Oncology & Cancer
Trapping DNA damage: Untangling the proteins that trigger some cancerous tumors
Even on a good day, DNA is constantly getting damaged.
Jun 10, 2021
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News tagged with nobel prize
Vaccination
Australia urges over-50s to get jabbed as vaccine hesitancy grows
Australia on Friday pressed over-50s to get their coronavirus shots, as fears mounted that vaccine hesitancy could be priming the country for disaster.
May 21, 2021
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Medical research
How lobed brain corals are helping solve the mystery of what general anaesthesia does to the brain
Many of us will undergo general anesthesia at some point in our lives—losing consciousness so we can be operated on painlessly. But although humans have used general anesthesia for more than 150 years, we still don't fully ...
Apr 27, 2021
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Genetics
Scientists identify new gene involved in autism spectrum disorder
UT Southwestern scientists have adapted a classic research technique called forward genetics to identify new genes involved in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In a study published this week in eLife, the researchers used ...
Dec 23, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study shows why some people may become seriously ill from meningococcal bacteria
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have come one step closer toward understanding why some people become seriously ill or die from a common bacterium that leaves most people unharmed. In a study published in The ...
Dec 7, 2020
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Vaccination
Moderna, the small biotech company taking on the pandemic
Moderna has long been a darling of investors but it wasn't until the coronavirus pandemic came along that the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotech company could prove the value of its new vaccine technology and mint some ...
Nov 17, 2020
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Other
Nobel Prize winner says scientific research has to be 'passion-driven'
Scientists cannot be expected to drop everything they're working on to turn their attention to beating COVID-19, according to the winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe.
Oct 23, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
India to roll out quick and cheap coronavirus paper test
A fast and cheap paper-based coronavirus test will soon be available across India, with scientists hopeful it will help turn the tide on the pandemic in one of the world's worst-hit nations.
Oct 21, 2020
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Health
Oxfam says international response to famine 'dangerously inadequate'
The international community's response to global food insecurity is "dangerously inadequate", the NGO Oxfam said in a new report Tuesday, published just days after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the UN's World Food ...
Oct 14, 2020
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Genetics
US-French duo win Nobel Chemistry Prize for gene editing tool
Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer Doudna of the US on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for the gene-editing technique known as the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA snipping "scissors", the first time a Nobel science prize ...
Oct 7, 2020
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