To successfully infect its host, the rabies virus must move from the nerve ending to the nerve cell body where it can replicate.
Aug 23, 2018
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Vitamin B12 is essential to human health. However, some people have inherited conditions that leave them unable to process vitamin B12. As a result they are prone to serious health problems, including developmental delay, ...
Aug 26, 2012
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Worldwide, 50 million people are living with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. According to the Alzheimer's Association, every 65 seconds someone in the United States develops this disease, which causes problems with ...
Apr 23, 2019
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Scientists have discovered a new way to attack Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. The team, from Imperial College London, have revealed how the bacteria regulates its salt levels.
Aug 16, 2016
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Although the outlook for people with some types of cancers has improved in the past 20 years, outcomes for patients with uterine and ovarian cancers remain much the same. Patients often have advanced disease before they are ...
Apr 19, 2022
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Physicians have used the drug metformin to treat type 2 diabetes for more than half a century, but despite its prevalence, researchers have lacked a clear understanding of how it works. Now, Yale researchers have elucidated ...
Mar 3, 2022
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An international team of researchers has discovered the mutation responsible for a rare, newly identified genetic disorder that causes craniofacial abnormalities and developmental delays. The mutation disrupts normal protein ...
Jul 28, 2016
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A previously undiscovered role played by the hormone FGF23 has now been discovered in a project funded by the FWF. Scientists were already aware that greater quantities of this hormone are produced when there is too much ...
Aug 25, 2014
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Working with mouse and human tissue, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report new evidence that a protein pumped out of some—but not all—populations of "helper" cells in the brain, called astrocytes, plays a specific ...
Jul 30, 2019
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Advances in research into Alzheimer's disease: transporter proteins at the blood CSF barrier and vitamin D may help prevent amyloid β build up in the brain
Jul 9, 2011
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