Archive: 09/11/2018

The cancer-preventing HPV vaccine a dozen years on: Progress, fear and loathing

A dozen years after the debut of the HPV vaccine, its track record of warding off infections that cause cervical cancer and other malignancies keeps getting better.

Nov 9, 2018

How tracking people moving together through time creates powerful data

Are you in a cohort? Perhaps a posse of friends, a sporting team, the "class of 1989" Facebook group from your former school?

Nov 9, 2018

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Skin ages when the main cells in the dermis lose their identity and function

With age, tissues lose their function and capacity to regenerate after being damaged. A study published today in Cell by scientists at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the Centro Nacional de Análisis ...

Nov 9, 2018

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Immune cells trigger OCD-like behaviour in multiple sclerosis, study finds

A class of cells that defends the body against invaders also triggers obsessive-compulsive behaviour that appears in autoimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis (MS), a new study from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) ...

Nov 9, 2018

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Researchers identify the neural basis of threatening and aggressive behaviors in Drosophila

You can always tell when two guys are about to get into a fight. It starts with angry stares, puffed-out chests, arms tossed out to the side, and little, aggressive starts forward. Neuroscientists call the combination of ...

Nov 9, 2018

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Simple scoring system could help patients avoid diabetes, study suggests

A simple scoring system can track the reduction in diabetes risk produced by lifestyle changes and medication in people with pre-diabetes, a new study has found. The findings suggest the potential that the tool could be a ...

Nov 9, 2018

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New marker provides insights into the development of type 2 diabetes

Small chemical changes in the DNA building blocks, which may be influenced by lifestyle factors, can reduce the amount of IGFBP2. A DIfE / DZD research team has now reported in the journal Diabetes that these epigenetic changes ...

Nov 9, 2018

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To better treat COPD, scientists look to tailored approaches for deadly lung disease

Valerie Chang kept waking up breathless in the middle of the night. As a regular swimmer and non-smoker, she figured it was a fluke, a remnant of her childhood asthma, perhaps.

Nov 9, 2018

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Study shows immunotherapy drug helps patients with metastatic melanoma

When melanoma turns metastatic, it spreads to the brain in more than 40% of patients. A study by Yale Cancer Center researchers published today in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO) shows a checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy ...

Nov 9, 2018

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Research could lead to better understanding of pancreatic cancer

Surrey's BioProChem group has developed a biomaterial based complex synthetic tissue, which is aimed at replicating the way pancreatic cancer tumours develop within the body.

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