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From designer microbes to stem cells, researchers are investigating new strategies to treat bowel disease
The University of Toronto’s David McMillen and his research team are creating a new life form to ward off disease
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Artificial gene defect reveals target to fight genetic disease
Fanconi anemia (FA) is caused by defective genes for DNA-repair leading to bone marrow failure, developmental abnormalities and increased cancer
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Confronting TB resistance
Tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is a highly infectious lung disease in humans.Unfortunately, resistance to anti-tubercular medicines such as fourth-generation
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Music playschool enhances children’s linguistic skills
According to the research conducted at the University of Helsinki, weekly music playschool significantly improved the development of children’s vocabulary
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Investigators suggest that brain circuits could unlock new psychiatric treatments
A McLean Hospital scientific team’s comprehensive analysis of recent research into how the brain shapes responses to cognitive and emotional
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1.35 million children’s lives saved by HiB and pneumococcal vaccines since 2000
Childhood deaths from two leading bacterial causes of pneumonia and meningitis, pneumococcus and Hib, declined sharply during the period 2000
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Study points to possible treatment target for aggressive liver cancer in kids
A protein in the cell nucleus already targeted therapeutically for several types of cancer has now been linked to an
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Slips of the ear: When knowledge deceives perception
Misperception of speech results from a weak representation of the difference between what we expect to hear and what is
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Criticism from parents affects how children’s brains respond to emotional information
Children of highly critical parents show less attention to emotional facial expressions, according to new research from Binghamton University, State
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