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June 08, 2015, 17:40

DNA breakage underlies both learning, age-related damage

Process that allows brains to learn and remember also leads to degeneration with age.

DNA

June 05, 2015, 11:55

Bacteria may cause Type 2 diabetes

Findings suggest anti-bacterial therapy or vaccines may be able to prevent or treat Type 2 diabetes

diabetes health

June 05, 2015, 09:21

Project brings Whole Genome Sequencing into the clinic

Results from this ‘WGS500’ study, published in Nature Genetics, showed that genome sequencing provided definitive diagnoses for up to 60% of patients with some types of genetic disorder, even when standard genetic testing had previously failed.

DNA

June 02, 2015, 15:12

Engineers turn E. coli into tiny factories for producing new forms of popular antibiotic

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Like a dairy farmer tending to a herd of cows to produce milk, researchers are tending to colonies of the bacteria Escherichia coli (E. coli) to produce new forms of antibiotics — including three that show promise in fighting drug-resistant bacteria.

science

May 29, 2015, 11:36

Disrupting cancer pathway could enhance new immunotherapies

Understanding how to overrule a signaling pathway that can cause treatments to fail in metastatic melanoma patients should help physicians extend the benefits of recently approved immunity-boosting drugs known as checkpoint inhibitors to more patients.

cancer

May 22, 2015, 12:49

New cement to replace bone tissue developed in Nizhny Novgorod

Scientists in Nizhny Novgorod, in the mid-Volga area, are said to have developed safe cement material, capable of replacing bone tissue and enabling doctors to make a new bone during surgery, the Russian news agency TASS reported, citing Anton Novikov, a research fellow at the Nizhny Novgorod-based Volga Federal Medical Research Center.

science

May 21, 2015, 12:59

UCI neurobiologists restore youthful vigor to adult brains

Reactivated plasticity points to new treatments for developmental disorders

health

May 21, 2015, 12:54

Targeting Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria with CRISPR and Phages

Researchers develop a CRISPR-based, two-phage system that sensitizes resistant bacteria to antibiotics and selectively kills any remaining drug-resistant bugs.

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