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Credit: Janice Carr. (Image provided by CDC/Lois S. Wiggs) A research consortium recently began enrolling patients in a clinical trial...

Defective glial cells can push neurons toward Parkinson's disease

New study suggests an important role for glial cells in Parkinson's disease and offers potential new therapeutic targets.Credit: IDIBELL A...

Poo transplant effective treatment for chronic bowel condition

Poo transplant or "Faecal microbiota transplantation" (FMT) can successfully treat patients with ulcerative colitis, new research from the University of...

Personalized treatment benefits kidney cancer patients

Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. - Personalized treatment plans may extend life expectancy for early-stage kidney...

Gene-editing tool CRISPR/Cas9 shown to limit impact of certain parasitic diseases

GW researchers successfully used CRISPR/Cas9 to limit the impact of schistosomiasis and liver fluke infection, affecting more than a quarter...

Bear necessities: New study highlights importance of water resources for Andean bears

A new study is shedding light on the importance of one critical resource for Andean bears living in the dry...

Muscle stem cells can drive cancer that arises in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) LA JOLLA, CALIF. - Jan. 15, 2019 - People with Duchenne muscular...

MD Anderson Cancer Center and Dragonfly Therapeutics announce strategic collaboration to take new immunotherapy candidates into clinical trials

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Dragonfly Therapeutics, Inc., today announced a strategic collaboration to bring Dragonfly's...

New study shows animals may get used to drones

A new study in Conservation Physiology shows that over time, bears get used to drones. Previous work indicated that animals...

EU and Canada award 8.65 million to project to ease genomic and health data sharing

New collaborative international project, headed by Bar-Ilan University, aims to promote human immunological data storage, integration and controlled sharing to...

Engineered T cells promote long-term organ transplant acceptance

Credit: Image: Swiss Nanoscience Institute/University of Basel, Biozentrum Organ transplant rejection is a major problem in transplantation medicine. Suppressing the...

Protective effects of ADM-RAMP2 system make it a new therapeutic target for retinal vein occlusion

A model of central retinal vein occlusion that mimics many of its clinical features has been developed to test new...

States with fewer melanoma diagnoses have higher death rates

Using state-by-state data, researchers found that melanoma survival varies regionallya) Melanoma incidence per 100,000 (darker states indicate higher incidence of...

JAMA report outlines recommendations for evaluation and management of penicillin allergy

Verifying the accuracy of a documented penicillin allergy can improve treatment outcomes, avoid spread of antibiotic resistance While more than...

Gene-editing tool CRISPR repurposed to develop better antibiotics

MADISON, Wis. -- A University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher and his collaborators at the University of California, San Francisco have repurposed...

Emergency/urgent hospitalizations linked to accelerated cognitive decline in older adults

Emergency and urgent hospitalizations are associated with an increased rate of cognitive decline in older adults, report researchers at Rush...

'Realistic' new model points the way to more efficient and profitable fracking

Accurately predicting fracture mechanics can help industry optimize pumping, fracturing-fluid viscosity, other parametersCredit: Northwestern University A new computational model could...

Racial disparities in asthma related to health care access, environmental factors

Analysis of data from NHBLI Severe Asthma Research Program In the United States, there are persistent racial disparities in asthma...

Harnessing multiple data streams and artificial intelligence to better predict flu

'Nowcasting' technique enables highly accurate local flu surveillance Influenza is highly contagious and easily spreads as people move about and...

Gene therapy could eliminate drug side effect in Parkinson's patients