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Opioids in Adolescents: Helpful or Harmful?
OHSU researchers receive $3 million to study adolescent pain and prescription opioid use.
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People Would Rather Pop A Pill or Sip Tea Than Exercise to Treat High Blood Pressure
In a survey to assess treatment preferences for high blood pressure, respondents were more likely to choose a daily cup of tea or a pill over exercise. Some were unwilling to adopt any intervention even if it meant gaining an additional year or five years of life.
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New Class of Antibiotics
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Nosopharm, a biotechnology company based in Lyon, France, are part of an international team reporting on the discovery of a new class of antibiotics.
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Adult-like Human Heart Muscle Grown from Patient-specific Stem Cells
Columbia biomedical engineers grow first human heart muscle from stem cells that shows critical hallmarks of adult human heart function, in just four weeks.
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‘Coffee Filter’ Makes Production of Cancer Drug Much Cheaper
Making drugs cheaper doesn't always require pricey investments. What started out as a Bachelor project at TU/e laid the foundation for a much cheaper production of the promising cancer drug Z-endoxifen.
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Squeaky Clean Mice Could be Ruining Research
Most lab mice are kept in pristine conditions, but a few immunologists think a dose of dirt could make them a better model of human disease.
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Mutation May Trigger Development of Childhood Leukaemia
Scientists have tracked the branching pattern of evolution in a form of childhood leukaemia – and identified a ‘founder’ mutation that may be the trigger for development of the disease. They believe the findings could be used in the development of new targeted drugs.
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Organoids Created from Patients’ Bladder Cancers Could Guide Treatment
Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) and NewYork-Presbyterian researchers have created patient-specific bladder cancer organoids that mimic many of the characteristics of actual tumors.
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Computational Methods Provide Greater Understanding of Molecular Protein Function
A new "Focus Feature" collection on protein functions published by PLOS Computational Biology highlights new computational methods for exploring the molecular function of proteins. The studies could help pave pathways for a wide variety of future research, including design of new drugs.
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Synthesised Antibiotic Capable of Treating Superbugs
A "game changing" new antibiotic which is capable of killing superbugs has been successfully synthesised and used to treat an infection for the first time – and could lead to the first new class of antibiotic drug in 30 years.
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