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Genetic variant may control lung function and risk of COPD

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Researchers have discovered evidence that suggests a genetic variant may be associated with better preserved lung function among children with asthma and adults who smoke, according to a new study funded by the National Heart, ...


Researchers find human protein that prevents H1N1 influenza infection

Medicine & Health / Research

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have identified a naturally occurring human protein that helps prevent infection by H1N1 influenza and other viruses, including West Nile and dengue virus.


In a first, key pancreatic cells inserted in wounded airman's liver

Medicine & Health / Research

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In what medical officials say is a first, the bullet-scarred pancreas from a service member who was shot in Afghanistan was flown from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington to the University of Miami, where insulin-producing ...


Researchers design a tool to induce controlled suicide in human cells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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When cells accumulate excessive errors in the proteins they produce, apoptosis is activated, that is to say, a cell suicide programme; however, beforehand the cells attempt to rectify the problem through a number of rescue ...


Exposure to young triggers new neuron creation in females exhibiting maternal behavior

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Maternal behavior itself can trigger the development of new neurons in the maternal brain independent of whether the female was pregnant or has nursed, according to a study released by researchers at Tufts University's Cummings ...


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.


Two common forms of cancer have been genetically mapped for the first time

Scientists crack gene code of common cancers

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Two common forms of cancer have been genetically mapped for the first time, British scientists announced, in a major breakthrough in understanding the diseases.


Breakthrough on causes of inflammatory bowel disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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New research by the University of Adelaide could help explain why some people are more prone to Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and other autoimmune diseases.


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 ...


Invasion without a stir

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Bacteria of the genus Salmonella cause most food-borne illnesses. The bacteria attach to cells of the intestinal wall and induce their own ingestion by cells of the intestinal epithelium. Up till now, researchers assumed ...



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