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Exercise Promotes Spinal Cord Healing in Rodents via Epigenetic Mechanism
Providing rodents with more space, an exercise wheel, toys and company before an injury helped to ‘prime’ their cells, making it more likely their damaged nerves would regenerate following spinal injury.
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Team Receive Funding to Investigate How Opioid Use Is Treated in Adolescence
A Penn State researcher and his team will receive over $1.8 million over three years from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to investigate how opioid use is treated in adolescence.
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"Bee Safe" Pesticide Not So Safe
A "bee safe" pesticide launched in 2014 could in fact pose a range of threats to honey bees depending on seasonality, bee age and use in combination with common chemicals such as fungicides.
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Experimental Drug Delivers One-Two Punch to Vision Loss
In studies with lab-grown human cells and in mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have found that an experimental drug may be twice as good at fighting vision loss as previously thought.
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Signals From Below Are Essential in Spinal Cord Repair
Researchers investigating repair mechanisms in spinal cord injury have found that a specific type of neuronal feedback from sites below the injury plays a crucial role during early recovery and for maintaining regained motor functions.
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Benefit Not Risk From Vaccinating Breastfeeding Mothers
In light of the continuing anti-vaccination movement, a provocative new article provides a comprehensive overview of the potential risks of vaccinating breastfeeding women.
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Cancer: Central Role of Cell “Skeleton” Revealed
All cells possess a cytoskeleton which allows them to move and maintain their shape. Scientists recently showed that a part of this cytoskeleton called branched actin is also essential to cell proliferation: this actin transmits information to cells on whether they should proliferate. If the necessary conditions are not met, these actin fibres are not synthesized, and the cell does not divide – except in the case of cancerous cells, which can override this control mechanism.
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First Images of Black Hole Captured
Researchers unveil the first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole and its shadow.
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Dogs Can Accurately Sniff Out Cancer in Blood
A new study has shown that dogs can use their highly evolved sense of smell to pick out blood samples from people with cancer with almost 97 percent accuracy. The results could lead to new cancer-screening approaches that are inexpensive and accurate without being invasive.
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CpG Traffic Lights: Green Is Go for Gene Activity
A research team has identified reliable markers of gene activity. The discovery has potential for future applications in clinical practice.
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