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Measuring Blood Damage

May 25, 2020
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Newark, DE — According to the National Kidney Foundation, more than 37 million people are living with kidney disease. The kidneys play an important role in the body, from removing waste products...

New Technology can Detect Anti-Virus Antibody in 20 Minutes

May 25, 2020
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Sapporo, Japan — Researchers have succeeded in detecting anti-avian influenza virus antibody in blood serum within 20 minutes, using a portable analyzer they have developed to conduct rapid on-site...

COVID-19 Cytokine Storm: Possible Mechanism for the Deadly Respiratory Syndrome

May 25, 2020
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Sapporo, Japan — Research into how the SARS-CoV-2 virus induces death is suggesting potential treatments for its most destructive complications. Leading immunologists in Japan are proposing a possible...

Iron Nanorobots Go Undercover

May 25, 2020
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Thuwal, Saudi Arabia — Living cells inside the body could be placed under surveillance–their location and migration noninvasively tracked in real time over many days–using a new method...

New Imaging Analysis Pipeline could Aid in Drug and Vaccine Development

May 25, 2020
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Chicago, IL — From testing drugs to developing vaccines, the close study of the immune system is key to improving real-world health outcomes. T-cells are integral to this research, as these white blood...

T-cells could be Made into Better Cancer Killers by Increasing Their Protein Production

May 25, 2020
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Charleston, SC — A team of scientists from Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has developed a novel flow cytometry technique that can, for the first-time, quantify...

Potentially Treatable Genetic Mutations Revealed in Subset of Prostate Cancer Patients

May 25, 2020
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Reston, VA — Prostate cancer patients who do not respond well to PSMA-targeted therapy often have potentially treatable mutations in their DNA damage-repair genes, according to research published in...

New Insight into Allergies could Improve Diagnosis and Treatment

May 25, 2020
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Boston, MA — Results from a study led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital may help to improve the diagnosis and treatment of allergies, pointing to a potential marker of these conditions...

One Minute Electro-Optical Coronavirus Test Developed

May 24, 2020
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Beer-Sheva, Israel — Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Prof. Gabby Sarusi has developed a one-minute electro-optical test of nose, throat or breath samples that will identify both asymptomatic...

Preclinical Study Offers Hope for Hirschsprung’s Disease

May 24, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — Babies with Hirschsprung’s disease are born with an incomplete or absent gut nervous system. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles investigator Dr. Tracy Grikscheit, runs a...

Age, Male Sex, Obesity, and Underlying Illness Risk Factors for Severe COVID-19 or Death

May 24, 2020
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London, UK — Age, male sex, obesity, and underlying illness have emerged as risk factors for severe covid-19 or death in the UK, according to the largest cohort study to date published by The BMJ May...

Placentas From COVID-19-Positive Pregnant Women Show Injury

May 24, 2020
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Chicago, IL — The placentas from 16 women who tested positive for COVID-19 while pregnant showed evidence of injury, according to pathological exams completed directly following birth, reports a new...

Identification of a Determining Factor in Luminal Cancer Cells

May 21, 2020
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Barcelona, Spain — The Translational Control of Cell Cycle and Differentiation Lab at IRB Barcelona, led by ICREA researcher Raúl Méndez, has published a study in the journal Science Advances that...

Machine that Oxygenates Blood may Help Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients, Study Says

May 21, 2020
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Morgantown, WV — When COVID-19 patients are critically ill, the biggest threat to their lives is lung dysfunction. If their lungs don’t work, their blood can’t circulate enough oxygen to...

New Tool to Map the Flow of Info Within Living Cells

May 21, 2020
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Chapel Hill, NC — How do cells move? Why do they move? Why do some cancer cells move slowly while others move quickly, causing a cancerous tumour to metastasize and become much more difficult to treat...

Cancer Researchers Locate Drivers of Tumour Resistance

May 21, 2020
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San Antonio, TX — Cancer biologists at the Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson, have identified important drivers that enable tumours to change their behavior and evade anticancer...

Smoking Increases SARS-CoV-2 Receptors in Lung

May 21, 2020
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Cold Spring Harbor, NY — New research from CSHL scientists suggests that cigarette smoke spurs the lungs to make more ACE2 (angiotensin-converting enzyme 2), the protein that the coronavirus responsible...

Enzymes Edit SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the Body, Perhaps Fueling the Virus’ Evolution

May 21, 2020
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Washington, D.C — Two human deaminase enzymes edit the RNA of the SARS-CoV-2 virus when it enters a patient’s body, with implications for the evolution of the virus and the spread of the infection,...

Location, Location, Location: The Cell Membrane Facilitates RAS Protein Interactions

May 21, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Many cancer medications fail to effectively target the most commonly mutated cancer genes in humans, called RAS. Now, Salk Professor Geoffrey Wahl and a team of scientists have uncovered...

How to identify patients most at risk from COVID-19 through nanotechnology

May 21, 2020
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East Lansing, MI — What if doctors could not only diagnose a COVID-19 infection but identify which patients are at the greatest risk of death before any major complications arise? One Michigan State...

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