Every year, hundreds of thousands of people in West Africa become infected with Lassa virus, which can cause Lassa fever and lead to severe illness, long-term side effects or death. There are currently no widely approved ...
May 25, 2023
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More than 10% of older adults develop somatic (non-inherited) mutations in blood stem cells that can trigger explosive, clonal expansions of abnormal cells, increasing the risk for blood cancer and cardiovascular disease.
Feb 8, 2023
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In the mammalian world, there are the hairy, the less hairy and the hairless. But why that is has remained a mystery.
Jan 6, 2023
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One of the main features of Alzheimer's disease is that the β-amyloid peptide, a molecule found inside neurons that has many diverse functions, begins to fold incorrectly and accumulates. This process, which ends up causing ...
Dec 21, 2022
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New research led by Edith Cowan University has made an important discovery that could lead to more effective treatments for the world's 262 million asthma sufferers.
Jul 4, 2022
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Age-related changes in strength and mobility may depend on genetic variations in a critical mitochondrial enzyme, suggests a study published today in eLife.
Apr 26, 2022
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Huge amounts of time and money have been devoted to finding treatments for diseases that become more common as we age, like cancer and Alzheimer's. However, Leonid Peshkin, a lecturer in systems biology in the Blavatnik Institute ...
Mar 1, 2022
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Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Dundee have made a discovery that helps explain why variations in the virus causes COVID-19 to spread so rapidly.
Oct 1, 2021
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Research led by Queen Mary University of London associates genetically determined COVID-19 susceptibility with increased blood clot events in leg and lungs, thrombophlebitis and circulatory diseases.
Sep 9, 2021
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A Sussex team—including university mathematicians—have created a new modeling toolkit which predicts the impact of COVID-19 at a local level with unprecedented accuracy. The details are published in the International ...
Jul 12, 2021
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