A clinical trial reported in 2021 and conducted by a team of researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Dhaka, Bangladesh, showed ...
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For decades, it has been known that people with diabetes are at a substantially increased risk of developing severe lung disease if they become infected with viruses such as influenza, as well as with bacteria and fungi.
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Tracking rare cell types in the brain has proved elusive. And yet alterations in some of these cells may be associated with a variety of diseases, including Alzheimer's. Being able to find and study them could potentially ...
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The most comprehensive analysis of Indigenous Australians' genomes collected to date has revealed an "abundance" of DNA variations—some of which have never been reported anywhere else in the world—paving the way for new, ...
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A Cambridge-led study has shown why many women experience nausea and vomiting during pregnancy—and why some women, including the Duchess of Cambridge, become so sick they need to be admitted to hospital.
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You are sitting quietly, and suddenly your brain tunes out the world and wanders to something else entirely—perhaps a recent experience, or an old memory. You just had a daydream. Yet despite the ubiquity of this experience, ...
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Despite all our cells sharing the same DNA, there are thousands of different cell types in the human brain, each with a unique structure and function. One longstanding problem in neuroscience is determining how genes are ...
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A team of scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has generated one of the first comprehensive maps of cell types in a mammalian brain using recently developed technology called spatial transcriptomics, which ...
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In a study of historic scale, scientists at Gladstone Institutes have created an intricate map of how the immune system functions, examining the detailed molecular structures governing human T cells using the next-generation ...
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Imagine you're teaching a dog to play fetch. You throw a ball, and your dog sprints after it, picks it up, and runs back. You then reward your panting pup with a treat. But now comes the real trick for your dog: figuring ...
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