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Promising new vaccine developed for vivax malaria
A study indicates the possibility of using tiny vesicles derived from human immature red blood cell as a vaccine platform...
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Parkinson’s disease: An endogenous protein might become a candidate for drug development
Researchers have deployed a bacterial import signal in order to deliver Nurr1 into cells...
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Potential drug to cure ciliopathies
Researchers have identified a potential treatment that will be a foundation for developing drugs for various genetic disorders...
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TLR5 protein holds potential for new Alzheimer’s biotherapy
Researchers at the University of Florida have discovered that a modified version of an important immune cell protein, TLR5, could be used to treat Alzheimer's disease.
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Discovery of markers that predict evolution of triple-negative breast cancer
Researchers in Spain have identified a means of classifying patients with the most aggressive form of breast cancer - triple negative breast cancer; providing meaningful prognosis for the first time.
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BDNF protein could be key to preserving heart function in DMD
A protein known to drive nerve cell survival in the brain and spinal cord may also protect failing hearts in children and young adults with DMD...
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IgE protein may protect against skin cancer
The components of the immune system that trigger allergic reactions may also help protect the skin against cancer, suggest new findings...
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Study pinpoints the ‘Big Bang’ of tau-induced Alzheimer’s neurodegeneration
Scientists in the U.S. have identified what they believe to be the genesis of Alzheimer's disease – the precise point at which a healthy tau protein becomes toxic but has not yet formed deadly tangles in the brain. The finding opens up numerous avenues for treatment research.
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Novel drug therapy partially restores hearing in mice
A small-molecule drug is one of the first to preserve hearing in a mouse model of an inherited form of progressive human deafness, report investigators at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, and the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD).
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CLR01 protein found in semen increases the spread of Ebola virus infection
Penn study suggests that targeting amyloid fibrils could prevent sexual transmission...
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NIH-funded study finds new evidence that viruses may play a role in Alzheimer’s disease
Analysis of large data sets from post-mortem brain samples of people with and without Alzheimer's disease has revealed new evidence that viral species, particularly herpesviruses, may have a role in Alzheimer’s disease biology.
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Breast cancer could be prevented by targeting epigenetic proteins
Researchers have discovered that epigenetic proteins promote the proliferation of mammary gland stem cells in response to the sex hormone progesterone.
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Eosinophilic esophagitis may be due to missing SPINK7 protein
NIH-funded study finds replacement therapy reversed effects in tissue experiments...
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SMCHD1 protein found essential to X chromosome inactivation
The structural protein is required for the chromosome to adopt a conformation that suppresses gene expression...
