Dedicated memory tests on smartphones enable the detection of "mild cognitive impairment," a condition that may indicate Alzheimer's disease, with high accuracy. Researchers from DZNE, the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg ...
Mar 27, 2024
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Many new drugs inhibit the processes that cancer cells need to divide rapidly. So as to inhibit the cancer as a whole. But cancer cells have all sorts of workarounds to get around that effect. As a result, the tumor becomes ...
Mar 27, 2024
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The Nordic region has the highest incidence of osteoporosis, a disease that makes bone prone to fracture. Age is one of the most important risk factors and Sweden ranks highest in terms of longevity. It is estimated that ...
Mar 26, 2024
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The xCT protein, which plays an important role as a transport molecule in cells, could play a part in cancer treatment in the future, researchers at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) have discovered. Their work is the result ...
Mar 26, 2024
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Drug targets with human genetic evidence are more likely than those without to be clinically translatable and thus enter phase II/III clinical trials or be approved for marketing more quickly, which will likely significantly ...
Mar 26, 2024
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A new study found higher levels of neurodegeneration in rats that consumed reused deep-fried cooking oils and their offspring compared to rats on a normal diet. Deep frying, which involves completely submerging food in hot ...
Mar 25, 2024
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The drug minocycline, an antibiotic that also decreases inflammation, failed to slow vision loss or expansion of geographic atrophy in people with dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), according to a phase II clinical ...
Mar 20, 2024
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Using a combined scanning technique on patients with early-stage breast cancer improved treatment in almost three out of ten cases in a trial presented at the 14th European Breast Cancer Conference.
Mar 20, 2024
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Heparin, the world's most widely used blood thinner, is used during procedures ranging from kidney dialysis to open heart surgery. Currently, heparin is derived from pig intestines, but scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic ...
Mar 18, 2024
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A unique multicenter study, including about 3,500 youth between 10 and 25 years old from across the globe, shows that artificial intelligence—specifically machine learning—is able to identify individuals with anxiety ...
Mar 18, 2024
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