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"Corked" Capsule Contains Bacteria's Hidden Weapon

New insights into the bacterial type VI secretion system could one day help to develop antibacterial and antifungal applications.
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Shelved Anticancer Drug Could Get Another Shot

A study shows that triplatin is effective against triple negative breast cancer, the most aggressive form of breast cancer.
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Immune System Plays an Important Role in How Fasting Affects the Body

Previous studies have shown how fasting can influence the immune system to improve different chronic inflammatory conditions, but little was known about how immune responses might determine a healthy metabolism, until now.
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Could SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Epidemiology Be Flawed?

Scientists found that Sewer slime can accumulate SARS-CoV-2 RNA, which could decompose or slough off later, potentially impacting the accuracy of wastewater epidemiology studies.
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Sophisticated "Hack" Allows Intracellular Bacteria To Evade the Immune Response

Intracellular bacteria are able to evade the immune response by infecting macrophages, triggering the death of the host cell, then using it as a shield to avoid the antimicrobial action of other immune cells.
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Adjusting Diet To Prevent Breast Cancer Recurrence

Researchers have received a grant to look at the relationship between obesity and breast cancer.
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Targeting the Oncogenic Protein RAS With Small Molecules

Researchers have demonstrated a new therapeutic way to block RAS, a protein that is frequently mutated in cancers.
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Do We Need Words To Think About Numbers?

A study suggests that in order to represent an exact quantity larger than four, people may need to have a word for that number.
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Newly Discovered Effect of Hyperthyroidism on the Brain

According to a study, hyperthyroidism affects the brain more than was previously known and involves volume changes occurring in central parts of the brain.
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Vaccines Effective Against Omicron Because It Contains Previously Identified Mutations

Researchers say that existing vaccines are effective against the Omicron variant as all but one of the mutations it contains had been described before that.
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