Macrophages are key cells of the immune system with many important beneficial functions, but they can also exacerbate many common diseases.
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Nearly half (47%) of the global population has limited or no access to key tests and services that are essential for diagnosing common diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, HIV, and tuberculosis, or basic tests for pregnant ...
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Although epilepsy is a relatively common condition, affecting approximately 1% of individuals worldwide, it is often difficult to diagnose in clinical practice, and it is estimated that up to a quarter of all cases may be ...
Aug 29, 2021
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People often get sicker as they grow older, but new research from Gil McVean of the University of Oxford and colleagues finds that the impact of a person's genes on their risk of getting sick actually wanes with age. The ...
Aug 26, 2021
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One of the first population-scale studies on how common genetic traits are influenced by variations in the DNA of mitochondria, the powerhouses of human cells, has been completed by scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, ...
Aug 24, 2021
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Researchers rescued mice from early death caused by a muscle-weakening disease, not by correcting the flawed gene that causes it, but instead by targeting another protein in the same signaling pathway.
Jun 23, 2021
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Reading a recent article with the headline Setting the Record straight: there is no "COVID heart" teleported me back to 2020. It wasn't a comfortable trip.
May 26, 2021
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In almost 10% of myocardial infarctions, no obvious cause in the coronary artery can be found. Some of the patients are diagnosed with broken-heart syndrome, while others are left without a diagnosis. A new study from Karolinska ...
Apr 28, 2021
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Researchers within the Biomedicine Discovery Institute at Monash University have made a breakthrough in understanding the role played by high-risk immune genes associated with the development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
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Researchers have uncovered pathways involved in the body's response to glucocorticoid treatments and identified a novel biomarker that could be used to monitor how these drugs work in patients, according to a clinical study ...
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