Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Novartis announced over the weekend it would dish out $9.7 billion (8.8 billion euros) to acquire US firm Medicines Company, in a move aimed at boosting its cardiovascular treatment portfolio.
Nov 25, 2019
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A Yale-led collaborative study boosts scientific understanding of how the lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) progresses, providing a roadmap for researchers to discover new treatment targets for the disease.
Nov 15, 2019
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Guidelines should change so that all men over the age of 40 with faults in the BRCA2 gene should be offered regular PSA testing to detect early signs of prostate cancer, experts are urging.
Nov 04, 2019
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In Spain, a workgroup of more than 400 researchers—the Spanish Group of Myelodysplastic Syndromes (GESMD)—meets twice a year to present projects and undertake collaborations that improve their work in the fight against ...
Nov 04, 2019
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A study of the genetic make-up of zebrafish has provided brand new insights into the cause of congenital hearing disorders in humans.
Oct 23, 2019
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Researchers, using a method called genome-wide association study, have illuminated the genetic underpinnings of high serum urate, the blood condition that brings on gout. The study, co-led by scientists at the Johns Hopkins ...
Oct 07, 2019
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A new study, published in Aging Cell, has found that human ageing processes may hinder cancer development.
Sep 27, 2019
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SMU (Southern Methodist University) researchers have discovered another layer of complexity in gene expression, which could help explain how we're able to have so many billions of neurons in our brain.
Sep 06, 2019
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In a new study, scientists led by the U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research identified a transcriptional signature in B cells associated with protection from SIV or HIV infection ...
Aug 28, 2019
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A specific gene associated with autism appears to undergo changes in the sperm of men who use marijuana, according to new research from Duke Health.
Aug 27, 2019
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