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Popular media coverage of infectious diseases greatly influences how people perceive those diseases, making them seem more dangerous, according to a new study.
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Research shows that grape intake lowered blood pressure and signs of heart muscle damage, and improved heart function in lab rats - tantalizing clues to the potential of grapes in reducing cardiovascular risk.
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New research reveals that our bodies' ability to respond to an internal 'mayday' signal may hold the key to success for long-awaited regenerative medicine.
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Tumours that grow around nerves in a rare genetic disease need cooperation from cells from the immune system in order to grow, reports a team of scientists.
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The first family-based genome-wide association study in Alzheimer's disease has identified the sites of four novel genes that may significantly influence risk.
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Researchers have proven that microsporidia are true fungi and that this species most likely undergoes a form of sexual reproduction during infection of humans and other host animals.
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Scientists report that a hydrophilic peptide, similar in character to those found in calcifying organisms, significantly enhances the magnesium content of calcite.
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Scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung have achieved an important advance in better understanding metabolic pathways in bacteria and their use.
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Scientists have identified unusual differences in the natural mechanisms that silences genes in corn, providing new insight into it protects itself from mutation-causing mobile DNA elements and viruses.
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Giving children with milk allergies increasingly higher doses of milk over time may ease or overcome, their allergic reactions, according to the results of a recent study.
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Influenza vaccination rates for adolescents who suffer from asthma and other illnesses are still far too low, according to a recent study.
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The rapid spread of West Nile virus, a mosquito-borne pathogen, over the past decade is likely to have long-lasting ecological consequences throughout the continent, according to a recent article.
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Researchers have shown that adding sarcospan, an overlooked and undervalued protein, to muscle cells might ameliorate the most severe form of muscular dystrophy.
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Nanoscale device may reveal spin-dependent fundamental forces and provide new methods of characterizing torque-generating molecules and DNA strands.
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Bacteria can directly cause human blood and plasma to clot-a process that was previously thought to have been lost during the course of vertebrate evolution, according to new research.
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Researchers have developed a genome-wide platform to study how specialized proteins regulate RNA in living, intact cells.
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A new study reveals an important and newly discovered pathway used by disease-causing bacteria to evade the host immune system and survive and grow within the very cells meant to destroy them.
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Adding an artificial tumour-specific receptor to T-lymphocytes that target a particular virus extended and improved the cells' ability to fight neuroblastoma.
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A research study proves that administering natural antioxidants can reduce the effects of lead poisoning in animals during the gestation and lactation periods.
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A Dutch researcher has developed a computer model that can predict the sound transmission of improved designs for ultrasound instruments.
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