Archive: 05/01/2017

Apligraf demonstrates significant change in chronic wound's genomic profile

Apligraf - an FDA-approved, bioengineered living-cell therapy from Organogenesis Inc. - has become the first wound-healing therapy to demonstrate a significant change in the genomic profile of a treated non-healing wound, ...

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Eight years of decreased MRSA health care-associated infections associated with Veterans Affairs Prevention Initiative

The Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Health Administration's campaign to limit healthcare facility-associated infections (HAIs) of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) continues to make significant progress, ...

Jan 5, 2017

Taking hour-long afternoon naps improves thinking and memory in older Chinese adults

Preserving your memory, as well as your ability to think clearly and make decisions, is a key goal for people as they age. Researchers have a growing interest in the role sleep plays in helping older adults maintain their ...

Jan 5, 2017

Genomic data sharing is critical to improving genetic health care

There are an estimated 5,000 - 7,000 rare genetic diseases, each of which can vary dramatically and be caused by a multitude of different genetic changes. Even common diseases with genetic influences may also have rare variants ...

Jan 5, 2017

Vaginal microbes point toward early detection and screening for endometrial cancer

Endometrial cancer triggers remain elusive, despite continued research. But given the typical inflammatory profile in these cases, microbes in the uterine environment are suspected to play a role in the development of this ...

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Study shows development of face recognition entails brain tissue growth

People are born with brains riddled with excess neural connections. Those are slowly pruned back until early childhood when, scientists thought, the brain's structure becomes relatively stable.

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Potential evidence of lung-specific Ebola infection found in recovering patient

Scientists have found potential evidence of Ebola virus replication in the lungs of a person recovering from infection, according to new research published in PLOS Pathogens. The findings could aid research into new treatment ...

Jan 5, 2017

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Research helps explain why androgen-deprivation therapy doesn't work for many prostate cancers

Metastatic prostate cancer, or prostate cancer that has spread to other organs, is incurable. In new research published in the journal Science, Roswell Park Cancer Institute scientists have identified two gatekeeper genes ...

Jan 5, 2017

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Medical screening and fly control could rapidly reduce sleeping sickness in key locations

In 2012, the World Health Organization set two public health goals for Gambian sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease spread by the tsetse fly. The first is to eliminate the disease as a public health problem and have fewer ...

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Scientists find how cancer cells can shrug off physical constraints on growth and spread

Scientists have revealed how cancer cells are able to break free of the physical restraints imposed by their surroundings in order to grow and spread around the body.

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Archive: 05/01/2017

Apligraf demonstrates significant change in chronic wound's genomic profile

Eight years of decreased MRSA health care-associated infections associated with Veterans Affairs Prevention Initiative

Taking hour-long afternoon naps improves thinking and memory in older Chinese adults

Genomic data sharing is critical to improving genetic health care

Vaginal microbes point toward early detection and screening for endometrial cancer

Study shows development of face recognition entails brain tissue growth

Potential evidence of lung-specific Ebola infection found in recovering patient

Research helps explain why androgen-deprivation therapy doesn't work for many prostate cancers

Medical screening and fly control could rapidly reduce sleeping sickness in key locations

Scientists find how cancer cells can shrug off physical constraints on growth and spread

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