Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) intestinal infections can cause severe, debilitating diarrhea in patients who are hospitalized or on immunosuppressive therapies. The infections can be very hard to eradicate, roaring back ...
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Understanding how damaged organs heal themselves is important for scientists trying to develop treatments that regenerate injured, diseased, or aged tissue.
Oct 11, 2023
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The COVID-19 pandemic seemed like a never-ending parade of SARS-CoV-2 variants, each equipped with new ways to evade the immune system, leaving the world bracing for what would come next.
Oct 11, 2023
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Researchers at Harvard Medical School have discovered that a molecule made by Streptococcus pyogenes—the bacterium that causes strep throat and other infections—could help explain several long-standing medical mysteries, ...
Oct 6, 2023
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Becoming a full-fledged organism out of a handful of cells, complete with functioning tissues and organs, is a messy yet highly synchronized process that requires cells to organize themselves in a precise manner and begin ...
Sep 27, 2023
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The ease with which ChatGPT can produce coherent content and convincing answers has raised fears that it will enable cheating on university campuses and replace workers in fields ranging from journalism to medicine.
Sep 22, 2023
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Nerve cells that sense touch grow the appropriate endings for hairy or hairless skin based on cues from the skin itself, rather than through predetermined programming, according to research led by Harvard Medical School scientists ...
Aug 23, 2023
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The gut-brain connection is a complicated two-way signaling cascade that is responsible for keeping the digestive system working properly and can cause problems when it breaks down. A key part of that axis is the colon, which ...
Aug 3, 2023
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During routine navigation in daily life, our brains use spatial mapping and memory to guide us from point A to point B. Just as routine is making a mistake in navigation that requires a course correction.
Jul 19, 2023
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What makes the vital layer of protective cells around the brain and spinal cord—the blood-brain barrier—more or less permeable has been one of the more mystifying questions in neuroscience.
Jul 13, 2023
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