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Oral antibiotic called zoliflodacin successfully cured most cases of uncomplicated gonorrhea
An investigational oral antibiotic called zoliflodacin was well-tolerated and successfully cured most cases of uncomplicated gonorrhea when tested in a Phase 2 multicenter clinical...
An enzyme known to help our liver get rid of ammonia also appears to...
An enzyme known to help our liver get rid of ammonia also appears to be good at protecting our retina, scientists report.
Our retina, which...
MIT neuroscientists have now discovered a circuit that controls the diversion of attention to...
Imagine a herd of deer grazing in the forest. Suddenly, a twig snaps nearby, and they look up from the grass.
The thought of food...
HIV-2 is more pathogenic than previously demonstrated
A study published in The Lancet HIV shows that HIV-2 is more pathogenic than previously demonstrated.
The new findings indicate that early treatment should be...
discovered a gene signature biomarker that may predict which patients will respond to immune...
Scientists led by Dr. Daniel De Carvalho at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre have discovered a gene signature biomarker that may predict which patients will...
discovered potential new class of immunotherapeutic drugs to treat some of the most common...
Today a paper authored by 44 scientists was published in the scientific journal Nature, reporting a potential new class of immunotherapy drugs to treat...
A new discovery could have implications for therapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases
A new discovery by an international research team—co-led by UBC Canada 150 Research Chair Josef Penninger and Harvard Medical School neurobiologist Clifford Woolf—could have...
Colds and chronic disease affect DNA expression
We're all born with a DNA sequence that encodes (in the form of genes) the very traits that make us, us—eye color, height, and...
Newborn breastfed babies’ saliva combines with breastmilk to release antibacterial compounds that help to...
Newborn breastfed babies' saliva combines with breastmilk to release antibacterial compounds that help to shape the bacterial communities (microbiota) in babies' mouths, biomedical scientists...
Researchers have taken an ordinary white button mushroom from a grocery store and made...
In their latest feat of engineering, researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have taken an ordinary white button mushroom from a grocery store and...
SpiNNaker : supercomputer with a million processing cores and 1200 interconnected circuit boards that...
Scientists just activated the world's biggest "brain": a supercomputer with a million processing cores and 1,200 interconnected circuit boards that together operate like a...
Of all of our senses, hearing is the only one that has long been...
Of all of our senses, hearing is the only one that has long been suspected as being "on" all the time—even in our sleep.
Sounds...
Bacteria resistant to antibiotics – 33000 people die each year as a direct consequence...
An ECDC study estimates the burden of five types of infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria of public health concern in the European Union and...
Researchers succeeded in preventing allergic asthma from progressing in experimental models by increasing the...
A group of Brazilian researchers succeeded in preventing allergic asthma from progressing in experimental models by increasing the amount of a certain protein.
This increase,...
Melbourne scientists have discovered how tumour development is driven by mutations in the most...
Melbourne scientists have discovered how tumour development is driven by mutations in the most important gene in preventing cancer, p53.
The research revealed that in...
