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(Baylor College of Medicine) "Genomics of Rare Diseases" offers readers a broad understanding of current knowledge on rare diseases from a genomics perspective.

(University of Liverpool) A new University of Liverpool study could help scientists mitigate the future spread of zoonotic and livestock diseases caused by existing viruses.Researchers have used a form or artificial inte...

(Compuscript Ltd) In 2021 Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B (APSB) is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The journal was founded with the goal of creating a global high-level forum centred around drug discovery and pharmaceutic...

(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) In a new article published in The Lancet Public Health, they report results from a first-of-its kind nationwide study evaluating a targeted intervention aimed at transf...

(The Endocrine Society) Antacids improved blood sugar control in people with diabetes but had no effect on reducing the risk of diabetes in the general population, according to a new meta-analysis published in the Endocr...

(JAMA Network) What The Study Did: This analysis describes the use of a multifaceted COVID-19 control plan to reduce spread of SARS-CoV-2 at a large urban university during the second wave of the pandemic.

(University of Southampton) Scientists have gained novel insights into how an important class of immune receptors called tumour necrosis factor receptors (TNFR) are activated.

(Children's National Hospital) Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) significantly affected more Black and Latino children than white children, with Black children at the highest risk, according to a new ...

(The Ottawa Hospital) Researchers have built and validated an online calculator that empowers individuals 55 and over to better understand the health of their brain and how they can reduce their risk of being diagnosed w...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) The American Thyroid Association, the European Association of Nuclear Medicine, the European Thyroid Association, and the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imagin...

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) A UCLA-led study comparing brain cells known as astrocytes in humans and mice found that mouse astrocytes are more resilient to oxidative stress, a damaging imbala...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) At the recent 2021 Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) presented positive updates on their trials of the...

(La Jolla Institute for Immunology) Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have shed light on a process in immune cells that may explain why some people develop cardiovascular diseases.

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) A study from UCLA neurologists challenges the idea that the brain recruits existing neurons to take over for those that are lost from stroke.

(University of California - Irvine) New research from the University of California, Irvine reveals how the circadian regulation of glucose production in the liver is lost during lung cancer progression, and how the resul...

(University of Tsukuba) Researchers from University of Tsukuba have found that the share of calls to after-hours house call medical services for fever or cold symptoms decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic in Tokyo, but...

(University of Tennessee Health Science Center) Liza Makowski, PhD, professor in the Department of Medicine and the UTHSC Center for Cancer Research, has long been interested in how the immune system is altered by obesit...

(Mayo Clinic) Researchers at Mayo Clinic Cancer Center are studying a potential new chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy (CAR-T cell therapy) treatment for multiple myeloma. Their findings were published on Friday, J...

(University of Toronto) Despite research showing associations between anabolic steroid use and criminal offending, the possibility of a similar association between legal performance-enhancing substance use, such as creat...

(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) An early intervention developed for caregivers of patients with serious illnesses or injuries will be tested by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science...

(University of North Carolina Health Care) Researchers discovered that a small subpopulation of antibodies binding to unique sites on each serotype are linked to protection. The research, published in the Journal of Clin...

(University of North Carolina Health Care) For the first, time UNC School of Medicine scientist Katie Baldwin, Ph.D., and colleagues revealed a central role of the glial protein hepaCAM in building the brain and affectin...