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(Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) New insights into the ability of DNA to overcome harmful genetic changes have been discovered by scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of Lausanne and their collabo...

(ERA-EDTA) The 58th ERA-EDTA Congress will be held on the originally scheduled dates of June 5-8, 2021, but in fully virtual form. Journalists can register and obtain full access to the virtual content. In a press briefi...

(American Gastroenterological Association) Crohn's disease, a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that causes inflammation (pain and swelling) in the gastrointestinal tract, can cause daily health problems, frequent...

(Imperial College London) Researchers have mapped in fine detail the genetic changes malaria parasites go through as they prepare to infect people.

(Northern Arizona University) Northern Arizona University disease ecologist David Wagner and his collaborators have published study results showing how they were able to prove, by replicating environmental conditions in ...

(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) In the longest follow-up results from a clinical trial of combination immunotherapy for metastatic melanoma, investigators report that nearly half the patients who received the drugs nivolu...

(Carnegie Mellon University) A new article analyzes seven books* that discuss these inequalities, including questions of who gets health care and what interdependent roles societies, social movements, and governments pla...

(University of California - Riverside) Viji Santhakumar at the University of California, Riverside, has received funding from the National Institute of Neurological Disaster and Stroke to further pursue research on moder...

(The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences) Malignant tumour cells undergo mechanical deformation more easily than normal cells, allowing them to migrate throughout the body. The ...

(University of Guelph) University of Guelph researchers have found a pathway by which a misfolded protein called alpha-synuclein is secreted and released from neurons instead of being degraded.

(Institut national de la recherche scientifique - INRS) Oysters' exposure to plastics is concerning, particularly because these materials can accumulate and release metals which are then absorbed by the molluscs. Accordi...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) An innovative study uses the anesthetics propofol and isoflurane in humans to study the patterns of reemerging consciousness and cognitive function after anesthesia.

(Intersocietal Accreditation Commission) Published online May 19, 2021 in Vascular Medicine, researchers from the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) Vascular Testing division report findings of their multi-cent...

(University of Texas at Austin) In the perpetual arms races between bacteria and human-made antibiotics, there is a new tool to give human medicine the edge, in part by revealing bacterial weaknesses and potentially by l...

(Weill Cornell Medicine) About 12,000 bacteria and viruses collected in a sampling from public transit systems and hospitals around the world from 2015 to 2017 had never before been identified, according to a study by th...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty (THA) show significant reduction in pain and other symptoms and improvement in walking gait biomechanics. However, those improvements do not lead to incr...

(Houston Methodist) Houston Methodist announced today, in partnership with the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), that it has expanded access to COVID-19 monoclonal antibody therapy (mAb) in the Greater Ho...

(National Center of Competence in Research Synapsy) Neuroscientists from Synapsy have demonstrated that lactate, a molecule produced during exercise, has an antidepressant effect in mice. Yet it can also counter the inhi...

(Duke University) Lead paint and leaded gasoline have been banned for decades, but unsafe levels of lead remain in some urban soils, a Duke University study finds. The researchers mapped soil lead concentrations along 25...

(Jackson Laboratory) Radiotherapy works by damaging the DNA of cancer cells. It's an effective strategy overall, but many cancers have subsets of cells that are able to survive initial radiotherapeutic regimens by using ...

(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) As the owner of a human body, you're carrying trillions of microbes with you everywhere you go. These microscopic organisms aren't jus...

(University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) A researcher at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and colleagues are using machine learning to determine which vocalizations of mouse ...