Annually on the third Friday of March, after years of grueling exams and countless hours of studying, medical students in their final year of medical school find out what U.S. physician-residency programs they matched with. Amidst this…
Category: 5. Health
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A High-Fat Diet Weakens Immunity in a Mouse Model
Obesity rates have been steadily rising around the world for many years. Obesity has been linked to a variety of health problems including metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular…
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Trump Administration’s Attack On DEI Threatens Health For Everyone
A woman holds a cardboard sign reading ‘Tubal ligation of Trump’. Thousands of women and men take to … More
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Groundbreaking light-driven method to create key drug compounds
Traditionally, chemists have relied on well-established but limiting methods to synthesize these molecules. The new research, co-authored by Kevin Brown, the James F. Jackson Professor of Chemistry in the College, and Professors Xiaotian Qi, Wang…
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Peacekeeper cells protect the body from autoimmunity during infection
During infections, the immune system needs to distinguish foreign antigens that are expressed by invading bacteria and viruses from self-antigens that are expressed by cells of the body. If not, the immune system can mistakenly attack its own…
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Cellular mechanisms that may lead to onset of inflammatory bowel disease
A research team led by Mount Sinai has uncovered mechanisms of abnormal immune cell function that may lead to Crohn’s disease, according to findings published in Science Immunology on March 21. The researchers said their discovery provides better…
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Fighting Crop Viruses with RNA: A New Era in Plant Protection
What steps can researchers take to combat crop viruses? This is what a recent study published in Nucleic Acids Research hopes to address as a team of researchers from Germany investigated a novel method using…
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An mRNA cancer vaccine may offer long-term protection
A vaccine kept patients free of pancreatic cancer for years, yet new reports say the NIH is advising against mentioning mRNA tech in grants.
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Function-first single-cell analysis for faster discovery
In the rapidly evolving field of drug discovery, single-cell analysis has become an invaluable tool for understanding cellular heterogeneity and molecular pathways. However, traditional single-cell…
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Tracking COVID-19 Recovery: Insights from Smartwatch Users
How can smartwatch data help identify long COVID risks? This is what a recent study published in npj Digital Medicine hopes to address as a team of researchers from Germany and Austria investigated how fitness…
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