While better screening and improved treatments are leading to better outcomes for patients with breast cancer, 90% of breast cancer deaths are a result of metastasis, or the cancer growing and spreading to other parts of ...
Mar 6, 2024
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Society learned about the value of mRNA during the COVID-19 pandemic when we saw scientists and medical professionals harness its power to deliver a vaccine for the virus within a year.
Feb 20, 2024
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Researchers from the University of Queensland have identified that a gene associated with an increased risk of Parkinson's disease also contributes to a build-up of cell debris in the brain.
Feb 24, 2023
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Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have discovered a new neurological condition characterized by issues with motor coordination and speech. They report their findings in npj Genomic Medicine.
Feb 10, 2023
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A combination of up to five drugs normally used to treat conditions ranging from HIV to Type 2 diabetes could destroy cancer cells, yet be less toxic than a chemotherapy drug used for recurring ovarian cancer.
Jul 14, 2022
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Shedding light on a decades-old controversy, scientists at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and University of California at San Diego (UCSD) published findings in PLOS Genetics this month showing that autophagy ...
Feb 13, 2020
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Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that occurs when the body's immune response to infection spirals out of control. Bacteria in the bloodstream trigger immune cells to release powerful molecules called cytokines to quickly ...
Jul 22, 2019
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Scientists at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center discovered a technique to make pancreatic cancer cells reliant on one energy source and then starve them of it—a finding that has led ...
Mar 4, 2019
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Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a direct link between the protein aggregation in nerve cells that is typical for neurodegenerative diseases, and the regulation of gene expression in Huntington's disease. ...
Aug 21, 2018
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Motor neurons are the nerves that send impulses to the muscles to generate movement. Damage of these neurons can cause very diverse diseases, for example spinal muscular atrophy in children or adult amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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