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A pair of newly published studies have reported novel links between fungal microorganisms and cancer. The research reports different types of tumors seem to harbor unique fungal populations, raising the possibility of new ways to diagnose and treat can… Continue reading Discovery of cancer’s fungal fingerprint could predict disease outcomes
Pharma giant Pfizer has shelled out nearly US$120 million to acquire a small Australian company claiming to have developed a smartphone app that can accurately diagnose COVID-19 by analyzing the sound of a cough.Continue ReadingCategory: Health & W… Continue reading Pfizer pays almost $120 million for app that detects COVID from a cough
Pharmaceutical companies Eisai and Biogen have announced the first results from a Phase 3 human trial testing a drug designed to treat symptoms of dementia associated with Alzheimer’s disease. The drug seems to be successful at slowing cognitive decline, making it the first drug to ever effectively treat Alzheimer’s symptoms. However, experts are cautious in their optimism, suggesting more information is needed to understand exactly how meaningful this treatment will be for patients in the real world.
Category: Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle
Tags: Alzheimer’s Disease, Dementia, Brain, antibodies, Drugs
Continue reading New trial finds first-ever Alzheimer’s drug to slow cognitive decline
A new study has highlighted one way insufficient sleep can harm your immune system, making you more vulnerable to infections and inflammatory disease by damaging your body’s hematopoietic stem cells.Continue ReadingCategory: Health & Wellbeing, Lif… Continue reading How insufficient sleep can damage your immune stem cells
A new study has highlighted one way insufficient sleep can harm your immune system, making you more vulnerable to infections and inflammatory disease by damaging your body’s hematopoietic stem cells.Continue ReadingCategory: Health & Wellbeing, Lif… Continue reading How insufficient sleep can damage your immune stem cells
At the recent European Association for the Study of Diabetes Annual Meeting two new studies were presented investigating the relationship between COVID-19 in children and new type 1 diabetes diagnoses. The studies came to conflicting conclusions, one s… Continue reading Experts still debating link between COVID and type 1 diabetes in children
At the recent European Association for the Study of Diabetes Annual Meeting two new studies were presented investigating the relationship between COVID-19 in children and new type 1 diabetes diagnoses. The studies came to conflicting conclusions, one s… Continue reading Experts still debating link between COVID and type 1 diabetes in children
Scientists at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences have discovered eight natural sweetness-enhancing compounds in citrus fruits. The research suggests these molecules may be useful as sugar substitutes in food.Continue … Continue reading New sweetness-enhancing compounds discovered in citrus fruits
Running for over 30 years, the Ig Nobel Prizes serve as a good-natured counterpoint to the sometimes stuffy and impenetrable Nobel Prizes. The Ig Nobels are not about ridiculing absurd research but instead they celebrate the stranger side of science – … Continue reading Study revealing why legal contracts are hard to read wins Ig Nobel Prize
An ecologist from Utah State University is warning one of the world’s largest living things, a colony of genetically identical trees sharing a single root system, is in danger of breaking up into several distinct parts, for the first time in its long h… Continue reading The world’s largest living thing is showing signs of breaking up