Medical research
Advancing bandage technology with lifelike skin tissue
Professor Sally McArthur's bioengineering team have begun to make lifelike skin tissue to further studies on innovations such as cutting-edge smart bandages.
Mar 7, 2019
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Health
Study suggests fish oil could help protect alcohol abusers from dementia
A Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine study suggests that omega-3 fish oil might help protect against alcohol-related dementia.
Sep 8, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study suggests omicron subvariant causes enhanced fusion with human lung cells
New research shows that the recently-emerged BA.2.86 omicron subvariant of the virus that causes COVID-19 can be neutralized by bivalent mRNA vaccine-induced antibodies in the blood, which explains why this variant did not ...
Jan 8, 2024
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Ophthalmology
Researchers develop best-yet cell culture system for age-related macular degeneration
An international team from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and University College London and Queens University Belfast in the United Kingdom developed a cell culture model that could help to develop earlier treatment ...
Feb 2, 2017
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Medical research
Breakthrough discovery into the regulation of a key cancer drug target
There's not much difference between what makes a man and what makes his beer - at least at the molecular level - according to a new study led by Professor John Schwabe at the University of Leicester.
Jul 1, 2013
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HIV & AIDS
An atlas of HIV's favorite targets in the blood of infected individuals
In the 40-some years since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, scientists have learned a lot about the virus, the disease, and ways to treat it. But one thing they still don't completely understand is exactly which cells ...
Apr 27, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Research shows that anti-fungal medicine may increase vulnerability to influenza and other viruses
Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have discovered evidence that a widely used anti-fungal medicine increases susceptibility to flu infection in mice ...
Nov 21, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
Fatty acids could aid cancer prevention and treatment
Omega-3 fatty acids, contained in oily fish such as salmon and trout, selectively inhibit growth and induce cell death in early and late-stage oral and skin cancers, according to new research from scientists at Queen Mary, ...
Aug 1, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
Circular RNA limits skin cancer spread
A mysterious piece of genetic material restrains the spread of skin cancer cells, but is frequently lost as they mature, a new study finds.
Jan 13, 2020
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Immunology
Insights into a versatile molecular death switch
The enzyme caspase-8 induces a molecular cell death programme called pyroptosis without involving its enzymatic activity, a new study by Hamid Kashkar published in Nature shows. In order to safeguard healthy and functioning ...
Nov 26, 2019
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