Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards fellowships to 15 young scientists

Grants totaling nearly $3.5 million give early career investigators independence to pursue brave and bold cancer research. Fifteen scientists from across the country were named Damon Runyon Fellows. The recipients of this prestigious, four-year award are outstanding postdoctoral scientists conducting basic and translational cancer research in the laboratories of leading senior investigators. The Fellowship encourages…

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Epilepsy: International researchers propose better seizure classification

Epilepsy is a wide-spread neurological disorder that affects around 50 million people worldwide. It is characterized by recurrent epileptic seizures, which are sudden bursts of electrical activity in the brain. There are many different types of seizures, and a person with epilepsy can experience more than one type. Clinicians today use EEG measurements, with electrodes…

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Mandatory country-wide BCG vaccination found to correlate with slower growth rates of COVID-19 cases

Scientists have found that countries with mandatory Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination until at least the year 2000 tended to exhibit slower infection and death rates during the first 30 days of the outbreak of COVID-19 in their country. By applying a statistical model based on their findings, the researchers further estimated that only 468 people…

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Adjustable lordotic expandable vs static lateral lumbar interbody fusion devices

The background of this research is based on the use of large interbody spacers in minimally invasive (MIS) lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) that offer favorable clinical and radiographic results. The static interbody spacers are likely to cause iatrogenic endplate damage and implant subsidence due to strong impaction and too much trialing. Whereas expandable interbody…

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Rosalind Franklin University Researcher awarded NIH grant for CLN3 Batten disease study

NORTH CHICAGO, IL, July 31, 2020 — Researchers led by a team at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science have devised a new therapeutic approach to treating a rare but deadly neurodegenerative genetic disease in children. The study, published this week in Nature Medicine, addresses the urgent need to discover treatments for Batten disease,…

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