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The promise of stem cell-based gene therapy

Sophisticated genetic tools and techniques for achieving targeted gene delivery and high gene expression levels in bone marrow will drive the successful…

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Not Senseless – Watching the Brain Relearning the Sense of Smell

These studies provide insight into the effects of the loss of smell on corresponding relevant brain areas. One such project, conducted with support from the…

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Sweating the small stuff: Early adversity, prior depression linked to high sensitivity to stress

Now, a new study led by UCLA researchers suggests that people become depressed more easily following minor life stress in part because they have experienced…

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Monkeys Reveal New Insights into MS-Like Disease

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have discovered a naturally occurring disease in monkeys that is very much like multiple sclerosis in humans…

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New Research Reduces Side Effects in Anti-Cancer Antibiotics

Most of us have had a doctor prescribe an antibiotic for a stubborn bacterial infection, or for a cut that gets infected. However, prescribing an antibiotic…

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Effective Hepatitis B Vaccine Series for Pregnant Women

An accelerated hepatitis B vaccination schedule for high-risk pregnant women was found effective and well-tolerated. The findings appear in the journal…

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Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Tailoring Therapies to Subtypes

In the July issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Cancer Center Director Jennifer Pietenpol, Ph.D., and colleagues describe the molecular features of…

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Intensive Care Nurses Question Brain Death Determination Methods

Intensive care nurses also perceive that this uncertainty can affect relatives when the question of organ donation is raised, is reveiled in a thesis from the…

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Exercise Boosts Health of Intervertebral Discs, Study Finds

Physical exercise has a positive effect on the formation of cells in the intervertebral discs. This is shown by a study from the Sahlgrenska Academy,…

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Children’s hay fever relieved by cellulose power without adverse effects

Now, however, scientists from the Sahlgrenska Academy and the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at the University of Gothenburg have proven that…

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Asperger Syndrome Signs in Babies: Key Insights from Research

Several of these characteristics were evident to parents during their child’s first two years, reveals Petra Dewrang’s thesis in psychology at the University…

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UCI, French Researchers Identify Key Switch in Adult Epilepsy

UC Irvine and French researchers have identified a central switch responsible for the transformation of healthy brain cells into epileptic ones, opening the…

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Lab-Grown Blood Vessels Successfully Implanted in Patients

For the first time, human blood vessels grown in a laboratory from donor skin cells have been successfully implanted into patients, according to new research…

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Rotavirus vaccine greatly reduced gastroenteritis hospitalizations in children

From 2006 to 2009, researchers examined the impact of the vaccine among children hospitalized for diarrhea and/or vomiting in the Cincinnati, Ohio; Nashville,…

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Parental Stress Linked to Increased Lung Damage in Children

The results will appear online ahead of the print edition of the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.”This…

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Adolescents' dieting and disordered eating behaviors continue into young adulthood

Adolescents who diet and develop disordered eating behaviors (unhealthy and extreme weight control behaviors and binge eating) carry these unhealthy practices…

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