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New AIDS Vaccine To Undergo Human Trials For First Time | IFLScience
Dr Robert Gallo is a name you’ve probably never heard of, but he’s the biomedical researcher who led the team responsible for unmasking the cause of AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome). In...
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Why Do We Hallucinate? | IFLScience
For those with certain mental illnesses, like schizophrenia, perceiving things – sights, smells and tastes – that aren’t there can be a common, and often terrifying, experience that comes with...
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Groundbreaking Surgery Restores Hand And Arm Movement In Quadriplegics |...
It is quite the understatement to say that quadriplegia – the partial or total loss of function of a person’s limbs and torso – is a life-changing disability. Often caused by a severe spinal cord...
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Brains Work Via Their Genes Just As Much As Their Neurons | IFLScience
It’s not headline news that our brains are the seat of our thoughts and feelings. The brain is a body’s decision-maker, the pilot of its actions and the engineer that keeps all systems going. The...
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We Could Finally Be Close To Wiping Out HIV From The Body | IFLScience
HIV has a nasty habit of lying dormant in certain populations of cells, invisible to the immune system and to any drugs we try and attack it with. Purging these so called “reservoirs” and then...
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Scientists Can Now Make Leukemia Cells Kill Each Other | IFLScience
Leukemia, a group of cancers affecting the bone marrow and blood, is notoriously difficult to treat, often relapsing and becoming resistant to treatment. But a new study, published in the Proceedings...
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Early Stages Of Schizophrenia Linked To Brain Inflammation | IFLScience
Schizophrenia is a severely debilitating mental illness that affects around one in 100 individuals in both the United Kingdom and the United States. “Schizophrenia” is actually an umbrella term for a...
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New Research Shows How To Trap Cancer By Turning Your Body Against The Tumour...
Cancer happens when cells in the body start growing uncontrollably. But what if the tissue surrounding a tumour could be enlisted to stop the cancer spreading? New research gives the first evidence of...
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Scientists Discover Weak Spot Of The Superbug MRSA | IFLScience
Staphylococcus aureus is an intimidating and challenging bacterium. It is responsible for a wide variety of human maladies, from annoying skin pimples to deadly meningitis. It’s pervasive and numerous...
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Viruses Don’t Deserve Their Bad Rap: They’re The Unsung Heroes You Never See
The word “virus” strikes terror into the hearts of most people. It conjures up images of influenza, HIV, Yellow Fever, or Ebola. Of course we worry about these viruses—they bring us disease and...
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Virtual Maze Test Predicts Likelihood Of Getting Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer’s disease is a truly terrifying condition, one that is difficult to detect early and increasingly difficult to treat over time. It's incurable, and there is no single test that can currently...
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Complex Sugar Molecules May Be The Key To Safer Chemo
The ability to aim chemotherapy drugs at cancer cells - and just cancer cells - has been a goal for medical researchers for a long time. So is the recent discovery of a malaria protein that appears to...
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Landmark Trial Finds Injection Every Other Month Treats HIV Patients
An end to daily pills could finally be on the horizon for HIV patients. A new trial has found that an injection of long-acting forms of antiviral drugs work just as well as a daily oral regimen of...
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Antibiotic-Antibody Cocktail Kills MRSA Superbug In Mice
A technique borrowed from cancer treatment can perform a focused attack on microbes that are resistant to most antibiotics, according to new study published in Nature. Researchers attached an...
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Scientists Have Discovered "Clocks" Inside Your Cells That Could Determine...
External factors like the Sun and smoking can harm your DNA by causing mutations, a process that occurs in spurts and bursts. But this process isn't limited to environmental triggers: As cells grow...
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Scientists Have Breached The Blood-Brain Barrier For The First Time And...
A non-invasive technique designed to send chemotherapy medication through the protective barrier surrounding the brain has been successfully trialed for the first time on a patient with brain...
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Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease through genomics and proteomics
Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative condition that causes dementia. In this disease, dementia symptoms such as memory loss and difficulties with language, problem-solving and...
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Scientists Transform Algae Into Cancer-Killing Drug Delivery Systems
Each month, fresh research appears to reveal a new way of delivering chemotherapy drugs to tumors; just this week, scientists announced that they could use a sort of “ultrasonic screwdriver” to...
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Scientists Think They've Discovered A New Domain Of Life In The Human Gut
Considering that scientists are only able to grow an estimated one percent of known microbes in the lab, many suspect that there are plenty of new forms of life yet to be discovered, the so called...
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Genomics Can Improve Health Care--Right Now
A unique clinic in Strasburg, Pa., shows the waySee it on Scoop.it, via Medical Science
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