 2021
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For the first time, researchers have used human data to quantify the speed of different processes that lead to Alzheimer's disease and found that it develops in a very different way than previously thought. Their results ...
Oct 29, 2021
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The severe outbreak of COVID-19 in Delhi, India, in 2021 showed not only that the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 is extremely transmissible but that it can infect individuals previously infected by a different variant of the ...
Oct 14, 2021
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Combining data on antibody prevalence, PCR test results, genomic surveillance and population mobility from smartphones has allowed infectious disease modelers to explain the evolution of the first three COVID-19 waves that ...
Oct 12, 2021
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For the more than 15 million epilepsy patients around the world whose disease is not controlled by medication, the only remaining option is removal of the parts of the brain where seizures originate. Even then, surgery is ...
Oct 12, 2021
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