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Immunology
Discovery highlights the complex lifestyles of frontline immune cells
WEHI researchers have made a surprise discovery about how immune 'sentinel' cells are maintained, which could have implications for drugs in development for treating cancer.
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Infants exposed to domestic violence have poorer cognitive development
While assessing a pregnant woman with premature labor in 1983, Linda Bullock noticed bruises on the woman. When she asked what happened, the woman told Bullock a refrigerator had fallen on her while cleaning the kitchen.
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Medical Research News
US govt advisers vote no to Pfizer Covid boosters for ages 16 and up
Leading US medical experts advising the government voted against recommending booster doses of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine for everyone aged 16 and up, citing concerns about potential side-effects in younger age groups.
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HER2-targeting antibody-drug improves progression-free survival for women with deadly form of advanced breast cancer
A study led by researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has found that treating women with HER2 positive metastatic breast cancer with the HER2-targeting antibody-drug conjugate trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) ...
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US panel backs COVID-19 boosters only for seniors, high-risk
Dealing the White House a stinging setback, a government advisory panel overwhelmingly rejected a plan Friday to give Pfizer COVID-19 booster shots across the board, and instead endorsed the extra vaccine dose only for those ...
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Lessons from how bats resist covid could inform new treatments in humans
A paper published in the prestigious journal, Science Immunology, explores the idea that studying bats' responses to SARS-CoV-2 may provide key insights into how and when to best use existing therapies for COVID-19, and to ...
Sep 17, 2021
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Capturing origins and early adaptive processes underlying therapy response to cancer treatments
A team of researchers with biotechnology corporation Genentech Inc., has developed a new way to capture the origins and early adaptive processes that are involved in therapy responses to cancer treatments. In their paper ...
Deep learning helps predict new drug combinations to fight COVID-19
The existential threat of COVID-19 has highlighted an acute need to develop working therapeutics against emerging health threats. One of the luxuries deep learning has afforded us is the ability to modify the landscape as ...
Sep 17, 2021
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Allergies to mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines rare, generally mild, study finds
Allergic reactions to the new mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines are rare, typically mild and treatable, and they should not deter people from becoming vaccinated, according to research from the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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Droplets with coronaviruses last longer than previously thought
It is easier to get infected in winter than in summer—this is true for the Corona pandemic, for influenza and for other viral diseases. Relative humidity plays an important role in this. Outdoors, it is much higher outside ...
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Men, jobless and people with mental health diagnoses most vulnerable in 2020 overdose spike
At the same time as COVID-19 has claimed more than 600,000 lives across the United States, drug overdose deaths across the nation reached unprecedented heights. Rhode Island has been particularly affected: In December 2020, ...
Sep 17, 2021
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Our immune system is as unique as a fingerprint or our DNA
Every person appears to have a completely unique immune system. Researchers from Utrecht University discovered this immune diversity after mapping antibodies from healthy and sick individuals. The discovery could help explain ...
Sep 17, 2021
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Fruit, vegetables and exercise can make you happier
New research led by the University of Kent and University of Reading has found that fruit and vegetable consumption and exercise can increase levels of happiness.
Sep 17, 2021
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Greater, broader SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies with third dose of vaccine
A third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine significantly increased neutralizing antibody levels against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, according to new research published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Time until dementia symptoms appear can be estimated via brain scan
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed an approach to estimating when a person who is likely to develop Alzheimer's disease, but has no cognitive symptoms, will start showing signs ...
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Gut bacteria might be an indicator of colon cancer risk
A study published today in the journal Cell Host & Microbe reported that the increased presence of certain bacteria in a gut biome indicates a greater likelihood that colon polyps will become cancerous.
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Highly contagious coronavirus variant's mutation weakens antibody effectiveness
FIU researchers looking to unravel the secrets of how the coronavirus' most contagious variant became so widespread have found an intriguing clue.
Sep 17, 2021
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Young people's fluctuating beliefs on alcohol's effects influence their drinking and consequences
College students' beliefs around the likelihood and desirability of alcohol's effects vary over time, and predict drinking level and consequences, according to a study in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. The ...
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Sex ed curriculum elevates pregnancy prevention skills among Native American teens
A sex education program delivered in the setting of a two-week summer basketball camp in Arizona significantly impacted key factors associated with pregnancy prevention among Native American teens, researchers at the Johns ...
Sep 17, 2021
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Studying aging through metabolite changes in saliva
Researchers in Japan have conducted a comprehensive analysis of the metabolites that make up human saliva using samples given voluntarily from a group of 27-to-33-year-old individuals and a group of 72-to-80-year-old individuals. ...
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