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(University of South Florida (USF Health)) The protein β-arrestin-2 increases the accumulation of brain-damaging tau tangles, a cause several forms of dementia, by interfering with removal of excess tau from the brain, ...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Parents from lower-income families are less likely to describe their home tap water as safe, say their water has been tested or feel confident in the quality of drinking fount...

(National Institutes of Natural Sciences) Researchers in the National Institute for Physiological Sciences compared functional properties of TRPA1 which serves as a receptor for noxious heat and chemicals among mosquito ...

(American College of Cardiology) Reducing animal product intake and following a primarily plant-based diet can decrease your risk of heart disease by minimizing the adverse effects of a gut-microbiome associated with inc...

(BMJ) Twenty four common variations in genes coding for cell growth and death, the processing of oestrogen, and gene control factors may be linked to a heightened risk of developing womb (endometrial) cancer, indicates t...

(Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association) Scientists at the MDC have discovered stem cells responsible for the most common form of kidney cancer. The team of Walter Birchmeier has found a...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) A study at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center found that chemotherapy results in increased heterogeneity within small cell lung cancer, leading to the evo...

(Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown) Thoughts, sensations, and emotions zap across the brain via a meshwork of fine nerve fibers called axons. Axon size is crucially important for general brain function as well as in ce...

(BMJ) Eating a Mediterranean diet for a year boosts the types of gut bacteria linked to 'healthy' ageing, while reducing those associated with harmful inflammation in older people, indicates a five-country study, publish...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) In experiments with human cells and mice, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center report evidence that combining the experimental cancer medication TAK228 (also called sapanisertib)...

(BMJ) The complications of measles can be many and varied, and more serious than people might realise, doctors have warned in the journal BMJ Case Reports after treating a series of adults with the infection.

(Columbia University Irving Medical Center) Patients taking the recommended diuretic for hypertension had nearly three times the risk of potentially serious side effects, according to a new study from researchers at Colu...

(Florida Atlantic University) New guidelines recommend aspirin use in primary prevention for people ages 40 to 70 years old who are at higher risk of a first cardiovascular event, but not for those over 70. Yet, people o...

(University of Helsinki) Tropomodulin maintains the fine balance between the protein machineries responsible for cell movement and morphogenesis. Disturbances in this balance are common in many diseases, for example, inv...

(American Cancer Society) A new study finds a wide state-by-state variation in rates of melanoma caused by ultraviolet (UV) exposure with highest rates in several states on the East and West Coast including Hawaii, but a...

(RMIT University) About 300,000 new cases of ovarian cancer are diagnosed globally each year, with about 60% of women dying within five years after diagnosis. A clinical trial has shown testing for a specific immune biom...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Researchers found that repeats in the gene that causes Fragile X Syndrome normally regulate how and when proteins are made in neurons.

(The Lancet) Individuals who exhibit life-course-persistent antisocial behaviour - for example, stealing, aggression and violence, bullying, lying, or repeated failure to take care of work or school responsibilities - ma...

(University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) Military service is a risk factor for sleep disorders. Recognizing this, the US Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense issued new guidelines for assessing a...

(University of Gothenburg) The Swedish team responsible for uterine transplantation research has, for the first time, transplanted a uterus from a deceased donor. The operation proceeded without complications and the rec...

(University of Warwick) Women who have experienced domestic abuse appear to be more than 40% more likely to die from any cause compared to the general population, a study led by the Universities of Warwick and Birmingham...

(University College London) New technology developed at UCL is, for the first time, enabling cancer scientists to analyse the individual behaviour of millions of different cells living inside lab-grown tumours -- a break...