A new discovery by Mayo Clinic researchers could mean more donor hearts are available for heart transplant, giving more people a second chance at life. In findings published in Nature Cardiovascular Research, a team led by Mayo Clinic cardiac surgeon Paul Tang, M.D., Ph.D., identified a…
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Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez calls for Israel to be banned
The Spanish prime minister has called for Israel to be banned from the Eurovision Song Contest over its military action in Gaza.
Pedro Sánchez noted Russia has been banned from the contest since 2022 following its invasion of Ukraine, and said there should not be “double standards”.
Israel came…
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Early puberty increases risk of overweight later in life for girls
Girls who enter puberty early have a higher risk of developing overweight later in life — even if they were not overweight as children.
This is shown by a new study from Aarhus University, which has analyzed height, weight, and puberty data from nearly 13,000 Danish children.
“Overall, we found…
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A first blueprint of chemical transport pathways in human cells
An unprecedented international effort to decode how cells manage the transport of chemical substances has culminated in four groundbreaking studies published in Molecular Systems Biology. Led by Giulio Superti-Furga at CeMM, the Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of…
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Scientific breakthrough: We can now halve the price of costly cancer drug
The demand for the widely used cancer drug Taxol is increasing, but it’s difficult and expensive to produce because it hasn’t been possible to do it biosynthetically. Until now, that is. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have cracked the last part of a code that science has struggled…
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Family of parasite proteins presents new potential malaria treatment target
Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM) have shown that the evolution of a family of exported proteins in the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum enabled it to infect humans.
Targeting these proteins may hold promise for…
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Changes in the aging heart may lessen the risk of irregular heartbeats
Virginia Tech researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have discovered that microscopic structural changes in the aging heart may reduce the risk of irregular heartbeats.
Medically known as arrhythmias, irregular heartbeats become more common with age and can lead to health…
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New protein target for childhood medulloblastomas
Medulloblastomas are one of the most common childhood brain cancers.
Particularly, Group-3 medulloblastomas are aggressive and incurable, contributing to childhood cancer deaths.
Led by University of Michigan researchers, a study in Cancer Cellidentified a new target for Group-3…
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Gut bacteria and acetate, a great combination for weight loss
Researchers led by Hiroshi Ohno at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan have discovered a new way to reduce obesity. Their study shows that supplying the gut with extra acetate reduces fat and liver mass in both normal and obese mice, as long as bacteria of the…
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Maintaining balance in the immune system
Researchers from the Turner lab have published the first description of the role of the ZFP36 family of RNA binding proteins in regulatory T cells (Tregs). Tregs are key to maintaining balance in the immune system and essential to preventing autoimmune disease.
Immunologists from the Institute…
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