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A phase 3 trial is showing "a potentially giant step forward" in treating children with achondroplasia, UCLA Health's Dr. Isidro B. Salusky wrote in an editorial published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
Sep 4, 2026
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Imagine you're getting out of the shower one morning and notice a mole on your thigh that you've never seen before. It's reddish-brown, bumpy and surprisingly large. Is it a benign mole, or is it melanoma?
Sep 3, 2026
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The cells of our body are frequently exposed to hazards that can damage them, cause them to malfunction or kill them. Yet they have defense systems that can sometimes be strengthened by small doses of stress, a phenomenon ...
Sep 3, 2026
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Researchers at the University of Oulu have identified alpha-1 antitrypsin as a potential target for preventing spontaneous preterm birth. In a large genetic study of more than 200,000 mothers, a variant in the SERPINA1 gene, ...
Sep 3, 2026
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A scientist at Cincinnati Children's who has hunted for decades for ways to shrink the painful and disfiguring nerve tumors caused by neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) has made a new breakthrough in the quest. Nancy Ratner, ...
Sep 2, 2026
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Hyperventilating. Breath-holding until they turn blue. This abnormal breathing is frequent and disturbing in people with Rett syndrome, a rare genetic disease. Now University of Connecticut researchers report in Current Biology ...
Sep 2, 2026
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Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have discovered that a relatively short protein may play an important role in protecting the aging heart. The protein, ...
Sep 1, 2026
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A region of the brain called the striatum is critical for many cognitive and motor functions, including decision-making, movement control, habit formation and reward processing. It also plays a role in addiction and is significantly ...
Sep 1, 2026
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Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a next-generation RNA therapeutic approach with the potential to treat a wide range of genetic diseases that share certain disease-causing mutations. The work advances ...
Aug 27, 2026
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Mamadou Tahirou is 18 but looks more like a 12-year-old. His frame is frail from the ravages of sickle cell disease, which one Senegalese laboratory hopes to attenuate with affordable drug production.
Aug 26, 2026
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