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Brain eating amoeba treatment is crucial in the current world as infections are rising. Moreover, it is very deadly, killing about 97% of infected patients.
Now that global responses are fully mobilized, what is being done to identify and develop drugs and vaccines against this novel coronavirus?
Screening using EMR data could help with early identification of Alzheimer’s disease risk
Every week there are numerous scientific studies published. Here’s a look at some of the more interesting ones.
Researchers utilized a hybrid approach that combined gene therapy with gene editing to treat a rare genetic disease in animal models, making it convert into a milder, more treatable form of the disease.
The Life Science Women’s Conference is being held on February 19 and 20 at the Tampa Bay Convention Center in Tampa, Florida. Co-founded by Patti Rossman and Steve Fiske, the conference is an opportunity for women to accelerate their life science careers via mentoring, networking and education.
As the outbreak of the new coronavirus continues to spread, VIB scientists are quickly mobilizing to try to find a potential treatment for the viral infection.
The microbiome is the trillions of microorganisms that live in and on the body. Although it makes complete sense that these would play a factor in gastrointestinal diseases, such as Crohn’s and colitis, it’s less obvious that it would play a role in anything ranging from lung diseases to neurodegenerative diseases.
Pan-Cancer Project discovers the causes of previously unexplained cancers, pin-points cancer-causing events, and zeros in on mechanisms of development
A clearer picture of how DNA changes lead to cancer has emerged, following the most comprehensive evaluation of non-coding driver mutations to date by researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital and their collaborators.
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