A preclinical study led by Monash University has discovered a drug combination with the potential to treat one of the most fatal and globally widespread cancers, a type of primary liver cancer called hepatocellular carcinoma ...
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Does the human brain have an Achilles heel that ultimately leads to autism? With a revolutionary novel system that combines brain organoid technology and intricate genetics, researchers can now comprehensively test the effect ...
Sep 13, 2023
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Much like young children who swiftly acquire languages in their early years, our visual system also has a "critical period" during the first few years of life where rapid development occurs. After this time, changes become ...
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Groundbreaking new research has uncovered a potential route to developing the first ever drug treatments for vascular dementia, that directly target a cause of the condition. The research, published in the Proceedings of ...
Aug 7, 2023
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A new technology developed at Caltech is designed to make more potent vaccines, beginning with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19). In mouse studies, the prototype vaccine elicited five times more antibodies than ...
Jul 25, 2023
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PFAS are used in many everyday products. This is because PFAS are water- and fat-repellent, heat resistant, and extremely durable. PFAS have been produced since the 1950s and there are now around 10,000 different compounds.
Jul 18, 2023
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Mobile phone data are increasingly used in public health management and disease outbreak response, as demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic when location data were used as a proxy for human movement and contacts and informed ...
Jul 6, 2023
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Researchers have successfully converted human pluripotent stem cells into purified pituitary cells that aggregated into hormone-secreting organoids. As reported June 8 in the journal Stem Cell Reports, transplantation of ...
Jun 8, 2023
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Northeastern researchers have been busy trying to better understand the links between "ultra-processed foods" and human health through the university-sponsored Foodome project.
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Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) recently discovered that extremely thorough "deep sequencing" of the genome in tissue samples and cell-free DNA of patients with potentially life-threatening vascular ...
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