OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER COLUMBUS, Ohio – The findings of a new study led by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James) could refine an important set of prognostic and treatment recommendations for younger adult patients...
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Talbot helps ID muscle gene that, when altered, causes joint disease
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE Jared Talbot is part of a 32-member international research team that identified a gene that, when altered, can cause bent fingers and toes, clubfoot, scoliosis, and short stature. The team discovered that partial loss of the protein coding gene MYLPF (myosin light chain, phosphorylatable, fast skeletal muscle) results in a disorder called...
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REVIEWS SOUND THE ALARM ON ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS
Reviews of hundreds of studies show that a growing number of chemicals—in pesticides, flame retardants, and certain plastics—are linked to widespread health problems, including infertility, diabetes, and impaired brain development. Researchers from the New York University Grossman School of Medicine led a team of environmental health experts in an analysis of research published in the...
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T-cells could be made into better cancer killers by increasing their protein production
Hollings Cancer Center researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina have developed a technique to monitor protein production in a type of immune cell known as a T cell & have shown that T cells with robust protein production are more effective MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA A team of scientists from Hollings Cancer...
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COVID-19 study shows that men have over double the death rate of women
The COVID-19 pandemic has exploded across the globe, leaving healthcare staff, policy makers and ordinary people struggling. We still don’t completely understand why some people are more severely affected by the virus than others. So far, the elderly and those with certain pre-existing conditions appear to be at greater risk. A new study in open-access...
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Researchers are making recombinant-protein drugs cheaper
The mammalian cell lines that are engineered to produce high-value recombinant-protein drugs also produce unwanted proteins that push up the overall cost to manufacture these drugs. These same proteins can also lower drug quality. In a new paper in Nature Communications, researchers from the University of California San Diego and the Technical University of Denmark...
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New research gives further evidence that autoimmunity plays a role in Parkinson’s disease
by La Jolla Institute for Immunology roducing brain cells of patients with Parkinson’s disease. T cells that react to alpha-synuclein are most abundant when patients are first diagnosed with the disease. Credit: La Jolla Institute for Immunology A new study co-led by scientists at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) adds increasing evidence that...
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Wondering how to delay memory loss? Study shows targeted lifestyle changes could help
by Kiersten Willis If you’re looking for ways to delay potential memory loss, a study from the U.K.”s King’s College London can provide some insight. If you’re looking for ways to delay potential memory loss, a study from the U.K.”s King’s College London can provide some insight. Research from the public research university suggests that...
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Open Science against COVID-19 – virology
by Curation team for the Coronavirus Disease Research Community Zenodo and OpenAIRE are contributing to the European Commission call for action with what they do best – preserving and sharing all COVID-19-related datasets, software, preprints and other research objects CERN, with co-funding from the European Commission, has long invested in Zenodo, a free repository for...
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New insights into how the brain perceives and processes odors
by Society for Neuroscience New research makes advances in understanding how smells are perceived and represented in the brain. The findings were presented at Neuroscience 2019, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world’s largest source of emerging news about brain science and health. Olfactory cues provide essential information for finding food, navigation, predator avoidance, and social...