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    Researchers Reveal How Ebola Short-Circuits The Immune System

    Researchers have discovered the mechanism behind one of the Ebola virus' most dangerous attributes: its ability to disarm the adaptive immune system. University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston scientists determined that Ebola short-circuits the immune system using proteins that work...
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    Obesity Researchers Uncover New Human Brown Fat Cell

    The body's brown fat cells play a key role in the development of obesity and diabetes. Researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have now discovered that we humans have two different kinds of brown fat cells and not one kind as previously thought. This discovery, now...
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    UM Researchers Help Identify New Gene Associated With Alzheimer's Disease in African

    Researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine collaborated with an international team to identify a new gene associated with Alzheimer's disease in African Americans. Published April 10 in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association, their study, "Variants in...
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    Researchers Discover New Therapy For Fragile X Chromosome Syndrome

    Researchers at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and the Achucarro neurosciences centre have discovered a new therapy for the fragile X chromosome syndrome. This new therapy proposes the modulation of the cerebral endocannabinoid system in order to ameliorate the symptoms of the...
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    Penis Size Matters to Women According to Australian Researchers

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    Researchers Identify Two Bacterial Communities Associated With Trichomonas Infection

    A parasite that commonly causes sexually transmitted infections among women "cultivates" specific bacteria, according to new research carried out by David H. Martin, MD, Professor and Chief of Infectious Diseases at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans and his team. The parasite, called...
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    First Do No Harm - UCLA Researchers Find Patient-Centered Care At End Of Life Results

    New doctors take an oath to first do no harm, but physicians often go too far in their quest to keep that oath - exposing patients to aggressive treatments that don't improve outcomes and drive up healthcare costs. Researchers from UCLA Urology have found that patient-centered care at...
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    'Service To Others In Sobriety (SOS)' Questionnaire Validated By Researchers

    A Case Western Reserve University professor has found that young people addicted to alcohol and drugs can increase their chances of recovery by helping others. In 2010, Maria Pagano, PhD, found that adults who became involved in Alcoholics Anonymous-related service-type work were more likely to...
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    Researchers Believew Clot-Busting Drug Is Worth The Risk For Embolism Patients

    When doctors encounter a patient with a massive pulmonary embolism, they face a difficult choice: Is it wise to administer a drug that could save the patient's life, even though many people suffer life-threatening bleeding as a result? Based on new findings published in the American Journal of...
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    Two New Documents To Guide Researchers In Carrying Out Dual Use Research Of Concern R

    First, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy today published a draft policy for public comment that proposes to formalize the roles and responsibilities of institutions and researchers when they are conducting certain types of research on specific pathogens and toxins...
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    Researchers Need To Target The Unique Biology Of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

    Triple-negative breast cancers are more biologically diverse than previously believed and classification should be expanded to reflect this heterogeneity, according to University of North Carolina researchers... More...
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    Researchers Gather To Discuss Therapy Alternative For Breast Cancer

    Proton therapy evaluated as a treatment option Radiation oncologists from some of the country's leading cancer centers will meet in Phoenix later this week to discuss the appropriate use of proton beam therapy in the treatment of breast cancer. Proton therapy is a highly precise form of...
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    Stanford Researchers Use Stem Cells To Pinpoint Cause Of Common Type Of Sudden Cardia

    When a young athlete dies unexpectedly on the basketball court or the football field, it's both shocking and tragic. Now Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have, for the first time, identified the molecular basis for a condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy that is the most...
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    Researchers Zero In On Cognitive Difficulties Associated With Menopause

    The memory problems that many women experience in their 40s and 50s as they approach and go through menopause are both real and appear to be most acute during the early period of post menopause. That is the conclusion of a study which appears in the journal Menopause. "Women going through...
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    Common Data Determinants Of Recurrent Cancer Are Broken, Mislead Researchers

    In order to study the effectiveness or cost effectiveness of treatments for recurrent cancer, you first have to discover the patients in medical databases who have recurrent cancer. Generally studies do this with billing or treatment codes - certain codes should identify who does and does not...
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    UNC Researchers Discover How Hepatitis C Virus Reprograms Human Liver Cells

    Hepatitis C virus has evolved to invade and hijack the basic machinery of the human liver cell to ensure its survival and spread. Researchers at the University of North have discovered how hepatitis C binds with and repurposes a basic component of cellular metabolism known as a microRNA to help...
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    Engineering Researchers Pinpoint The Origin Of Bone Fractures

    A new study from engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute shows, for the first time, how the little-understood protein osteocalcin plays a significant role in the strength of our bones. The findings could lead to new strategies and therapeutics for fighting osteoporosis and...
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    Researchers Uncover Toxic Interaction In Neurons That Leads To Dementia And ALS

    Researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida have uncovered a toxic cellular process by which a protein that maintains the health of neurons becomes deficient and can lead to dementia. The findings shed new light on the link between culprits implicated in two devastating neurological diseases...
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    Researchers Identify Proteins That Indicate Which Kidney Tumors Are Most Likely To Sp

    Researchers at St. Michael's hospital have identified 29 proteins that are likely to be involved in the spread of kidney cancer. The discovery will help physicians recognize which tumours are going to behave more aggressively and provide those patients with more intensive treatment and closer...
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    Researchers Tie Simple Scent To Increased Retail Sales

    Scientists and business people have known for decades that certain scents - pine boughs at Christmas, baked cookies in a house for sale - can get customers in the buying spirit. Eric Spangenberg, a pioneer in the field and dean of the Washington State University College of Business, has been...
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