Diabetes
Team cures diabetes in mice without side effects
A potential cure for Type 1 diabetes looms on the horizon in San Antonio, and the novel approach would also allow Type 2 diabetics to stop insulin shots.
May 5, 2017
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Medical economics
Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna making $1,000 profit every second: analysis
Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna are making combined profits of $65,000 every minute from their highly successful COVID-19 vaccines while the world's poorest countries remain largely unvaccinated, according to a new analysis.
Nov 16, 2021
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Medical research
Horizontal transfer of mitochondria in sickness and in health
(Medical Xpress)—Two of the most enticing ideas in cells biology have recently converged to create a paradigm shift of epic proportions. The first is that not only is it possible for mitochondria to emigrate from their ...
Obstetrics & gynaecology
Evidence of horizontal gene transfer between human maternal microbiome and infant gut microbiome
Researchers have discovered a new mode of vertical mother-to-infant microbiome transmission, where microbes in the maternal gut shared genes with microbes in the infant gut during the perinatal period starting immediately ...
Dec 22, 2022
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Genetics
Artificial intelligence system predicts consequences of gene modifications
Researchers at Gladstone Institutes, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have turned to artificial intelligence (AI) to help them understand how large networks of interconnected human ...
May 31, 2023
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Neuroscience
Researchers develop a fast, noninvasive brain-computer interface
(Medical Xpress)—Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), a longtime staple of science fiction, have slowly been realized over the last 20 years. Researchers have developed neuroprosthetics that, with development, hold promise ...
Medical research
Stanford researchers' cooling glove 'better than steroids'
(Medical Xpress)—The temperature-regulation research of Stanford biologists H. Craig Heller and Dennis Grahn has led to a device that rapidly cools body temperature, greatly improves exercise recovery, and could help explain ...
Aug 30, 2012
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Frozen embryos more successful for conceiving during IVF
A new study carried out by a research team at The University of Western Australia and Fertility Specialists of Western Australia has found that women undergoing IVF who have had embryos fail to implant have more success using ...
Mar 19, 2018
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Health
What happens when you run on a full stomach?
Every year, thousands of runners take part in an event called the Krispy Kreme Challenge. The challenge consists of running 2.5 miles through downtown Raleigh, from NC State University to a Krispy Kreme store, consuming a ...
Jan 29, 2019
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Medical research
Nobel win for Swede who unlocked secrets of Neanderthal DNA (Update)
Swedish scientist Svante Paabo won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for his discoveries on human evolution that provided key insights into our immune system and what makes us unique compared with our extinct cousins, the ...
Oct 3, 2022
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