Neuroscience rarely enjoys clean experiments. Most brain disorders are mosaics of risk genes, aging, lifestyle and chance that leave their origins obscured. Huntington’s disease (HD) is different. It begins with a single genetic expansion—a…
Category: 8. Health
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Huntington's disease offers a rare clean test case for brain research
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FDA agrees to review Moderna’s mRNA flu shot : NPR
The Food and Drug Administration said it would review vaccine maker Moderna’s application for a new kind of flu shot after…
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Complexity in graft materials could be key to preventing infection after heart surgery
Heart diseases requiring surgical intervention are becoming increasingly common, with nearly a billion people worldwide already suffering from them. These delicate procedures almost always require some sort of structural reinforcement, whether to…
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Vascularized liver tissueoid-on-a-chip models regeneration and transplant rejection
Dr. Vadim Jucaud’s lab at the Terasaki Institute has developed a vascularized liver tissueoid-on-a-chip (LToC) platform that recapitulates key structural, functional, and immunological features of human liver tissue, enabling the study of liver…
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Neighborhood factors related to financial stress are linked to worse breast cancer outcomes
Research published in JAMA Network Open connects multiple residential factors generally associated with financial strain, such as high housing costs and crowded households, to worse overall outcomes among breast cancer survivors. Led by…
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A single sample classifier can predict cancer-associated fibroblast subtypes in patient samples
In a collaboration between several labs at UNC Lineberger, researchers have defined cancer-associated fibroblast (CAF) subtypes that are clinically robust, prognostic, and predictive of immunotherapy response and developed a clinical classifier…
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Cultured beef shows mixed allergy risks in early food safety study
As cultured meat moves toward commercialization, people want to understand how it impacts health compared to conventional animal meat. So, researchers publishing in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry conducted an…
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Skeptic Builds “Havana Syndrome”-Style Device, Tests It on Himself, Suffers Grim Consequences
One of the strangest stories in contemporary statecraft refuses to go away.
New reporting by the Washington Post revealed that a Norwegian government scientist has been secretly working on a pulse-energy weapon, an approximation of the fabled…
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New technology maps protein production across individual brain cells
The brain’s ability to carry out everything from forming memories to coordinating movement depends on its cells producing the right proteins at the right time. But directly measuring this protein production, known as translation,…
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3 things to know about cancer and your heart: Expert shares tips to reduce risk
As cancer therapies improve and increasingly achieve cures or recurring periods of remission, preventing and managing damage to organs from cancer treatment has become a top concern. That includes injury to the heart, says Joerg Herrmann, M.D., a…
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