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Stem Cell Therapy Promotes Recovery from Stroke and Dementia in Mice

April 22, 2021
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Los Angeles, CA — A one-time injection of an experimental stem cell therapy can repair brain damage and improve memory function in mice with conditions that replicate human strokes and dementia, a...

SARS-CoV-2: Infection Induces antibodies capable of killing infected cells

April 21, 2021
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Paris, France — Drawing on epidemiological field studies and the French COVID hospital cohort coordinated by Inserm, teams from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS and the Vaccine Research Institute (VRI,...

New Biomaterial Regrows Blood Vessels and Bone

April 21, 2021
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Dublin, Ireland — Scientists have developed a new biomaterial that regrows blood vessels and bone, potentially providing a single-stage approach when repairing large bone defects. The study, led...

Chickens and Pigs with Integrated Genetic Scissors

April 21, 2021
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Munich, Germany — Researchers at the TUM have demonstrated a way to efficiently study molecular mechanisms of disease resistance or biomedical issues in farm animals. Researchers are now able to introduce...

Chaperone Protein Imbalance Promotes Toxic Tau Buildup in Ageing Brain

April 21, 2021
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Tampa, FL — Chaperone protein imbalance can play a significant role in initiating toxic accumulation of tau in the ageing brain – an early step in the development of Alzheimer’s disease...

‘Information Theory’ Recruited to Help Scientists Find Cancer Genes

April 21, 2021
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Baltimore, MD — Using a widely known field of mathematics designed mainly to study how digital and other forms of information are measured, stored and shared, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine and...

Drug Development Platform could Provide Flexible, Rapid and Targeted Antimicrobials

April 21, 2021
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Boulder, CO — When disease outbreaks happen, response time in developing and distributing treatments is crucial to saving lives. Unfortunately, developing custom drugs as countermeasures is often a...

Gut’s Immune Response in COVID-19 may not Provide Efficient Protection of Other Organs

April 20, 2021
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Erlangen, Germany — Our guts may not provide long-lasting systemic immunity from COVID-19, which is where immune cells circulate through the body to provide protection to other organs, finds a new...

Scientists Identify Protein that could Serve as Therapeutic Target in Lung Cancer

April 20, 2021
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Richmond, VA — Scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center have identified a protein that operates in tandem with a specific genetic mutation to spur lung cancer growth and could serve as a therapeutic...

Researchers Grow Stem Cells to Cure Glaucoma

April 19, 2021
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Moscow Oblast, Russia — A joint research carried out by MIPT scientists and Harvard researchers have presented retinal cells that can integrate into the retina. This is the first successful attempt...

Leg muscle action assists blood flow independently of age

April 19, 2021
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Ishikawa, Japan — Chronic lower-limb edema (CLE) — the permanent accumulation of fluid in the leg — often occurs in elderly people. The condition leads to various physical and mental problems,...

Virologists Develop Broadly Protective Coronavirus Vaccines

April 19, 2021
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Blacksburg, VA — A candidate vaccine that could provide protection against the COVID-19 virus and other coronaviruses has shown promising results in early animal testing. The candidate coronavirus...

COVID-19: Scientists Identify Human Genes that Fight Infection

April 19, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys have identified a set of human genes that fight SARS-CoV-2 infection, the virus that causes COVID-19. Knowing which genes help control viral infection...

How Tangled Proteins Kill Brain Cells, Promote Alzheimer’s, CTE

April 19, 2021
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Boulder, CO — Look deep inside the brain of someone with Alzheimer’s disease, most forms of dementia or the concussion-related syndrome known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and you’ll...

Simulations Reveal How Dominant SARS-CoV-2 Strain Binds to Host, Succumbs to Antibodies

April 19, 2021
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Los Alamos, NM — Large-scale supercomputer simulations at the atomic level show that the dominant G form variant of the COVID-19-causing virus is more infectious partly because of its greater ability...

Norovirus Clusters are Resistant to Environmental Stresses and UV Disinfection, New Study Finds

April 16, 2021
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Washington, DC — Clusters of a virus known to cause stomach flu are resistant to detergent and ultraviolet disinfection, according to new research co-led by Dr. Danmeng Shuai, an associate professor...

Designing Better Antibody Drugs with Artificial Intelligence

April 16, 2021
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Zürich, Switzerland — Antibodies are not only produced by our immune cells to fight viruses and other pathogens in the body. For a few decades now, medicine has also been using antibodies produced...

Understanding How DNA Repairs Itself may Lead to Better Cancer Treatment

April 16, 2021
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Evanston, IL — From cancer treatment to sunlight, radiation and toxins can severely damage DNA in both harmful and healthy cells. While the body has evolved to efficiently treat and restore damaged...

Understanding the Growth of Disease-Causing Protein Fibers

April 16, 2021
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Bath, UK — Amyloid fibrils are deposits of proteins in the body that join together to form microscopic fibers. Their formation has been linked to many serious human diseases including Alzheimer’s,...

DNA Structure Itself is Involved in Genome Regulation

April 15, 2021
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Madrid, Spain — The (when stretched) two-metre-long DNA molecule in each human cell is continuously being unpacked and packed again to enable the expression of genetic information. When genes must...

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