Medical research
Against gut instinct
By turning a pathogenic yeast into an immunity-conferring symbiont, a team of A*STAR researchers is unraveling mysteries behind gut evolution and universal vaccines
Apr 3, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Douching: more harmful than helpful
(HealthDay)—Douching is the age-old practice of using a solution to attempt to clean the vagina, but there's only downsides to it.
Apr 2, 2019
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Red yeast rice supplement 'has the potential to cause' liver damage, doctors warn
Red yeast rice supplement has the potential to cause liver damage, warn doctors in the journal BMJ Case Reports, after a 64-year old woman developed acute liver injury after six weeks of taking the supplement.
Mar 25, 2019
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New yeast model of metabolic disorders may lead to life-saving therapies
There are hundreds of metabolic disorders—including phenylketonuria, tyrosinemia, maple syrup urine disease and homocystinuria. These disorders lead to congenital diseases that produce a critical enzyme deficiency that ...
Jan 16, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Fungi cause brain infection and impair memory in mice
Fungal infections are emerging as a major medical challenge, and a team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine has developed a mouse model to study the short-term consequences of fungal infection in the brain.
Jan 4, 2019
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Recalled kotex tampons can unravel inside body
(HealthDay)—Certain Kotex tampons are being recalled by Kimberly-Clark because they can unravel and leave pieces inside women's bodies.
Dec 13, 2018
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Study bridges a divide in cell aging in neurodegenerative diseases
Research from the University of Toronto has shown that in some neurodegenerative diseases, two hallmarks of cell aging – protein aggregation and a type of DNA instability – are linked. They were previously thought to ...
Nov 21, 2018
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Genetics
Genetic mutations thwart scientific efforts to fully predict our future
Ever since the decoding of the human genome in 2003, genetic research has been focused heavily on understanding genes so that they could be read like tea leaves to predict an individual's future and, perhaps, help them stave ...
Sep 17, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Yeast species used in food industry causes disease in humans
A major cause of drug-resistant clinical yeast infections is the same species previously regarded as non-pathogenic and commonly used in the biotechnology and food industries. The study, published on July 19th in the open-access ...
Jul 19, 2018
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A new puzzle piece to control the aging and age-related diseases
A basic discovery of how the cellular functions are connected to control aging is presented in the journal Cell Metabolism. The study shows that an increasingly deteriorating communication between the cells' organelles is ...
May 10, 2018
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