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(Institut Pasteur) Parasites in the genus Plasmodium, which cause malaria, are transmitted to humans through bites from infected mosquitoes. The parasites manage to acclimatize to these two completely different hosts bec...

Researchers report that accumulating amyloid protein occurred faster among persons deemed to have 'objectively-defined subtle cognitive difficulties' (Obj-SCD) than among persons considered to be 'cognitively normal,' of...

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(Baylor College of Medicine) Human noroviruses, the leading viral cause of foodborne illness and acute diarrhea around the world, infect cells of the small intestine by piggybacking on a normal cellular process called en...

(Flinders University) A vaccine to ward off dementia may proceed to clinical trials after successful animal testing. The US-led research is looking to develop effective immunotherapy via a dual vaccine to remove 'brain p...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Now, a Johns Hopkins Medicine research team reports it has developed and tested a relatively simple strategy for reducing the chance of parents exposing their babies in the NICU to one of the mos...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Before gene therapy can be used to treat renal diseases, delivery of therapeutic genes to the kidney must become much more efficient.

(Marine Biological Laboratory) In a new study, a team born in part at the Neural Systems & Behavior course in Woods Hole tests the notion that a cell's identity can be described solely by the genes it expresses. The stud...

(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) The region of the brain called the ventral pallidum balances signals that either excite or inhibit neurons to influence the motivation of an animal to seek pleasure or avoid pain. An imbal...