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MyCode Project: Unlocking the Future of Personalized Medicine

People differ from one another in millions of ways. For starters, there is eye color, hair color, body build, and tendencies toward certain diseases and…

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Tiny Tool Cultivates Blood Vessels For Tumor Research Insights

The new invention is a tiny cell cultivation chamber of silicon plastic in which researchers can cultivate blood-vessel-rich tissue and simultaneously create…

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Safer Nanoparticles Target Tumors and Enhance Drug Delivery

“It is the first luminescent nanoparticle that was purposely designed to minimize toxic side effects,” said Michael Sailor, a chemistry professor at the…

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Aneurysms Don’t Occur Earlier in Second Generation

Prior studies had suggested that aneurysm ruptures affect the offspring or second generation as much as 20 years younger than older generations. This suggests…

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New Insights Into Healing Post-Traumatic Arthritis

Their findings illuminate the mechanisms of post-traumatic arthritis and could point to therapies for this condition, which commonly afflicts younger people…

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Immune system 'atlas' will speed detection of kidney transplant

They've created an immune-system “atlas” that will improve doctors' ability to monitor transplanted organs and shed light on the mechanisms of gradual,…

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Understanding Communication in Schizophrenia Patients

This has been shown in previous research and has now been confirmed in a dissertation from the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, in Sweden. The…

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Indoor Air Pollution’s Impact on Asthma Symptoms in Kids

The study, which followed a group of asthmatic children in Baltimore, Md., is among the first to examine the effects of indoor particulate matter pollution….

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New therapy with stem cells to treat Crohn's disease

The procedure has been tested successfully in the US and Italy, where total remission of the disease has been shown in 80% of cases, and considerable…

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A revolutionary new model for Alzheimer's disease

A study from the Buck Institute for Age Research offers a revolutionary new model for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a devastating neurodegenerative disorder which…

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Hotter Days Linked to Rise in Respiratory Hospitalizations

The data comes from the “Assessment and Prevention of Acute Health Effects of Weather Conditions in Europe” (PHEWE), a multi-center, three-year collaboration…

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OHSU Vaccine Research Targets Early-Stage HIV Infection

New research at Oregon Health & Science University's Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute suggests vaccines that specifically target HIV in the initial stages of…

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Unexploded Munitions in Oceans Linked to Cancer-Causing Toxins

Data revealed that the closer corals and marine life were to unexploded bombs from the World War II vessel and the surrounding target range, the higher the…

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Taurine’s Role in Visual Toxicity of Anti-Epileptic Drugs

Serge Picaud, head of research at Inserm, and his colleagues of the Institut de la Vision have just discovered the origin of this secondary effect and have…

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How Indoor Plants Can Lower Formaldehyde Levels Effectively

The toxic gas formaldehyde is contained in building materials including carpeting, curtains, plywood, and adhesives. As it is emitted from these sources, it…

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New Insights Into Bacteria Evolution by McMaster Researchers

Researchers of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research have discovered a new way that bacteria evolve into something that can make…

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