Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATM) is a congenital metabolic disorder. It is caused by a genetic defect, which results in the protective protein alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) being produced incorrectly. This deficiency primarily ...
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Spread through the bite of Aedes mosquitoes, dengue is a viral infection that can cause anything from mild fever, flu-like symptoms and joint pain to a severe form known as dengue hemorrhagic fever. What makes dengue particularly ...
A defining feature of Alzheimer's disease is the abnormal, sustained accumulation of protein aggregates such as tau inside brain cells, which disrupts the cells' normal functions. As time passes, brain cells stop working ...
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Two studies involving investigators at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children's and the University of Cambridge, U.K., highlight the growing potential of whole-genome sequencing to transform the diagnosis and treatment of childhood ...
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Researchers from the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that helps fill gaps in brain wiring ...
Nov 4, 2026
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A KAIST-led research team has found that a protein involved in gene regulation can suppress the harmful aggregation of amyloid-beta, a peptide associated with Alzheimer's disease. The approach also reduced the toxicity of ...
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A skeleton hanging on a door or standing in your neighbor's yard for Halloween looks like a finished structure. But the skeleton inside a living body is constantly changing. Around menopause, those changes can tip toward ...
Nov 3, 2026
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Flinders University research published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing has examined how specialist palliative care nurses navigate these complex decisions and found they draw on clinical expertise, ethical judgment, close ...
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A UCLA-led team has described how it advanced an experimental CRISPR approach for sickle cell disease into a blood stem cell therapy that can be manufactured at the scale and quality required for a clinical trial.
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Social media trending hashtags such as skinny girl dinner and thinspiration are promoting restrictive eating and a lifestyle centered on staying thin to millions of people around the world. This hunger for thinness is also ...
