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New study shows severe toxicity with high-dose AAV9-based gene therapy in animal models
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Jan. 30, 2018–Researchers have described severe, life-threatening toxicity in monkeys and...
Stressed-out rats consume more alcohol, revealing related brain…
Credit: John Dani, PhD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA – Stress, defined broadly, is a well-known risk...
Asthma in infant boys may eventually be preventable
Credit: University of Alberta A new University of Alberta study shows that the family risk for asthma–typically passed from moms...
2018 Japan Prize is awarded to Emory immunologist Max Cooper
Credit: Jack Kearse, Emory University The Japan Prize Foundation has announced Max D. Cooper, MD, as a laureate of the...
Abdominal aortic aneurysm linked to dysregulated tryptophan…
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA–Researchers have found a link between dysregulated tryptophan metabolism and abdominal aortic aneurysm, a life-threatening vascular...
The coming of age of gene therapy: A review of the past and path forward
Credit: US National Library of Medicine After three decades of hopes tempered by setbacks, gene therapy–the process of treating a...
SU2C awards $11M in grants to investigate immunotherapies using AI with Microsoft support
Credit: Stand Up To Cancer Santa Monica, CA (January 30, 2018) — Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) announces today a...
New model may help science overcome the brain’s fortress-like barrier
Credit: Samah Jassam New model may help science overcome the brain's fortress-like barrier Scientists have helped provide a way to...
Fast-cooking dry beans provide more protein, iron than ‘slower’ varieties
Credit: American Chemical Society Beans are a versatile, inexpensive staple that can boost essential nutrients in a diet, especially for...
Targeted therapy for sleep disorders helps patients with muscular…
Credit: Newcastle Regional Sleep Service Amsterdam, NL, January 13, 2017 – Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is the most common...
Finger prick test allows patients taking autoimmune drug to avoid blood draws
Credit: K Bloem A new study shows that patients with rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune conditions who take the drug...
New butterfly species discovered in Israel for the first time in 109…
Credit: Dr Vladimir Lukhtanov Vladimir Lukhtanov, entomologist and evolutionary biologist at the Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, made a...
Researchers identify 6,500 genes that are expressed differently in men…
Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science Men and women differ in obvious and less obvious ways — for example, in the...
Mouse arrest
Credit: Jessica Crowell The results of a new study reveal that a professional pest management intervention was no better in...
Fetal mice with Zika infection get microcephaly
Credit: Li, Xu, Ye, and Hong et al./Cell Stem Cell 2016 Mouse fetuses injected with the Asian Zika virus strain...
Can sexual risk and behaviors among women help explain HIV disparities…
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 13, 2017 — Researchers examined the sexual behaviors of a...
Engineers design ‘living materials’
An artist's rendering of a bacterial cell engineered to produce amyloid nanofibers that incorporate particles such as quantum dots (red...
First atlas of B-cell clones in body forms new foundation for infectious disease research
Credit: Alexander H. Farley PHILADELPHIA — A new “anatomic atlas” of how B cells – the immune system’s producer of...
The fight against tooth decay gets help with a new smart material from U of T researchers
Credit: Yodit Tedla/Faculty of Dentistry. When patients go to the dentist to fill a cavity, they're trying to solve a...
HIIT alters brain glucose metabolism in insulin resistant people
Credit: University of Turku Researchers at the University of Turku, Finland, studied how high-intensity interval training (HIIT) alters the brain's...
