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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Face masks that can diagnose COVID-19

Most people associate the term "wearable" with a fitness tracker, smartwatch, or wireless earbuds. But what if you could wear cutting-edge biotechnology in your clothing, and it could warn you when you were exposed to something ...

Medical research

Muscling up with nanoparticle-based anti-inflammatory therapy

Muscular dystrophies are a group of genetic diseases that lead to the progressive loss of muscle mass and function in patients, with the incurable Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), which affects all the body's muscles, primarily ...

Neuroscience

A detailed atlas of the developing brain

Researchers at Harvard University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have created a first detailed atlas of a critical region of the developing mouse brain, applying multiple advanced genomic technologies to the part ...

Gastroenterology

Of mice and men and their different tolerance to pathogens

Trillions of commensal microbes live on the mucosal and epidermal surfaces of the body and it is firmly established that this microbiome affects its host's tolerance and sensitivity of the host to a variety of pathogens. ...

Oncology & Cancer

Identifying 'ugly ducklings' to catch skin cancer earlier

Melanoma is by far the deadliest form of skin cancer, killing more than 7,000 people in the United States in 2019 alone. Early detection of the disease dramatically reduces the risk of death and the costs of treatment, but ...

Genetics

A new vision for AAV-delivered gene therapies

In recent years, adeno-associated virus (AAV) has been recognized as the leading vehicle (vector) for in vivo delivery of therapeutic genes because it is non-pathogenic and efficiently targets many different cell and tissue ...

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