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Umbilical cord could be new source of plentiful stem cells, researchers say

Biology / Biotechnology

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Stem cells that could one day provide therapeutic options for muscle and bone disorders can be easily harvested from the tissue of the umbilical cord, just as the blood that goes through it provides precursor cells to treat ...


Gene linked to a rare form of progressive hearing loss in males is identified

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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A gene associated with a rare form of progressive deafness in males has been identified by an international team of researchers funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. The gene, PRPS1, ...


Critical communication for caregivers

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia represent an exponentially growing social and health care challenge for American families - not only family members who face the progressive brain disease, but also those who ...


Cannabis and adolescence

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Canadian teenagers are among the largest consumers of cannabis worldwide. The damaging effects of this illicit drug on young brains are worse than originally thought, according to new research by Dr. Gabriella Gobbi, a psychiatric ...


Glutamate can play key role in drug impact on brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Addiction disorders of various kinds are a major health and social problem, and our knowledge of how the brain’s reward system functions needs to be enhanced. Uppsala researchers now shows an unexpected effect ...


Study reveals chemo's toxicity to brain, possible treatment

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Researchers have developed a novel animal model showing that four commonly used chemotherapy drugs disrupt the birth of new brain cells, and that the condition could be partially reversed with the growth factor IGF-1.


Leprosy susceptibility genes reported

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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In the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) of leprosy and the largest GWAS on an infectious disease, scientists at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and 26 institutes in China identified seven genes that increase ...



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