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Ebola Vaccine Regimens Deemed Safe

Two randomized, placebo-controlled trials evaluating three Ebola vaccine administration strategies in adults and children found that all the regimens were safe in both age groups.
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Why Does Fat Increase After Dieting and How Might Protein Help?

A study has shown that an increase of Lactobacillus and its metabolites after dieting enhanced intestinal lipid absorption and led to quick fat accumulation and obesity in mice, but this was prevented by a high-protein diet.
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Wastewater Offers Precision Insights

A machine learning algorithm developed by researchers is able to determine how many people are represented in a wastewater sample when trained on real samples of microbiota.
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"Angry" Immune Cells May Underlie Alzheimer's Pathology

You brain floats in a reservoir of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), protecting the brain from physical damage to the skull. But the CSF has another critical, if less known, function: it also provides immune protection to the brain. Now, a study has discovered CSF's role in cognitive impairment, such as Alzheimer’s disease.
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Immune Response to COVID mRNA Vaccination Is Unaffected by Pregnancy

A new study from Weill Cornell Medicine has noted that the long-term immune response to the SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine is similar in pregnant and non-pregnant individuals.
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Why Do People Contract Rodent-Borne Infections?

In a global study, researchers have identified that most reservoirs of rodent-borne diseases tend to live exclusively or occasionally in or near human dwellings, show large fluctuations in their numbers and/or are hunted for meat or fur.
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Apple Waste Could Boost Chicken Health

The juice, pulp and pomace from apples have been shown to have health benefits when injected into the amniotic fluid of a chicken egg.
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Estrogen May Help Reduce UTI Susceptibility

Researchers have identified specific bacteria in the bladder that may indicate which postmenopausal women are more susceptible to recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs), and they found that estrogen may play a role in reducing that susceptibility.
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CRISPR Technology Reduces Huntington’s Disease Symptoms in Models

Researchers describe using RNA-targeting CRISPR/Cas13d technology to develop a new therapeutic strategy that specifically eliminates toxic RNA that causes Huntington's disease.
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New Cancer Drug Achieves 73% Response Rate in Patients

A new immunotherapy has proven successful in 73% of multiple myeloma (MM) cancer patients in a Phase II clinical trial.
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