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The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is making it possible to discover new drugs faster, cheaper, and more efficiently.
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There are plenty of great scientific research stories out this week. Here’s a look at just a few of them.
A recent study published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, a peer-review journal of the American Cancer Society, links excess body weight to approximately 4 percent of cancers worldwide.
Researchers at the University of Zurich in Switzerland are using INTEGRA’s VIAFLO 96/384 multichannel electronic pipette to streamline the experimental workflow of studies on Pseudomonas aeruginosa – a bacterium that commonly infects individuals with lung conditions, such as cystic fibrosis.
Lower BMI before bariatric surgery predicts greater post-operative weight loss, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland finds.
A group of researchers from UCLA have developed a spray gel that contains immune-stimulating drugs. The gel was effective about 50 percent of the time in stimulating laboratory animals’ immune systems to stop cancer from recurring and inhibiting its metastases.
As the Trump administration has continued to show its lack of financial support of scientific research using fetal tissue, the National Institutes of Health is setting aside $20 million to fund research that could develop alternatives to the use of embryonic tissue.
Researchers published an article in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution that described preliminary findings of gene variants in George associated with a strong immune system, efficient DNA repair and cancer resistance.
More journal articles are revealed to lack full disclosure of the authors’ ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
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