While millions of people have undergone LASIK eye surgery since it became commercially available in 1989, patients sometimes develop cataracts later in life and require new corrective lenses to be implanted in their eyes. ...
Sep 21, 2023
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A chemotherapy drug used to fight bone-marrow cancer has the potential to treat and prevent potentially deadly heart failure, a powerful new drug-screening tool developed at UVA Health suggests.
Sep 18, 2023
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Animals have been used for medical research for thousands of years, dating back to ancient Greece where the first dissections were performed.
Aug 31, 2023
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A new paper in Biology Methods & Protocols, published by Oxford University Press, shows it may be possible to design vaccines that will induce a stronger immune response to infecting pathogens, such as the virus causing COVID-19. ...
Jul 25, 2023
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Science is well aware of the important role that gut bacteria and their interactions with the gastrointestinal tract play in our overall health. Villi, tiny finger-like structures that line the inside of the small intestine ...
May 31, 2023
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While new drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease tend to receive the most public attention, many well-researched ways to care for people with dementia don't involve medication. A new evaluation compared the cost-effectiveness ...
Apr 6, 2023
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A team at UNC Charlotte's Center for Computational Intelligence to Predict Health and Environmental Risks (CIPHER) and Tuple, a Charlotte-based genomics consulting firm, has used artificial intelligence to rapidly assess ...
Feb 17, 2023
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A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research uses computer simulations to explore how patterns of spikes propagate in neuronal networks constrained by experimental data from the turtle visual ...
Feb 15, 2023
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Preparing patients for surgery in a separate space from the operating theater brings significant benefits in freeing up operating theater schedules and staff time, according to new research from the University of Bath.
Jan 17, 2023
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Proteins do not have a single shape, but are more like dynamic robots. But—how do they actually move? And what does this tell us about their function? Laura Orellana describes the movement of proteins using computer simulations—and ...
Jan 16, 2023
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