Britain's fertility regulator on Wednesday confirmed the births of the U.K.'s first babies created using an experimental technique combining DNA from three people, an effort to prevent the children from inheriting rare genetic ...
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Using blood samples to study diseases that originate in the brain is a difficulty faced by psychiatric genetics in the search for markers of mental health disorders. Researchers at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) ...
May 2, 2023
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Cambridge scientists have shown how the brain's ability to clear out toxic proteins is impaired in Huntington's disease and other forms of dementia—and how, in a study in mice, a repurposed HIV drug was able to restore ...
Apr 26, 2023
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Health surveys and clinical studies have a data collection problem: Because of the way they record sex or gender, they often exclude transgender and gender-diverse people, according to University of Michigan research.
Apr 24, 2023
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Diagnostic imaging is indispensable in health care, as it allows clinicians to detect and diagnose a variety of medical conditions. Despite significant advances to imaging technology, however, existing single imaging techniques ...
Apr 19, 2023
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The skin is an appealing route for drug delivery because it allows drugs to go directly to the site where they're needed, which could be useful for wound healing, pain relief, or other medical and cosmetic applications. However, ...
Apr 19, 2023
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Cancer drugs that stimulate the body's immune system to attack tumors are a promising way to treat many types of cancer. However, some of these drugs produce too much systemic inflammation when delivered intravenously, making ...
Apr 19, 2023
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Anorexia nervosa (AN) is the deadliest psychiatric illness aside from opioid use disorder, with scarce effective treatment options. A new study by Yale researchers reveals a potential new therapeutic for the disorder, as ...
Apr 13, 2023
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In the 1835 Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea," a princess is deemed authentic because of her sensitivity to a pea placed under 20 mattresses on her bed. New research from the McKelvey School of ...
Apr 12, 2023
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Researchers at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in Brazil have developed an electrochemical sensor that detects Parkinson's disease at different stages. The device was ...
Apr 12, 2023
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