How to break up with a dentist: New dental technology which doubles the life of seals

IMAGE: This is the process of nanoparticles fabrication. view more  Credit: © NUST MISIS Scientists from NUST MISIS have presented innovative antibacterial compositions for materials used in permanent dental fillings – pickling gel, washing fluid and “drying”. A special antibacterial agent based on metal oxides’ colloidal solutions as part of preparations allows suppressing the growth of…

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Kidney transplant patients need even better aftercare!

Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), and dialysis patients especially, have a significantly higher cardiovascular morbidity and mortality than healthy people. Kidney transplantation is the best renal replacement therapy available. Compared to dialysis patients, transplant recipients have significantly better long-term survival and quality of life [2]. Although their cardiovascular risk decreases, cardiovascular complications are still…

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The overall annual cost of bacterial resistance in French hospitals estimated up to 290 M€

A team of researchers from Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University (UVSQ), Inserm and Pasteur Institute (Unité Mixte de Recherche 1181 Biostatistique, biomathématique, pharmacoépidémiologie et maladies infectieuses – B2PHI) has been able to provide for the first time an accurate estimate of both the incidence (annual number of new cases) and added direct cost of infections due to…

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Scientists advance creation of ‘artificial lymph node’ to fight cancer, other diseases

IMAGE: T-cells interacting with the transparent gel. view more  Credit: Hawley Pruitt In a proof-of-principle study in mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine report the creation of a specialized gel that acts like a lymph node to successfully activate and multiply cancer-fighting immune system T-cells. The work puts scientists a step closer, they say, to injecting…

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