Gaps in hepatitis testing and monitoring programmes across the EU/EEA
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Penn Medicine’s Carl June, MD, to receive ASCO’s Highest Scientific Honor
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Sugar sponges sop up and release glucose as needed
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Immunotherapy with DNA vaccine shows promise for HPV-related head and neck cancer
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - A novel vaccine therapy can generate immune responses in patients with head and neck squamous ...
New insights into mechanisms regulating gene expression in embryonic stem cells
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Personalized cell therapy combination achieves complete remission in CLL patients
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Combining the kinase inhibitor ibrutinib with an investigational personalized cellular therapy known as CTL119 can ...
Bed bugs: Proactive pest management critical in multi-unit housing
Annapolis, MD; May 24, 2017--Amid the persistent threat of bed bug infestations in multi-unit housing, the best advice for property ...
Critical molecular determinants for activation of calcium flux into cells revealed
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The fairer — The greener
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With $58M grant, University of Michigan researchers will push health research forward with community’s help
Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich. - The next big idea to help people with cancer, heart disease, diabetes, ...
Paleobiologists make intriguing new discoveries about dinosaurs’ ancestors
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Handheld scanner reveals vascularization in psoriasis patients
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) A newly developed tissue scanner allows looking under the skin ...
New targeted molecular therapy takes aim at incurable prostate cancer
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Peek into your genes: NASA one-year mission investigators identify links to vision problems
Credit: NASA Coinciding with May - Healthy Vision Month, NASA's One-Year Mission investigators are peering into their new findings to ...
Ludwig researchers present new findings at the 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting
Ludwig Cancer Research released today the full scope of Ludwig's participation at this year's American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) ...
Take control to become a better parent
Most parents will agree that children present a never-ending series of behavioral challenges. Tantrums, picky eating and poor sleeping behavior ...
Family support moderates college students’ feelings of loneliness, suicide
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Study offers hard data on food allergies
Anecdotal evidence of food allergies abounds, but just how common are these allergies and intolerances? In a new study, investigators ...
Stanford technique pinpoints the ‘partners in crime’ of cancer genes
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Researchers listen to zebrafish to understand human hearing loss
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