Genetics
Researchers offer insights into aging
What determines the life span of a mouse, alligator, dog or human? A team of scientists at the University of Georgia believes they have new insight into this age-old question.
Sep 7, 2020
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Medical research
Molecules in urine allow doctors to monitor skin cancer
What if you could simply provide a urine sample rather than undergo a painful surgical procedure to find out if your cancer was responding to treatment? It may seem too good to be true, but researchers at Pavol Jozef Šafárik ...
Aug 11, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Medical trial aims to identify those at risk of heart damage following cancer treatment
The Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) is recruiting patients for a new national trial aiming to identify those at risk of heart damage following cancer treatment.
Aug 7, 2020
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Genetics
Breaks in the genome
Breaks and rearrangements in the genome can lead to severe diseases, even if all genes remain intact. Hi-C, a method to map the three-dimensional structure of chromosomes, promises more reliable and accurate diagnoses of ...
Jul 24, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Russia's COVID-19 strain did not come from China
Scientists from the Skoltech Center for Life Sciences (CLS) and their colleagues from the Higher School of Economics (HSE), Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza (RII) in St. Petersburg and the Kharkevich Institute ...
Jul 20, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Biomarker test highly accurate in detecting early kidney cancer
A novel liquid biopsy method can detect kidney cancers with high accuracy, including small, localized tumors which are often curable but for which no early detection method exists, say scientists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Jun 22, 2020
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Diabetes
Signs of being prone to adult diabetes are already visible at age 8 years old
Early signs of being more susceptible to type 2 diabetes as an adult can be seen in children as young as 8 years old, decades before it is likely to be diagnosed, according to a new study published in Diabetes Care today.
Jun 19, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How far does COVID-19 spread through air? Study monitors virus in hospital rooms
The CDC recently updated its guidance for avoiding COVID-19, saying that infection from touching surfaces is not the major way the virus spreads. The bigger risk is spending time with infected people.
Jun 17, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New study helps improve detection of disease in newborn babies
New research will help health-care practitioners more accurately diagnose illness in newborn babies from urine samples by comparing them with samples from healthy babies.
Jun 16, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
New study confirms important clues to fight ovarian cancer
The rogue cellular engine that drives a majority of ovarian cancers remains frustratingly difficult to disable. A new study comparing cancerous tissue with normal fallopian tube samples advances important insights about this ...
May 19, 2020
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