Human norovirus, a positive-strand RNA virus that is the leading cause of viral gastroenteritis accounting for an estimated 685 million cases and approximately 212,000 deaths globally per year, has no approved vaccines or ...
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Alcohol use disorder (AUD) affects about 400 million people worldwide and is a leading cause of serious illnesses such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, liver disease and stroke. Beyond these physical impacts, AUD profoundly ...
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Researchers have analyzed cause-of-death data for 24 countries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The researchers found that life expectancy declined in 2020 for all but four of the 24 included countries, with the US ...
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Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive breast cancer. It spreads quickly and has few treatment options. It is also serious because of its rate of recurrence.
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An international research team, including researchers at Karolinska Institutet, has mapped the genes expressed in the brain cells of people with multiple sclerosis (MS). The atlas, which is presented in the journal Neuron, ...
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A new paper from MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researchers is helping to reveal the "rules" for engineering chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) Tregs.
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Scientists have developed a way of assessing the ability of red blood cells to deliver oxygen by measuring their shape. This test could improve specialist transplant and transfusion practice as well as blood banking. The ...
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that affects motor neurons. The average life span after diagnosis of this incurable disease is two to five years.
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UAB research has characterized in detail how polymer-based commercial tea bags release millions of nanoplastics and microplastics when infused. The study shows for the first time the capacity of these particles to be absorbed ...
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The ongoing spread of bird flu in the United States has alarmed experts—not just because of human cases causing severe illness, but also due to troubling new instances of infections in cats.
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