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Human immune ‘trigger’ map paves way for better treatments
A discovery about how human cells are ‘triggered’ to undergo an inflammatory type of cell death could have implications for
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Four surprising ways to get a good night’s sleep
Thirty-nine per cent of adults get less than the recommended 8 hours of sleep a night. Women are two times
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3D imaging and computer modeling capture breast duct development
Working with hundreds of time-lapse videos of mouse tissue, a team of biologists joined up with civil engineers to create
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Scientists discover biomarker for flu susceptibility
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found a way to predict whether someone exposed to the flu
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Breaking through a tumor’s defenses: Understanding how tumors subvert elements of our immune system suggests new immunotherapy treatments
In research published today, Babraham Institute researchers have shown that some tumours use not one but two levels of protection
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Novel PET imaging noninvasively pinpoints colitis inflammation
A novel positron emission tomography (PET) imaging method shows promise for noninvasively pinpointing sites of inflammation in people with inflammatory
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Impaired energy production may explain why brain is susceptible to age-related diseases
Defective energy production in old neurons might explain why our brains are so prone to age-related diseases. Salk researchers used
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Sepsis patients treated and released from emergency departments do well with outpatient follow-up
National guidelines assume that all patients who’re diagnosed with clinical sepsis in an emergency department will be admitted to the
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Scientist reveals likely cause of childhood leukemia: Landmark paper sets out ‘unified theory’ for cause of childhood leukemia — and finds it is likely to be preventable
A major new analysis reveals for the first time the likely cause of most cases of childhood leukemia, following more
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