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Disease Processes

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...

COVID-19 Related Strokes, Other Neurological Impact Under Study

May 20, 2020
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Augusta, GA — Traditional stroke treatments like clot-dissolving tPA and surgical removal of big clots in the brain are good choices as well when the stroke results from SARS-CoV-2 infection, investigators...

Heart Attacks, Heart Failure, Stroke: COVID-19’s Dangerous Cardiovascular Complications

May 19, 2020
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Charlottesville, VA — COVID-19 can cause serious cardiovascular complications including heart failure, heart attacks and blood clots that can lead to strokes, emergency medicine doctors report in a...

Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic and Major Diseases at the Same Time

May 18, 2020
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Oberschleißheim, Germany — The world is currently facing a global pandemic without precedence. Looking at how leading research organizations and scientists across all disciplines are actively redeploying...

The Exposome: When Our Environment Drives Health and Disease

May 18, 2020
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Luxembourg City, Luxembourg — Science, has published in its January issue two papers by Associate Prof. Emma Schymanski, Head of the Environmental Cheminformatics research group at the University of...

Global Spread of Multi-Resistant Pathogen Stenotrophomonas Maltophilia

May 18, 2020
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Brunswick, Germany — S. maltophilia strains occur in several natural and human associated ecosystems. The bacterium was long regarded as relatively unproblematic but is now considered to be one of...

Compact Electronic Nose to Identify Human Lung Diseases

May 18, 2020
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Moscow Oblast, Russia — Researchers from Russia and Italy have proposed a compact sensor system that can implement the functionality of the electronic nose and developed a reproducible technology for...

Significant Differences Exist Among Neurons Expressing Dopamine Receptors

May 14, 2020
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Bellaterra, Spain — An international collaboration, which included the involvement of the research team from the Institut de Neurociències of the UAB (INC-UAB), has shown that neurons expressing dopamine...

Disease Trigger for Pancreatitis has been Identified

May 14, 2020
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München, Germany — Patients suffering from chronic pancreatitis experience an either recurring or permanent inflammation of their pancreas. “In many cases, people develop this disease because...

Uncovering How ‘Dark Matter’ Regions of the Genome Affect Inflammatory Diseases

May 13, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — A study led by researchers at the Babraham Institute in collaboration with the Wellcome Sanger Institute has uncovered how variations in a non-protein coding ‘dark matter’...

Platelets Exacerbate Immune Response, Study Finds

May 13, 2020
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Bonn, Germany — Platelets not only play a key role in blood clotting, but can also significantly intensify inflammatory processes. This is shown by a new study carried out by scientists from the University...

Plasma Medicine Research Highlights Antibacterial Effects and Potential Uses

May 12, 2020
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State College, PA — As interest in the application of plasma medicine — the use of low-temperature plasma (LTP) created by an electrical discharge to address medical problems — continues...

New Molecular Auto-Control System to Avoid Excessive Brown Adipose Tissue Activity

May 11, 2020
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Barcelona, Spain — Scientific team found a new metabolism regulation system for the brown adipose tissue using the kallikrein-kinin hormonal system, so far related to the physiology of the renal and...

Fighting Autoimmunity and Cancer: The Nutritional Key

May 7, 2020
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Strassen, Luxembourg — Scientists at the Department of Infection and Immunity of the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) revealed a novel mechanism through which the immune system can control autoimmunity...

Study Shows Drug Saves Lives of Kids Fighting Deadly Immune Disease

May 7, 2020
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Cincinnati, OH — After 20 years of trying, modern medicine remains unable to lower the roughly 40 percent mortality rate for the severe childhood immune disease called HLH (haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis),...

Researchers Uncover New Anti-Phage Defence Mechanisms in Bacteria

May 6, 2020
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Singapore — Researchers from Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, have discovered a new anti-phage defence mechanism found in some...

Different Kinds of White Fat are Important in Disease

May 5, 2020
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Boston, MA — Excess white fat causes obesity, which in turn can drive diabetes and many other metabolic diseases that are growing at epidemic rates around the world. But all white fat is not born equal....

Researchers Identify Unique Glucose-Sensing Neurons that Regulate Blood Sugar

May 4, 2020
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Houston, TX — Low blood sugar levels, known as hypoglycaemia, can be a life-threatening situation, especially for people with type 1 diabetes who rely on intensive insulin therapy to prevent blood...

Scientists Recreate DNA Damage Caused by Toxins From Smoking

April 29, 2020
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York, UK — Researchers from the University of York have recreated how toxins from smoking cause unique patterns of DNA damage. The discovery could help scientists better understand the cause of bladder...

Key Mechanisms Involved in Pulmonary Fibrosis Development, Researchers Identify

April 28, 2020
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Berlin, Germany — Working alongside research groups from Heidelberg, researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have elucidated the novel disease processes involved in the development...

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