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A new study has overcome a long-standing challenge: how to isolate and study elusive HIV-infected cells called authentic reservoir clones (ARCs) that evade the immune system, making the disease difficult to cure. Researchers ...
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Rett syndrome is a devastating rare genetic childhood disorder primarily affecting girls. Merely 1 out of 10,000 girls are born with it and much fewer boys. It is caused by mutations in the MeCP2 gene on the X chromosome, ...
Jul 2, 2025
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A study has uncovered that iron orchestrates the activation of two damaging cell death pathways—ferroptosis and necroptosis—early in ischemic stroke recovery, exacerbating brain injury. This discovery sheds light on how ...
Mar 4, 2025
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Cancer metastasis—the spread of cancer to other organs—is the leading cause of death among cancer patients. Researchers have now uncovered a "genetic signature" of 177 genes shared across multiple cancer types that drives ...
Jan 9, 2025
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A study coordinated by Dr. Francesc Jiménez-Altayó, researcher at the Institut de Neurociències of the UAB (INc-UAB) and at CIBERCV, shows that temporary lack of blood flow to the brain can lead to lasting changes in the ...
Nov 29, 2024
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Even treated with the most advanced therapies, patients with glioblastoma—an aggressive brain cancer—typically survive less than two years after diagnosis. Efforts to treat this cancer with the latest immunotherapies ...
Nov 7, 2024
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Diffuse midline glioma (DMG) is a highly aggressive and fatal pediatric high-grade glioma that primarily affects critical regions of the central nervous system, such as the pons, thalamus, and spinal cord. Due to the high ...
Sep 24, 2024
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Since the 1980s, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants have been the backbone of treatment for depression and other mental health conditions worldwide, with tens of millions of annual prescriptions ...
May 31, 2024
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A multidisciplinary research team from the LKS Faculty of Medicine (HKUMed) and the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has successfully developed an innovative screening platform to rapidly assess ...
Apr 5, 2024
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Researchers have developed a new method for triggering and imaging seizures in epilepsy patients, offering physicians the ability to collect real-time data to tailor epilepsy surgery. In contrast to previous practice, where ...
Mar 11, 2024
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