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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 ...


Study reveals lack of diversity in embryonic stem cell lines

Biology / Biotechnology

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The most widely used human embryonic stem cell lines lack genetic diversity, a finding that raises social justice questions that must be addressed to ensure that all sectors of society benefit from stem cell advances, according ...


Stem-cell activators switch function, repress mature cells

Medicine & Health / Research

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In a developing animal, stem cells proliferate and differentiate to form the organs needed for life. A new study shows how a crucial step in this process happens and how a reversal of that step contributes to cancer.


Aggressive infection control protects cancer patients from acquiring H1N1 influenza

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Despite a 100-fold increase in H1N1 influenza cases in the Seattle area during spring 2009, an aggressive infection control program to protect immunocompromised cancer patients and thorough screening measures resulted in ...


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Scientists decode memory-forming brain cell conversations

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

The conversations neurons have as they form and recall memories have been decoded by Medical College of Georgia scientists.



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