An international research team has demonstrated a method to identify the cells in the immune system that can recognize and fight cancer cells in samples from 9 out of 10 patients affected by the rare but aggressive form of ...
Jul 1, 2024
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An experimental mRNA vaccine against avian influenza virus H5N1 is highly effective in preventing severe illness and death in preclinical models. The vaccine could potentially help manage the outbreak of the H5N1 virus currently ...
May 23, 2024
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Autism spectrum disorder has yet to be linked to a single cause, due to the wide range of its symptoms and severity. However, a study by University of Virginia researchers suggests a promising new approach to finding answers, ...
Apr 17, 2024
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Brazilian and American researchers have identified 87 genes linked to alterations in blood pressure and 144 others associated with variations in heart rate. The findings, published in the journal Science Advances, create ...
Mar 25, 2024
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Transduction is the changing of one form of energy into another, such as a spoken voice changed into radio waves by a cellphone.
Feb 14, 2024
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mRNA, a type of genetic material that provides the instructions your cells need in order to make proteins, used to be a term mainly used by scientists. But since COVID arrived, many of us are now familiar with it thanks to ...
Dec 19, 2023
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The recent award of the 2023 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman highlights the growing importance of RNA technology in the medical world, with many potential applications beyond COVID ...
Oct 26, 2023
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There have been several important breakthroughs in medical science recently. Crispr, mRNA, next-generation cancer treatments and game-changing vaccines are some of them. Oyewale Tomori, a virologist with decades-long involvement ...
Oct 24, 2023
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"What keeps you up at night?" It's a question Anthony Fauci, MD, heard repeatedly over the course of his nearly four decades as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes ...
Oct 18, 2023
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Many people first became familiar with the term "mRNA" when Pfizer's and Moderna's COVID vaccines were rolled out. In the simplest terms, mRNA, which stands for messenger ribonucleic acid, is a type of genetic material that ...
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