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Natural Immunity to Malaria Offers Direction for Future Therapies
Researchers have identified how natural human antibodies can block malaria parasites from entering red blood cells, potentially indicating how new protective therapies could be developed against this globally significant disease.
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New COVID-19 Lung Cell Atlas Reveals Why SARS-CoV-2 Is Different
A new study is drawing the most detailed picture yet of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the lung, revealing mechanisms that result in lethal COVID-19, and may explain long-term complications and show how COVID-19 differs from other infectious diseases.
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Algorithm Developed To Diagnose Dementia
A team of researchers has developed a new algorithm for the diagnostics of dementia. The new approach is based on the measurement of blood and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers.
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Composition of a Baby’s First Poop Provides Clues on Risk of Developing Allergies
The composition of a newborn’s first stool can reveal whether they are likely to develop allergies within their first year of life, according to a new study, published in Cell Reports Medicine.
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Worm Study Explores How Diet Controls RNA Maturation
Researchers have focused on a specific type of chemical modification – called methylation – of mRNA molecules in the small worm Caenorhabditis elegans. They found that methylation on a particular sequence of an mRNA leads to its degradation and that this control mechanism depends on the worm’s diet.
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Avocado Study May Point to a Leukemia Treatment
A compound in avocados may ultimately offer a route to better leukemia treatment, says a new University of Guelph study.
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Protein Shown To Promote Chemotherapy Resistance
The resistance of cancer cells to chemotherapy is marked by specific changes in certain proteins. Researchers have discovered one such altered protein "DUSP16" plays an important role in response to chemotherapeutic drugs and thus propose that it could be used as a biomarker for sensitivity to chemotherapy treatment.
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New Prostate Cancer Urine Test Shows How Aggressive Disease Is
Researchers have developed a urine test for prostate cancer, called "ExoGrail", which also shows how aggressive the disease is.
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Genetic Differences Between Modern and Archaic Humans
A team of researchers has devised a new method to harvest more information from the genomes of archaic humans to potentially reveal the physical consequences of genomic differences between us and them.
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Autoimmune Narcolepsy May Be Triggered by Influenza Virus Proteins
Researchers have identified influenza virus peptides that resemble human protein fragments and can cause an immune response against the body’s own cells due to cross-reactivity. The study confirms the notion that influenza A (H1N1) virus peptides can trigger an autoimmune reaction in genetically predisposed individuals, that results in the onset of narcolepsy with cataplexy.
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