Immunology
Researchers reveal a strategy for next-generation COVID-19 vaccines
Medical researchers have outlined a strategy to generate future-proofed COVID-19 vaccines that can resist emergent new viral strains.
Nov 2, 2021
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
'Live' brain models used in hunt for Alzheimer's treatment
Studying tiny 'live' models of the human brain has helped researchers understand its aging and find a key to potential treatments for Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Nov 2, 2021
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Genetics
Creating a new toehold for RNA therapeutics, cell therapies, and diagnostics
RNAs are best known as the molecules that translate information encoded in genes into proteins with their myriad of activities. However, because of their structural complexity and relative stability, RNA also has attracted ...
Oct 28, 2021
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Genetics
AI model shows remarkable capacity to interpret the meaning of gene variants in humans as benign or disease-causing
No two human beings are the same, a biologic singularity encoded in the unique arrangement of the molecules that make up our individual DNA.Â
Oct 27, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Lowering blood insulin levels could lower your risk of getting COVID-19
Keeping blood insulin levels within strict, healthy parameters is a daily goal for people with diabetes. But now, researchers from Japan have found that regulating blood insulin levels may even help lower the risk of getting ...
Oct 25, 2021
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Neuroscience
How an enriched environment fires up our synapses
Processing of sensory impressions and information depends very much on how the synapses in our brain work. A team around chemist Robert Ahrends from the University of Vienna and neuroscientist Michael R. Kreutz from Leibniz ...
Oct 20, 2021
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Medical research
Scientists identify suspect protein as a marker for prostate cancer progression
Prostate cancer (PC) is one of the leading causes of global cancer-related deaths among men. While a standard systemic therapy called "androgen deprivation therapy" (ADT) is widely administered to reduce the level of androgen—the ...
Oct 19, 2021
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Medical research
From COVID to cancer: High hopes for 'versatile' mRNA
The coronavirus pandemic has made vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna and the mRNA technology that they use into household names.
Oct 15, 2021
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Medical research
Mapping the effects of genetic variation, one letter at a time
In the two decades since the human genome was first sequenced, scientists have learned much about how the genome is organized and how widely it varies between people around the globe. A better view of how that genetic variation ...
Oct 14, 2021
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Medications
Antiviral compound blocks SARS-CoV-2 from entering cells
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a chemical compound that interferes with a key feature of many viruses that allows the viruses to invade human cells. The compound, called ...
Oct 12, 2021
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