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Scientists honored for COVID-19 tracker, prenatal test
A Johns Hopkins University scientist who created a website to track COVID-19 cases worldwide is the recipient of this year's Lasker award for public service.
Sep 28, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers identify potential biomarker to distinguish two aggressive types of brain tumors in children
It may soon be possible to identify Group 4 medulloblastomas—the most common malignant brain tumor in children—from more aggressive Group 3 tumors. Research based on a little-explored part of RNA, which creates proteins, ...
Sep 21, 2022
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Medical research
Cancers and heart disease could be diagnosed more easily with new rapid test
Imperial researchers have built a new easy-to-use test that could diagnose non-infectious diseases like heart attacks and cancers more quickly.
Aug 4, 2022
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Medical research
Study finds no evidence of genetic legacy in children of UK's nuclear test veterans
Military men who had been present when British nuclear weapons were tested in the 1950s and 60s are no more likely to pass on to their descendants more changes to their DNA in comparison to other veterans, a new study involving ...
Jul 25, 2022
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Health informatics
Strategies to provide better treatment and care to patients in the ICU
When patients are admitted to an intensive-care unit, health practitioners provide treatment based on the signs and symptoms they observe. This approach does not necessarily include understanding the definite causes behind ...
Jun 30, 2022
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Genetics
Researchers reveal possible molecular blood signature for suicide in major depression
A University of California, Irvine-led team of researchers, along with members of the Pritzker Research Consortium, has developed an approach to identify blood biomarkers that could predict the suicide risk of major depressive ...
May 5, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Scientists develop test that easily detects variants causing COVID-19
Rutgers scientists have developed a lab test that can quickly and easily identify which variant of the virus causing COVID-19 has infected a person, an advance expected to greatly assist health officials tracking the disease ...
May 4, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Scientists identify cancer biomarkers in breast milk
A simple blood test for women of all ages and risk levels could one day be possible thanks to a new set of protein biomarkers that researchers identified using breast milk.
Apr 4, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
A potential at-home COVID-19 test is just as good as laboratory PCR tests, according to preclinical data
Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have designed a high-quality assay that can be used in at-home tests for rapid COVID-19 screening. Results from an early preclinical study suggest that tests with the new ...
Jan 3, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Light the E-beacon: Method may lead to faster, more accurate test for coronavirus
You're worried that you may have been exposed to the coronavirus, so you decide to take a test. But which do you choose?
Dec 20, 2021
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