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Anthrax arms race helped Europeans evolve against disease
Human Biology News -- ScienceDailyNew research has revealed how humans evolved greater resistance against anthrax multiple times during history: when they developed a diet of more ruminants, and when agricultural practices took hold.
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Microfluidics show promise as safer, simpler treatment option for severe neonatal jaundice
Human Biology News -- ScienceDailyNew research has led to a promising potential therapy for neonatal jaundice that's more safe, simple and convenient than the blood transfusions currently given to babies suffering from the most dangerous forms of the condition.
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CRISPRing the microbiome is just around the corner
Human Biology News -- ScienceDailyCRISPR is widely used to target specific cell types, but only one at a time. Researchers have now developed methods to edit genes in multiple organisms within a diverse community of microbes simultaneously, a first step toward editing microbiomes such[…]
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Long-range four-stranded DNA structures found to play a role in rare aging disease
Human Biology News -- ScienceDailyA special form of four-stranded DNA, recently seen in human cells, has been found to interact with a gene that causes Cockayne Syndrome when faulty.
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Discovering new drugs with help from Darwinian principles
Human Biology News -- ScienceDailyOur body must constantly defend itself against bacteria and viruses. It generates millions of different antibodies, which are selected to recognise the enemy and trigger the best possible immune response. Scientists use these antibodies to for therapeutic purposes to target[…]
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Killing superbugs with star-shaped polymers, not antibiotics
(e) Science News - Health & MedicineThe study, published today in Nature Microbiology, holds promise for a new treatment method against antibiotic-resistant bacteria (commonly known as superbugs). read more
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Termination of lethal arrhythmia with light
(e) Science News - Health & MedicineA research team from the University of Bonn has succeeded for the first time in using light stimuli to stop life-threatening cardiac arrhythmia in mouse hearts. Furthermore, as shown in computer simulations at Johns Hopkins University, this technique could also[…]
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Historical analysis examines sugar industry role in heart disease research
(e) Science News - Health & MedicineUsing archival documents, a new report published online by JAMA Internal Medicine examines the sugar industry's role in coronary heart disease research and suggests the industry sponsored research to influence the scientific debate to cast doubt on the hazards of[…]
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Study reveals how ionising radiation damages DNA and causes cancer
Biology News Net - Health & MedicineFor the first time, researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators have been able to identify in human cancers two characteristic patterns of DNA damage caused by ionising radiation. These fingerprint patterns may now enable doctors to[…]
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Study details Zika virus disrupting fetal brain development during pregnancy
(e) Science News - Health & MedicineFor the first time, abnormal brain development following a Zika infection during pregnancy has been documented experimentally in the offspring of a non-human primate. read more
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