ImageMedical workers transfer a patient to a hospital in Wuhan, China, on Thursday. The mysterious disease has killed 26 people so far.Credit…EPA, via Shutterstock The death toll jumps as millions are caught up in lockdown. The authorities drastically expanded a travel lockdown in central China on Thursday, essentially penning in more than 22 million residents…
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I saved the drunk voice mail from Texas, which he left during a wedding rehearsal dinner. “I miss you,” he said. “You’re the best thing that’s ever happened to me and I’m lucky to have you in my life. Thank you. I hope to see you again soon.” For almost a year, we had been…
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Biomedical data scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown that the number of genes a cell uses to make RNA is a reliable indicator of how developed the cell is, a finding that could make it easier to target cancer-causing genes. Cells that initiate cancer are thought to be stem cells, which…
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Stanford scientists have completed the first global census of diverse proteins sprouting tree-like from the outer membrane of a cell. These cell surface proteins govern how cells interact with one another and how they assemble into tissues and organs such as hearts and brains. “Cell architecture is determined by cell-cell interactions, and these interactions are…
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If your bank account balance looks nail-bitingly low and you won’t get paid for days, you might agonize over every dollar you spend. Maybe you’ll scrutinize grocery-store ads more closely than usual or brew your own coffee instead of ordering it from a barista. Migraine patients can face a similar sense of scarcity when it…
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Electronics are showing up everywhere: on our laps, in pockets and purses and, increasingly, snuggled up against our skin or sewed into our clothing. But the adoption of wearable electronics has so far been limited by their need to derive power from bulky, rigid batteries that reduce comfort and may present safety hazards due to…
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The impact of the tobacco display ban on young people’s attitudes to smoking has been analysed by University of Stirling experts. The five-year public health study also looked at the effect of the ban on young people’s exposure to point-of-sale tobacco promotions and the likelihood of them taking up smoking – as well as the…
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Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) used a new technique to show how electrical impulses are traveling with high speed in the brain. It appears that myelin, the sheath around neurons, creates a coaxial cable producing multiple waves of electrical potentials traveling in a more complicated manner than was envisioned earlier. These findings…
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This meeting will cover the recent developments in the NCRI Living With and Beyond Cancer (LWBC) Research Group’s projects. The programme is packed full of informative presentations covering the following workstreams: Acute Care and Toxicities, Advanced Disease and End of Life Care, Metastasis of Unknown Origin, Cancer of Unknown Primary (MUO/CUP), Late Consequences and Methodology.…
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Particularly in the case of accelerated drug approvals and drugs for rare diseases (orphan drugs), the evidence available at the time of market access is often insufficient for the early benefit assessment of drugs. Often, the studies are too short or no data on patient-relevant outcomes were collected. Comparisons with the German standard of care…
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