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HIV Vaccine Is a Step Closer to Clinical Trials
A promising vaccine that clears an HIV-like virus from monkeys is a step closer to human testing after a new, weakened version of the vaccine has been shown to provide similar protection as its original version.
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Too Much Choice Could Be a Bad Thing
A new study has found that offering children a wide variety and large quantities of snack food encourages them to eat more – and this practice may be contributing to Australia’s weight problem.
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Removing Water Pollutants With Ultrasound and Eco-friendly Catalyst
An eco-friendly, low-cost, and high-efficiency wastewater processing catalyst has been developed from an agricultural byproduct.
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Deadliest Cancers Receive the Least Amount of Research Funding
Many of the deadliest or most common cancers get the least amount of nonprofit research funding, according to a new study that examined the distribution of nonprofit cancer research funding in 2015 across cancer types.
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Biosynthetic Pathway in Bacteria a Recipe for Drug Discovery
Microbes are the "master chefs" of the biomolecular world; collectively, they harbor the ability to produce a vast array of unknown substances, some of which may have therapeutic or other useful properties. In searching for useful products, a team of chemists have uncovered a whole new class of microbial recipes.
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Newborn Admissions Linked to Air Pollution Exposure of Mother
Infants born to women exposed to high levels of air pollution in the week before delivery are more likely to be admitted to a newborn intensive care unit, suggests analysis.
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Uncovering the Structures of Key Drug Targets
Researchers have published a review on serial femtosecond crystallography, a promising method for analyzing the tertiary structure of proteins. This technique has rapidly evolved over the past decade, opening new prospects for the rational design of drugs targeting proteins previously inaccessible to structural analysis.
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Cell Types Vulnerable in Multiple Sclerosis Are Identified
Scientists have discovered that a specific brain cell known as a 'projection neuron' has a central role to play in the brain changes seen in multiple sclerosis (MS). The research shows that projection neurons are damaged by the body's own immune cells, and that this damage could underpin the brain shrinkage and cognitive changes associated with MS
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Discovering the Brain's Metronome Neurons
By measuring the fast electrical spikes of individual neurons in the touch region of the brain, Brown University neuroscientists have discovered a new type of cell that keeps time so regularly that it may serve as the brain's long-hypothesized clock or metronome.
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Facial Expression Analysis Tells Us Little About Emotion
Software that purportedly reads emotions in faces is being deployed or tested for a variety of purposes, including surveillance, hiring, clinical diagnosis, and market research. But a new scientific report finds that facial movements are an inexact gauge of a person's feelings, behaviors or intentions.
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