Location: Marion Doucet or Nadine Peyrolo: @ pasteur.fr marion.doucet - 01 45 68 89 28, France
Through a study of human genetics in different populations around the world,
researchers at the Pasteur Institute and CNRS have discovered how pathogens may
vary over time the evolution of our immune system.
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Location: DR Inserm North - West, 1 avenue Oscar Lambret - BP 90005, 59008 Lille Cedex - Tel. : 03 20 29 86 70 : 03 20 29 86 70 , Belgium
The Bilhvax vaccine against schistosomiasis, entered its third phase of
development, phase of development in clinical research in Senegal to confirm its
effectiveness before it is placed on the market. To date, the vaccine was tested
among...
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Location: London, United Kingdom
A novel matrix of neural stem cells and a biodegradable polymer can quickly repair brain damage from stroke in rats. Within just seven days of injecting the concoction directly into the damaged part of the brain, new nerve tissue grew to fill...
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Location: Michigan, United States
In recent years, physicists have devised numerous ways to use the oddities of quantum mechanics to transmit and process information.
Now a team of researchers has announced an important step toward using this quantum information:...
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Location: California, United States
Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a versatile mouse model of glioblastoma—the most common and deadly brain cancer in humans—that closely resembles the development and progression of human brain...
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Location: Jerusalem, Israel
By injecting stem cells directly into the brain, scientists have successfully reversed neural birth defects in mice whose mothers were given heroin during pregnancy. Even though most of the transplanted cells did not survive, they induced the...
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Location: Lund, Sweden
Mould toxins in buildings damaged by moisture are considerably more prevalent than was previously thought, according to new international research. Erica Bloom from the Division of Medical Microbiology at Lund University in Sweden has contributed...
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Location: Michigan, United States
Artificial bone marrow that can continuously make red and white blood cells has been created in a University of Michigan lab.
This development could lead to simpler pharmaceutical drug testing, closer study of immune system defects and a...
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Location: Ottawa, Canada
A team of Canadian researchers has just completed a major step forward in the field of virotherapy oncolytique, to transform certain viruses destructive weapons of tumor cells.
As explained by John Hiscott of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill...
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Location: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, United States
Researchers at the
University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine discovered that the activity of a specific family of
nanometer-sized molecular motors called myosin-I...
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Location: massachusetts, United States
Having found that whether bacteria stick to surfaces depends partly on how stiff those surfaces are, it has been created ultra thin films made of polymers that could be applied to medical devices and other surfaces to control microbe accumulation....
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Location: Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
There’s a strange wave phenomenon that’s plagued rocket
scientists for years, a lurking threat with the power to destroy an engine at
almost any time. For decades, scientists have had a limited understanding of how
or why...
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Location: Arizona State University, United States
One day soon a biosensing nanodevice developed by
Arizona State
University researcher Wayne Frasch may eliminate long lines at airport
security checkpoints...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
The structure and behavior of one of the most common proteins in our bodies
has been resolved at a level of detail never before seen, thanks to new research
performed at the
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Location: University of California, Riverside, United States
A
University of California - Riverside -led study in the Mojave Desert,
Calif., has found that soils under “desert pavement” have an unusually high...
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Location: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States
Researchers from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have identified a key molecular mechanism
that may account for the development of cystic fibrosis, which about 1 in 3000...
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Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
A new thin-film coating developed at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology can deliver controlled drug doses to specific
targets in the body following...
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Location: McGill University, Canada
A study led by McGill
University researchers has demonstrated that small differences between
individuals at the
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Location: University of Minnesota, United States
University of Minnesota
researchers have created a beating heart in the laboratory.
By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists from the
University of Minnesota...
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