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Mashup Score: 9Individuals of all ages with positive skin or blood test should receive preventive treatment for TB, new study says - 3 hour(s) ago
Preventive treatment for tuberculosis (TB) can stop latent TB infections from developing into deadly TB disease. Despite TB infection being fully treatable, there is no global consensus as to which subgroups …
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Mashup Score: 8A third COVID vaccine dose improves defense for some clinically extremely vulnerable patients - 3 hour(s) ago
A major clinical trial has found that an additional COVID-19 vaccine dose led to the majority of clinically extremely vulnerable people mounting defensive antibodies against COVID-19.
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A tiny, flexible electronic device that wraps around the spinal cord could represent a new approach to the treatment of spinal injuries, which can cause profound disability and paralysis.
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Mashup Score: 7Strengthening CAR-T therapy to work against solid tumors - 8 hour(s) ago
Researchers at the National Cancer Institute-designated Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center (MECCC) have shown that a breakthrough therapy for treating blood cancers can be adapted to treat …
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Mashup Score: 6Researchers may have found an Achilles heel for Hepatitis B - 9 hour(s) ago
Tiny, dangerous, and easily transmitted hepatitis B virus (HBV) chronically affects about 296 million people and kills about 1 million every year. This stealthy virus invades the liver and remains largely …
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Mashup Score: 5Study shows damaging impact of heat waves on vital organs - 9 hour(s) ago
Researchers from the University of California, Irvine have found evidence of the molecular causes of the damaging impact heat stress causes on the gut, liver and brain in the elderly. These findings point …
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Mashup Score: 13Researchers discover new target for potential leukemia therapy - 10 hour(s) ago
A team of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute investigators discovered that a subset of myeloid and lymphoid leukemias depend on a molecular complex called PI3Kgamma for survival. The study provides both mechanistic …
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Mashup Score: 8Scientists unravel how psychedelic drugs interact with serotonin receptors to potentially produce therapeutic benefits - 10 hour(s) ago
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have shed valuable light on the complex mechanisms by which a class of psychedelic drugs binds to and activates serotonin receptors to produce …
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Mashup Score: 16Potential link between PTSD and autism found in mice - 11 hour(s) ago
People on the autism spectrum are predisposed to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a new study from The Australian National University (ANU) and the University of Queensland has shown.
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Mashup Score: 32Researchers develop first model of the brain's information highways - 12 hour(s) ago
The brain resembles a road network: Like country roads, small connections link neighboring nerve cells, while, like highways, thick nerve bundles connect different regions of the brain. These thick, heavily …
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