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Army Researchers Find Strategy to Improve Cybersecurity
With cybersecurity one of the nation's top security concerns and billions of people affected by breaches last year, government and businesses are spending more time and money defending against it. Researchers at the Army's corporate research laboratory, in collaboration with Towson University, may have identified a new way to improve network security.
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Scan Mums-to-Be for Breech Births, Says Study
Mums-to-be could be routinely offered an ultrasound scan at 36 weeks to help spot risky breech deliveries, when a baby's bottom or feet will emerge first, say UK researchers.
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HIV Suppressed for up to Four Months by Novel Antibody
Regular infusions of an antibody that blocks the HIV binding site on human immune cells may have suppressed levels of HIV for up to four months.
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Gene Therapy Restores Immunity in Infants With Rare Immunodeficiency Disease
A small clinical trial has shown that gene therapy can safely correct the immune systems of infants newly diagnosed with a rare, life-threatening inherited disorder in which infection-fighting immune cells do not develop or function normally.
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Blood Test for Detecting Pre-symptomatic Alzheimer's Disease is Refined
A research team have developed a method to detect the amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide in human blood. They hope that their research will have implications in diagnosing and understanding the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD).
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Guarding Against Cancer
Researchers from the University of Dundee have shown that a drug previously used to treat Type II diabetes could potentially be used to protect against cancer.
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Researchers Restore Synaptic Activity and Circulation to Four-hour Dead Pig Brain
Researchers have restored and preserved some cellular activities and structures in the brains of pigs that had been decapitated for food production four hours before, although could not detect any network-wide electrical activity that would suggest sentience or consciousness.
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Muscle Stem Cell Growth Growth Driver May Be Valid Target for Wasting Disorders
Lying within our muscles are stem cells, invisible engines that drive the tissue’s growth and repair. Understanding the signal(s) that direct muscle stem cells to spring into action could uncover new ways to promote muscle growth.
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Technology Senses How Parkinson's Patients Respond to Medication
Researchers have developed an innovative way to automatically and reliably detect and monitor medication "on" and "off" states in Parkinson's disease patients.
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Cervical Cancer More Aggressive When HPV Is Not Detected
Cervical cancer negative for the human papilloma virus is rare but more aggressive: it is more frequently diagnosed at advanced stages, with more metastasis and reduced survival.
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