Medical research
Face scans show how fast a person is aging
Every face tells a story, and that story apparently includes hints of how quickly a person is aging, a new study contends.
Mar 31, 2015
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Cell Research
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Why the omicron variant causes less severe disease
The SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant causes less severe disease than Delta although it is better at escaping immune protection by vaccinations and previous infections. The reasons for this have so far remained elusive.
Jan 24, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Novel stem cell therapy approach proves effective in treating COVID-19
Despite many advances in treating the COVID-19 virus there remains no specific cure for patients with infection. This is especially the case with hospitalized patients who end up in the ICU requiring mechanical ventilation ...
Oct 26, 2021
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Neuroscience
Hungry or full: It comes down to the atomic details
A protein—measuring just a few nanometers in size—acts as a molecular switch with a crucial role in determining whether we feel hungry or full. By determining of the protein's 3-D structure, researchers from Charité ...
Sep 27, 2021
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Genetics
The third generation of siRNA delivery system makes RNAi therapy feasible
In a new study published in the Cell Research, Chen-Yu Zhang's group at Nanjing University reports "In vivo self-assembled small RNA is the new generation of RNAi therapeutics."
Mar 30, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Scientists prove SARS-CoV-2 potential to infect human brain organoids
SARS-CoV-2 can infect human neural progenitor cells and brain organoids, as shown by researchers from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators from The ...
Aug 25, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Two birds, one stone: Drug combo may prove effective against second type of leukemia
Every year, nearly 11,000 Americans die of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a blood cancer that affects mainly older adults. While most patients initially respond to chemotherapy, more than half of those who respond will eventually ...
Apr 25, 2019
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Medical research
Vitamin B12 identified as the inhibitor of a key enzyme in hereditary Parkinson's disease
Iban Ubarretxena, an Ikerbasque researcher and director of the Biofisika Institute (CSIC-UPV/EHU), participated in a study that identified new inhibitors that could be used to develop drugs to combat Parkinson's. The research ...
Apr 3, 2019
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Diabetes
On-and-off fasting helps fight obesity
Up to sixteen weeks of intermittent fasting without otherwise having to count calories helps fight obesity and other metabolic disorders. Such fasting already shows benefits after only six weeks. This is according to a study ...
Oct 17, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Prevention of genetic breast cancer within reach
About one in eight women will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. Causes can be the use of synthetic sex hormones and other environmental factors, but also gene mutations like in the BRCA1 gene ...
May 31, 2016
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