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Although eastern equine encephalitis, a mosquito-borne illness, has existed for centuries, 2019 has been a particularly deadly year for the disease in the US and strategies to address this threat are urgently required.

Photoinitiators, compounds used in the ink of many types of food packaging, have been found in human breast milk for the first time, although the levels consumed by breastfeeding infants are unlikely to be a health concern.

CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals have announced their interim safety and efficacy results from the CTX001 CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing human clinical trials - and they're promising.

Researchers studied a woman with an inherited condition that causes early-onset Alzheimer’s disease but who didn’t experience cognitive decline until her 70s.

A systematic review has found some evidence that chewing sugar-free gum could help to reduce the further development of dental caries (cavities) in adults and children.

Researchers studying six adults who had one of their brain hemispheres removed during childhood to reduce epileptic seizures found that the remaining half of the brain formed unusually strong connections between different functional brain networks, which potentially help the body to function as if the brain were intact.

Researchers have demonstrated that particular patterns of brain activity can predict far in advance whether a young mouse will develop Alzheimer's-like memory deficits in old age.

Damaged gut lining (leaky gut) in monkeys infected with chronic simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), an HIV-like virus, was rapidly repaired within five hours of receiving Lactobacillus plantarum bacteria. The outcome lends hope that leaky gut, a common condition among HIV patients, could be effectively treated in the future.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists, with chemists and cancer biologists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), have developed a new therapy that extended the survival of mice with acute myeloid leukemia.

Researchers have developed a new light-based method to capture and pinpoint the epicenter of neural activity in the brain. The approach lays the foundation for novel ways to map connections across different brain regions.