Archive: 26/10/2016

Retinopathy: Senescence-associated secretory phenotype contributes to pathological angiogenesis

Diabetic retinopathy is the most prominent complication of diabetes and the leading cause of blindness in working age individuals. It is estimated that half a million Canadians are afflicted by diabetic retinopathy and it ...

Oct 26, 2016

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Asthmatics could breathe easier in the future with help from an unlikely quarter—parasitic hookworms

Asthmatics could breathe easier in the future with help from an unlikely quarter—parasitic hookworms.

Oct 26, 2016

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Importance of universal sanitation underestimated in efforts to reduce child mortality

The value of sanitation at reducing child mortality in many low income countries has been substantially underestimated according to recent research.

Oct 26, 2016

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Experts hope mosquito-borne bacteria can beat the Zika virus

Researchers are trying to infect mosquitoes in Brazil and Colombia with a type of bacteria that could prevent them from spreading the Zika virus and other dangerous diseases.

Oct 26, 2016

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The kids are all right: Children with 3-way DNA are healthy

More than 15 years ago, 17 babies were born after an experimental infertility treatment that gave them DNA from three people: Mom, Dad and an egg donor.

Oct 26, 2016

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Self-renewable cancer killer cells could be key to making immunotherapy work

A small molecule that can turn short-lived 'killer T-cells' into long-lived, renewable cells that can last in the body for a longer period of time, activating when necessary to destroy tumour cells, could help make cell-based ...

Oct 26, 2016

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How AIDS conquered North America: Researchers restore HIV genomes from serum samples more than 40 years old

Researchers at the University of Arizona and the University of Cambridge in the U.K. have reconstructed the origins of the AIDS pandemic in unprecedented detail.

Oct 26, 2016

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Mutations in bone cells can drive leukemia in neighboring stem cells

Certain DNA mutations in bone cells that support blood development can drive leukemia formation in nearby blood stem cells, researchers from Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta ...

Oct 26, 2016

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Epigenetics and neural cell death

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet researchers have demonstrated how deregulation of an epigenetic mechanism that is active only in the early phases of neurogenesis triggers the subsequent death of neural cells.

Oct 26, 2016

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How narrow is it? Government begins limited test of comparison tool for health plan networks

The incredible shrinking provider network is nothing new in marketplace plans. One way insurers have kept premiums in check on the individual market is by reducing the number of providers available in a plan's network. Earlier ...

Oct 26, 2016

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