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New drug could prevent Alzheimer's by modulating key enzyme involved in amyloid plaque formation

Amyloid plaques are pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) -- clumps of misfolded proteins that accumulate in the brain, disrupting and killing neurons and resulting in the progressive cognitive impairment that is characteristic of the widespread neurological disorder.

2 Mar 2021

Scientists reprogram a common bacterium to make designer sugar-based drug

Envisioning an animal-free drug supply, scientists have - for the first time - reprogrammed a common bacterium to make a designer polysaccharide molecule used in pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals.

2 Mar 2021

Cincinnati Children's scientists receive grant to advance research on air pollution and mental health

Scientists at Cincinnati Children's just received a 5-year grant totaling $5.3 million from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to advance research into the relationship between air pollution and mental health in children and adolescents.

2 Mar 2021

Regular screening and early intervention needed to prevent pediatric diabetes

Type 2 diabetes, once considered an adult disease, is increasingly causing health complications among American youth.

2 Mar 2021

Readers and tweeters dispense timely advice for difficult times

Your body’s immune system has produced antibodies that will kill a few thousand kinds of germs and virus. Since you are alive, the chances are quite high you will survive its producing another. Here is how the system works.

2 Mar 2021

New poll spotlights a major gap in testing for hearing loss in older adults

Eighty percent of Americans over 50 say their primary care doctor hasn't asked about their hearing in the past two years, and nearly as many - 77% -- haven't had their hearing checked by a professional in that same time, according to a new national poll report.

2 Mar 2021

Novel dual-targeting drug could become a next-generation treatment for EBV-related cancers

A Hong Kong Baptist University-led research team has developed a novel drug which has the potential to become a next-generation treatment for cancers associated with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV).

2 Mar 2021

‘An Arm and a Leg’: Revisiting insulin: How the medicine got so expensive

We're re-releasing a story we first reported in 2019, about how insulin got to be so expensive. And this 2021 update includes a check-in with people working to make the potentially lifesaving medicine more available.

2 Mar 2021

Beijing’s SARS lockdown taught my children resilience. Your Covid kids will likely be fine.

Many parents are filled with angst as they prepare for their children to exit a year of pandemic isolation: Will it be OK to send them to school, per the recent recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? Will school feel like school if students are masked and can't trade snacks? Will children's development be impaired by nearly a year of seeing few friends?

2 Mar 2021

Evonik partners with BioNTech to manufacture lipids for COVID-19 vaccine

Caused by SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to spread across the globe.

From Evonik 2 Mar 2021

States aim to chip away at abortion rights with Supreme Court in mind

When Rep. Lola Sheldon-Galloway introduced a bill in the Montana House two years ago that would have prohibited abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, the Republican legislator knew it was unlikely to survive the veto pen of the Democratic governor.

2 Mar 2021

Study provides detailed insight into neural mechanisms underlying placebo effects

A large proportion of the benefit that a person gets from taking a real drug or receiving a treatment to alleviate pain is due to an individual's mindset, not to the drug itself.

2 Mar 2021

SARS-CoV-2 UK variant shows low virulence and high shedding in hamster model

A new study compares the pathogenicity and infectiousness of one such variant, the VOC 202012/01 (B.1.1.7 lineage) from the United Kingdom, with the globally dominant D614G mutation-carrying strains.

2 Mar 2021

New technology may help improve tissue restoration outcomes for breast cancer and other diseases

New technology from Purdue University innovators may help improve tissue restoration outcomes for people with breast cancer and other diseases or traumatic injuries.

2 Mar 2021

Sorting out how politics, policies figure in flap over New York nursing home Covid death rates

The plaudits have faded for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Once hailed as a paragon of pandemic governing, he's since come under scorching criticism for undercounting the state's covid deaths among nursing home residents by as much as half.

2 Mar 2021

CN Bio awarded Innovate UK grant to develop single and multi-organ models for COVID-19 research

CN Bio today announced it has received a grant from Innovate UK to develop human-relevant MPS to advance investigations into SARS-CoV-2 infection.

From CN Bio 2 Mar 2021

Benign bone tumors may be present in nearly 20% of healthy children

Benign bone tumors may be present in nearly 20 percent of healthy children, based on a review of historical radiographs in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.

2 Mar 2021

Experimental therapy delays viral rebound in SHIV-infected macaques

A recent preclinical study by U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) researchers showed that an experimental therapy combining a TLR7 agonist and two broadly neutralizing antibodies delayed viral rebound in SHIV-infected macaques after antiretroviral therapy (ART) interruption.

2 Mar 2021

Study: Public attitude toward COVID-19 and its treatments is more “infectious” than disease itself

Public attitude toward COVID-19 and its treatments is more "infectious" than the disease itself, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to analyze tweets about the virus.

2 Mar 2021

A single letter difference in a single gene spells a lifetime of anemia, pain worldwide

A single letter difference in a single gene, inherited from both parents, spells a lifetime of anemia and pain for 20 million people, mostly of African ancestry, worldwide.

2 Mar 2021

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New drug could prevent Alzheimer's by modulating key enzyme involved in amyloid plaque formation

Scientists reprogram a common bacterium to make designer sugar-based drug

Cincinnati Children's scientists receive grant to advance research on air pollution and mental health

Regular screening and early intervention needed to prevent pediatric diabetes

Readers and tweeters dispense timely advice for difficult times

New poll spotlights a major gap in testing for hearing loss in older adults

Novel dual-targeting drug could become a next-generation treatment for EBV-related cancers

‘An Arm and a Leg’: Revisiting insulin: How the medicine got so expensive

Beijing’s SARS lockdown taught my children resilience. Your Covid kids will likely be fine.

Evonik partners with BioNTech to manufacture lipids for COVID-19 vaccine

States aim to chip away at abortion rights with Supreme Court in mind

Study provides detailed insight into neural mechanisms underlying placebo effects

SARS-CoV-2 UK variant shows low virulence and high shedding in hamster model

New technology may help improve tissue restoration outcomes for breast cancer and other diseases

Sorting out how politics, policies figure in flap over New York nursing home Covid death rates

CN Bio awarded Innovate UK grant to develop single and multi-organ models for COVID-19 research

Benign bone tumors may be present in nearly 20% of healthy children

Experimental therapy delays viral rebound in SHIV-infected macaques

Study: Public attitude toward COVID-19 and its treatments is more “infectious” than disease itself

A single letter difference in a single gene spells a lifetime of anemia, pain worldwide

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