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Romosozumab in osteoporosis: Considerable added benefit for women after menopause

Fewer vertebral fractures and fewer other typical fractures in postmenopausal women with severe osteoporosis at high risk of fracture INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY IN HEALTH CARE Romosozumab is a bone-forming monoclonal antibody used in women after menopause for the treatment of severe osteoporosis if there is a high risk of bone fractures. Having been...

New light shone on inflammatory cell death regulator
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New light shone on inflammatory cell death regulator

by Walter and Eliza Hall Institute alter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have used lattice light sheet microscopy to visualise cells dying by necroptosis, a form of inflammatory cell death. In this image, purple marks cells with undisrupted cell membranes; yellow shows disrupted cell membranes; blue shows that the cell membrane has broken and marks...

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Protein has unique effects on information processing

Our cognitive abilities come down to how well the connections, or synapses, between our brain cells transmit signals. Now a new study by researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory has dug deeply into the molecular mechanisms that enable synaptic transmission to show the distinct role of a protein that, when mutated, has been linked to causing intellectual disability. The key protein, called...