Genetics
Get a clue: Biochemist studies fruit fly to understand Parkinson's disease, muscle wasting
The fruit fly may help us be less clueless about human muscle development and Parkinson's disease.
Jun 22, 2016
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Medical research
Research breakthrough in fight against muscle wasting diseases
It is estimated that half of all cancer patients suffer from a muscle wasting syndrome called cachexia. Cancer cachexia impairs quality of life and response to therapy, which increases morbidity and mortality of cancer patients. ...
Sep 15, 2015
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Medical research
Prion disease detected soon after infection and in surprising place in mouse brains
Prion diseases—incurable, ultimately fatal, transmissible neurodegenerative disorders of mammals—are believed to develop undetected in the brain over several years from infectious prion protein. In a new study, National ...
Sep 22, 2015
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Genetics
Britain first country to approve 'three-parent' babies (Update 2)
Britain is set to become the first country in the world to legally offer "three-parent baby" fertility treatments after regulators gave the green light.
Dec 15, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Combined therapy could repair and prevent damage in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
New research on two promising gene therapies suggests that combining them into one treatment not only repairs muscle damage caused by Duchenne muscular dystrophy, but also prevents future injury from the muscle-wasting disease. ...
Aug 9, 2013
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Health
China's mass testing mantra is building a waste mountain
Hazmat-suited workers poke plastic swabs down millions of throats in China each day, leaving bins bursting with medical waste that has become the environmental and economic levy of a zero-COVID strategy.
Jun 20, 2022
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Medical research
New clues to how muscle wasting occurs in people with cancer
Muscle wasting, or the loss of muscle tissue, is a common problem for people with cancer, but the precise mechanisms have long eluded doctors and scientists. Now, a new study led by Penn State researchers gives new clues ...
Feb 3, 2021
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Medical research
Study: No chronic wasting disease transmissibility in macaques
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) did not cross the species barrier to infect cynomolgus macaque monkeys during a lengthy investigation by National Institutes of Health scientists exploring risks to humans.
Apr 25, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Testing sewage has helped track COVID – soon it could reveal much more about the UK's health
It may not feel like it when you're swabbing your throat, but improving how we test for diseases is one of the big positives of COVID. Applying methods developed for COVID to other diseases could revolutionise how we detect ...
Mar 23, 2022
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Surgery
New study shows potential benefits of normothermic machine perfusion in liver transplantation
A clinical trial comparing conventional low-temperature storage of transplant donor livers with storage at physiological body temperature has revealed promising results for the evolution of liver transplantation. Results ...
Jul 17, 2023
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